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acidfluxxbass
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 Posted - 2009/06/23 : 21:41:00
Okay, something I've noticed and debated about many-a-times is about how the modern 'UK/Uplifting Hardcore' is referred to as 'happy hardcore'.
I've noticed that it is infact mostly Americans who refer to it like this...
They claim that they'd never call it UK or uplifting, and are adamant that it is not called it.
Is it their lack of experience or familiarity in the genre that causes them to do this? Happy hardcore for us was a strictly British and European genre from the 90's, right? Why would newer stuff, with a new genre name be called 'Happy hardcore' still?
Is it because of this site or what?
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 21:48:25
uk hardcore is such a gay name... yet orbit 1, auscore and all the other aussies get labelled as uk hardcore?? wtf... that isnt uk..
to me its happy hardcore.. it still has a happier side to it even tho it sounds completely different to the 90's sound of happy hardcore.
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 21:51:17
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Originally posted by acidfluxxbass:
I've noticed that it is infact mostly Americans who refer to it like this...
Americans don't listen to Hardcore, unless you mean "Hardcore Punk" which is a stupid form of rock music. The ones that do probably call it that because nothing new has hit them since the late 90s, when it WAS "Happy Hardcore"...
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 21:53:42
But comon..
Happy Hardcore is totally different from modern Hardcore.....
So much so to be a seperate genre/subgenre.
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 21:54:35
most americans call it techno dont they? like all other dance mooooosic
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 21:59:18
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most americans call it techno dont they? like all other dance mooooosic
they call it techno n always relate it to drugs. its BS.
iknow a ton of druggys that do drugs n act like they have to listen to "techno" cause they do drugs, i like wtf. n they also put basshunter as "techno", when hes sum form of pop or sum shit
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 22:10:37
quote:
Originally posted by acidfluxxbass:
But comon..
Happy Hardcore is totally different from modern Hardcore.....
So much so to be a seperate genre/subgenre.
old skool/nu skool?
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 22:10:56
theres also people in the uk that call it 'HAPPY HARDCORE' because they dont actually know what it is, if its not pop, rock, hip hop or rnb, to them its happy hardcore.
OPEN YOUR MIND AND EMBRACE THE HARDCORE :)
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 22:10:59
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Originally posted by acidfluxxbass:
I've noticed that it is infact mostly Americans who refer to it like this...
They claim that they'd never call it UK or uplifting, and are adamant that it is not called it.
im with most everyone else, have to disagree here, watching these forums i really dont see anyone like that, just sounds a mis-perception to me
you are 100% more likely to come across an american calling it techno before they will be "adamant" that it is happy hardcore and not UK hardcore
i have to add though... So What?
in my eyes if they are calling Hardcore "happy hardcore" - fine - thats 10000000000 times better than just refering to any sort of dance music as "techno"
happy is a state of mind, next someone says happy hardcore, just think of them saying its hardcore that has quite a happy vibe!
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 22:17:51
exactly... its just hardcore.. be it happy, old skool, freeform, gabber or makina its just HARDCORE
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 22:21:50
im quite a fan of unhappy hardcore, and i quite enjoy indifferent hardcore
sometimes im in the mood for Remorse hardcore...
of course, thats all subjective..
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 22:23:18
I do often see Americans and Canadians refer to upfront Hardcore as Happy Hardcore. I personally call it, upfront usually, i think Happy Hardcore's a bit misrepresentative. Most newer stuff labeled Happy Hardcore is anything but, both parts of that title are misleading given the sound of the "Hardcore" being produced at the minute. I think Upfront is a much better title tbh, but atleast if the yanks are calling it Happy Hradcore they're not calling it bloody techno 
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 22:24:07
as long as it sounds good i dont care what prefix it has... at the same time mood aslo effects what i listen too
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 22:29:13
i rarely see anyone do it on here. but it's always on youtube... they always dismiss 'hardcore' claiming it's actually 'happy hardcore'!
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 22:41:04
This debate appears to have been going on for quite some time.
http://www.happyhardcore.com/records/record_releasetrackprofile.asp?recordtracksid=1437
Even back ye olde days when it all WAS happy hardcore.
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Posted - 2009/06/23 : 22:42:18
"they always dismiss 'hardcore' claiming it's actually 'happy hardcore'!"
ahhh im with you now
yes, these people deserve to fry in a vat of boiled oiley otter excrement
how DARE they sully the good word hardcore by putting "happy" before it...it just..just....i have to have a shower now, i feel all dirty from the very thought of it...
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