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P.E.T.R.O.L by orbital, it was playing over the shop speakers, i walked into Ourprice looking for some crappy oasis or verve album and walked out with insides. My life changed that day.

"Sometimes Salvation" The Black Crowes, simply saved my life.

Rustic Raver, on the Hard Normal Daddy release by SquarePusher.. and there I was in '98 still grief-ridden over the death of jungle

I can remember where I was when I first heard Blue Monday.

It was a sunday night and I was listening to Annie Nightingale on Radio One - just after the chart show at 7:00pm - on my Panasonic blaster whilst having a shit. I used to take my blaster into the bog with me.

She opened her show with Blue Monday this night in 1983 and for seven and a half minutes the world stood still.

I sat there not daring to plop in case the sound of the turd hitting the water obscured any of the tune. I promised myself that one day I would own an Oberheim DMX and an Octave Plateau Voyetra 8 and make huge fat chunky dance tracks like Blue Monday.

Unfortunately, by the time I'd earned enough money to buy some synths, dance music had mutated into that piss-poor weedy repetitive acid house drivel that became popular at the end of the eighties.

It got better later on but between 1988 and 1993 I was totally repelled by anything labelled "rave", regardless of how much ecstacy I tipped down my neck.

c1c2 wrote:"Sometimes Salvation" The Black Crowes, simply saved my life.

Nice

popslut wrote:I can remember where I was when I first heard Blue Monday.

It was a sunday night and I was listening to Annie Nightingale on Radio One - just after the chart show at 7:00pm - on my Panasonic blaster whilst having a shit. I used to take my blaster into the bog with me.

She opened her show with Blue Monday this night in 1983 and for seven and a half minutes the world stood still.

I sat there not daring to plop in case the sound of the turd hitting the water obscured any of the tune. I promised myself that one day I would own an Oberheim DMX and an Octave Plateau Voyetra 8 and make huge fat chunky dance tracks like Blue Monday.

Unfortunately, by the time I'd earned enough money to buy some synths, dance music had mutated into that piss-poor weedy repetitive acid house drivel that became popular at the end of the eighties.

It got better later on but between 1988 and 1993 I was totally repelled by anything labelled "rave", regardless of how much ecstacy I tipped down my neck.

oh but there is some nice acid out there popslut, but you missed it it seems
And just in that year 88 i scored a 303 for 200 bucks

Planet Caravan and Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath on headphones while in the backyard smoking a cigarette as I start to peak off of my first hit of cid for the first time.

A year or so later-
We Have Explosive- FSOL, blew me away the first time I heard it. Was only into metal (Tool, Slayer, Obituary, Cannibal Corpse, etc...) and Industrial(NIN, Ministry, Wax Trax 3 disc box set) at the time. Did not fully appreciate EDM in general until 4 or 5 years later; I started going to warehouse raves in Baltimore while having more fun than I'd like to divulge. Mannnnnnnnnnn do I miss those days

Machinate wrote:Rustic Raver, on the Hard Normal Daddy release by SquarePusher.. and there I was in '98 still grief-ridden over the death of jungle

The Lone Raver off of Big Loada

suburbanbather wrote:

Machinate wrote:Rustic Raver, on the Hard Normal Daddy release by SquarePusher.. and there I was in '98 still grief-ridden over the death of jungle

The Lone Raver off of Big Loada

The Lone Raver is on the Vic Acid EP, and also very noice. Speaking of Big Loada, I must admit to being quite fond of Full Rinse, and it, to this day, stands as quite a landmark track in the history of all things breakbeat/jungle, I must say.

Ahh yes, Full Rinse, the badass track thats too short for how good it is. I can barely understand a word the MC is saying but the rhythm of his flow along with the drum and synth programming is just too perfect

suburbanbather wrote:Ahh yes, Full Rinse, the badass track thats too short for how good it is.

I love you suburbanbather. Would you be my suburbanfather?

I feel like being a music fan is like trying to walk in a straight line and running into something solid that staggers you for a second and changes your path slightly. You might be going in the same general direction after the collision but your path is not exactly the same.

Along the way I've collided with:

Mingus Mingus Mingus
A live P-Funk show (that shit hurt)
Paul's Boutique
Don't Believe the Hype
Three Feet High and Rising
Tortoise's "DJed"
Pre-Millenmium Tension
Radiohead live in Chicago's Grant Park

This is obviously another trick question right? Unless you're six years old and not a musician then theres been numerous times when a piece of music has moved and maybe even shaken you.
So it's prolly more accurate to ask "when was the last time that a piece of music has moved you, deeply?"
For me it was about a month ago when I was walking and contemplating the difficulties in my life while listening to XM Chill on my Inno. Then this track came on which not only played exactly into my emotions at that moment but it happens to feature a vocal sample from one of my favs back when I was a teenager... Grand Funk Railroad. The artist is some bloke by the name of LORNe, originally from Birmingham in the UK.
The track is Destitute and Losin' and his skillful use of Mark Farner's soulful 70's voice makes for a hauntingly beautiful track. Go check it out.

slatepipe wrote:i saw the butthole surfers play at reading festival in 89 and that really was like being hit over the head with a hammer. i was right down the front and quite frightened....

Fukkin YES! Awesome experience.

Orb have been mentioned a lot here, and I do remember being completely gobsmacked by A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld... I was in a colour darkroom at night printing photos in almost total darkness when John Peel played it... incredible.

Nice to be back, I been away learning to ride a motorbike. Bought one today too, yay.

A Rainbow in Curved Air by Terry Riley.

1972 I think at my brother's flat in Cheltenham

The very first totally electronic record I heard (possibly the first ever made?)

I think maybe the acid had something to do with it too but I still think its awesome and so ahead of its time

Check it out, youngsters!!!