The drunken scotsman Advanced Member
United Kingdom
1,486 posts Joined: Dec, 2011
Posted - 2014/11/14 : 17:21:28
I've always liked uplifting dance music as far back as I can remember and was right into trance/dance during the boom times 98-99ish. That kind of hit a dry spell for me around 2002 which coincidentally was when hardcore bounced back. Me and my mates were bored of the shite dance music so one of my mates acquired a Tom Wilson tape from a night in Stirling. For those of you who don't know who Tom Wilson is - he was a legendary scottish dj/producer who really pushed the sound up here in scotland - I believe he had a show on the radio at some point. Sadly he died about 10 years ago. Anyway his tape had a load of classic happy hardcore tunes on it which I loved. Around the same time bonkers 9 was released and the rest is history, have been in love with hardcore ever since.... Although admittedly its faded in the last year or so.
trippnface Advanced Member
United States
1,654 posts Joined: Jan, 2010
Posted - 2014/11/14 : 17:59:07
hmm i was a sophomore in high school; was really into punk and metal; made tons of fun about techno or dance music. had not experimented with drugs or alcohol and when i did my perception really changed and alot of my misconceptions or ignorance melted away. sounds funny but someone put on boten ana by basshunter and even though it's not "hardcore" i could not understand what this awesome upbeat fkn music was. then i guess someone showed me that 10 minute dj ravine happy hardcore mix ( don't hate haha) and from then on i was absolutely hooked. 0 ravers or people who got down in my town( guess all the ravers were 10 years older) ; and it was before raving got huge again; atleast for my location. it took me awhile to figure it all out ;). first hardcore rave was hixxy & scott brown in SF in 2010. only been into hardcore or dance since about 07/ 08 :p
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Stu allen Key 103 some girl on holiday had a tape playing on a ghetto blaster and i asked what it was.. i borrowed the tape nearly wore it out..
i was djing at the time but had never heard anything like that.. so asked my local record shop independent to listen to the tape and see if he could recognise any choons i got about 10 from the tape and that's where it started..
Ken Masters Advanced Member
United Kingdom
3,447 posts Joined: Feb, 2007
Posted - 2015/01/25 : 10:56:35
Wow! This is a real blast from the past, great to see the thread get some attention 6 years on with new stories posted :)
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The Dopeman Advanced Member
United Kingdom
1,393 posts Joined: Aug, 2005
Posted - 2015/01/25 : 11:15:57
growing up it was pretty much the only music i ever heard along with bands like runrig, status quo, the bangles etc they're kinda my "guilty pleasures" but i mostly heard stuff from technosis, scott brown, bass generator, TTF etc and i used to listen to tom wilson religiously every weekend on forth one and when he moved to beat 106
i barely listen to anything after the 90's anymore apart from MOH etc
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oxis Junior Member
Portugal
128 posts Joined: Apr, 2014
Posted - 2015/01/25 : 12:04:23
started as 2% of my library as a guilty pleasure, probably currently consists of 30% of my library now though
someone linked a game footage video on youtube on an indie game forum i frequent, and the video had music by an artist that i hadn't listened in a long time. when i checked his website for the first time in years, i came across some hardcore releases and they were pretty cool.
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_Jay_ Advanced Member
United Kingdom
6,868 posts Joined: Oct, 2011
Posted - 2015/01/25 : 12:23:57
An older mate gave me Vibes' mix of Bonkers 6 on CD in '99 when I was 13. He was 18, and it was his first experience of Hardcore as well (some guy on holiday that year had given him the Bonkers 6 album). We'd been family mates since I was born, and he introduced me to all kinds of fabulous things in life, like an older brother would! Gave me my first beer (much to my dad's dismay).
But yeah, he went off to Uni at 18 in Bournemouth where there was a strong Hardcore scene and got right involved. Then when he came back he started feeding me more Hardcore and I began to follow it in a more organised kind of way. Then, first rave was 2004 in Cambridge when I turned 18 (I looked about 11 - there was no chance of me getting in anywhere without ID as a 16 or 17 year-old).
Rest is history, really. Been raving my tits off ever since.
Oh, and some of you will have met this mate of mine. Big Matty! We're now 33 and 28 respectively and raving together regularly. :-)
Samination Advanced Member
Sweden
13,073 posts Joined: Jul, 2004
195 hardcore releases
Posted - 2015/01/25 : 14:59:59
quote:Originally posted by _Jay_:
An older mate gave me Vibes' mix of Bonkers 6 on CD in '99 when I was 13. He was 18, and it was his first experience of Hardcore as well (some guy on holiday that year had given him the Bonkers 6 album). We'd been family mates since I was born, and he introduced me to all kinds of fabulous things in life, like an older brother would! Gave me my first beer (much to my dad's dismay).
But yeah, he went off to Uni at 18 in Bournemouth where there was a strong Hardcore scene and got right involved. Then when he came back he started feeding me more Hardcore and I began to follow it in a more organised kind of way. Then, first rave was 2004 in Cambridge when I turned 18 (I looked about 11 - there was no chance of me getting in anywhere without ID as a 16 or 17 year-old).
Rest is history, really. Been raving my tits off ever since.
Oh, and some of you will have met this mate of mine. Big Matty! We're now 33 and 28 respectively and raving together regularly. :-)
The same Matt I've met?
Anyways, I have to "edit" my history. It was as early as mid 2000 that I got the Off Yer Nut!! albums. Before that, I had Scooter's first collection (Rough Tough & Dangerous, the singles 94-98) which was my first foray into Hardcore.
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_Jay_ Advanced Member
United Kingdom
6,868 posts Joined: Oct, 2011
Posted - 2015/01/25 : 15:09:37
quote:Originally posted by Samination:
The same Matt I've met?
How did your Journey through Hardcore begin?
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