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NekoShuffle
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 Posted - 2012/01/05 : 22:59:35
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Originally posted by lurker:
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Originally posted by CDJay:
"Can You Hear the Silence" is at number 1 in the TID drum 'n bass charts which is a first for a breakbeat hardcore track AFAIK!
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I feel like Bring it Back did it first, but I'm not entirely sure.
I'm pretty sure S-Club 7 has never been in the TID Drum n Bass chart
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CDJay
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Posted - 2012/01/06 : 11:18:13
I believe "Bring it Back" was at number 3, for a while, fairly sure it didn't hit the top spot.
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djDMS
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Posted - 2012/01/06 : 12:19:09
Both Can you hear the silence and Did you see it should be at the top of EVERY chart.
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lurker
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Posted - 2012/01/11 : 16:42:19
Listened to bits and pieces of the other 3 CDs. I don't think I'm ever going to listen to any of them in full.
I tried listening to CD 1 in full because it'd be hilarious if I thought that it was better than Douglas & A.B's CD. I gave up before All About Evolution. The Time Bomb remix was ****ing awful, Lights Down Low was lifeless, Sheltered was okay. But then you have Hardcore Style, which was way too mediocre and cheesy for me to get through.
I can definitely get a bit further into CD 2 and CD 3. CD 2 has that incredibly unnecessary remix of Love Sick Crazy and that TANUKI track which starts off really good but ends up sounding like it came off of CXH4, either of which could stop me. Oh, and **** modern gabber, too. CD 3 has a couple super cheesy tracks one after the other. I'm not sure if I'd be able to get past that.
I still have room in my shelves for an HU6, mainly because I didn't buy HU2010. However, I think that this is probably the last mixed compilation I'm going to buy. In a world where most albums are sold with unmixed tracks bundled in and every DJ who gets a Hardcore Heaven Awards nomination gets an album mix, there's no way to make a decent compilation anymore cuz everyone's forced to either flood the mixes with the DJs' own productions or... do the exact same thing while also tossing in random cookie-cutter artists nobody's heard of before like Daniel Seven, TANUKI, Raving Donkey and Brisk.
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Archefluxx
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Posted - 2012/01/11 : 19:56:21
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Originally posted by lurker:
Listened to bits and pieces of the other 3 CDs. I don't think I'm ever going to listen to any of them in full.
I tried listening to CD 1 in full because it'd be hilarious if I thought that it was better than Douglas & A.B's CD. I gave up before All About Evolution. The Time Bomb remix was ****ing awful, Lights Down Low was lifeless, Sheltered was okay. But then you have Hardcore Style, which was way too mediocre and cheesy for me to get through.
I can definitely get a bit further into CD 2 and CD 3. CD 2 has that incredibly unnecessary remix of Love Sick Crazy and that TANUKI track which starts off really good but ends up sounding like it came off of CXH4, either of which could stop me. Oh, and **** modern gabber, too. CD 3 has a couple super cheesy tracks one after the other. I'm not sure if I'd be able to get past that.
I still have room in my shelves for an HU6, mainly because I didn't buy HU2010. However, I think that this is probably the last mixed compilation I'm going to buy. In a world where most albums are sold with unmixed tracks bundled in and every DJ who gets a Hardcore Heaven Awards nomination gets an album mix, there's no way to make a decent compilation anymore without either flooding the mixes with the DJs' own productions or... doing the exact same thing while also tossing in random cookie-cutter artists nobody's heard of before like Daniel Seven, TANUKI, Raving Donkey and Brisk.
I disagree with most of this, I think the more you listen to it the more it'll grown on you. I loved it at first (CD2&3) and I still grew on it even more :P
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NekoShuffle
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Posted - 2012/01/11 : 21:26:32
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random cookie-cutter artists nobody's heard of before like Daniel Seven, TANUKI, Raving Donkey and Brisk.
Brisk?
Really?
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Warnman
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Posted - 2012/01/11 : 22:51:04
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Originally posted by NekoShuffle:
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Originally posted by lurker:
random cookie-cutter artists nobody's heard of before like Daniel Seven, TANUKI, Raving Donkey and Brisk.
Brisk?
Really?
I've barely noticed any British Hardcore before joining this forum. Q-Tex and Technohead must be the only UK stuff I had been aware of until 2009.
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wong
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Posted - 2012/01/11 : 23:09:28
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Originally posted by NekoShuffle:
[quote]Originally posted by lurker:
random cookie-cutter artists nobody's heard of before like Daniel Seven, TANUKI, Raving Donkey and Brisk.
only one of them i havent heard of is raving donkey
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NekoShuffle
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Posted - 2012/01/12 : 01:35:35
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Originally posted by Warnman:
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Originally posted by NekoShuffle:
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Originally posted by lurker:
random cookie-cutter artists nobody's heard of before like Daniel Seven, TANUKI, Raving Donkey and Brisk.
Brisk?
Really?
I've barely noticed any British Hardcore before joining this forum. Q-Tex and Technohead must be the only UK stuff I had been aware of until 2009.
But germany had its own scene which probably had more happy hardcore in the charts than the UK has thus far..
The others I can understand, you'd have to be a bit more into the scene to know Daniel Seven and TANUKI etc. but Brisk is a household name in Hardcore no matter which era or style you like.
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jenks
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Posted - 2012/01/12 : 10:59:38
The CD is more my style, production wise at least, but **** me some of the songwriting is dire. Say what you like about the Raverbaby lot, but they know how to get some good vocals for their work.
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CDJay
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Posted - 2012/01/12 : 17:14:34
Any specific examples? 
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NekoShuffle
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Posted - 2012/01/12 : 17:55:29
Honestly, songwriting in Hardcore has always been pretty damn bad. The most impressive songwriting I've heard has been from Michael Mansion. Everything else in hardcore is always the same old A B A B rhyming structure or a weak modification of it. Good for simple happy hardcore songs which are meant to convey a very simple childlike sing-a-long feel, but sounds absolutely crap when combined with the more serious diva vocals. Not to mention the raver baby stuff was often copied from pop songs or old dutch hardcore numbers. It kind of irks me that they will copy lyrics from tracks like Burning Love and not even say "here's a remake of a dutch song" and will just subtly omit the fact it's copied and act like it's something new.
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Warnman
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Posted - 2012/01/12 : 20:32:00
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Originally posted by NekoShuffle:
But germany had its own scene which probably had more happy hardcore in the charts than the UK has thus far..
Exactly! They barely have played any british stuff over here. And when Happy Hardcore was at it's peak (when there had been TV-commercials for CDs) I lived in the US, which was completely isolated to any electronic music at that time. I have never had the chance to know anything about the RaveBase and Thunderdome CD-compilations. I havn't had any clue about Bonkers before 2010. 
I didn't even knew that Scott Brown is Q-Tex. I still know a shit about this music.
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jenks
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Posted - 2012/01/13 : 10:53:26
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Any specific examples?
CDJay
I'd rather not single anyone out really, but if I'm brutally honest, it would probably be quicker to list the songs I thought were well written. As Neko says though, it's nothing specific to this compilation, songwriting has always been hardcore's main weakness in my view.
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Skidzorz
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Posted - 2012/01/13 : 23:18:08
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Any specific examples?
CDJay
Duuuude, wtf happened to CD1? CD's 2 & 3 are not only worthy of he HU name but are easily the best two mixes I've heard all year (and by that I mean 2011), and though I don't really enjoy freeform, CD4 was pretty great. CD1 though literally sounds like it was taken from a Clubland CD. I youtube'd CXH7, then listened to CD1 and there's not the slightest difference. I thought HU was an attempt to get away from this kind of hardcore. The entire cd is filled with BS electrocore and boring, RB upfront tracks that all sound the same. This isn't an attack at you, or what you're trying to do with HU, I truly thank you for bringing something new and different into the hardcore scene, but CD1 is horrible, and definitely does not live up to the HU name. Now obviously you can't say the CD sucks here, that'd be bad for business, but what's your honest opinion on CD1? Are you totally fine with the way it turned out, or do you also believe it's a little below par?
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