high school - y2k

[Genesis]

I'm sorry Ms. Jackson, I am for real. never meant to make your daughter
cry, I apologize a trillion times...


That's how i'd sum up my high school - Ms. Jackson was an instant hit with
Freestyler at the time. Six month down the road, I had an Astral Projection
remix of God is a DJ and the rest was history: Psy-coma for 8 years (and
counting)

I don't care how much you'd deny it, you all were backstreet-boys-and-co
lovers at one stage in high school.

what's your cheesey pop-rap high school highlight?
this is your embarrassing thread: all your Ejay production attempts
*cough* Dion *cough*, atomix desperate tries, dressing like a b-boy,
baggy pants, bling, wanting to be a break-dancer... what did you want to
be and what are you now?


(I remember during the 1997 war, no electricity, bombing, no school,
but i was in my own world looping Fatboy Slim - Right Here Right Now
onto my walkman that i borrowed from a friend and never returned it)

So, what your high school highight, and what did u want to be and what
are you now?

[crow]

I used to be a huge Backstreet Boys fan along with Boyzone.
I also had a massive crush on Posh Spice from Spice Girls. Ah yes... The first days of puberty!
I'll admit that I was heavily into pop back then!
And then ATB came along....

I've always wanted to mix music together in the sense of mashups, but never imagined I would be a DJ someday. But as far as I remember, I've always wanted to be a computer hacker and cracker. Then I slowly got into security instead. My highschool days don't really shine in my books.... So much for that Egyptian girlfriend I had back then....

[A-Cube]

Used to be a classical music freak back in the time...but then came the cheesy pop tarts from Moby and Fatboy Slim...

Embarrassments??I'll go with me waiting in line to buy tickets for Pavarotti's concert(I was 10, chubby, and liked opera...and never got the tickets)

What I wanted to do??study political sciences...I thought that I could change the world

Instead I said to myself:"screw the world I want to make money"...so I majored in engineering...and loving it

[Icepick]

I'm a senior right now, well few years back when i was around 10, used to like Metallica , Evanescence , Linkin Park...then around 13-14 went into electronic, the cheese electronic, and 6 months later became quality electronic and started Djing in school parties and what not...
Till now an electronic freak and DJ...
Not much of embarresment though!

Sucky attempts at production started at like 15 with a crack version of Ableton 4 ....Mixing started with Virtual Dj, evolved to Traktor and now hardware...and still produce in a bit of free time...

[crow]

^ haha i had good attempts with Ejay 1 and 5. good ol' days. those were freshmen years though

[Raneem]

First:
Backstreet Boys
Britney Spears
Nsync
5ive
etc...

Then:
Shaggy
Sean Paul
P. Diddy
etc..

Then:
Antoine Clamaran
Laurent Wolf
Lee Cabrera
Benny Benassi
etc...

AND
Nancy Ajram
Haifa Wehbeh
Wael Kfoury
Ehab Tawfic
etc...

Then:
Lasgo
Sylver
Ian Van Dahl
Milk Inc
Scooter
etc...

Then:
Tiesto
Armin Van Buuren
Ferry Corsten
Above & Beyond
etc...

[Icepick]

^Tiga Boi ?

[Radima]

yeah like raneem said btw i think nsynk doesnt exist anymore...

[Deema]

Defintly had the crush on Nsync and Backstreet Boys!!
Plus Linkin Park and How come u guys forgot THE SPICE GIRLS, I was a big fan back then, i had the hole dolls collection!! Lol
Then Comes electronic, I used to listen to a lot of tracks for ATB,BENASSI,IAN VAN DAHL ...etc, and Offcourse Tiesto.
I had no frkn idea wat EDM was until Pvd came for the first time to leb, cant recall which year it was, I heard the ad saying :
''The world's Number one TRANCE dj''
over Mix fm and i was like OOOOOOOH!!
(...GOOGLE.COM, Search: Trance Music)
HAHA
...

& now here Im ^^

[DIONYSOS]

I have two full albums produced on eJay

I've been into Trance (and then EDM in general) since 1998, before that it was mostly Jean-Michel Jarre, Enigma, Era, etc... But of course I have my own embarrassments too!

Besides the utter cheese I used to "produce" on eJay (some tracks were pretty good though, seriously) I was into a few respectable Rock acts that I won't enumerate since they're not really embarrassing, so I guess only Marilyn Manson should be mentioned! hahaha yep I was an avid fan I should also mention the early Pop boy/gay bands: Take That, East17...

Well I also have another embarrassment: I used to (and still do) sing Ice Ice Baby in Karaoke nights! Stop giggling. I actually won a competition off it, a trip to Sharm El Sheikh!

[Icepick]

ICE ICE !!! haha


Well i used to produce on a cracked version of ejay hiphop 5 like 5 years back ...funny shit lol! still got the software cd i got!

[reemze]

I haven't logged in for so long due to time constraints, and after reading the most recent topics, I thought this would be the perfect thread to start with!

You hit a soft spot there, Gen.

My high school years were divided between Cuba and Lebanon.

I did my freshman year of high school in Cuba and Grades 10, 11 and 12 in Lebanon.

Before I went to Cuba, I was your typical Backstreet Boy-worshiping, N*Sync-crazed teeny bopper. I had such a huge crush on Justin Timberlake and I actually memorized the dance moves to Bye Bye Bye and Pop. Then I met three guys who changed my life. They were a Jamaican, a French and a Slovak and were all in my class. They were HUGE wanna-be rappers. And as the year progressed, I got sucked into it all. Rap appealed to me immensely. But not just any kind of rap. I was hugely into Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. I still have the words of Dr. Dre's 2001 memorized to heart (and I still don't mind listening to that album from time to time!). But then came the drastic change. I started buying FUBU clothes (you know, For Us, By Us) and turned into the ultimate tomboy. I joined the girls varsity basketball team and did the rapper walk (you know, walking low and acting as if you're double jointed). My parents threw a fit and sent me back to Lebanon.

In Lebanon, I then turned into the ultimate goth. From wearing black on Valentine's Day to rebelling against who I considered were complete conformist pigs, I think I could've actually been considered borderline emo. From Apocalyptica to HIM (to be honest, I still love HIM, still buy all their albums, and still follow all their releases) and especially THEATRE OF TRAGEDY, my favorite band of ALL TIME, I started to teach myself Latin and indulged in the world of darkness. But one day in Grade 11, I heard this track by Sylver, which the led me to downloading something remixed by Lasgo (Driftwood - Freeloader) which then led me to Darude which THEN led me to ATB and PVD.

And the rest is history.

As for what I wanted to be in high school, like Alain, I wanted to change the world. I despised the roots of capitalism and monopolization, I hated the WTO and everything it stood for and couldn't bear thinking of poverty, famine and wars. I loved Sociology and believed helping the world could start with the most essential link - studying relationships between people. But since I got really high grades in Biology, all my @!#$% school did was push me towards majoring in Biology in university. People thought I was crazy for even suggesting majoring in Sociology. So, being a good girl, I went to uni, finished my BS in Biology - but did a minor in Sociology on the side. And now, I'm finishing my Masters thesis in Sociology, on a topic which I believed could help Lebanon: studying how Lebanese youth perceive the Palestinian factor in Lebanon through analyzing collective memories of the civil war and sentiments towards the General Amnesty Law.

So now, I guess you could say I fulfilled my dream which I thought would never happen. I'm a sociologist who's here to help the world.

[A-Cube]

We missed those terribly fulfilling long posts...welcome back Rima ...

[coldtear]

[TRANCED]

^that's my girl!

Well to me...?

"Here comes the hotstepper... Eurrrlala"..
hehe anyone remembers that?
That was my highlight in highschool definitely...
Of course next to all the all the cheesy pop bands... used to LOVE THEM! posters all over the room and stuff like that...

Then it was the rock phase...
And then of course, it was trance..

Ive gone back and fourth through all kinds of music... But i can say with full confidence, that nothing will ever be as fulfilling as Trance! \o/