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Originally posted by trance2xtreme I give you guys a round of applause. Cause I dont know how you can stand that type of music I have tried listening to some tracks, but it didn't work. Its awful.

It's not so much that it's good as it is a mood booster

I played a DVD of it for my daughter and her friend, and it made them leave, psychotic and nauseous. Ex-cel-lent.

Most of it's pretty, um, extreme but there's some good tracks in there IMO.

anabolic frolic did have a good run here in Toronto

the styles of 92-94 really did change things - defined - hardcore/breaks/techno/jungle/d'n'b

the onset of cross-genres in the last decade - amazing - pushing the creative envelope

only for the headstrong - good mems from my pre-clubbin days

dj anabolic frolic - sunrize is a good song. I have a few bonkers cds but the odd good song is drowned out by 10 of the chipmunk onbes every time

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Originally posted by bass.exe I thought happy hardcore was the trade mark high bpm cheese with high pitch vocals thats always blasintg outisde video game arcades over here.

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Originally posted by bass.exe the chipmunk vocal high BPM stuff

Yep sounds like my brief recollections of happy hardcore....it's about the stuff I could mix

I fucking LOVE HHC. Too bad the scense is non existance here in Australia. What I would give to be in toronto or the UK where the scene thrives


Brisk And Ham - Angel Eyes
Breeze And Styles - You're Shining
Brisk And Trixxy - Eye Opener
Anon - Reason


Oh yeah, and does anyone remember Force and Styles's Essential Mix? The only HHC DJ's to ever make it on there.

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Originally posted by trance2xtreme I give you guys a round of applause. Cause I dont know how you can stand that type of music I have tried listening to some tracks, but it didn't work. Its awful.

Granted that most of it is awful, listening to happy hardcore reminds me of good times. It was some of the first electronic music I ever heard, so I have associations with it (Dune in partucluar). It was well described as a mood booster.

Actually, when I need a lift I turn to Hamunaptra and Ophidian. Ah, sweet terror.

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Originally posted by trance_n_dance You're telling me that Prodigy - Outta Space/Music Reach/Wind It Up aren't happy hardcore

Well, they're not. They're "rave", and I'm aware of how stupid this name sounds now, reason why it's also labelled "Hardcore Breakbeat" and "Old skool hardcore".

Although they're related, there are some important differences to be pointed out. First of all, the origin. Prodigy's tracks are "rave", back in the time this word wasn't as meaninglessly used as nowadays. A sub-product of the British Acid House movement, this evolved in the early 90's in the M25 motorway (London's orbital motorway). It wasn't meant to be "Happy", this urban music for midclass teenagers (and hooligans, reason why the song wasn't related to minorities as in the US) meant to be frenetic more than anything (feeling that is still alive in genres such as British Hard House and NRG).

The continent also had its own "rave" (Belgium actually) that was a major factor in the origin of dutch Gabba music. After the British rave scene was firmly established, its continental counterpart reached the island. That's when happy hardcore was born. No more ragga samples, no more massagist basslines... along with a typical fast paced 4-beat, Happy Hardcore had emerged. Naturally, without the ragga samples, powerful basslines and the often reduced use of breakbeat, melancholic producers would spawn a genre with everything happy hardcore had abandoned. That would be the beginning of jungle music in the UK.

Therefore, saying Prodigy's tunes are happy hardcore is the same as saying it's jungle (or ragga). Clearly, it's not.

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Originally posted by Lira Well, they're not. They're "rave", and I'm aware of how stupid this name sounds now, reason why it's also labelled "Hardcore Breakbeat" and "Old skool hardcore". Although they're related, there are some important differences to be pointed out. First of all, the origin. Prodigy's tracks are "rave", back in the time this word wasn't as meaninglessly used as nowadays. A sub-product of the British Acid House movement, this evolved in the early 90's in the M25 motorway (London's orbital motorway). It wasn't meant to be "Happy", this urban music for midclass teenagers (and hooligans, reason why the song wasn't related to minorities as in the US) meant to be frenetic more than anything (feeling that is still alive in genres such as British Hard House and NRG). The continent also had its own "rave" (Belgium actually) that was a major factor in the origin of dutch Gabba music. After the British rave scene was firmly established, its continental counterpart reached the island. That's when happy hardcore was born. No more ragga samples, no more massagist basslines... along with a typical fast paced 4-beat, Happy Hardcore had emerged. Naturally, without the ragga samples, powerful basslines and the often reduced use of breakbeat, melancholic producers would spawn a genre with everything happy hardcore had abandoned. That would be the beginning of jungle music in the UK. Therefore, saying Prodigy's tunes are happy hardcore is the same as saying it's jungle (or ragga). Clearly, it's not.

Could you give me more artists that are a similar style? I prefer the sound of the Prodigy tracks over a lot of the happy hardcore I have.

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Originally posted by trance_n_dance Could you give me more artists that are a similar style? I prefer the sound of the Prodigy tracks over a lot of the happy hardcore I have.

SL2, Acen, Micky Finn, Nicky Blackmarket, Two Bad Mice, Nookie (his early works).

Happy Hardcore is good in certain situations. Here's some of my favorites.

Force and Styles - Field of Dreams
DDR - Shooting Star
Tokyo Ghetto Pussy - I Kiss Your Lip

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