Thread: What's Your Favourite Happy Hardcore Set?

Originally Posted by Ray Sparra

yeah, good footage, looks like 1994,
I think that was when the good vibes started going out of the scene, 91/92/early93, was a good time.
I used to go to the Labrynth in those days, and it was the most friendly place you could wish to goto, but I remember these pricks used to turn up in Ralph Lauren shirts standing around like they was bad, and black mc's would be there talking about bloodclart this and bloodclart that.
one night after Labrynth in 1994 a group of us got hold of these ralph pricks and beat them till they're shirts were covered in blood,
we didn't go back after that.
It was a great shame, and I personally had no problem with the people in fluffy boots, glow sticks and whistles, that was what made raving good,
these mugs (and the advent of jungle)ruined it.

So in 94 RAVING finished, everytime you went out you had to expect aggro
what a fucking pisser.

1993

in gravesend, kent

Must admit, even though I'm not a big fan of the HHC sound, I did like some of it up to the end of 94. I have a mixtape of dj dougal from some fantasia event in banbridge northern ireland, and his HHC tunes with MC MC on the mic is real bouncey more smiles per mile stuff.
I went back to house music in 94 though, like a few others, it just seemed to have a lot more variation and actual music in the tracks, more emotion and more feeling which is what I was looking for at the time.

Originally Posted by Nik-Gnashers

Must admit, even though I'm not a big fan of the HHC sound, I did like some of it up to the end of 94. I have a mixtape of dj dougal from some fantasia event in banbridge northern ireland, and his HHC tunes with MC MC on the mic is real bouncey more smiles per mile stuff.
I went back to house music in 94 though, like a few others, it just seemed to have a lot more variation and actual music in the tracks, more emotion and more feeling which is what I was looking for at the time.

Didn't you invent house music Nik circa 1895...?

Originally Posted by Thrash

Didn't you invent house music Nik circa 1895...?

na.. he was the inventors grandad

Originally Posted by Ray Sparra

I think 93 was the golden era for happy hardcore myself, whe "Hardcore" kinda died a bit in 94 and when the jungle faster dnb stuff started to emerge the Happier side of the hardcore scene split and went it's own way. The music changed a bit there and got abit faster and had a lot of fast piano breakdowns , I reckon that was the tru Happy Hardcore, but the some people who used to like the piano tunes of 93, turned their back on it, it was just hardcore till then with pianos, when the scene split that's when the term Happy Hardcore was coined and raves advertised as only playing "hAPPY hARDCORE, So basically what i'm trying to say is piano tunes pre 1994 are not happy hardcore , there just hardcore tunes with pianos,

my favourite Hardcore/Happy Hardcore tune.

As i stated before in one of my previous posts - happy hardcore wasn't a genre in 1991-1993 but some ravers from those years would refer to the darker tunes as hardcore and the happier stuff as happy hardcore although today and back in the day from 1994 - happy hardcore was the happy stuff that was released from 1994 onwards which would include the breakbeat stuff from 1994 and then the bouncy sound of happy hardcore after that and from 1994 the genre happy hardcore was born

Originally Posted by msprim

happy hardcore wasn't a genre in 1991-1993 but some ravers from those years would refer to the darker tunes as hardcore and the happier stuff as happy hardcore

Most people I knew referred to the dark tunes as jungle, the happier stuff as hardcore & the techno stuff as well.... techno!

Certainly between 91 & 93 anyway.... hence the term jungle techno which actually didn't really make sense as it was basically hardcore....

Originally Posted by Thrash

Most people I knew referred to the dark tunes as jungle, the happier stuff as hardcore & the techno stuff as well.... techno!

Certainly between 91 & 93 anyway.... hence the term jungle techno which actually didn't really make sense as it was basically hardcore....

Where i came from jungle was jungle and techno was techno and jungle techno was jungle techno (but jungle techno had a slight techno drum to it) - maybe it's a regional thing

Originally Posted by msprim

Where i came from jungle was jungle and techno was techno and jungle techno was jungle techno (but jungle techno had a slight techno drum to it) - maybe it's a regional thing

Bloody mockneys.... always trying to change stuff so they have a latest fad!

We just referred to the happier tunes as piano hardcore.But that stompy shit is Happy with a capital H.

Originally Posted by waard

We just referred to the happier tunes as piano hardcore.But that stompy shit is Happy with a capital H.

Bloody grockles using their own lingo....

Well said on the stompy shit though... you can come again!

IT WAS ALL HARDCORE TILL VERY 1994!!


THEN JUNGLE MUSIC (DRUMN BASS) WAS THE FAD... THEN AROUND THAT TIME GREW HAPPY HARDCORE.... THEN JUNGLE TEKNO, INTELLIGENT DRUM N BASS, THEN DRUM N BASS AS WE KNOW IT AND 'HARDCORE' AS ITS NOW CALLED ... THEN ALL THE OTHER BASTARD GENRES!!


FUKIN HAPPY HARDCORE IN 93 MAY AS WELL SAY DUBSTEP WAS AROUND IN 97

Originally Posted by Renegade Radio

IT WAS ALL HARDCORE TILL VERY 1994!!


THEN JUNGLE MUSIC (DRUMN BASS) WAS THE FAD... THEN AROUND THAT TIME GREW HAPPY HARDCORE.... THEN JUNGLE TEKNO, INTELLIGENT DRUM N BASS, THEN DRUM N BASS AS WE KNOW IT AND 'HARDCORE' AS ITS NOW CALLED ... THEN ALL THE OTHER BASTARD GENRES!!


FUKIN HAPPY HARDCORE IN 93 MAY AS WELL SAY DUBSTEP WAS AROUND IN 97

I don't normally agree with Puffa as he smells & it's more fun not to but on this occasion, I have to say he's spot on....

Originally Posted by Renegade Radio

IT WAS ALL HARDCORE TILL VERY 1994!!


THEN JUNGLE MUSIC (DRUMN BASS) WAS THE FAD... THEN AROUND THAT TIME GREW HAPPY HARDCORE.... THEN JUNGLE TEKNO, INTELLIGENT DRUM N BASS, THEN DRUM N BASS AS WE KNOW IT AND 'HARDCORE' AS ITS NOW CALLED ... THEN ALL THE OTHER BASTARD GENRES!!


FUKIN HAPPY HARDCORE IN 93 MAY AS WELL SAY DUBSTEP WAS AROUND IN 97

Well that's us told