― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 00:55 (twenty years ago) link
'I Need Your Lovin' (sampling The Korgis) by NRG (i think)
'4am' (sampling Beverley Craven) by Orca
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 01:07 (twenty years ago) link
― colin s barrow (colin s barrow), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 02:21 (twenty years ago) link
― mohammed abba (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 03:20 (twenty years ago) link
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
― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:22 (twenty years ago) link
Anything Sharkey did after '96Billy Bunter et al - 'trancecore' abomination...Dutch party gabber records with 80s vocals sped up over the topThe 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.
― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:25 (twenty years ago) link
― charltonlido (gareth), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 07:16 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 17 January 2004 05:56 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 January 2004 05:59 (twenty years ago) link
― mullygrubber (gaz), Saturday, 17 January 2004 06:10 (twenty years ago) link
admit it, it's something you always wanted to hear. ;)
― janni (janni), Sunday, 18 January 2004 00:10 (twenty years ago) link
― searchanddelete, Sunday, 18 January 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago) link
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.
― dasein, Saturday, 30 July 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link
No one happens to have an mp3 of a HH tune which samples Always by Bon Jovi lying around do they?
― chap, Thursday, 13 November 2008 16:31 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKFYMMFAwwA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhgnVB2Ob1E
― No disre but maryanne hobbs is peng trust me (jim in glasgow), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i33wo3EQN3santhem for a whole generation
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 12 June 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
lol, jonny?
should've listened to it watching the england game. would've been a perfect evening.
― Lil' Lj & The World (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 12 June 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
amused at the green brigade doing the "heyey ohoh heyey oh oh oh" parts from "discoland" at Celtic games of late.
― Efraqueen Juárez (jim in glasgow), Thursday, 2 September 2010 20:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe a bit early to be classed as HH, but whatever, it's massive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VxomeroFbE
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 2 September 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt0ETf0eN48
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 2 September 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^^Huge when I had my earliest raving experiences, so I will always have a lot of love for it.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Thursday, 2 September 2010 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4iTV63dM0s
This is killer.
― errant flynn, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― 3×5, Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:33 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hphx4PGX7Yo
― everything, Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:46 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzHBr5D04vs
― everything, Thursday, 16 April 2015 16:50 (nine years ago) link
Damn, you're a hardcore genius.
― 3×5, Friday, 17 April 2015 03:37 (nine years ago) link
It's this though. Side B is the 'Raise Me' dub
― 3×5, Saturday, 18 April 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
had this in my head this morning for reasons I really can't begin to fathom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhAYyKILuy4
― Fizzles, Saturday, 23 May 2015 11:55 (eight years ago) link
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=6chFSuIdhfEhttps://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
― 3×5, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZq3U4c1ihw
― everything, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 17:29 (eight years ago) link
There's literally thousands of these, right?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DnExP6No18
― everything, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
This one's proto in a different way:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9UaRgncTKU
― everything, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 17:35 (eight years ago) link
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.
― 3×5, Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
bonkers 3 hixxy mix is some buzz by the way
― corbyn's gallus (jim in glasgow), Tuesday, 18 August 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
dutch party gabber
Critical Mass - Burnin Love (DJ Weirdo & DJ Sim 173.683 Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek7x4R-W8Y0
― sexy secrets of the black metallers exposed! (Noel Emits), Monday, 23 May 2022 14:05 (one year ago) link
I just thought you might need this on a rainy Monday.
― sexy secrets of the black metallers exposed! (Noel Emits), Monday, 23 May 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
it's a rainy Wednesday morning and this is exactly what I needed
― boxedjoy, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 07:25 (one year ago) link
yes thank you it's perfect
bang! - cloudy dazebang! - shooting star
― dyl, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 19:46 (one year ago) link