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Mortis
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 Posted - 2013/09/27 : 09:08:51
http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/in-praise-of-happy-hardcore?utm_source=vicefb
This is an amazing article written by Clive Martian. It's a great read and really sums up things very well.
This is why I still love happy hardcore 
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"Maybe in a day and age in which even our rappers can't get to the end of a verse without having an existential crisis, we should find a place for happy hardcore"
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Audio Warfare
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Posted - 2013/09/27 : 09:28:29
Haha nice link, that you. Had a good laugh at that. "and is now destined to forever be associated with all those other sources of moral panic from the 1990s, like joyriding, solvent abuse and Sunny D." "I can see why it would put people off, what with its naffness, its cheapness and its general lack of quality, it's essentially musical Tizer. But remember that a lot of people like Tizer." :D Great article.
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_Jay_
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Posted - 2013/09/27 : 09:59:14
Is he really praising Happy Hardcore, though?
He's saying it might be a good laugh for non-Hardcore people to go and act like kids for a night.
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Triquatra
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Posted - 2013/09/27 : 10:16:42
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Captain Triceps
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Posted - 2013/09/27 : 10:32:14
He's saying happy hardcore is what it is - good fun music that's not stuck up it's own anus, and not really like anything else.
Non-stop energy? Forgetting everything and having a bloody good laugh? What's not to like!
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Elliott
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Posted - 2013/09/27 : 12:36:47
Although I was just a kid in the 90s so I wasn't at the raves, ketamine is not something I've ever associated with happy hardcore.
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Edited by - Elliott on 2013/09/27 12:38:09 |
Claxton
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Posted - 2013/09/27 : 21:53:15
I agree with Jay on this one.
Without probably meaning to, the article is actually quite derogatory towards hardcore.
Call me sad, but although many hardcore tracks aren't to be taken seriously, hardcore is actually very serious for me and a huge part of life. I have huge, huge passion for the music and not just raving.
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Brainchild
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Posted - 2013/09/27 : 22:05:03
I don't know if it's just me but when I listen to the tunes and mixes from the 90s, it feels more like the it was produced for the love of the music and not to be taken too seriously. But since the early 2000s when it exploded and big labels like AATW got involved, the attitude seems to have changed for the most part. Big producers/DJs like Breeze, Darren Styles and Hixxy found themselves earning a lot more money then they had been before and suddenly it became totally serious and very much money and fame driven.
I am not saying that's how all the music today is, but certainly a fair amount is. Also it's interesting that a fair amount of big producers of the 90s left the scene around about the time it started to kick off again like Vinylgroover, Demo, Bananaman and Kaos.
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Elliott
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Posted - 2013/09/27 : 23:49:40
Idk, I think that if you bear in mind that the vast majority of people will never take hardcore anywhere near as seriously as we do, the article was about as complimentary as it's possible to be (without taking hardcore seriously).
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Edited by - Elliott on 2013/09/27 23:51:11 |
ultraskool
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Posted - 2013/09/28 : 21:57:30
the thing with HHC is that it's able to evolve and keep changing with the times. For e.g. back in the 95-97 era , it was the 'in' thing of the moment and then after trance influences came in , it was able to morph into Trancecore/Tranceform AKA Freeform and now it's gaining influences from Dub-electro sounds and now I'm just loving stuff from DJ S3RL . So it's this ability to keep changing with the times that makes me Love HHC!
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