Past, Present and Future
If I cast my mind back to my distant past, shortly after I first became musically aware, I remember hearing those strange sounds that were, at the time, nothing like Id heard before.apart from on Dr Who and Space 1999. They were forcing their way though a barrage of gloss rock, skinhead and punk culture and pop performers with their white suit sleeves rolled up. What were these strange noises and where were they coming from?? My curiosity was sufficiently aroused and I decided to investigate so armed with my paper round money off I went each week to my local record shop to discover what these sounds were and who was making them. I discovered each week new electric gems by artists such as Depeche Mode, Yazoo, OMD, Ultravox, Gary Numan and Kraftwerk. So began my love affair with electronic music..
After a minor musical diversion in my early teens (possibly due to the hormones!) when I was into rock and heavy metal for a while, I was drawn back to electronica by the likes of Cabaret Voltaire, Front Line Assembly and Nitzer Ebb. This was a time for wearing black leather jackets, DM boots and drinking copious amounts of cheap cider, bowling around with my elbows out in a dirty club!!!! I had discovered EBM..ahhhhh! mind you thats not to say I dont do some of that now perhaps not the cheap cider!. I was perfectly content and would likely have remained so if it wasnt for the rumours of organised, rebellious masses gathering to thrust a partying middle finger at the establishment and a friend who came home one day in the late summer of 88 with eyes the size of saucers, telling me he had just spent the last 24 hours in some remote dis-used industrial unit with hundreds of other saucer-eyed personages, dancing together. He played me a belting new beat track called Ibiza by Amnesia. I had discovered Acid House. . .ahhhhh.
