Happy Hardcore Still Not Taking Off In The States Like It Has In Australia n' UK!

I think I started loving HHC when I saw SY & Unknown live in Amsterdam when I was visiting there. I guess it's kinda like when you go to a concert with friends to see a band you really don't like. Then after the show your blown away and go buy thier cd immediately.
 
HHC isn't popular here in Aus... TRUST ME.
I have NEVER heard it out (apart from the VERY rare hardcore bizness parties) and I hopefully wont.
Hard NRG & Hard House on the other hand are pretty popular, but techno on the other hand is still the major form of music being played at raves.
Breaks & Drum n Bass are rising in popularity amoungst the mainstream. (always been popular in the underground)
Where did u hear hhc was popular in Aus btw?
 
well hardcore in general has been on the rise in the US (midwest) at least, there has been more and more djs that spin happy hardcore coming out, and there is teh occasional hardcore only parties every few months.
 
Mr. Horse i take it you're from melbourne??? in melbourne yes it is practically non-existent. in sydney it is quite popular. i thought i made that distinction in one of my earlier posts. maybe not.
 
Dingle berries?
...ewwwwwww.
Happy Hardcore doesn't do anything for me at all.
I have been of this opinion for the last decade.
 
Originally posted by pac.man*:
Mr. Horse i take it you're from melbourne??? in melbourne yes it is practically non-existent. in sydney it is quite popular. i thought i made that distinction in one of my earlier posts. maybe not.
It hit it's peak in adelaide about 96-97! Are you absolutely sure it's happyhard that is being played in sydney? The only place I've heard about it since about 97 is in the US! Although I still think hard nrg is todays happyhard :)
People in this thread keep talking about hardcore. What has that got to do with happy hardcore? It's a totally different genre. Do people in the US call happy hardcore just hardcore? If so, what do you call hardcore? :)
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hahaha of course i'm sure. where are you situated??? it's still being played alot in sydney, and has a fairly big following.
 
HHC originated in the UK/Netherlands region in the early 90's after alot of the Dutch soundsystems and promoters started doing Gabber/Hardcore evetns as their popularity was rising.
As Gabba and Hardcore was starting to hit its stride in the Netherlands and Germany (and boy...did it ever, I never got it tho...tad to intense for my tastes) the sound was softened up early when some of the Gabba producers started making hardcore that basically took the piss out of alot of the cheesier trance that was being made at the time, this eventually gained enough popularity (*shudder* how, I don't understand, but that's just me) to spawn the hellfire mutant genre of the eletronic music industry known as Happy Hardcore.
I can understand the basic premise behind happy hardcore, the just let go and have fun attitude, I just think there's better forms of eletronic music to do that to, but again, that's just my opinion.
 
Originally posted by *chaoscat*:

People in this thread keep talking about hardcore. What has that got to do with happy hardcore? It's a totally different genre. Do people in the US call happy hardcore just hardcore? If so, what do you call hardcore? :)
Well, talking from a UK perspective, we call it Hardcore cos not every set will be happy. there is a lot of darker trancey influenced stuff out there (freeform) so saying happy hardcore is not acurate. Plus 'happy hardcore' is the worst name for a type of music ever, and i would NEVER say that i listened to happy hardcore, in fact i dont think anyone in the country who raves to hardcore calls it anything but hardcore. Happy Hardcore now refers to the 96-99 cheese years. 99-present day is Hardcore, or if you prefer, UK Hardcore.
the REALLY hard stuff? Gabber. Gabber is what we call it, not hardcore. although a lot of Gabba is begining to be made and played in Hardcore arenas.
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Originally posted by UngratefulNinja:
HHC originated in the UK/Netherlands region in the early 90's after alot of the Dutch soundsystems and promoters started doing Gabber/Hardcore evetns as their popularity was rising.
As Gabba and Hardcore was starting to hit its stride in the Netherlands and Germany (and boy...did it ever, I never got it tho...tad to intense for my tastes) the sound was softened up early when some of the Gabba producers started making hardcore that basically took the piss out of alot of the cheesier trance that was being made at the time, this eventually gained enough popularity (*shudder* how, I don't understand, but that's just me) to spawn the hellfire mutant genre of the eletronic music industry known as Happy Hardcore.
I can understand the basic premise behind happy hardcore, the just let go and have fun attitude, I just think there's better forms of eletronic music to do that to, but again, that's just my opinion.
Sorry, I'm not trying to be a dick, but that's totally 100%, completely wrong. Happy Hardcore isn't watered down gabber, or dutch music. It's from the uk, evolved from oldskool hardcore. Here goes.. Hardcore really getting popular in 91-92, Smart-e's release "Sesame's treat",it hits #1 on uk charts, lots of Hardcore producers starting to get pissed at the "mainstream cheese" that is being produced, decide to "take it back underground", *bam*, darkcore comes about (Which evolves into Jungle), lots of other hardcore producers just keep on making cheesier and cheesier tracks, and eventually start adding distorted 4/4 kicks in with the breakbeats, eventually dropping the breakbeats almost entirely, *bam* happy hardcore is born.
Little simplified, but that's how it happened.
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For all u that abused hardcore..............
suck my balls
your only bitchin cause you cant handle it. You are all sheep that only listen to whats fasionable at the time.
Hardcore Ravers all know the score about comercialists, which is what u lot are. If u dont like hardcore fair enough, but dont start callin it shit.
ludd
 
Originally posted by TechnoRaver:
If u dont like hardcore fair enough, but dont start callin it shit.
I think what most people are saying (well I am at least) is that hardcore and happy harcore are two different things and that hardcore is (was) good, but happy hardcore is lowest common denominator populist commercial shite.
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Yep, Hardcore raver and proud of it.
and its all Hardcore anyway so it doesnt matter. how the hell can you call happy hardcore commercialist shite??
get a clue mate.
ludd
 
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