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Geoffrey Law has been surrounded by music his whole life. He learned how to play the piano when he was 5, was playing the trumpet when he was seven, began playing the drums when he was 8 and replaced a 33 year old man at the church he grew up in when he was 9 years old(It was a pentecostal church. It's music was like blue-grass mixed with the Greatful Dead mixed with a Southern Baptist church but sped up). Unfortunately he was banned from playing the drums at church when they found out I was caught shoplifting a texas 5th of Jack Daniel's at the local grocery store when he was 13.
"In summer of 1991 was the first time I ever heard electronic music. I was grounded on a Saturday night and was listening to the radio. When I heard this song. The radio DJ said it was something new called techno. I sat there completely transfixed to the crappy radio I had. The song only had four notes in a gritty synth sound and a 4/4 beat. I sat there waiting for Marky Mark to start rapping about how it was a good vibration or maybe MC Hammer was gonna tell me I couldn't touch something but then next thing I knew the song was over. I wasn't quite sure what hell I just heard but I knew I dug it. The next day I asked my mom if rather than giving me $10 for mowing the yard, she would be able to take me to the mall and buy me a (techno)tape. I went from mowing the yard once a month to mowing the yard 3 times a week. (FYI-the song was "James Brown Is Dead" by L.A. Style. I still love that song:) Most people with a musical background scoff at techno saying it isn't real music but I strongly disagree. Because in the end what is music? Where did it come from? If you look at the origins of music, it originated from tribal celebrations. Long before the electric guitar, piano or reed instruments there was the drums. Although the drums have now become a background beat keeper it was once the soul of the celebration. 7 thousand years ago tribes would celebrate a successful hunt, a wedding, the rainy season or the birth of a new child by starting a large fire, cooking a large feast and dancing til dawn, all being led by the drums. There's something primeval about techno, harking back to a time most souls have forgotten. It's simple and yet some how stirs the soul. That's why I love techno and if you don't like it, then you can go fuck yourself." - Geoffrey Law