Phobz Advanced Member
United Kingdom
893 posts Joined: Jan, 2006
13 hardcore releases
Posted - 2013/03/25 : 01:04:00
What a track Jay! Damn some good tunes especially around that time! Especially love Ghosts - what a tune! Out of all the hardcore tunes I just can't seem to get enough of JHAL -Without you... just because I grew up as a kid waiting for hardcore hour on stu allan key 103 sets when I was younger. That song captured me as soon as I heard it fell in love with hardcore. Along with Charlie Lownoise & Mental Theo - Wonderful days (Trance Remix) and my fav song ever Fade - Freedom (Frantic remix). If it wasn't for Stu Allan maybe I would of been into POP!!! NOOOO!!! HAHA. Thankfully not. I knew from about the age of 8 I was a weird one. I wouldn't like any music - then I heard Wanna be an hippy on tv music channel. I knew that was the sounds needed for me :D Then not long after I heard the best album ever on a tv ad. Straight town and got my hands on Moondance the album. WOW!!! So much magical happy hardcore on the force & styles disc. Truly one of the best cd's ever released!
How did you get into hardcore Jay - that was basically it for me, I kind of had an addiction for fast music but at the time I didn't know what it actually was. So there search was horrible. I listened to stuff like barbie girl thinking it was the bees kness cause it was quick. HAHA god i'm sad!!!
_Jay_ Advanced Member
United Kingdom
6,868 posts Joined: Oct, 2011
Posted - 2013/03/25 : 01:26:51
quote:Originally posted by Phobz:
What a track Jay! Damn some good tunes especially around that time! Especially love Ghosts - what a tune! Out of all the hardcore tunes I just can't seem to get enough of JHAL -Without you... just because I grew up as a kid waiting for hardcore hour on stu allan key 103 sets when I was younger. That song captured me as soon as I heard it fell in love with hardcore. Along with Charlie Lownoise & Mental Theo - Wonderful days (Trance Remix) and my fav song ever Fade - Freedom (Frantic remix). If it wasn't for Stu Allan maybe I would of been into POP!!! NOOOO!!! HAHA. Thankfully not. I knew from about the age of 8 I was a weird one. I wouldn't like any music - then I heard Wanna be an hippy on tv music channel. I knew that was the sounds needed for me :D Then not long after I heard the best album ever on a tv ad. Straight town and got my hands on Moondance the album. WOW!!! So much magical happy hardcore on the force & styles disc. Truly one of the best cd's ever released!
How did you get into hardcore Jay - that was basically it for me, I kind of had an addiction for fast music but at the time I didn't know what it actually was. So there search was horrible. I listened to stuff like barbie girl thinking it was the bees kness cause it was quick. HAHA god i'm sad!!!
Ahh mate, it's an unreal tune - and I basically only really found out about it since The Legend uploaded some more back catalogue stuff recently. It's so fcuking good. Like, ludicrously good.
But yeah, Hardcore initiations. At 8 you knew - well, at least knew you didn't like normal stuff. That's mad - I don't ever recall anything as clear cut as that, not that early, anyway. My musical background is pretty mixed (in terms of embarrassment levels lol). My parents didn't really pass on any of their preferences to me, really. We used to go to Cornwall every year, and they used to have Wet Wet Wet, Simply Red and Gloria Estefan on repeat (year after year, literally). You'd think that'd be enough to make me hate them (the music, not my parents lol) but I actually really like all three of those artists/groups to this day.
In terms of my own personal development. God I started out listening to some real shit. I'll see your Barbie Girl and raise you a Robbie Williams. Used to love his stuff. Still actually do (completely indefensible, I know). His new stuff is dog shit, but I like the old stuff. I used to listen to a lot of Michael Jackson. We're talking like early secondary school years - like 1999/2000. Then, I started getting into a mixture of pop-punk/ska (New Found Glory, Jimmy Eat World, Get Up Kids, Less Than Jake, Blink etc. etc.), and I also started listening to some Trance. Just loads of shit thefted from Lime-wire. My mum's best mate's son is five years older than me, and he used to take me and my mate's to gigs in mid-week in London - like Blink and New Found etc. I think he found out I had Dancin' In The Rain on a shit CD I'd made myself (not having any idea what the fcuk it was, or what Happy Hardcore was). So he leant me his copy of Vibes' mix on Bonkers 6. And that was IT. Fcuk me. That's where my love affair with Night Driving started, and, more importantly, Hardcore in general.
I think that was 2003, very roughly. Then he leant me his entire Bonkers collection over the next few years and I started to realise that this was it. Nothing compared. At all. Used to go round to his and get pissed up and listen to him mix. I used to make him play Still The One and Every Time I Close My Eyes relentlessly. It was those big sexy fcuking vocal numbers that really pulled me in. Ahh it was a magical, magical time.
My only regret is not getting involved in the community element earlier. I went to raves with him and basically only him. Chatted to people at raves, but never met regulars or made raving mates. And I certainly didn't look online! It wasn't until 2008 I joined on here - and then fell in love with Deano (DMS) whilst I was out in Vietnam (using this site a lot) during 2010. Then we met up for a rave when I got back, and thus began a series of awesome raves and friend-making experiences with guys from on here and other rave-regulars over the last 18 months. Truly been such good fun to become friends with all these different people. And that's why I wish I'd done that MUCH earlier.
Blimey, you only wanted to know how I got into it. Given you my fcuking life story there!!
MaidenV Senior Member
United States
288 posts Joined: Feb, 2012
Posted - 2013/03/26 : 00:34:30
This just came out yesterday. I had no expectation that it would be good based on the title and the first few seconds....then the kick came in and i was like "godDAMN Joey" (in a good way).
_Jay_ Advanced Member
United Kingdom
6,868 posts Joined: Oct, 2011
Posted - 2013/03/26 : 00:40:15
quote:Originally posted by MaidenV:
This just came out yesterday. I had no expectation that it would be good based on the title and the first few seconds....then the kick came in and i was like "godDAMN Joey" (in a good way).
Yeah, I saw that too man. Probably wouldn't buy it, but that'd be a good one to hear at 5am on the dancefloor when you need a slap in the mushki! "MUST STOMP MORE".
_Jay_ Advanced Member
United Kingdom
6,868 posts Joined: Oct, 2011
Posted - 2013/03/26 : 12:06:56
Not sure I've ever heard that, actually mate. It's good, though! Could do with a bit more momentum, but it's still a good tune.
I must really go through the entire Nu Energy back-catalogue one day - pick up some classics.
Phobz Advanced Member
United Kingdom
893 posts Joined: Jan, 2006
13 hardcore releases
Posted - 2013/03/26 : 12:51:00
Cool Jay it's great hardcore only music that makes have a tingle inside lol. I never really had a thing for pop music when I was younger but I had heard all that stuff. Overheard Celine Dion and Michael Jackson because my mum was addicted and we had no choice in the matter :)
Ohhh James Venus - Night Driving! What a track, I had a James Venus tune on Absolute Hardcore 3 - wicked cd.
Yeah man I get that community thing. I used to run a site with jacek and scott bounce ages ago but life changed so much and didn't have access to internet no more and money bleh. I couldn't run it longer but I really regret it now because it was pretty wicked and the amount of work we all put into it. Kind of pisses me off now :(((
I never really knew what hardcore was until the internet was getting affordable lol. I just managed to listen to it through stu allen on key 103 lol.
I've heard about your love for DMS actually lol - seen some emoticons made haha made me chuckle ^^
Oh and I had to throw this tune on here: I noticed you posted a comment on this one Jay. Can listen to this song over and over. Amazing :)
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Posted - 2013/03/25 : 00:37:29
'Bumbaclot' make some noise 
