Happy Hardcore = trance? i think not!

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Posted by A.J. on Mar-03-2004 05:02:

Happy Hardcore = trance? i think not!

I recently went out clubbing in Sydney. There were two levels in the club - RNB upstairs, and "trance/happy hardcore" downstairs.

I was downstairs the whole night, and the music was pretty much happy hardcore the whole night.

You all know what i mean, 160bpm, chipmunk female vocals etc etc

The DJs played some pretty cool tracks, and i had an awesome night listening to happy hardcore for the first time, but at the end of the night, i said to my friends "where was the trance?" and then they said to me "what are you talking about, happy hardcore is trance?" and i'm like "WTF??"

The closest thing to trance the whole night was a happy hardcore remix of Rank 1 - Airwave, which was played three times during the night might i add.

Now what i want to say is, how the hell is happy hardcore considered trance? Beats me. My friends were adamant that it is trance, and I just gave up trying to convince them.

Very strange......

P.S. Has anyone heard that Inspector Gadget happy hardcore song? I went absolutely nuts to that song.

Posted by j�c� on Mar-03-2004 05:09:

nowadays the 'new' form of happy hardcore known as free form has adopted a lot of trance elements

and some of it is actually very well produced I might add

Posted by slim on Mar-03-2004 05:13:

To a lot of people, any form of EDM = Trance

Posted by auujay on Mar-03-2004 05:25:

quote:
Originally posted by slim
To a lot of people, any form of EDM = Trance

Which means we have come a long way from EDM = Techno

Posted by webmeister on Mar-03-2004 05:28:

Which club in Sydney was it?

Posted by slim on Mar-03-2004 05:28:

quote:
Originally posted by auujay
Which means we have come a long way from EDM = Techno

progress is a beautiful thing

Posted by Salem on Mar-03-2004 05:34:

quote:
Originally posted by j�c�
nowadays the 'new' form of happy hardcore known as free form has adopted a lot of trance elements

and some of it is actually very well produced I might add

ya man, it is basically hard as faaaak trance, and not that bad, when i hear it at parties, im always like: i wonder if this would sound good if it was just slowede down a bit lol

Posted by DJDigDug on Mar-03-2004 06:40:

HHC = shit, always and forever, should not exist, period

Posted by digitalbreach on Mar-03-2004 07:27:

Re: Happy Hardcore = trance? i think not!

quote:
Originally posted by Vigilante
P.S. Has anyone heard that Inspector Gadget happy hardcore song? I went absolutely nuts to that song.

heard more of a hard trance version of the song. liked it, but then again it was a while back ago. approx: 2yrs

Posted by nchs09 on Mar-03-2004 07:44:

happy hardcore make baby jesus cry

Posted by Dmatrox on Mar-03-2004 07:48:

this is how HHC is trance, you take a 33rpm trance record and press the 45rpm button, you now have happy hard core. it works best for those cheesy tracks

Posted by A.J. on Mar-03-2004 09:41:

quote:
Originally posted by webmeister
Which club in Sydney was it?

It was Gas nightclub - last friday night.

It was an event called "N20", which was organised by a few of my friends from high school.

It was pretty much all asian.....(not that that matters!)

Posted by mentalbarter on Mar-03-2004 10:41:

lol
i think many people go thru a stage when they like HHC (often early-teen years), and then they realise trance is better, and years later they look at HHC and admit its absolute wank

Posted by Lira on Mar-03-2004 13:38:

Happy Hardcore can be mixed with trancecore and freeform, and both contain several trancey elements. In such context, someone may take hhc as vocal trancecore (which would be funny as hell ), so that's the trance they meant: trancecore.

Trancecore is good.
Freeform is good.
Some hhc is good.

quote:
Originally posted by mentalbarter
lol
i think many people go thru a stage when they like HHC (often early-teen years), and then they realise trance is better, and years later they look at HHC and admit its absolute wank

It was the other way round to me

Posted by Tranceporter99 on Mar-04-2004 04:04:

Re: Happy Hardcore = trance? i think not!

quote:
Originally posted by Vigilante

P.S. Has anyone heard that Inspector Gadget happy hardcore song? I went absolutely nuts to that song.

yeah i have, my friend downloaded all this happy hardcore on my computer because he thinks its good 'techno', you know that universal term, anyway i cant stand happy hardcore, no offense