Hi,
1980 Into The Police and various poppy stuff (10 years old)
1983 U2, Simple Minds, TC Matic, Depeche Mode
1984 New Wave in general : Cocteau Twins, lotsa obscure dutch new wave
(Tecnoville, WAT, Sammie America's MAM all friggin' brilliant)
1985 Sonic Youth, Swans, Foetus, industrial music
1986 Front 242, Coil, Neubauten, Test Dept. Worked at STAALPLAAT
1988 Acid House. At first I thought 'hmmm sounds like disco'. Then Danny
Rampling played at a party in the Docklands in Amsterdam and I saw the
light. The same year DJ DNA (of Urban Dance Squad fame) played the Dance in
the legendary vrije vloer and I *really* understood. Before this I hardly
listened to any "black" music except HipHop
1989 Started making tracks, started performing. Started studying Music
Technology. Introduction to Barry Truax, Trevor Wishart: "academical
electronic music" (that's my own term for it)
1990-1993 Bought a lot of Irdial/B12/Djax/Evolution stuff. Own music making
started taking over. Went to Shamen's Synergy parties.
1995 Joined IDM to keep informed.
1997 Still here...
I used to go to a shitload of gigs and I used to buy quite a lot of
records. These days I'm to busy to filter out the good stuff, and I don't
have the money to buy a lot. I hardly buy any records anymore. I still want
to stay informed, so I read IDM and listen to what the local DJ's play,
which is pretty good.
I have to say the 'command' and the 'D' key are wearing out.
Bye,
Allert
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Allert Aalders - Big Time Concepts - allert@knoware.nl - KoX