missthe90s
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 Posted - 2026/04/24 : 17:45:05
What I mean is those melancholy lyrics type of tunes which feel really deep and emotional. This is the best HH to me.
Examples for me to know what I am talking about:
DJ Demo Kingsize and Eternity - Magic Touch
DJ Stompy - I Believe (Force and Styles Remix) - I find their remix the best that I listened to as it breaks down into a more melancholy vibe and love how after a sad start it flips into super uplifting.
I used to have many more saved in a text file to refer to when I wanted a lift but have deleted it long ago.
There are some other newer ones - well not these days but mid 00s which is the last few years I feel HH had anything to offer with only a few dregs like CLSM and Sy, those bouncy ones, and a couple of other labels I forgot - oh some of Scott Brown of course. That tune "I will SET YOUR BODY FREEE" now that was a hard roller! the remix one, I think Sy?
For one from that period, I forgot who it was by, one of the duo names, and get a load of useless unrelated results when searching, but I am sure you will immediately know as I remember the track name is "The only ones" and the lyrics start out something like "you don't have to worry blah blah" then main lyrics "believe in what you are, believe in what you feel, forever, it will be our destiny" I love with this one how it sounds like the woman's voice is kind of distant and somehow encapsulated in the tune somewhere but getting her message across load and clear!
Used to be great hearing tunes like that on a big system at a club.
I think these sad type tunes felt more poignant for me because I got into HH, going out to it at least, listened to tape packs on and off through the 90s at high school, when the scene was on it's arse at around 2001. Well actually that wasn't the worst of the scene from what I have read later is it - 99 being the real bottoming out? This was supposedly an attempt at a renaissance with all the trancey HH rubbish - imagine my surprise when I knew nothing about this and my first times going out to HH nights in Bristol back around 2001-2002 type era and I am expecting that banging kickdrum from the mid 90s I was used to and I get into those nights and hear what I thought was straight trance! with the gutted kick replaced with some weak little 'tap' sound. Actually it was worse than trance because trance would often be great back then, that was at its peak, with the height of clubs like Gatecrasher (not that I experienced it) and such, but this trancey hardcore was just the worst of each genre.
As mentioned above though there were some redeeming tunes like CLSM which still had that stomping and driving sound we all know and love from the mid 90s.
Oh, back to my point...yea so I guess sometimes they would play some old school sets or tunes mixed to the newer rubbish and it felt those sad tunes were like a soundtrack to how awful the scene was then with the peak having long faded so the tunes felt so fitting for the scene at that time. I didn't mind this at all though. It still felt good going to these mostly empty nights and raving with what were mostly 100% chavs - which it always has been tbf from what I know.
Just the gloomy feel of it, still carrying on regardless with the poseurs having long left, added to the atmosphere somehow.
Another one - tunes like Unique (Force) - the 5 am one "it's 5 AM I'm all alone walking down this twisted road" Ok, now listening back to this tune years later it is pretty weak but I do remember getting feels for that at the time after having gone out to one of those empty nights and walking back and just feeling sombre. So it had more of an effect then.
I can only imagine what it would have been like raving at the peak of the happy period, I mean once HH found its legs away from breakbeat hardcore and that stuff before, for those couple of short years it had its time in the sun. It would have been great in a different way I bet. That is for another post to ask about that from the older heads. Would love to get a synopsis of how things were through the nascent late 80s through to the early 00s. Not interested in after really as it was really dead to my mind then unless there is the odd nostalgia night here and there. Just commercial and/or overly engineered rubbish imho.
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Edited by - missthe90s on 2026/04/24 17:46:24 |
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