communicate by owl alexander and diggers! then northen exposures.theres a story told in those albums...a deep story.. iv moved on as music has progressed but they will always be with me.... peace.. good question by the way....

I think I first heard some cool techno dance music on a radio station and I had to go out and buy it.  And then it was like pretty cool from there.  I can't remember what radio station but it out there somewhere. 

yeah... Gotta admit... that one does suck me in.

C&C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat is STILL guilty pleasure of mine and one reason why I in to this.

Beyond that, it was mostly scifi movie sound tracks from the 70's and 80's. There was also a small group called Future Bach which was well... classical music played on synths that dragged me in a bit. I think after I heard the Jyradelix album, I was totally sold.

Kraftwork is way cool.  We had so many influnces coming our way.  C&C was fun stuff esp. the remixes.

I was listening to a local rock station called "planet rock" that played some great Christian tunes but mostly bands that yelled like POD and East West and then they randomly threw "Power Cosmic" on there on day from The Echoing Green. I was hooked ever since.

http://www.amazon.com/Echoing-Green/dp/B000007O9C

I also discovered late night DJ mixes on stations like KISS FM playing songs like what Nathan said, "Culture Beat – Mr Vain, " "Rhythm is a dancer" by snap, stuff by Corona, and most embarrassingly barbie girl by Aqua.

What genre do those songs go in by the way?

I think my infatuation with video game music played a big role too. I used to record it off the TV and listen to it on my cassette player. It would drive my cousin and the rest of my family crazy. I just couldn't get enough of it playing the game so I had to take it with me wherever I went lol

DJRodimus that Mortal Kombat CD had a couple of good techno tunes on it! Rock on! I am not sure if I still have that CD or not....but I did at one point....