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meshblorg
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 Posted - 2008/06/27 : 18:37:06
I'm just curious about your opinion on this style of hardcore. Personally I'm a bit of a Freeform elitist. I find it superior to other forms hardcore. But that's just my opinion... I cannot prove that Freeform is better. I find myself to have a growing disrespect for most of the typical new hardcore we here on compilations like Clubland X-Treme Hardcore. Although I do see a lot of talent in Darwin, Nu Foundation, and a few others making new hardcore. For example, Crush On Hardcore 3 is surprisingly awesome and to my liking.
Freeform is just so futuristic (extremely electronic) and free from barriers and rules. It's so dynamic and artists can truly explore Hardcore to its fullest potential under this style, once again, my opinion. It like makes for the perfect soundtrack for like a high speed drifting street racing video on the Tokyo streets. Or sometimes I like to imagine an intergalactic dogfight in space with like a million lasers flying around. Freeform can capture that truly epic sound that I find rare in hardcore but more commonly in Trance. I love imagining like Luke Skywalker in an X-wing taking on 1000 Tie Fighters and 3 Star Destroyers. That kind of epic. It's like end of the world terminator robot army music. It's like last stand for all of humanity, deciding moment of history kind of epic stuff. Of course not all freeform sounds this way but I love it all regardless.
I feel that happy hardcore has deteriorated tremendously from what it used to be. On the contrary, I see quality and progress being made in Freeform. I do however, enjoy old cheese and older Next Generation and Essential Platinum material that got me into this music in the first place. Currently, Nu Energy Collective and FINRG are my two favorite labels for the new stuff. The order of my likeness by hardcore sub-styles are:
1. Freeform Hardcore
2. Gabber Hardcore
3. Breakbeat Hardcore
4. Oldschool and older Happy Hardcore
5. Older Hardcore (general)
6. New Hardcore (general)
7. New Happy Hardcore
My 5 favorite songs:
1. Nomic & Pain On Creation - Make Me Real -> Most beautiful song ever. Makes me wanna commit suicide or something (just kidding lol).
2. Eryk Orpheus - 35 Cycles -> Has the best acid climax of any song ever. Terrifies old people when I blast this on the street in my car.
3. Stargazer & Uplift - Revelations -> Most beautiful freeform flows that capture beauty and elegence
4. Ephexis - Epic -> Focuses on what an epic song should be about
5. Asa & S1 - Trance Overload -> A slap in the face to trance elitists everywhere. This outdoes most alleged "epic" trance songs.
There's really more I would love to list and I give tremendous credit to Kevin Energy and Sharkey especially for pioneering the genre.
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Smoogie
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 Posted - 2008/06/27 : 18:54:52
I like 'Bouncy Freeform!'
Trancecore from the mid/late 90s is also good!
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meshblorg
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 Posted - 2008/06/27 : 19:03:36
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Originally posted by Smoogie:
I like 'Bouncy Freeform!'
Trancecore from the mid/late 90s is also good!
Oh! Will you name some examples of Bouncy Freeform for me?
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Wilky
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Posted - 2008/06/27 : 19:52:10
i love freeform too.
infact, time for some bonkers freeform i think!
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tru bass
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Posted - 2008/06/27 : 19:56:53
wasnt all of sharkeys cd's any good for you??
seeing as they are chocablock with freeform
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warped_candykid
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Posted - 2008/06/27 : 20:15:39
I personally just dont feel Freeform. It doesnt excite or touch my intrest like the Happier stuff does. I do, however; think that Sharkey has top DJing skills. I sometimes hear a Freeform tune that catches my ear, but Happy Hardcore is where my heart is at.
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meshblorg
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Posted - 2008/06/27 : 20:32:54
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Originally posted by tru bass:
wasnt all of sharkeys cd's any good for you??
seeing as they are chocablock with freeform
If you read the last line of my initial post you would see that I give Sharkey a lot of credit.
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Naggy
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Posted - 2008/06/27 : 22:08:55
I think freeform adds a more open-minded view to hardcore. I like all forms of hardcore.
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Smoogie
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Posted - 2008/06/27 : 22:34:54
quote:
Originally posted by meshblorg:
quote:
Originally posted by Smoogie:
I like 'Bouncy Freeform!'
Trancecore from the mid/late 90s is also good!
Oh! Will you name some examples of Bouncy Freeform for me?
A few tracks on Sharkey's mixes on Bonkers 15 & 16 have a bouncy edge to them, like Duel illumination & DJ Entidy's Spice!
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DJ-Intensity
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Posted - 2008/06/27 : 22:35:07
If I had to choose which type I like it would have to be...
Freeform and new hardcore music.
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Rayovac
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Posted - 2008/06/27 : 23:10:18
1. Bouncy hardcore (pre-2004 kind of stuff)
2. Trancecore
3. Freeform
The bouncy style is the freakin embodiment of hardcore. While there are some newer tunes that I do like (like Weaver - Come into my dreams (hixxy remix)) I'm am certainly not a fan of the trance influenced hardcore.
Ironically I like trancecore... but the kind that's more of a mix of bouncy and trancecore (sick tunes like Pilgrim 2000).
I kind of have the same opinion as meshblorg on freeform.
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DJ-Intensity
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Posted - 2008/06/28 : 06:51:09
Kev Energy's mix on Hardcore Heaven 3.
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Chris B
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Posted - 2008/06/28 : 11:10:58
Not too fussed with it to be honest, odd class tune but it isnt that free of form at all in most cases just sped up hard dance or cheesy as you like
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tru bass
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Posted - 2008/06/28 : 12:30:14
quote:
Originally posted by meshblorg:
quote:
Originally posted by tru bass:
wasnt all of sharkeys cd's any good for you??
seeing as they are chocablock with freeform
If you read the last line of my initial post you would see that I give Sharkey a lot of credit.
i was replying to wilkys post sorry..
i was exactly the same as you last year.. (loving freeform more than anything ever) but ive gotten more into the dutch and breaks side of things now.
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Samination
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Posted - 2008/06/28 : 13:55:42
Dont forget the guys at Electronica Exposed, Sharkey & Kevin Energy ARENT the only one that pioneered freeform.
Anyways, Freeform today isn't Freeform, It's either hard dance or bouncy hardcore, not freeform
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DJ-Intensity
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Posted - 2008/06/28 : 15:00:31
Firefly is the best freeform producer.
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