My name is Haroon and I'm a Business Administration student (final year) at the American University of Sharjah. I've been living all my life in Dubai but I'm originally from Kerala, India. Music has been a journey for me, through a lot of genres. It all began in 1995 when I was 12 yrs old. I was browsing through a music store (one of my first times in a music store) and came across an interesting album cover. I took it and rushed to the counter to listen to it. It was one of a kind... just like its album cover. I was surprised to hear the sounds, the beats, bass and rhythm and i hadn't heard anything like it before. It was The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation. That's the first album I bought and I was hooked to it, I listened to it everyday, all the time.
The journey began with The Prodigy and my quest for similar artists. That's when i discovered again in stores - The chemical brothers, leftfield, meat beat manifesto, massive attack, fatboy slim, BT, apollo 440, crystal method, speedy j (a shocking hobby), propellerheads etc.. Clearly that was the genre that i loved. But eventually, through friends i got exposed to metal. That was the 2nd phase, for over a year or more I was hooked to metal. From metal I discovered RnB, although i enjoyed it for some time, I got put off by its corny lyrics.
From RnB, I got into trance. This is the next major phase in the journey since I had discovered The Prodigy. Armin, PVD, Gareth Emery, Oceanlab, A&B.. they were amazing. I joined trancehits during this phase, and I loved this site. It gave me a lot of amazing tracks and reviews. From then on.. i was slowly developing an ear to a genre, which i got exposed to even before loving melodic trance and joining trancehits. That genre began with Psycho by Infected Mushroom.
During my trancehits and melodic, vocal trance phase, i began listening to a lot of genres such as drum n bass, ambient, speed garage, hardtrance. Slowly i got out of prog, melodic trance into house music.. trance seemed too repetitive for me.. I began skipping the tracks to get to the best parts. The tracks were too long and this got me impatient. Although andy moor etc brought out beautiful tunes, i wished they had made the tracks more exciting. House music also had the same fate eventually.
Psychedelic trance went full on from this point. Started with Skazi - Vampire, Paranormal Attack - Yakuza (remix) as some of my initial favorites, I began spending hours searching for tracks in psyshop.com. Psy had no stop.. from bliss, painkiller, duvdev, sirius isness,infected m, eskimo to electrosun, beathackers, vibe tribe. It was brilliant! I couldn't listen to other genres, this was the best genre I had heard. The structure, the melody, the bassline, energy couldn't be matched with anything else.
My ears got tuned to music better with psy trance.. i developed a passion for appreciating the music structure and dynamics. From psy trance i got into classical music - instrumental, indian classical carnatic music, tabla, violin, sitar etc..
I got out of the psytrance-only phase... now I appreciate any genre.. I listen to anything and everything that is made well and sounds good.
Since 1999 i have also been producing tracks, mostly experimental.. recently took up some music production courses and i learned how to get sounds arranged in a better, more professional way (i still need to learn a lot). I have been posting some tracks on TH studio.. with the recent post titled Haroon - Track 2. I shall upload track 1 and 3 again, so those who hadn't listened to the tracks can check them out.
My inspirations in Music - Indian music composer AR Rahman and Liam Howlett from The Prodigy. My Hobbies - Music production, Forex trading, long drives, trekking mountains and forests, travelling.
It was nice writing this down.. was nostalgic, didn't feel the time fly at all
Hopefully, i'll get familiar with the members more and i'll be posting in TH studio often. And to the members I know from before - Genesis, Psychogenesis and Bxtreme, my regards.
Cheers,
Haroon
Dubai
