HARDFLOOR - please inform me

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well, i had a look and i couldnt find a thread just about hardfloor. so my brothers girlfriend gave me a double tape pack of 'the best of hardfloor'. and it is heavy! i have been bumpin it in my car ever since. but some of it is a bit dodgy, especially some of those remixes. specifically, the ones that arent just straight up dirty acid beats.

so, recommend me hardfloor tracks that are bad ass bangin dancefloor killers. like the circus bells remix. that is rude.
and i no, i still havent heard 'acperience'.

or, just talk about hardfloor.

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 09:11 (twenty-two years ago)

acperience ooo errr ajsdfhvakbfckbqoekfcqajwe YEAH vgheasdjfhajefj waahaeyahgfyegfye

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Gareth collaborated with them in 94 on an unreleased track. There's another track of theirs I really love, I think it's called Lost In The Silver Box.

Josh Wink's Higher State Of Consciousness is kind of a rip off of Acperience really.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

hear 'acperience' asap. that's all you'll ever need to know about hardfloor.

― stirmonster, Tuesday, 21 October 2003 09:18 (twenty-two years ago)

They were the masters of the Roland 303 'acid machine'. Often used 3 of them in sync to make some of the most heavy, bangin' trance/techno I've heard. Acperience 1 (the actual track name) is a classic, and still sounds pretty good. Most of their other singles and remixes followed the same pattern: a slow, throbby bassline over a 140bpm straight ahead beat, slowly building until a big break when the 303s all start freaking out, climaxing with a snare build-up and a big crash into the beats again. Repeat.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 09:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Search:
-Secret Life of Trance - Volume 1 (Rising High)
-Anything from the mid-90s on the Harthouse record label (http://www.discogs.com/label/Harthouse)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

i love the 'Circus Bells' remix, 'Acperience' goes without saying - 303 orgasms galore. the 'Blue Monday' remix is cool, as is the Mory Kante one (tho they're pretty much all the same).

i like 'Dubdope' too aka 'Dadamnphreaknoizefunk' from the Kruder & Dorfmeister DJ Kicks.

mildly interesting fact: Ramon Zenker of Hardfloor co-produced Fragma's 'Toca Me'

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 10:15 (twenty-two years ago)

ambrose we were just talking about hardfloor saturday at the pub before we met up w/you! maybe that's not a huge coincidence tho. acperience, circus bells, ROK ON, OK! i like the off-kilter drums intro to "boudoulee" or however you spell it, cause it's trickee

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: "The Best Of Hardfloor", a 2CD featuring their best tracks on CD1 and the remixes (New Order, Depeche Mode, Mory Kante, Robert Armani, Anne Clark) on CD2. Essential.

After years of trouble, the Harthouse label has finally gone belly-up, so Hardfloor are producing again on their own label. Three extremely limited 12"s, haven't heard them yet.

Ramon Zenker also produced the rather dubious acts Bellini ("Samba De Janeiro!"), Interactive and Paffendorf.

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Traver Hand you must be having a ball in London.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 11:18 (twenty-two years ago)

they even remixed Mike bloody Oldfield (i feel like i have said all this before - i'm sure there's another Hardfloor thread)

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Also worth listening is their side project Da Damn Phreak Noize Phunk, which mixes acid house with funk samples. They've released at least one LP under that name (It's called "Electronic Crate Diggers" or something like that).

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

into the nature
Teebeestroica
Brachalde Rontzdrate
trancescript
lost in the silver box
Alternative

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

and their remix of sven vaths robot

― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't one of the tracks from Electric Crate Diggers suspiciously similar to Clockwork Voodoo Freaks's 'Deaf Mick's Throwdown' (as featured on Fatboy Slim's On The Floor At The Boutique) both sampling 'The Champ' by The Mohawks? practically the same thing no?

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

four months pass...

revive!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 27 February 2004 09:35 (twenty-two years ago)

they also did a remix of bassheads is anybody out there, believe it or not. its good, but not the great track you imagine it could be...

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 27 February 2004 10:39 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

"Knuckle Skills" is fucking excellent. I had forgotten this. Thanks, ILM.

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 29 November 2007 05:07 (eighteen years ago)

from the home run album which is mostly otherwise pretty meh imo

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 29 November 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

i love listening to 'into the nature' on loop for hours on end on a friday when i feel really fucked up. it somehow makes me feel better... such an amazing piece!

― my bach penises and their contrapuntal technique (the table is the table), Friday, 13 November 2009 22:53 (sixteen years ago)

it's about time to bring 'TB Resuscitation' on a road trip again. 'acperience 3' from 'acperience e.p.' is my favorite version.

― Milton Parker, Friday, 13 November 2009 23:21 (sixteen years ago)

This is bananas:

http://www.discogs.com/Hardfloor-The-Life-We-Choose-The-Texas-Trill-Mixes/release/1524369

― your original display name is still visible (Display Name), Saturday, 14 November 2009 00:39 (sixteen years ago)

I've been listening to electronic dance music for almost 20 years now, and I'm still convinced Hardfloor's "Once Again Back" has the roughest, most kick-ass bassline ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekn7cjLaGOs

The only thing that almost equals it in roughness is "Paperclip Man" by Paperclip People.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 14 November 2009 10:38 (sixteen years ago)

I think one of the tunes on it samples "The Champ", but it doesn't really sound like "Deaf Mick's Throwdown". "The Champ" has been sampled hella often in rap and dance music, so it isn't really plagiarism if they both use it.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 14 November 2009 10:45 (sixteen years ago)

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