s/d Happy Hardcore tracks

'I Need Your Lovin' (sampling The Korgis) by NRG (i think)

'4am' (sampling Beverley Craven) by Orca

Force and Styles - "Heart of gold"
Scott Brown and Rab S - "Now is the time"
Brisk - "Airhead" (greatest happy hardcore tune ever)
DJ Technotrance - "YRS Stomp"
Chill FM - "Strobelight"
Dye Witness - "Only if I had one more

Anything Sharkey did after '96
Billy Bunter et al - 'trancecore' abomination...
Dutch party gabber records with 80s vocals sped up over the top
The Sandman - "Can can party" - happy hardcore version of the can can music. No. Just no. Possibly the most irritating record ever.
DJ Sy - great dj, shit producer.

I just dug out an ancient tape of the above pirate station and found "Rushin' On Pink Champagne". It's like I'm 14 years old all over again and Britpop hasn't yet been invented.

This tape is great, by the way; all manner of stoned 16 year olds and single mothers phoning in for 'big ups'. This, of course, was a time when mobile phones were a novelty.

I'm just waiting for the other side, which I think has Extreme doing his pigeon impression on it if I remember correctly.

OH YES - just found a site with archive recording of Dream FM's Swiflee and Fiaz. I swear, if my tape has the 'pigeon' thing on it, I'll upload it somewhere and share.

admit it, it's something you always wanted to hear. ;)

It's just some woman singing nondescript lyrics over a cheesy little chord progression...probably taken from the computer game. But there's something about the juxtaposition of the slightly detached or emotionless quality of the vocal, (particularly at the "love never dies" bit) with the syrupy melodrama of the lyrics and synths that strikes me as fantastically poignant and subtle. Maybe it's just the effect of nostalgia, but I could listen to this all day. It's on the second CD of the 1996 Bonkers compilation.

No one happens to have an mp3 of a HH tune which samples Always by Bon Jovi lying around do they?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhgnVB2Ob1E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i33wo3EQN3s
anthem for a whole generation

Is there anyone else in Scotland who listens to Clyde One on a Saturday evening for "The GB Experience?" A few hours of new and classic happy hardcore and frivolous trance presented by George Bowie, complete with "menchies" for pals to whom requests are dedicated?

Hearing this at half past seven this evening made my weekend:

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

lol, jonny?

should've listened to it watching the england game. would've been a perfect evening.

amused at the green brigade doing the "heyey ohoh heyey oh oh oh" parts from "discoland" at Celtic games of late.

Maybe a bit early to be classed as HH, but whatever, it's massive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VxomeroFbE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt0ETf0eN48

^^^^
Huge when I had my earliest raving experiences, so I will always have a lot of love for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4iTV63dM0s

This is killer.

I've been trying to track down the Happy Hardcore versions of "Rave" classics. Here's an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=264&v=Zhemc9uOMck

It samples Bizarre Inc.'s "Playing With Knives". The flipside of this samples Congress' "40 Miles". He also has one that remixes Manix's "Feel Real Good".

I remember there was a Happy Hardcore version of "Raise Me" by Bizarre, Inc., but I don't know what it's called. I would love to find out, though. I also wish there was a happy hardcore version of "Your Love" by The Prodigy. The album version is just a little too thin when pitched up for Happy Hardcore.

Anyway, if anyone has any leads, let me know!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hphx4PGX7Yo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzHBr5D04vs

Damn, you're a hardcore genius.

It's this though. Side B is the 'Raise Me' dub

had this in my head this morning for reasons I really can't begin to fathom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhAYyKILuy4

I think the best Happy Hardcore is the very early stuff, when it wasn't clearly distinguishable from 'Hardcore':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6chFSuIdhfE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDA6W-bH11M

Anyone know of any other proto-Happy Hardcore worth checking out?

Oh, here's a great one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy7h7H31iXg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZq3U4c1ihw

There's literally thousands of these, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnExP6No18

This one's proto in a different way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9UaRgncTKU

So, to answer my own question, posed earlier in this thread: A bunch of Happy Hardcore producers put out no-name singles that remixed rave tunes as happy hardcore. So Slipmatt had the SMD series, Wishdokta had Naughty Naughty, Red Alert and Mike Slammer had the '?' series, Sy and Unknown had the 'DJs Unknown' series, DJ Pooch had the '4 the Floor' series, and there were many more.

Here's a great list of happy hardcore records from that era.

bonkers 3 hixxy mix is some buzz by the way

dutch party gabber

Critical Mass - Burnin Love (DJ Weirdo & DJ Sim 173.683 Remix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek7x4R-W8Y0

I just thought you might need this on a rainy Monday.

it's a rainy Wednesday morning and this is exactly what I needed

yes thank you it's perfect

bang! - cloudy daze
bang! - shooting star