Starting young

[Ether-Eating Eskimo]

I'm only 13 now...still, so far no heavy machinery... but I do love Sci-Fi, computers and video games.

I'm actually just getting into Industrial, and as of now am more into EBM.  

[Frankenska]

Neither of my parents had jobs like that. But I play video games and am on the computer a lot. It could be true though.

My evolution
Good Charlotte [4th grade, Im ashamed but I was stupid]
Sum 41,Slipknot, SOAD,Linkin Park [5th grade-ish]
MSI, The Distillers, The Aquabats, Reggie and the Full Effect [6th grade]
MSI, The Casualties, ska/punk music, The Birthday Massacre [7th grade]
MSI, TBM, Combichrist, Skinny Puppy, VAC, Rev. Horton Heat, Nekromantix, ska-punk stuff.

Yessir I like lots of different generes of music  

[Zed Melkor]

I wasn't around much heavy machinery.

The heaviest piece of machinery that my dad operated was a lawn mower. That's about it. I don't think he even owned a wrench.

Thinking about it, I heard the terminator soundtrack at a very young age. That kind of has an industrial sound to it. I never thought about it before, but I totally bet that was an early influence on my love of industrial.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GVlwT5PvEA

That, and the other thing that made me love industrial was because anything with a dirty synth sound makes me drool. That's just because I grew up in the 80's.  

[Ahriman the Deceiver]

I think you're correct in that. Me elder brother was a machinist/mechanic/welder and i had spent a lot of time around him as a child, and now, not only am i a fanatic for the industrial music, i am in school for machining and welding. I believe it is all connected to the machines.  

[underthenoise]

Soviet Reunion

I recently had a sudden wave of flashbacks and realized that the more you were aroung heavy machinery as a kid growing up, they more likely you are to like industrial music. I was always around machines because my dad is a welder.

It wasnt that way with me.
I dunno what sparked it here.
I remember i used to be into nu-metal.. and heard some BiGod 20 from a friend and that was the turning point.  

[Amber_SWD]

well industrial music was influenced but other forms of medium for music
Einsturstente Neubouden (sp?) used industrial and experimental noise for their music  

[Ketoik]

My dad didn't use heavy machinery around me as a kid. He was a housing officer. And he was also a local councillor so he sometimes got some advanced technology for his work at the time. Like a fax machine and a "brick" mobile phone.

I was more exposed to the screechings of his old Sinclair Spectrum, though and most weekends he used to play electronic music from as far back as the 70s to as modern as the (then) current 90s stuff. In fact when I was five I used to dance jump the living room singing to the english version of Das Modell by Kraftwerk (And the floor under the carpet was stone so it really toughened up my feet. Lol)

I'm on a games design course at college. And one of the tutors played a video with the screechings of the loading of a Sinclair tape and I was the only one in the room enjoying it.


Here's a spectrum for you:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlsDmALohQQ

It's that bit at the start.And I used to just sit listening to it and love it back when I was toddler-preschooler age. I also played my first videogame on it around the same time.

Then my dad sold his spectrum. He's regretted it ever since.