Before getting into electronic dance music, I loved heavy metal, punk rock, and classic rock music. I never thought in my life that I would get into this music. EDM represented everything the opposite of what I listened to back in high school. I went to a few rock concerts but just about every band that I listened to were either deceased, split up, or too old to tour.
I was a still a rock music fan going into college until my sophomore year when I went to a friend's house party and dance music was playing in the background of the party. After the house party, my first impression wasn't that great. I didn't like the fact that my friends were listening to this kind of music because I had the assumption that only frat guys and people who go out to clubs were the only kind of people that listen to this music. At one point, I said that I promised myself not to get into this kind of music. I kept going to my friends' house parties from time to time and they would have the same music that I listened to from the first house party. Slowly but surely, I grew a liking toward electronic dance music and started to get into the genre.
First, I looked up the album that was played at the house parties that my friends were at and it was Daft Punk's Discovery album. From there on, I started to get into other acts such as Kaskade, Calvin Harris, Tiesto, Benny Benassi, and Skrillex. I wasn't at the point to where I wanted to see these guys live just yet because I still had my doubts about the people that go to these shows. Some of those doubts were having to dress in a certain way to enter or whether the environment of the venue will be satisfactory to me. But overall I overcame my doubts and from my first concert and on, I knew EDM will be a part of my life.
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