When did hard house die!!

In seriousness, If I've got my history right, hard house was really part of the free party scene, and was tied to it so when that got shut down it probably was a good baseball bat to the face of the genre.
 
atm23 said:
These's nothing wrong with them for organising records in shops, but IME people get so hung up on decidig what genre particular tracks or produceres are making.

With EDM particularly the genres kind of create themselves so there are coross overs tracks that really dont fit into a specific genre, so people might say "I don't like Hard House" what do they really mean given you can't partition music in that way.
Click to expand...
it's almost impossible to discuss music without labeling it to some extent. it's inevitable and helpful.

what (practical) alternative do you suggest?

alasdair
 
When you're as OCD with your itunes collection as I am, then believe me you need to categorise! 11,500 songs all rated with the correct year, genre, album, you name it. It's consumed me!
 
Yeah hard house has definitely not died, its still alive and playing almost non-stop at raves.
 
Not a big fan of Hard House.

Organ Donors have recently switched up their style and have been producing some nice Hard House music. Not sure if it's technically considered Hard House, since it was just released and I generally think of 90's Hard House when I hear the term, but it's not Hardstyle and it's definitely some sorta House, so I consider it Hard House.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FqkUjCVJMQ
 
Maybe a bit off-topic but there's a slight analogy to Goa Trance here. Goa Trance was pronounced dead after the 90's. Many, including me, blame it on the huge popularity surge it had (especially with e.g. Paul Oakenfolds's Essential Goa Mix). I remember there were Goa CD's in every commercial CD shop at one point. Some people blamed it on the huge influx of tourists to Goa, I even remember long time resident in Goa (moved there in the 60's like many others) saying "cocaine killed our Goa Trance!". Even though almost all of the music was produced in Europe and Israel.

Since about 2004/2005 some producers revived the sound, obviously it doesn't sound like the old one because the mastering is much better now, and now we have a wonderful thing called "New School Goa Trance". But it's still Goa Trance, just more polished and "modernized".

I don't think the case is that different regarding Hard House, although I'm not particularly familiar with the genre. A genre seldom dies, it takes new forms, evolves, and then there are always those who never stopped producing the sound in the first place.
 
Is anybody producing classic hard house sounds that would be considered big in the younger crowd? Say like Gammer or S3rl for my generation of HC lovers. I feel like Hardhouse is really difficult to find new sounds like the SUFC are doing for Acid Techno.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top