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OMGitswillc
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United Kingdom
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 Posted - 2009/01/07 : 23:49:52
i fell in love with hardcore at probally bout 10 but my m8s were listning 2 rnb and mcs and shit like that i followed but ive alwaiiz had a place in my heart 4 hardcore
it was on the walazar a skeggness a song came on it was dj cammy and i know hes not big and hes no hardcore but ever since den i liked Hixxy And Dougal my fave djs eva
and im onli 13 carnt wait till im leagally allowed 2 raves
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latininxtc
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United States
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 Posted - 2009/01/08 : 06:28:19
I haven't been into the music as long as you folks but i'm going on 9 years now alright and still into it as strong as the 1st time!
back in 2000 it was the beginning of my senior year in high school and i became friends with this girl and her brother. her brother like a lot of electronic music just like me. at that time i was listenin to the more mainstream trance and dance, and he let me listen to Happy 2B Hardcore Ch3 and i was instantly hooked!
I borrowed it and i made a copy (yea i know shame on me) and i also went on N*****r and checked out the Happy Hardcore genre. I ended up buying the whole H2BH CDs that were out at that time and then i found out about this website, and now i've been buying compilations ever since. Hardcore is the longest music that i have ever listened to and I don't see myself getting tired of it no matter what people say about the scene! HTID!
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latininxtc
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Posted - 2009/01/08 : 06:38:36
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Originally posted by TheOneNOnly:
I can't even remember the first 'Hardcore' track I listened too, all I remember is I got into it all in the early 2000s.
I listened to Hip Hop and Rap in the late 90s, got into Punk Rock in 2000, then shortly after that I heard something being played at a live set. Asked the DJ what the hell he was playing, he just told me Hardcore.
Went on the interwebz, and discovered the world of Hardcore! Still don't know what track he was playing.
Wish I had friends/family who was into this stuff back in the 90s. But, they where either all old rock, or rap! I'm the only one in my family that listens to this stuff, feel odd at family get-to-getters and no one knows what the hell I'm listening to!
don't feel too bad in fact you should introduce it to the younger ones in the family, maybe it'll corrupt their minds a little! lol j/k
but for real, i got my nephew into it he still likes hardcore, but he's more into the basshunter stuff and probably the more commerical clubcore stuff as well. but try and get your younger bros/sis/nieces/nephews/cousins to listen to it they might actually start liking it
but yea now that i realized it, H2BH3 is not the 1st hardcore experience. Can't Stop Raving by Dune was def my first and that was in 1999 when me and my cousin ran into it online. it wasn't until H2BH3 that i actually discovered the genre of Happy Hardcore.
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bulby_g
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 2009/01/08 : 10:26:25
I don't remember the specifics too well :P Was in the early nineties I would have first heard it as my brother and his mates started listening to it. I used to borrow his tapes all the time. First tapes I got for myself were the Bonkers 1 twin pack when it was released.
Went to my first little local Hardcore party (Intensity) when I was 13 (must have been around 1997), First Illegal rave was about a year later and first Big Legal Hardcore party was United Dance @ Bagleys in 2001 I think.
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ravekutz
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Australia
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Posted - 2009/01/08 : 10:55:08
Was originally into Hip Hop... But when hardcore exploded around the world in 1995 I never really stopped listening to it. It's a sound thats taken so many influences over the years from other genres.
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Ken Masters
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 2009/01/08 : 16:45:46
Great feedback everyone! I feel like I know you all a bit better now & where your Hardcore roots began. Keep em coming 
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ChrisDale
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 2009/01/09 : 03:29:33
it all first started when my m8 brought bonkers 1 around and i started listenin to it and kept on listenin to hardcore through the years
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Ken Masters
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Posted - 2009/01/09 : 13:35:27
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Originally posted by ChrisDale:
it all first started when my m8 brought bonkers 1 around and i started listenin to it and kept on listenin to hardcore through the years
Classic mate! Bonkers 1 will never die but my favorite has too be 2 just for all the memories it brings back
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rosin007
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Norway
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Posted - 2009/01/09 : 13:53:27
I used to listen to a lot of trance and techno, I searched a lot on youtube and the first hardcore track I listened to was Elysium by Scott Brown.
About this time last year, I was playing a MMOPRG game with a friend I know from the game who is from UK and we started talking about music. She told me about the genre and that it was called Hardcore.
I later searched a lot on Google and youtube and found myself a lot of tunes. Then sometime I was contacted by a guy on a network similar to facebook he said I should go to di.fm. I listened a lot to the radio stream and then August last year I found this site and joined in October.
Now I've got myself a few CD's and my knowledge in hardcore just keeps growing every day!
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Citrick
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Ireland
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Posted - 2009/01/16 : 20:28:28
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well i am probably one of the only people on here who's route into hardcore was via the shitty chav dj route..
Nope me too, heres my story...
I'm from Cork, Ireland. I love music. Always have. Only been a hardcore addict for a few years so I got nothing on some of you guys but this is how it happened for me...
In my early days I was heavily influenced by my mother and listened to mostly pop music :P Until I started secondary school when one day I was listening to my friends ipod and came across DJ RANKIN. As soon as I heard "Eminem in overload" I fell in love. It was like nothing I had ever heard before. As soon as I got home I downloaded every DJ Rankin song I could find. I got "I am a raver", "Pretty green eyed supa dupa hip hop", "I'll fly with you inside out" and many more. I'd say I had around thirty odd songs of his but my favorite was always Eminem in overload. I listened to that more then any of them, and that's saying a lot.
But one day I heard the Scott Brown track "Fly with you". "That sounds a lot like a DJ Rankin track" I said to myself, but I thought nothing of it. Until I heard "Rave heaven" by Dave McCullen and then I got suspicious. So I jumped onto Google and came across "Overload" by Voodoo and Serano, I nearly cried. My favorite song (Eminem in overload). A fake. A ripoff. It broke my heart. Now I'm not going to turn this into a DJ Rankin hate fest so lets just say I found the "real" version of every DJ Rankin song I had and never listened to another Rankin track again.
After that my music development was pretty slow... and dull. I listened to the likes of Clubland and Ultimate NRG until one fine day I came across "Save me" by the one and only Darren Styles. Little did I know that Darren Styles would end up being like one of the biggest producers in hardcore :P I LOVED save me. Naturally I looked up this Darren Styles guy and found that he had quite a few tracks. "Great".
I started buying CDs and before I knew it I had a new love, HARDCORE! I knew as soon as I heard "Theme" by Hixxy and Styles that I had found my passion and upto this day I have never looked back. Apart from when a new Ultimate NRG comes out, or maybe a new Clubland edition, MAYBE!
Oh and nice one for the mix (Tracklist?) I'm listening to it now and I must say I'm liking it. Never really listened to the old skool stuff before (Too much new stuff to catch up on :P) But after this I think I'm gonna have to look into it.
*Opens new tab, goes to google.com and begins searching for old skool hardcore*
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Physx
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 2009/01/16 : 21:17:00
Back in 97 / 98 i was given an amature bootleg mix tape with a terrible MC'ing on it. The mic was all crackly and he sounded like a melon.... However, there were some ****in cracking tunes on it. Lucky he kept his mouth shut most of the time, im guessing he was djing and mcing at the same time.
Shooting Star, Insomniak, Discoland, Broken Wings to name a few, and these are all classics in my opinion.
And then after a discovering this awsome thing called the internet, i managed to stumble upon HHC.com radio And thats it, since then i have been living, breathing and sleeping Hardcore as my one and only genre for 10 - 11 years lol
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Charco
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Ireland
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Posted - 2009/01/17 : 14:32:17
Got into it around mid/ early 90's = Started off with trace- then got into the happy german hardcore. Still love the older stuff - can't say the same about the recent stuff though. Don't know wether it was the fact that it was a lot harder to get hold of and the old tapes have an 'atmosphere' about them. Still have 100's of CD's but it's only a select few that hit the spot still (Older stuff like Ionosphere and german stuff).
Got into hardstyle now- it's got a rawness about it - would prefer it now to the modern style of hardcore.
Love the post about 90's rave - some classics in it!
Started to get into the spanish stuff but find it very irrating as there are few decent mixes - always seem to try mixing multiple tracks and playing them together when it sounds horrible...
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jordesuvi
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 2014/11/14 : 13:21:11
This topic looks cool.
My younger brother used to be really into roller coaster games (Rollercoaster Tycoon/Thrillville/etc) and would look at videos of first person roller coaster simulators on YouTube. One day he was on my old laptop showing me a video he really liked. The song in the background was the club mix of Groove Coverage's "21'st Century Digital Girl". I really liked that track so I looked up more about it, how it's part of the hands up genre. Many YouTube related videos later I'd been through all the artists discography you may be familiar with:
Splash, Satomi, Contacreast and was a huge fan of the promoters of that time. Jakizhan, Zakuro111, ShyGuy, bannishedtiger, UltimateReaper and the rest I forget.
With that I came across nightcore, which at the time I thought was awesome.
Since I spent a lot of my free time listening and looking up new music I often came across gems that barely anyone had heard (or made a nightcore version of) before, so I start posting tracks onto my poorly named YouTube channel.
I did come across Pretty Rave Girl early on but since it was either labeled under I Am X-Ray or Nightcore so it was a dead end to find anything else.
A small while later my parents had got a load of albums in bulk, one of them being Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 6. I was already watching the Clubland TV channel (back when they played nearly all AATW releases). At a similar time I came across Little Kandi Raver.
I found I especially liked the happy stuff: Anybody Else But You, Without Doubt, Outta My Head, Only Your Love.
After having five previous YouTube channels taken down I did some thinking and decided which genre I'd like to focus on promoting. I ended up choosing hardcore because I found that it's the most easygoing and fun genre and out of all the genres I've been a part of, the hardcore scene has been the nicest.
Fast forward to present day, here I am.
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Captain Triceps
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Posted - 2014/11/14 : 13:51:21
First became aware of hardcore from my uncle who used to go to Club Kinetic every weekend and didn't stop going on about it. I didn't much care, I wasn't into music much.
A few of the lads in my class were into the music (this would have been around 1995), and as they were all knobheads I took the music as being for knobheads too. It sounded like comedy, novelty stuff with the speed and high pitched vocals and that.
A little later on a mate was listening to a CD, The Sound of Happycore 97. I was disappointed at first that he had become 'one of them', but he insisted I had a listen.
Jesus Christ.
I'd never heard anything like it. I wasn't really aware of tunes being mixed as such either, and when I listened to the mixed CD, that was it - from this day forward I was going to be a DJ.
Until I got my first CD decks (some piece of shit all in one unit with horrible clicky buttons that took a second to respond, and no pitch control at all!), I used to put two cd/tape players next to each other and play tune after tune recorded to another tape recorder (not line in - just as close to the built-in mic as possible!) I was buying every tape pack and CD album I could get my hands on and still have them all to this day (I posted pictures recently actually)
When I got a job I was spending all my money on vinyl and got my 1200's in 1999/2000 (I think) just before the UK hardcore boom. I don't love the current music nearly as much as the music from the 90's and 2000s (although I listen to a lot of different music now, in particular skinhead reggae, ska, northern soul etc), but I'm still here!
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brenergy
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Posted - 2014/11/14 : 17:00:06
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Originally posted by jordesuvi:
A small while later my parents had got a load of albums in bulk, one of them being Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 6. I was already watching the Clubland TV channel (back when they played nearly all AATW releases). At a similar time I came across Little Kandi Raver.
I found I especially liked the happy stuff: Anybody Else But You, Without Doubt, Outta My Head, Only Your Love.
I see we started with the same first physical album :V
I thought CXHC6 was awesome when I first heard it... now that I've heard a much fuller spectrum of Hardcore, it's a bit underwhelming tbh xD
And while I'm here, I guess I'll say how my journey began...
A few online friends discovered the Clubland albums online (through the ever so popular YouTube xD)... I liked what I heard, and that's where I had my first kind-of taste of the core (at the time I just lumped the Hardcore in with the Clubland stuff)... and then I came across some stuff by Australian producers (namely from the label Australia with Force, via their YouTube channel) which then led me to more good tunes... and I ended up getting hooked on the genre, and then ended up buying my first CD: Clubland X-Treme Hardcore 6 (before that I bought some singles while imodownload / hardbeats were still around)... and then I ended up going deeper and deeper into the genre, and here I am now xD
Later on I decided I wanted to make music too, but that's another story altogether xD
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