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| SteveW2k1 |
How did everyone get into hhc? When was the first time you heard it and what was it you heard...where did it go from their?
For me I was handed a tape with Bonkers 1 recorded onto it. I listened to it and instantly loved it, I just sat their for hours with my headphones in with Bonkers playing over and over again. From their I discovered a guy from school was a hhc fan, started hanging around with him and listening to his stuff then eventually buying my own mix tapes by the likes of Hixxy, Dougal and Sy. At first I hated any tapes with MCs but that soon faded and I loved pretty much every tape I bought. Id buy a new tape every week, the Rezerection series ****in ruled as did a lot of the Non Stop mix tapes. I was a total hhc maniac for ages then over a period of time my love of hhc died when their seemed to be no new stuff coming out and the place that sold the tapes closed down. My intrest has grown a lil every now and again but I'll never be a huge hhc fan again....im into metal now!
That's my story...what's yours?
'Happy Hardcore will never die'
Best hhc song ever -'Toytown'
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| milo |
someone mentioned frolic in tech class so i went and *eek* downloaded a few tracks and became hooked and went on a rampae to find vinyl =) here i am today
"It's all good..." |
| DJ CURLY |
thats the strangest leap ever from hhc to metal.
take a look around all the people getting down.
hardcore id the sound and were underground.
were underground. |
| djmonoxide |
I got into hhc through napster I stated a search for techno. One of the results returned read Happy Hardcore - Trixxy Sunrise. Downloaded it loved it did more searches for Happy Hardcore (beacause for the longest time I thought trixxy sunrise was the name of the song and Happy Hardcore was the artist lol. I learned the diff when I bought DJ Brisk Happy Hardcore Foundation Volume 2
I used to be a raver, used to take lots of E. Now I just smoke weed, and you know I will Succeed. :) |
| Weird Fish |
happy hardore to metal???.....how in the hell did this happen????
It doesn't make sense
I'm 41,47727272727273 % insane!!! |
| Don Giovanni |
I was going out with this girl. One day she told me her favourite "Group" was called Happy Hardcore. I was hmm interesting name...so she played me her favourite song "Children of the Night" I was instantaneously hooked. Fast paced electronic music. I went home that night, and went searching for tracks by 'Happy Hardcore' on ftps and such. I immediately realized this was a whole genre of music, not some group like she said, and became more excited. Listened to lot of tracks by Visa, Stompy, Brisk and Vinylgroover. Became a total Happy hardcore addict. Being the 'sappy' guy i am I LOVED all the lyrics. THis music was EXACTLY what i have always wanted to hear.
Anyway as for that girl, ya she hurt me immensely (playing with my emotions..sure u all know a little about that)...but she introduced me to one of the greatest thing i have ever found in life. Not a day has gone by since that i haven't sat back and listened to some happycore with a huge smile on my face :)
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'Together united as one indeed, WE ARE THE HARDCORE FAMILY!
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| Dragalian |
One day I walked into work, and over heard some rambling techno music in the back room. I went back there and my cousin was listening to H2BH Chapter 3. My eyes got wide and my mouth dropped. I couldn't explain what came over me. I borrowed the CD and I listened to it while playing Breath of Fire on the Super Nintendo day and night  . Then I started to look and.. erm.. download songs that had Happy Hardcore somewhere in the title... gee, it looks like all of us started out this way. I started finding actual artists like Brisk, Sy, Bang! and Vinylgroover, then started buying vinyl at SSU and here I am now. 
http://www.amoryproductions.com |
| Annex |
Heh... Don Giovannis story works with mine ;)
they where actually at my house when a discussion broke out i beleive, and we useda napster to get children of the night, so again first track for me
(which is prolly why, by defulat if i'm not hinking of anything, and have no particular track in my head, the beat for nakatomi - children of the night kicks in my head, then other tracks follow)
in any event, similar story didn't download NEARLY as much as Don Giovanni there, but i got my share, the rest i ganked from him, lol
and now... yeah... well now that i've had a collection downloaded n such (i know i know it's evil)... i'm buyin vinyl, loving the scene, and it's all just fantastic :)
i know downloading mp3s is no good, doesn't suport the artist and all that, but honeslty, the whole napster craze (which i wasn't a fan of, cuz i was getting mp3s before that, and felt infringed upon when like.. every joe schmoe ass at school was all "yeah i was getting this song, and playing it in my napster" i was like *sigh*... anyway
point is.... MP3 as a file format, in general... prolly really helped get happycore out there, let it spread it's tendrils ab it more y'know?
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potatoe :)
keep on smiling |
| Simon |
I deveolped a love for HHC when it started going happy and oldskool/hardcore was being less and less made so I just evolved with the music really!!!
Sy. |
| Don Giovanni |
quote:
Originally posted by Annex:
Heh... Don Giovannis story works with mine ;)
they where actually at my house when a discussion broke out i beleive
Acctually john the first time Katie played some happycore for me was at dans house i think like 2 or 3 days b4.
Therefore i am more hardcore than U...LOL just kidding of couse :P
(but the event at your house did indeed take place)
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'Together united as one indeed, WE ARE THE HARDCORE FAMILY!
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| milo |
metal and hhc is'nt too weird, i love happyhard, and my favorite non-electronic music is hard rock, (Slipknot woohoo!!!)
"It's all good..." |
| TechnoNut |
I was round my cousins house when I was about 8 and he had some weird music playing. I thought "this is quality" and borrowed the Prodigy Experience album off him. For years I was addicted to this Rave music and he then introduced me to this new Happy Sound. This of course was the very early Happy Hardcore in about 1994/1995. I started lovin' this style throughout its progressive years from its Old skool breakbeat sound. Every week I'd buy a new album or 12", So Ive been addicted to Hardcore since its development really.
First HHC song I heard was probably "Toytown"
First HHC album I bought was A Rezurrection/Judgement Day tape (this was before the style was calle Happy Hardcore and was just Known as Hardcore)
=) 'ardcore! |
| DJ CURLY |
im pretty much the same as technonut
i was always hanging about with my cousin when i was about 12
and we would play computer games (top gear 2 on the snes wikkid game)
whilst listening to helter skelter tape packs.
i thought this is sh*te wheres my spice girls tape.
then i heard shooting star and i was hooked.
(i was joking about the spice girls tape it was actually aqua)
it seems all u americans and canadians got into the scene through illegal means and yet us uk people got into it perfectly legally.
u law breaking bast**ds (only joking as long as your not downloading now)
take a look around all the people getting down.
hardcore id the sound and were underground.
were underground. |
| djmonoxide |
quote:
Originally posted by DREAMSCAPE2002:
im pretty much the same as technonut
i was always hanging about with my cousin when i was about 12
and we would play computer games (top gear 2 on the snes wikkid game)
whilst listening to helter skelter tape packs.
i thought this is sh*te wheres my spice girls tape.
then i heard shooting star and i was hooked.
(i was joking about the spice girls tape it was actually aqua)
it seems all u americans and canadians got into the scene through illegal means and yet us uk people got into it perfectly legally.
u law breaking bast**ds (only joking as long as your not downloading now)
take a look around all the people getting down.
hardcore id the sound and were underground.
were underground.
Nope I don't download mp3's anymore I have moved on to boot legged movies, illeagal software, and pornography  lol jp I have stopped downloading everything
I used to be a raver, used to take lots of E. Now I just smoke weed, and you know I will Succeed. :) |
| TweekiN |
By aciddent went out with a friend to a party..
loved it
and that is ancient history
Go hard or GO HOME!! |
| Pandora |
A friend gave me and my best firend Paulina Taylor's Smile, and we were both hooked. We drove around listening to that tape for months along with a tape we recorded...one side was Cake and the other was Sublime.
The conection with Happy Core and Rock is strong....just as the conection with Punk and Jungle.
"I kiss your lips and close my eyes, take you away to paradise, make everybody see that I love you and you love me" |
| mc trev |
i was sold a dat tape for £3 of a friend at skool dj sy & mc storm and it went from there
the first time i heard it live was at harrogate number 1 night club jimmy's (800 capacity 4 rooms )
and i hear hhc every time i go there trevor broadbank spins a 3 half hour set
last hour is happyhardcore & some old skool
he always spins BANG -shooting star and about another 15 hhc tunes
plus he span children of the night for the first time at the last ukclubculture avent (14-17's)
can't wait the next avent is 22nd july its going to go off theres always 800 teens there no matter wat (including me 16 )
he span 2with out heads- u & me
and Visa don't go away last time aswell
i enjoyed it more than anyone else there
most of them are into garadge & rnb BUT NOT ME
[email protected]
www.helter-skelter.co.uk
http://backtotheoldzone.co.uk www.slamminvinyl.co.uk |
| Heist |
Before hardcore i was into any good pop that was on the charts (usually succsessful dance songs like Usura - Open your mind and The Movement - Jump) and video game music. I used to have heaps of tapes with game music on them!
I was at a mates place after going to the basketball when i was about 11. I was sleeping on the floor in his room and i heard some strange music coming from his brothers room. He had left his radio on JJJ (Radio Station here in brisbane) and after the request show on saturdays they have an electronica segment called Mixup. I fully thought i was dreaming cause this music was having such a profound effect on me. I went to sleep after it was finished.
The next day at primary school i asked all my friends if they new anything about JJJ's 'Techno Nights' (As i called it then). Of course they didn't and so the next saturday i stayed up and set a tape to tape Mix up. The next day i listened and i had my first happy hardcore tape! It had some awesome sounding 303 powered euro trance in it and tracks like: Midas - Groovecontroll, Jimmy J & CruLT - 6 Days, Sonicdriver - Cold as Ice and loads of other great tunes. I was in love with it
I then found out my friend Simon had heaps of happyhardcore tapes and cds and the rest is history! Everyone at highschool giving me shit for liking 'Techno' until of course it became commercially succsessful and now they all love it for the wrong reasons etc.
Heist - This is your life!
www.mp3.com/djheist |
| B.C |
Basically,about 6 years ago i used to go to an under 18s disco every thursday and that was when the rave scene was just kicking off with the kids when "toytown" and "Back in the UK" were first played.i just thought wow this is kool but it wasnt till i heard the whole Bonkers 1 album a month or 2 later that i realised that HARDCORE(NOT THIS HAPPY HARDCORE PISH ITS CALLED NOW) is amazin...a rollercoaster of emotions! my interest faded again until about 18 months ago when i stumbled by a copy of Bonkers 1 in a shop in Edinburgh for £3! i couldnt resist! my love was instantly rekindled with "Toytown" again and i bought Bonkers 3,then Bonkers 4,then Bonkers 5 for £10 each.i realised i didnt have Bonkers 2 and went obsessive for about 2 months till i found it(1 of my mates had an immaculate copy he was willing 2 part with for £10).Now ive ordered Bonkers 6 and 7 and im lookin forward to Bonkers 8 being released on July 15th! Hixxy is signing copies in Glasgow,Edinburgh,Sheffield,London,Manchester and Newcastle for die-hard fans! i'll be there!!!! anyway.............wooooooooooooooo
"The music was like new,black,polished chrome that came over the summer like liquid night" |
| 1xtcraver |
i've got a mate who moved near me about 2 years ago he had decks but shit vinyl apart from 1, shooting star i heard it n got hooked went on napster n downloaded loads of tunes. i got into djing about 5 months ago n since then i have spent all my money on vinyl n drugs.
HARDCORE IS THE ONLY MUSIC
Point it at your temple with the intent to kill |
| BouncyRaver |
Bit strange my story, me n sum mates gatecrashed this girls party used 2 do it every week to get sum under age booze and fags on this occasion one of me boys grabbed a tape! So we went back 2 his house 2 play on the megadrive n decided 2 listen to tha tape 1st song was Space invader n I 4ght bloody hell its a bit frantic innit n then after that visa dont go away wiv Charlie B MCin I fell in love wiv it n ave bin eva since!
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| Jon |
I cant believe all you US guys & Gals & Japanese etc are into Hardcore!
I 1st got into when hanging round with some new mates in 1997, 1 of them had a car so he chose the music they luved it I hated it til I heard Shooting Star on a vibes mix I was hooked, borrowed his tapes then went & bought my own tape set 4 weeks b4 going to HH NOV 1998 (still aged 17 with fake ID!!!) took my 1st E & danced til 6am 4 the 1st time in my lfe loved evry minute & never looked back!
Foxy.
hardcore never dies-keep on ravin. |
| silver |
HappyHardcore is a global thing :)
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you, me and hardcore forever. |
