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I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

Electronic music has existed since the '70s, and it's almost comical how many subgenres of it there are.

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

I'm not necessarily that big of a clubbing junkie, but I really like dance music as a genre.

At the end of the '90s and into 2000, electronic music was still an underground phenomenon, especially in America.

I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and I was always into the kind of sub-pop Seattle Mud Honey and Pearl Jam kind of sound. But my kind of big love was house music ever since I was 15/16, going to raves when I was 15 or 16 years old and not going to school, like a naughty boy.

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

Since I was a child, I always loved music that made me want to dance. As a teenager, I used to dance the night away to electronic music.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.

Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.

Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.

It's a really diverse time in music, with all these different DJs and all these different categories, and we are all taking footnotes from everyone else. There are no real genre boundaries anymore; you can take a trance idea and put it into a trap record - it's not that uncommon.

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.

House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.

People are approaching electronic levels in music; although not all of it happens to tickle my fancy.

I play a lot of hard, uncompromising dance music; it can be anything from dance to rock to reggae.

I've been a fan of electronic music for a while.

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.