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Ixnay
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 Posted - 2008/12/30 : 05:25:04
Began when I was in elementary school in the early 90s. My brother was selected to visit the UK when he was in high school. Along with a bunch of other specially selected kids.
He returned with 2 Hardcore CDs....I can't remember the name, but one was black, one was orange. Originally, I was disgusted...I remember asking him why it was one continuous track....then he explained how it was a mix...
In time, I began to develop a liking for electronic music. I drifted between various genres, trance, techno, video game sound tracks. I never really knew what I was listening for...or to..I just knew I liked the tempo and the way the beat kicked. I forget when it was, but somehow I stumbled on the differences between hardcore and other electronic music, pretty soon there wasn't anything else I was willing to settle for.
Meh, my journey still continues...lately I've been moving in a negative direction...but hopefully there's an upturn in all of that...
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MAtRiCks
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Canada
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Posted - 2008/12/30 : 05:57:40
I think my first contact with Hardcore was through Dance Dance Revolution 4th mix, featuring Raver's Choice Vol.4 and Shooting Star if I remember. I didn't especially like these two songs back then in 2000, but then I went to my first party in 2003, a Happy Hardcore one, and fell in love with the music. When I think back, the DDR arcade game probably forged my taste for fast and cheezy electronic music.
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Smoogie
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 Posted - 2008/12/30 : 10:31:17
It was February 2004 me and a mate where in a record shop in Bournemouth which was Destiny Records which sadly closed! ƒ¼ I was talking to the guy who worked there and interested in the dance music of the 90s and ended up listening to a CD which had DJ Demo¡¦s Got a feeling on it. It was the first Happy Hardcore track I ever listened to and needless to say I brought the CD; Hardcore Heaven live at the Sanctuary Milton Keynes, Summer 1996! It was a free CD but I don¡¦t know which album it would have been from but I guess it might be Hardcore Heaven: vol. 1!
I was now having a taste of Happy Hardcore, some ten years after it first emerged and had since ¡¥died out¡¦ ƒ¼ Not long after I got a custom made CD with random Happy Hardcore tracks thrown onto it, some had been taken of mixed CDs (such as Bonkers I later found out) and while I knew none of the tracks on the CD (of about 12-14 tracks) later I would! :D
Next while searching on google one day while bored I typed Happy Hardcore and came across a CD on Amazon called Happy 2 B Hardcore chapter 4! After listening to a sample of Scott Brown¡¦s Everytime I close my eyes I decided to buy it!
By summer 2004 I was listening to both Happy Hardcore and the modern mainstream dance and when I started back at college I was talking about liking Hardcore and another girl on the course recommended Bonkers! The next CD I got was The Ultimate Hardcore Album mixed by Sy & Unknown. It had 6 CDs, three were mixed while the other 3 were unmixed. This had many a great classic on it including the first Bouncy Techno track I heard (although im sure I heard some before 2004) it would be my favourite track on the album, Bass Reaction- Technophobia! 
My Happy Hardcore chapter 1 finally arrived after ages of waiting which although had 16 tracks was amazing from start to finish! This is full on Happy Hardcore and 3 tracks stood out, JDS- Higher Love (Slipmatt Remix), DJ DNA- Go insane and Hixxy (and Sharkey) Wanting to Get High! That track got me into hard kicks which is something that most new Hardcore lacked 
In November 2004 I got my first Bonkers which was Bonkers 13, Hardcore Horror show which was another brilliant buy! It was far better than Clubland 6 imo lol Hixxy¡¦s mix was an Old Skool mix which was am treat!
In early 2005, two more compilations came out; Hardcore Heaven (mixed by Sy, Brisk & Kevin Energy) and Hardcore Nation (mixed by DJ Seduction, Stu Allen & Robbie Long), came out two weeks later. Seduction¡¦s mix had similar stuff to hardcore Heaven while Stu Allen had some classics in his mix! :P
Throughout 2005 I brought all of the Bonkers and got hold of many old classics along the way! I signed up to happyhardcore.com in October 2005 and ranted about Hardcore being better in the 1990s, even though I don¡¦t remember it from then lol
2006 was a big year! I discovered wikipedia.org and came across an article on Bouncy Techno! It was that summer that I downloaded a Bouncy Techno mix of 14 tracks a member of happyhardcore.com uploaded! Amazing! I also got hold of some new Bouncy Techno by Nu Foundation! :P By this time I was getting into Scottish. Dutch Bouncy Techno and it was something I listened to throughout 2007 starting with a free CD I got off a member of happyhardcore.com and enjoyed Hixxy & Re-con¡¦s mix on best of Bonkers, which ended with some very good tracks off the Dutch Ruffneck label! Another mix I got hold of was a Lenny D mix which I enjoyed a lot!
In summer 2007 I downloaded one of the greatest sets of mixes I ever had the pleasure of listening to; a lot of Dutch Hardcore, mostly Old Skool Gabber which I listened to for months! I was now listening to stuff by DJ Buzz Fuzz, a DJ I never even heard of before!
Four years and my interest in music has come along way! I wonder what I will like next! At the moment (December 2008) my favourite track has to be Cixx- To da Bass (1996)
It was 5 years ago nearly I went into Borders in Bournemouth during what I think was the half term holiday during my first year at college & was at the Cd section. I was into 'Dance' then. I had never heard of Scott Brown, Paul Elstak, Hixxy, or labels like Twisted Vinyl, Rotterdam & Pengo & never knew what the following 5 years had in store for me, that being a trip back into the then by gone 90s! The thing is it was only 5 years before since Bonkers 4 & 5 came out, Happy Hardcore was still being made & 'curtains' was the haircut. The internet would have only just got in...
It seems more changed between 98 to 03 than since 03 to now, yet we can't see change, but we can hear it & Ibiza History of Hard Dance was the first step into my passion for music, yet it wasn't Hardcore, it would help shap me towards it as by the end of that year I was thinking 'what was dance music like 10 years ago?' thinking back to the days of 2 Unlimited, Take That & what I had only heard of being a 'Rave'. That question would lead me back to the 90s but not for a while yet...
Again I was at Borders in Bournemouth Square by the CDs & heard some music comeing out of some head phones,; Ascenson- Someone (Thrillseekers Remix) It is a good Trancy vocal track, not Hardcore (yet Hardcore was coming back at the time, I was yet to hear it as I have already said) but still uplifting & always reminds me of a girl I liked at the time (a cow) I liked it so music & did the usual look at tracklisting, it had Scooter-Logical song & another eye (ear) catcher C&A- Sweet dreams. There where 3 Cds in the pink box set & I brought it.
There where countless tracks I loved, Trinity X- Forever (the harder version, not the radio edit) Culturebeat- Mr Vain Recall, Matt Williams- Fixation & M-Box- Kissing shadows to name a few.
I changed alot of 5 years but my love for music hasn't! Even though my tastes have changed from 'Hard Dance' to 90s Happy Hardcore & then new Upfront Hardcore, to only liking 90s stuff, to Scottish Bouncy Techno (although liked that for a while before I totaly switched over) to the Dutch Gabber/ Happy Gabber & now the very Old Skool Rotterdam!
I must have heard thousands of Hardcore & Dance tracks from the years 1989- present & alot of CDs, compilations, mixes (downloaded), vinyls, mp3s & youtube videos!
Im starting to produce my own tracks now! It is going to be like the 90s all over again but with the internet!
I have two new mixes that will be up next month. Just got to try them out & see if they are good enough! One will be a Happy Hardcore/ Old Skool mix the other will be Bouncy Techno mix.
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protonic
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Posted - 2008/12/30 : 10:41:25
It all started in 1994 for me: Scooter, Dune, Marusha, Mark'Oh, RMB, Thunderdome CDs, Happy Rave CDs.
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mitchy_boy
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Australia
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Posted - 2008/12/30 : 11:05:15
i got into trance which progressed into gabber then i stumbled across this site, and it began.
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kathryn
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Posted - 2008/12/30 : 11:56:04
bloody ell smoog's thats the length of our pc screen 
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Future_Shock
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 Posted - 2008/12/30 : 13:00:53
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Originally posted by djkenmasters:
Hado-ken.... shoryu-ken
Fixed :)
One hyphenated word. File-sharing. That's what got me into listening, buying, mixing, producing and loving hardcore.
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Mental_Adam
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Posted - 2008/12/30 : 13:39:35
Thats like something from an autobiography smoogs ; ) hehe
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Future_Shock
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Posted - 2008/12/30 : 13:47:55
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Originally posted by Mental_Adam:
Thats like something from an autobiography smoogs ; ) hehe
He's not exactly a stranger to long-winded posts.
I think you'll get my vote for tl;dr category in the 2nd annual hhc.com awards smoogs :)
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Ken Masters
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Posted - 2008/12/30 : 14:57:21
This is awesome! The feedbacks been great & I feel like & know you all a lot better now. 
Keep em coming & fair play smoogie, thats a short story you've written! 
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Ken Masters
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Posted - 2008/12/30 : 14:59:46
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Originally posted by hardcore anorak:
for me was older friends scooter,tom wilson bass generator etc etc then i bought my first ever hardcore cd called the fubar raveheart was an england vs scotland cd dj dougal vs dj obsession still to this day one of the best hardcore cds ever bought .so got into it about 1995 time
This was one of the first CD's I heard also mate & what a CD that is! I think i'll go on ebay & try & dig that up.
The Scottish disc was the best though! 
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Smoogie
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 Posted - 2008/12/30 : 19:59:25
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Originally posted by kathryn:
bloody ell smoog's thats the length of our pc screen
Its an 'update' on what I wrote before lol It might have taken up all of your screen but it only toke me 5 mins to copy, paste & edit it lol
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oOoJaxoOo
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Posted - 2009/01/07 : 22:33:20
It had to have been January 2000 in Las Vegas when i went to mah first rave and i heard H 2 the core beiing played by Dig Dug.
My favorite cd is Chapter three (Eye Opener)
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The Doc
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Posted - 2009/01/07 : 22:49:08
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Originally posted by djDMS:
Super condensed version.
Went through House, acid, rave etc.
When the Jungle/Hardcore split started appearing I followed the 4/4 route.
I was just going to type a long winded reason from where my love of hardcore started! and then found this!
ditto!
(well apart from my breakdance era in the early 80's! Tour de France was well ahead of its time)
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tru bass
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Posted - 2009/01/07 : 23:26:19
well i am probably one of the only people on here who's route into hardcore was via the shitty chav dj route..
i liked dj pulse.. alot about 5,6 or 7 years ago.. i had heard of happy hardcore. didnt know what it was but i was swept into the pcdj rage inside schools like anything.. which was huge round where i live..
me and my mate, who shared my interest in utter crap went to stockport inside hmv looking at the speakers when this guy came up to us with a bonkers in his hand, he told us that we should buy some bonkers cd's and also told us to go to spin inn in manchester (which is now closed :( ) so i bought bonkers 11 and 13 and it completely blew me away. i found out the truth of the pcdj's and grew to hate the gets as well, which was quite important.
so i went to spin inn and they played some vinyl for us.. think it was some really hard gabber and an upfront one.. and then i was completely addicted
since then ive spend loads of money on cd's and drained hours of my life sat here on this site waiting for new cd's.. but i think its worth it :D
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