― jess, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I don't think the genre is nearly as universally reviled as adult contemporary though.
― Ian, Monday, 8 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I always thought Happy hardcore was all about pot which meant that fugs up is good ro at the least accepted.
― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
Don't know of any that would play such crass music near where I am, although a British freshman who lives near me claimed that a hired DJ recently spun happy hardcore at a frat party here (!!)
Magazines? Buying 12" singles? You got me, it's all a gigantic mystery.
― Ian, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Andrew L, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
It is incredibly difficult to find the 12"s - the Record And Tape exchange's dance dept. frowned on it and so happy hardcore stuff that was brought in wouldn't get market rates (even by R&TE's tenuous definition of same) and then was just thrown into their vast ocean of 50p 12"s, with very few exceptions. So the only 12s I ever ended up with were cover versions in a happy style. This is my favourite 'genre' of happy anyway - familiar songs put through a kind of Perpetual Euphoria Machine - so I was fairly happy with it.
Packaging is a big part of the game in music for me, though, and it's hard to think of a music less attractively packaged than the "Bonkers!" series of mix CDs by Hixxy and Sharkey, which grew to grimly dominate the UK hardcore scene, or at least that bit of it you could find in HMV. Their wacky grinning faces were part of why I lost interest. Other potential reasons: i. I wasn't taking drugs. ii. You don't actually need that many happy hardcore records in your life.
You're right about the hipsters. I worked a few times in the record shops in the Record & Tape chain and on one occasion played a happy hardcore CD, with results similar to the "You fuck one sheep..." joke - every single happy compilation they got in after that was dutifully shoved behind the counter in case I wanted it, so astonished were they that anyone could actually listen to this stuff.
― Tom, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
"Like A Dream" by somebody I can never remember - more breakbeat than fourbeat but it breaks down into the most glorious helium loop of the intro to "Like A Prayer". V v v v druggy (I say from near-zero experience).
"Don't You Want Me" by Eruption - not a cover version but their own song. Very simple but something about the flatness of the girl singing's voice makes it poignant - and if you aurally squint you can even make out a hint of darkness, or certainly at least loss, in the singing too. I am kicking myself forever for not buying a 12" of this when I actually saw it once for a fiver.
so go to glasgae
i will get him to suggest some stuff but hes not in on the new stuff. he only has stuff from 1995/6 i think, when he was into it.
russian happy hardcore: even worse than everyone elses : check this http://hardcore.maker.ru/music.shtml the secondlink for each track is the one you want ("proclushat")
― ambrose, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tim, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― jess, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sterling Clover, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― gareth, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
I hate funky-house-disco-sample-loop more than any other musick ever.
xoxo
― Norman Phay, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― M. Matos, Tuesday, 9 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)
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