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Hey! Music Meme returns for DAY 2 : How you got introduced to dance music.
What we’re gonna do right here is go way back, back into time. Back to 1987 I believe. It was the first wave of acid house, and I was 9 years old, so obviously I can’t pretend to have been at the forefront raving at Shoom or Spectrum. Instead, my first taste of dance music was likely the same as many - hearing Pump Up The Volume on the radio. I was in the car with my Mum at the time, and I remember her saying, after the DJ had gone at great lengths to explain that this strange music was the future ‘I bet you like this, Tris’. To be honest, I remember thinking that I hadn’t really considered it - I hadn’t quite become obsessed with music yet (This happened the following year), so to my young ears it was just another sound on the radio. Pretty much all I liked was Adam Ant and Shakin’ Stevens at this point.
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But, after she said that, I listened harder, mostly to try and work out why she would say that, and, you know what? She was right - The combination of bass & drum that made you want to bop about mixed with all these wacky sounds and voices (I didn’t understand sampling at that point, but I liked the effect) - It was almost like some demented cartoon come to life, rather than a boring adult standing there singing about love or whatever.
Of course, it snowballed from there on, getting bigger every time I found a new channel for discovering music - From buying Now compilations and playing the dancier tunes over and over (and then the Now Dance 12” mixes compilations), to reading music tech magazines for tips on what I should be listening to, to finally discovering the treasure trove that was late night Radio One, but those are other stories for other times.
What we’re gonna do right here is go way back, back into time. Back to 1987 I believe. It was the first wave of acid house, and I was 9 years old, so obviously I can’t pretend to have been at the forefront raving at Shoom or Spectrum. Instead, my first taste of dance music was likely the same as many - hearing Pump Up The Volume on the radio. I was in the car with my Mum at the time, and I remember her saying, after the DJ had gone at great lengths to explain that this strange music was the future ‘I bet you like this, Tris’. To be honest, I remember thinking that I hadn’t really considered it - I hadn’t quite become obsessed with music yet (This happened the following year), so to my young ears it was just another sound on the radio. Pretty much all I liked was Adam Ant and Shakin’ Stevens at this point.
(
But, after she said that, I listened harder, mostly to try and work out why she would say that, and, you know what? She was right - The combination of bass & drum that made you want to bop about mixed with all these wacky sounds and voices (I didn’t understand sampling at that point, but I liked the effect) - It was almost like some demented cartoon come to life, rather than a boring adult standing there singing about love or whatever.
Of course, it snowballed from there on, getting bigger every time I found a new channel for discovering music - From buying Now compilations and playing the dancier tunes over and over (and then the Now Dance 12” mixes compilations), to reading music tech magazines for tips on what I should be listening to, to finally discovering the treasure trove that was late night Radio One, but those are other stories for other times.