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junglist_angel
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Belgium
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 Posted - 2003/03/17 : 05:28:46
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Originally posted by silver:
It all depends if you want HHC to go commerical, I certainly really dont want it too, it will kill it. Remember when the Prodigy started to get popular? I respect the prodigy and their music but for some it's just cool to like the prodigy.... I agree that this point will be argued over and over, it will be cool if done correctly and the scene stays around for a long as Rock and Roll has been around. But image if it took the path of Disco, here today, hated tomorrow.
yeah, I completly agree with that. Also the problem with Prodigy is that the fact that they went mainstream also changed their music. They sold out! Look at em now... they are not even doing electronic music much really. I love their older stuff. 1st & 2nd albu; were best. The third one was decent. and after that, they just went to shit. Boo!!!!!!!!!!!
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Raver_Davie
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Posted - 2003/03/17 : 17:41:56
will underground music EVER go mainstream???
It may have it's moments like Garage has and some of the rock bands. I don't think it will go to the extent where kids who have never heard the music will be wearing hooded-tops with artist's names on, like in rock music.
Can you imagine hardcore mainstream? Example: Your 12 year old sister buys a magazine like 'Smash Hits' because it has a free poster of Hixxy and Brisk, even though she was taking the piss out of the music prior to that. It doesn't bare tinking.
You'll see alot more arseholes and trouble at events and current mainstream artists like Pink, who's one single is one genre of music and the next is another, jumping on the hardcore band wagon saying "Hardcore's great, bought my first tape pack in 1995!"
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Weird Fish
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Aruba
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Posted - 2003/03/17 : 18:17:46
Mainstream, I don't think it would. You have to have a Raver's Heart to stand and understand this music. A lot of ppl are mindless sheep, just like sheep. Today they say they like hhc and tomorrow they'll say they like God-knows-what. They will always be something to sell, just like punk it comes and goes, cause of too comercialisation.
I have a cousin who has his band, his genre is like punk-ska-reggea-rock-beach style, I'm not into that scene, but his music is good, he always invites me to his gigs, I would go cause I like his music too(actually I go for the scooby-doo song), but one hit song on the radio and now everybody likes him, yata yata yata and they all go to the gig for that one song...
I just hate when sheep cross over the road in front of me, you just want to hit some of them......arrghhhh.....(calmin down). so you'll get a bunch of sheep at raves...aint a cool sight.
Not much to worry, they come together and leave together at the same time.
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weba_d
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Posted - 2003/03/17 : 19:21:43
Im kinda keen how the dance scene is right now, theres abit of mainstream, not much but enough for 90% to of the population to understand that happyhardcore is a style of dance music and not "WTF is that shit?"
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zanzera
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 Posted - 2003/03/18 : 01:17:41
No, underground will never become mainstream because thats why they call it underground bcause its not mainstream
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Stevie c
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Posted - 2003/03/18 : 03:44:08
I'm sorry but was that last post a leason in stating the bleedin obvious?
Lots of Underground stuff has 'Gone' mainstream which I believe is what
the thread is about. It would be a pretty poor conversation if we didn't all
recognise that onces something 'goes' mainstream that a new underground
style won't be found. If that was the case music would have died a long time ago
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Kyle_Buffrey
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Tanzania
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Posted - 2003/05/29 : 17:26:18
No, underground will never become mainstream because thats why they call it underground bcause its not mainstream
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That is the correct answer.
I think I can partially understand what you are trying to say though. Hardcore probably wouldn't because the scene is too close knit in comparison with other styles of music. Good thing too, I don't want trendy wankers controlling the scene, and ****ing it up. Unfortuneatley there are cheeze covers around from the AATW label, but they couldn't do original new hardcore for toffee, (or another few pints from their beerboy clubs for that matter)
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The Sperminator 2
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Posted - 2003/06/01 : 13:14:18
I think the real question is here, does anyone actually want hhc to go mainstream?...if the music took the cheap way out it def has the ability to make it big, but then the music suffers with it (think technohead - i wanna be a hippy)...an all-time hated tune of mine is shooting star, reason being is that every 13-15 year old school girl in UK knows that song off by heart after those ridiculous DDR machines in the arcades. the general public don't take hardcore seriously as it is, can you imagine how discredited the scene would be if tracks like shooting star made it on to top of the pops? not only would it spawn loads of crappy pop hardcore sh*t, it would damage hardcores already bad image beyond repair and totally kill the scene off..lets leave the music where it should be, underground, where true ravers like us can appreciate it. ;-)
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hooverlover
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Posted - 2003/07/02 : 09:29:15
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Also the problem with Prodigy is that the fact that they went mainstream also changed their music.
well, I don't really think it changed their experience era music. the music had the sound they personally wanted for the album but the radio edits did have to radio friendly.
and I so agree that their new stuff isn't as good, well for me anyway, I loved experience and jilted. their new album "always outnumbered never outgunned" coming out this year I don't think I will buy, it will probably be like fat of the land
I think UK garage is crap IMO
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breathe
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Posted - 2003/07/28 : 14:04:53
YAS MAN it is inevitable.... bite your tongue kiddo cuz look around you ...everything that started off with little bites has eventually ended up with corperations like sony and ****ing ford taking huge rips out of it and eating it for a light snack whilst destroying the purity of anything capable of containing any soul or culture
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ravinlil
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Posted - 2003/08/01 : 02:55:06
I realy realy fcukin hope it doesnt go mainstream. If it did poeple that dont understand the music would tear it to shitty little pieces and I dont want that to happen an I dont think any of you do either. Lets just keep it to ourselves and hope it always stays underground.
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