The Full Circle of Trance

I have finally come full circle (I seem to be saying that about a lot of things lately..sounds kinda cool in a tantric, osho, zen kinda way). I started off in my early teens by listening to Trance/Techno. I always saw underaged kids drive by in their cars blasting trance from their newly fitted my-dad-spoils-me-silly stereo systems. Have to admit that I was influenced at that time and wanted my dad to do the same for me. But in retrospect I understand how obnoxious that whole scenario was. That said at the time, I was inflenced by that music.

Then there was metal. I can't say that I'm a metal fanatic. I do like the odd song from bands which are considered to be metallic in nature. But somehow I haven't really felt the loyalty to a single band (except Metallica) . My exposure was at a college festival. We had a band called Brahma perform for us and the performed all covers. It was pretty captivating to say the least. The power, the depth, the fact that these guys were in some way defying convention, rebelling, calling themselves sons (or neighbors or plumbers or whatever) of Satan all appealed to me.

I would try and listen to metal while trying to write code or do some assignments. A futile effort. I realised that I can't really hum along and think about a problem about algorithms at the same time. Thats the reason (I like to give) for my grades being, well, not the best.

So, I'm sitting at work (yes...I did get employed inspite of those grades) and I try and listen to rock and sing along. Well, it doesn't work again. And now its a little more than a bad grade at stake. Its my job, visa status yada yada yada. So i switch my attention to the trance/techno section of Yahoo! Music. I have subscribed to Launch (about time I gave back something to Yahoo! after the amount of free services I have used) and they have a decent selection of music.
And somehow, it just clicks. The trance plays and is heard by a seperate part of my brain which basically then zones me out from the outside world, the only effective external stimuli being the call of nature, the call of lunch and the call of my manager not necessarily in that order.

So from being the first cassette that I actually bought, to being the only online music service I have ever bought, I have come full circle ...