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Various – Trance Europe Express
Even the first few songs of it – that was the moment when it was like, ‘Oh, this is pretty good, isn’t it? I didn’t even know this existed and it’s brilliant, I need to find all the other music like this.’ For the sixteen-year-old me, that sort of age, it was the most exciting thing that happened in that whole year. It was such a big thing that I went more into it, became more focused on looking for that feeling, until I realised that you have to look for that feeling in a different way, elsewhere. To someone whom that particular compilation wasn’t important to at the time, it’s maybe quite a random selection of tracks. But that Black Dog ‘Xeper’ track was I think the first polyrhythmic music I’d ever really noticed, probably ever encountered; understanding that they’d done something there that was interesting. That was the beginning of understanding what I was doing in trying to make music.
