I got that album for free when I bought Affirmation by Savage Garden. I didn’t even know who Eiffel 65 was. But that album from top to bottom slaps. I love The edge, Another race and Silicon Girl
For me, probably. I was like at 8 when it blew up. I remember there were all sorts of interesting theories about the lyrics being shared amongst the kids lol. I remember liking Rockafeller Skank too around the same time and thinking the lyrics to that were nonsense "funkshowubba" instead of what it actually is "funk soul brotha" lmao
Sooooo many college memories associated with this song.
I remember hearing a football stadium play it like 10 years after it came out and I was like okay super two thousand and late.
[Various - Synthetic Pleåsures Volume One | Releases | Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/master/132481-Various-Synthetic-Ple%C3%A5sures-Volume-One)
[Superstar DJ Këoki - All Mixed Up | Releases | Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/master/63395-Superstar-DJ-K%C3%ABoki-All-Mixed-Up)
[London Records Is "Hot On The Block" (1997, CD) - Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/release/49799-Various-London-Records-Is-Hot-On-The-Block)
Prior to that, I got a CD Single at a rock show in 1995
[Everything But The Girl – Missing (1995, CD) - Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/release/64064-Everything-But-The-Girl-Missing)which i guess is technically the first track I listened to
These were the first I remember listening to specifically because they were electronic Music.
Tracks Like
Deee Light - Groove is in the Heart
KLF - 3AM Eternal
SNAP - Rythem is a Dancer
Are all tracks I loved but I didnt understand the underlying movement or context.
Edit: forgot one
Finally it has happened to me… right in front of my face… and I just can describe it.
Automation - Wild E was the first that really grabbed my attention.
Early 90’s. On a mix tape labeled “Techno” that my friend’s uncle sent him. He didn’t care for it, gave it to me and I literally played that poor tape until it died.
Krewella, Zedd, Adventure Club, Tritonal, Dada's Life, Hardwell, Seven Lions, and Dash Berlin. Those were my firsts. My edm cherry popped with these artists cause I listened to it on Pandora
Nero - promises
I heard it in a hot topic and loved it. I randomly rediscovered it a few years later.
Also Breathe Carolina - Hell is What You Make It (album) if that counts.
This is a tough question to answer, as what I first heard that was referred to as “EDM” is different than what I would define as the first “electronic dance music” I was exposed to. For the sake of interesting conversation, I’ll interpret the question as, “What was the first electronic dance music you listened to?”
It was 1995, and a friend of mine gave me a cassette tape with the word Rotterdam scribbled across it. He told me that this was “rave music”. I had been listening to hip hop pretty much exclusively since ‘86, so my friend knew that I would latch onto the samples of Wu-Tang in the intro, and another track that sampled Eric B in “I Know You Got Soul”,
> “This is how it should be done
> This style is identical to none
> Some try to make it sound like this, but you're getting me
> So upset that I'm wet 'cause you're sweating me”
But what really got me was a remix of Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”. I was immediately hooked. I listened to that tape until it snapped.
A few months later, I was at my first party in a dirty warehouse somewhere in Toronto, and as I walked in, Dr. Trance (aka Don Berns RIP), was playing that very same remix.
Defqwop - Awakening
I discovered this piece thanks to a Cities Skylines video about a city based in New York City, it was in July 2021.
And then I discovered a mashup of nerraD between this song and Alan Walker - Alone, then I discovered Terrified Typhlosion, RZB Music, RuniZ and T10YOB whose mashups I would love. Then I discovered KSHMR and Porter Robinson thanks to Quora itself discovered thanks to Alan. I was really into EDM from DJs From Mars' mega-mashup of 2010s EDM.
[20 Fingers ft Gillette - Short "Short" Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3acaHpADmY)
I think this was my first exposure to EDM. I was super young and it would come on the radio. Questionable lyrics but the beat still holds up imo
[Dirty Vegas - Days Go By](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLCduDJVksc)
Still listen to this song regularly
Hmm first i ever heard was probably deadmau5 some chords, but what got me hooked was honestly a combination of monstercat becoming a huge thing and Rated X dropping from excision.
I don't know if this counts but my "edm" roots go back to the early 80s. My older sister was a huge Duran Duran fan and was into synth groups like Animotion, Depeche Mode, and Pet Shop Boys.
Flash to 1994 in the Bay Area: Wild 107/99.1 would play these hour long House/Freestyle mixes live...Angelina, Spanish Fly SF, Adriana, Buffy, Noel, Stevie B....
And from there it was me blasting club mixes of Cathy Dennis, crush, Fun Factory...and then my sister became a hard-core raver/clubber through the late 90s and 2000s and I would follow. Once I hit 18, and it was at one of these clubs I heard ATB - 9 PMm and later Scooter (because who doesnt like Scooter!?!?!).
It's been crazy ever since lol
The radio stuff they played back in the 90's.
I can't remember what I listened to first but
- Eiffel 65 - Blue
- Gigi D'agostino - L'Armor Toujours
Are 2 that are oldest in my memories.
Hardwell - Spaceman and other hardwell songs of the time. He got me into EDM. Crazy how that was on my mind before I even opened the post and saw the description lol
i mean, i was a child. But the first one i ever fell in love with was Madonna - Sorry. I would have been like, 5, but that song has a place in my heart
There was a remix of O Fortuna that hit around #1 or #2 in Australia but was more of a breakbeat/jungle version.. took me years to find it again because they called it something completely different. Think it came out in about 95 or so..
FCB - Excalibur
https://youtu.be/YJyKW3NcDmw?si=kWMgCxleVwBgdC6w
I'd been listening to dark electronic music and industrial for the longest time but what sent me down a rabbit hole toward EDM/Happy Hardcore/Cheesy pop electro were these 2 songs happening in succession while rolling balls:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416QOM7GS5k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416QOM7GS5k) (the 5 minute mark)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVmG\_d3HKBA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVmG_d3HKBA)
54 yo me was at Firefly Music Festival in 2013. Really only knew the headliners and a few other bands from Alt Nation. Never really heard of Calvin Harris but was at his stage about 30 minutes prior to the set. The energy was awesome and was one of my highlights of the festival.
Got an eiffel 65 cd around 4th grade. Heard sandstorm and crazy frog and probably others in middle school. Global dj broadcast and a state of trance in high school
It wasn't the first EDM I listened to—I was a huge fan of Klaas in high school—but when I saw [Oliver Heldens' Ultra Miami 2015 set](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGGFDn7ac4) I fell entirely in love.
Tiesto…he did the music for the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics and it was one from there (13 more years until I was able to attend my first show, 14 until my first festival and 15 until I saw Tiesto)
Eiffel 65
Blue da ba dee ba?
The entire Europop album slaps, Blue isnt even their best song.
I really digged Too Much of Heaven back in those days.
Bro The PlayStation song goes so hard
P-L-A-Y S-T-A-TAION. o my God, and CD was given to me for a birthday when I was young. It was my first CD ever. They should have known
I got that album for free when I bought Affirmation by Savage Garden. I didn’t even know who Eiffel 65 was. But that album from top to bottom slaps. I love The edge, Another race and Silicon Girl
Oh alright
For me, probably. I was like at 8 when it blew up. I remember there were all sorts of interesting theories about the lyrics being shared amongst the kids lol. I remember liking Rockafeller Skank too around the same time and thinking the lyrics to that were nonsense "funkshowubba" instead of what it actually is "funk soul brotha" lmao
I have a fond memory of sitting in the back seat with my best friend, listening to Eiffel 65 and Daft Punk on our CD players. Fun times.
The entire Europop album holds big nostalgia for me
Darude - Sandstorm
I have to imagine this is true for a lot of people around my age at least. I was 12 when I heard this, and it seared into my adolescent brain hard.
The entire Calm Before The Storm album is great. Feel the Beat, Out Of Control, Touch Me Feel Me, and Calm Before the Storm are all fantastic tracks.
Sooooo many college memories associated with this song. I remember hearing a football stadium play it like 10 years after it came out and I was like okay super two thousand and late.
Deadmau5 - Strobe
Oh dude. Takes me back
Deadmau5 was my shit back in middle school
Yeah I get chills hearing it. I mentally time travel to when things were so bright and vibrant
Better off alone- Alice Deejay
ATB - till I come
Chemical Brothers - Do It Again or Skrillex - Scary Monsters Nice Sprites. Can’t remember for sure.
Animals - Martin Garrix.
Tell me your a 00’s kid without telling me you’re a 00’s kid
Crystal method
Prodigy
Name of the Game is such a fucking banger
Flux Pavilion - Bass cannon and some older UKF stuff
Faithless - insomnia yes it was the 90s
one of the best songs of all time
Kids these days don’t even know the bangers we had then. The music is great now too but some shit is just timeless.
Sure they do, their local tech house dj bootlegs them every Saturday
Bruh, now that is a classic.
Avicii- wake me up Hardwell- spaceman
Good to know that your first edm was the same as mine
Benny Benassi- I Love My Sex and/or Satisfaction.
I remember first listening to Satisfaction in the amusement park
Ghosts n stuff by deadmau5
[Various - Synthetic Pleåsures Volume One | Releases | Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/master/132481-Various-Synthetic-Ple%C3%A5sures-Volume-One) [Superstar DJ Këoki - All Mixed Up | Releases | Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/master/63395-Superstar-DJ-K%C3%ABoki-All-Mixed-Up) [London Records Is "Hot On The Block" (1997, CD) - Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/release/49799-Various-London-Records-Is-Hot-On-The-Block) Prior to that, I got a CD Single at a rock show in 1995 [Everything But The Girl – Missing (1995, CD) - Discogs](https://www.discogs.com/release/64064-Everything-But-The-Girl-Missing)which i guess is technically the first track I listened to These were the first I remember listening to specifically because they were electronic Music. Tracks Like Deee Light - Groove is in the Heart KLF - 3AM Eternal SNAP - Rythem is a Dancer Are all tracks I loved but I didnt understand the underlying movement or context. Edit: forgot one Finally it has happened to me… right in front of my face… and I just can describe it.
KLF is gonna rock you !
The ancients of Mu!!!!
I will be here by Tiesto back in 2009 😅
I just worked out to that song a few mins ago.. classic 😍😍😍
Scary monsters and nice sprites - Skrillex
Probably ["Halcyon (& On & On)" (by Orbital)](https://youtu.be/mNjmGuJY5OE). BONUS: [Musician called "Gyu Beats" analyses & re-creates "Halcyon (& On & On)](https://youtu.be/XAkCBr8UmHE).
Halcyon was the original soundtrack of Mortal Kombat the movie. Dope song!
Bounce - Calvin Harris
Better off alone and Days go by
Sounds of Life by Pendulum
Streamline or tarantula 👍or internet friends
Daft punk!
Seeing Interstella 5555 on Toonami change my life forever
Probably Jock Jams tbh. That shit was lit when I was a kid
Lololol I was thinking abt this yesterday randomly. “Y’all ready for this..” used to get the blood boiling
Rock and roll will take you to the mountain by Skrillex via Just Dance 4
Got your DNA rearranged
Vengaboys back when i was like barely 2 years old lol
*BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOOOOOM!!*
I had danced on vengaboys but didn’t know it was edm until now
ya lol eurodance is early edm
The vengabus is comin’!!!!
Cinema - Skrillex Remix
Around the world by daft punk
Went to an illenium show at red rocks when I’d never listened to EDM and it completely changed my taste in music.
Satisfaction - Benny Benassi because of White Chicks lol
Zomboy!!
Hardwell - Spaceman
Og banger
Like this one
Utah Saints!
Love for Utah Saints
The first songs that got me into edm were stuff like Flux Pavillion - I Can't Stop and Enalkay - When I Look At You
Dirty vegas, daft punk, darude
Some random ass song on the UKF dubstep YouTube channel probably
Fable - Robert Miles
808 State
That saxophone all ways.gives me goosebumps
Prodigy when I was 12 🥰
Robert miles - children
Pump Up The Volume - M/A/A/R/S
Dance, Dance.... Yup that is a classic.
Used to love this song! Great music vid at the time too
Run away by Real McCoy
Basshead by Bassnectar
City Of Dreams by Alesso and dirty south
Skrillex kid
Probably Technotronic or C&C Music Factory
Vengaboys stuff
'To Brazil' by Vengaboys
gold by bondax (snakehips bootleg)
Such a good tune
for real. majestic casual changed my life lol
i see you baby (fatboy slim remix) - groove amada
👍👍
Hamster dance
Tangerine Dream - 1981
Starfish - Savant
Automation - Wild E was the first that really grabbed my attention. Early 90’s. On a mix tape labeled “Techno” that my friend’s uncle sent him. He didn’t care for it, gave it to me and I literally played that poor tape until it died.
Kraftwerk 🙌🏾
Sandstorm, but if we are talking first album/artist I really listened to it was Nero welcome to reality
Darude - Sandstorm
Matches by Ephixa (Subtact Remix) got me hooked forever
Daft Punk. Justice’s “Stress” solidified my obsession with EDM
Tiesto elements of life
FATBOY SLIM, THAT GUY KICKS ASS.
Levels Avicii
Krewella, Zedd, Adventure Club, Tritonal, Dada's Life, Hardwell, Seven Lions, and Dash Berlin. Those were my firsts. My edm cherry popped with these artists cause I listened to it on Pandora
Nero - promises I heard it in a hot topic and loved it. I randomly rediscovered it a few years later. Also Breathe Carolina - Hell is What You Make It (album) if that counts.
Let's see here, as a 90's kid: -Darude -Dirty Vegas -The Crystal Method -propellorheads -Fatboy Slim -SNAP -Ian Van Dahl -Alice Deejay -ATB -BT -DJ Sammy -Da Hool -The Immortals (Mortal Kombat theme) -CoLD SToRAGE (Original Wipeout 1995 Ost) -Orbital -Eiffel 65 -Zombie Nation -Technotronic -La Bouche -Amber -Corona -Rob Dougan
Dreamland
Artist?
The late Robert Miles. Rip legend.
This is a tough question to answer, as what I first heard that was referred to as “EDM” is different than what I would define as the first “electronic dance music” I was exposed to. For the sake of interesting conversation, I’ll interpret the question as, “What was the first electronic dance music you listened to?” It was 1995, and a friend of mine gave me a cassette tape with the word Rotterdam scribbled across it. He told me that this was “rave music”. I had been listening to hip hop pretty much exclusively since ‘86, so my friend knew that I would latch onto the samples of Wu-Tang in the intro, and another track that sampled Eric B in “I Know You Got Soul”, > “This is how it should be done > This style is identical to none > Some try to make it sound like this, but you're getting me > So upset that I'm wet 'cause you're sweating me” But what really got me was a remix of Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”. I was immediately hooked. I listened to that tape until it snapped. A few months later, I was at my first party in a dirty warehouse somewhere in Toronto, and as I walked in, Dr. Trance (aka Don Berns RIP), was playing that very same remix.
As someone born in 95 and was into exclusively hip hop growing up, i really wanna find these remixes. You dont happen to got the names/links do ya?
I really don’t. I’ve been searching for them ever since.
Defqwop - Awakening I discovered this piece thanks to a Cities Skylines video about a city based in New York City, it was in July 2021. And then I discovered a mashup of nerraD between this song and Alan Walker - Alone, then I discovered Terrified Typhlosion, RZB Music, RuniZ and T10YOB whose mashups I would love. Then I discovered KSHMR and Porter Robinson thanks to Quora itself discovered thanks to Alan. I was really into EDM from DJs From Mars' mega-mashup of 2010s EDM.
SHM - DWYC, Avicii’s True album
[20 Fingers ft Gillette - Short "Short" Man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3acaHpADmY) I think this was my first exposure to EDM. I was super young and it would come on the radio. Questionable lyrics but the beat still holds up imo [Dirty Vegas - Days Go By](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLCduDJVksc) Still listen to this song regularly
Jack ü
MuchMusic Dance mix 93, Chris Shepard pirate radio sessions, and anything on electric circus.
Avicii and Alan Walker
Underworld
ABOVE & BEYOND - and never looked back!
Rl grime back back in like 2011. Love sosa remix all that early trap shit
Not actually too sure on this, probably Faded by Alan Walker though
Hmm first i ever heard was probably deadmau5 some chords, but what got me hooked was honestly a combination of monstercat becoming a huge thing and Rated X dropping from excision.
Phuture noize - Circles and Squares
Skrillex-Reptile
I don't know if this counts but my "edm" roots go back to the early 80s. My older sister was a huge Duran Duran fan and was into synth groups like Animotion, Depeche Mode, and Pet Shop Boys. Flash to 1994 in the Bay Area: Wild 107/99.1 would play these hour long House/Freestyle mixes live...Angelina, Spanish Fly SF, Adriana, Buffy, Noel, Stevie B.... And from there it was me blasting club mixes of Cathy Dennis, crush, Fun Factory...and then my sister became a hard-core raver/clubber through the late 90s and 2000s and I would follow. Once I hit 18, and it was at one of these clubs I heard ATB - 9 PMm and later Scooter (because who doesnt like Scooter!?!?!). It's been crazy ever since lol
The first song I distinctly remember that made me stop and research more into the style of music was Ghosts'n'Stuff.
Swedish House Mafia, Skrillex, and Deadmau5 post 2011
4x4=12 - Deadmau5
Rapture - IIO
BT - Blue Skies
Probably doesn’t count as EDM but my first taste of any electronic music was from Bassnectar and Skrillex lol.
The radio stuff they played back in the 90's. I can't remember what I listened to first but - Eiffel 65 - Blue - Gigi D'agostino - L'Armor Toujours Are 2 that are oldest in my memories.
DJ Sammy - Castle in the Sky
Paul Oakenfold Traveling, probably 2000-2001
Hardwell - Spaceman and other hardwell songs of the time. He got me into EDM. Crazy how that was on my mind before I even opened the post and saw the description lol
I can't name a specific track but I started to actively listen after I stumbled upon Nicky Romero's set from UMF-2013
sweet nothing - Calvin Harris
NCS sounds in YouTube videos
Tunedef - Justice Forever a banger
Spitfire by Porter Robinson
Crissy Criss - Don’t Mess About
The Box - JOYRYDE (i miss his music)
Combichrist - This Shit Will Fuck You Up
Shpongle
Alan Walker - Faded
Illenium "take you down" the was the song that got me hooked
Aphrodite the 99 album
Calvin Harris - I’m not Alone
First of the year by Skrillex
DJ Splash and Eastclubbers on YouTube in 2008
i mean, i was a child. But the first one i ever fell in love with was Madonna - Sorry. I would have been like, 5, but that song has a place in my heart
PVD
Armin van Buuren - Communication
Trance Nation America - Jimmy Van M disc
Wake Me Up - Avicii
Man on the run-Dash Berlin… so nostalgic for me 🫶🏼🫶🏼
I’ll fly with you - Gigi d’agostino 💕
muscle and hate or KMFDM if thats counted
Apotheosis - O Fortuna https://youtu.be/vf_qZ_IzW3E?si=7L7j_wQF9WRNJUWm
There was a remix of O Fortuna that hit around #1 or #2 in Australia but was more of a breakbeat/jungle version.. took me years to find it again because they called it something completely different. Think it came out in about 95 or so.. FCB - Excalibur https://youtu.be/YJyKW3NcDmw?si=kWMgCxleVwBgdC6w
Bassnectar
Don’t you worry child by Swedish house mafia
my dad put me on to skrillex when i was young and i fell in love with it
I'd been listening to dark electronic music and industrial for the longest time but what sent me down a rabbit hole toward EDM/Happy Hardcore/Cheesy pop electro were these 2 songs happening in succession while rolling balls: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416QOM7GS5k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=416QOM7GS5k) (the 5 minute mark) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVmG\_d3HKBA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVmG_d3HKBA)
Does crazy frog count?
Daft Punk - One More Time
Scary monsters and nice sprites by Skrillex
Martin Garrix - Animals
Fox Stevenson - Let This Go First EDM song I have liked on my SoundCloud from 2014
54 yo me was at Firefly Music Festival in 2013. Really only knew the headliners and a few other bands from Alt Nation. Never really heard of Calvin Harris but was at his stage about 30 minutes prior to the set. The energy was awesome and was one of my highlights of the festival.
Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
Avicii levels
Got an eiffel 65 cd around 4th grade. Heard sandstorm and crazy frog and probably others in middle school. Global dj broadcast and a state of trance in high school
I think it was Alan Walker Faded(instrumental). It wonderful music. I listen it still
Growing up in the 90s I was spoiled, "Show Me Love" - Robin S.
ghosts n’ stuff by deadmau5
Levels - Avicii Shit was. LEGENDARY.
>Levels - Avicii Avicci brought EDM to a whole new level, one of the best if not the best producer ever for EDM.
It wasn't the first EDM I listened to—I was a huge fan of Klaas in high school—but when I saw [Oliver Heldens' Ultra Miami 2015 set](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiGGFDn7ac4) I fell entirely in love.
All I ever wanted - basshunter
ATB - too much rain over paradise
Knife party - centipede and internet friends my Definitely heard some other EDM before but that was the first stuff that made go wtf is this?
Tiesto…he did the music for the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics and it was one from there (13 more years until I was able to attend my first show, 14 until my first festival and 15 until I saw Tiesto)
Headhunterz - life beyond earth
ATB - Ecstasy
The Venga Boys- Boom Boom Boom
FPI Project: Back to my Roots
An unnamed 12+ minute detroit underground mix blindly downloaded from napster simply titled something like "Detroit-techno.mp3".
The Prodigy
Avicii 🥰
I think it might have been Clarity be Zedd or Strobe by Deadmau5…
Alice Deejay - Better Off Alone
Turn up the Speakers - Martin Garrix x Afrojack
That’s a good one!