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Vladel
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 Posted - 2015/09/12 : 14:38:59
Keep up the good work sir
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trippnface
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Posted - 2015/09/13 : 17:20:09
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Originally posted by Mortis:
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Originally posted by lurker:
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Originally posted by trippnface:
if i had any complaints it would be less MOB and more J core artists ; D... and better j core songs; i have multiple bangers from hommarju and noriken that blow those tracks away! maybe they not producing great stuff right now?
Don't have the album yet but I figured I'd comment on this: a lot of great J-Core came out at a few conventions in Japan this past year. Precisely none of that ended up on this album except Teenage Kiss and Junkie Vinyl (and Come Back, oops. Cathedral is unreleased). I'm kinda surprised by that, but given how apparently J-Core artists think their music is completely and totally unrelated to any Western music (DJ Technorch gave a presentation saying as much, although he completely ignored UK Hardcore while giving it), maybe I shouldn't be.
Blatant self promotion here: http://www.happyhardcore.com/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=76422
looks nice dude; will def check out :)
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Posted - 2015/09/14 : 00:11:03
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I see teenage kiss is on an album called fenix and I can't find a listing for that, is there anyway to get that track?
https://soundcloud.com/djshimamura/sets/dj-shimamura-fenix-out-in-26
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Vladel
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Posted - 2015/09/16 : 16:25:28
It costs like nearly ?30 after postage which is quite frankly mental
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trippnface
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Posted - 2015/09/16 : 17:24:23
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Originally posted by Vladel:
It costs like nearly ?30 after postage which is quite frankly mental
welcome to the club now - gunna pump it up now
this is an emergency ! ( music is my galaxy)
had to ;p
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Vladel
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Posted - 2015/09/16 : 17:57:00
anyone know when the scott brown remix of kickin hard is finally getting a full release?
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CDJay
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Posted - 2015/09/17 : 10:24:15
Still not 100% on that, but it'll be out ASAP 
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Elliott
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Posted - 2015/09/21 : 03:34:30
I'll second what others have said. Teenage Kiss is a ****ing slayer.
First track this year I've felt excited about.
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The drunken scotsman
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Posted - 2015/09/21 : 06:49:45
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I'll second what others have said. Teenage Kiss is a ****ing slayer.
First track this year I've felt excited about.
Its a bit too cheesy for my liking and I usually like a cheesy tune. I want to like it but I just cringe too much when it comes on.
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Elliott
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Posted - 2015/09/21 : 12:49:19
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Originally posted by The drunken scotsman:
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Originally posted by Elliott:
I'll second what others have said. Teenage Kiss is a ****ing slayer.
First track this year I've felt excited about.
Its a bit too cheesy for my liking and I usually like a cheesy tune. I want to like it but I just cringe too much when it comes on.
Like a lot of hardcore tracks, it would've been even better without the vocal.
I wouldn't listen to this one in front of friends who weren't already into hardcore. ;)
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Captain Triceps
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Posted - 2015/09/21 : 13:52:51
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Originally posted by Elliott:
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Originally posted by The drunken scotsman:
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Originally posted by Elliott:
I'll second what others have said. Teenage Kiss is a ****ing slayer.
First track this year I've felt excited about.
Its a bit too cheesy for my liking and I usually like a cheesy tune. I want to like it but I just cringe too much when it comes on.
Like a lot of hardcore tracks, it would've been even better without the vocal.
I wouldn't listen to this one in front of friends who weren't already into hardcore. ;)
Couldn't agree more, belter of a track but the vocals are a bit too much on the soppy side, sort of makes me feel far too old to be into this stuff which I don't like.
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trippnface
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Posted - 2015/09/21 : 16:09:16
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Originally posted by Elliott:
I'll second what others have said. Teenage Kiss is a ****ing slayer.
First track this year I've felt excited about.
seems like people either love it or are meh haha.
shimmy dropped it the other night and everyone loved it.
was an all ages party though with tons of kandi kids though so lol
not my favorite track but i'm not complaining . i already complain a bit; if i am bitching about TOO much cheese...well then slap me
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djDMS
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Posted - 2015/09/23 : 13:50:28
Must admit I'm finding this rather tricky to rate. One more listen before I review it.
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Vladel
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Posted - 2015/09/25 : 17:55:04
Cdjay, 30th of September is that shipping or arrival in the post?
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latininxtc
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Posted - 2015/10/18 : 20:55:48
Well FINALLY picked this album up last week at HTID USA Weekender, along with most of the albums I purchased awhile back that Jon was holding for me, as well as some Amazon stuff that Jon has also been so generous in ordering for me since the sellers weren't shipping to the US. My ears will be quite busy for over a month now!
I've been blasting HU7 for the last couple of days now, especially the first CD, and the album is ****ing brilliant! But going to give my review for the 1st CD now:
I can't say this is my all-time favorite mix Fracus & Darwin have done for the HU series just yet, but it's easily one of the stronger mixes they've both done. You really have an eclectic variety of all the different styles of hardcore. All that's missing is some gabber in there! Lots of strong vocal tracks in there, which I love!
My current go-to track from the whole album is definitely Fracus & Darwin's remix of Heavyweight! They've once again done proper justice to another Redmoon and Meron Ryan track and given us a remix that is beyond brilliant!
Some other tracks that have really stood out for me in this mix are Takin' Me Back by Chris Unknown and people. Heard this on one of the HU podcasts awhile back and it's the sole reason I got the Chris Unknown album! LOVE the male vocals on here, they're totally different than the sadass Darren Styles and the wannabe-Styles male vocals I'm sick of hearing in so many tracks. I truly miss the Ant Johnson vocals in tracks and would love to hear him return, but whoever this guy is that did the vocals for Takin' Me Back hopefully gets used more because we need more male vocals that are actually good!
And yes I read Bananas got some hate on here, but again love this track. I thought it was an Al Storm produced track because it sounds very much like something he would make, but nope. I love the wacky dub/electro/minimal whatever the fuck people are calling it these days drop in the track, and it sounds better when not every single damn track in the mix is full of similar tracks. The drop didn't overshadow the rest of the proper hardcore part of the track which is a plus. Usually with tracks including these types of drops, the lead in and out of the drop sounds so cheaply made, but definitely not the case here.
Come And Find Me, The 1 and True are perfect examples of what I would call proper modern happy hardcore and hope to hear more stuff like this! True's vocals are just beyond amazing! I've never given Ganar much attention before, but this track has certainly made me interested in what he's done in the past and what he's currently working on.
Accelerate, cheeky edit from a producer I'm sick to death of hearing about. Darren Styles is truly a guilty pleasure of mine, because even though I find him so redundant and overrated in hardcore, I can't help but enjoy things like his Accelerate edit. Happy to hear it being included here.
As far as the more negatives of the mix goes, there aren't too many which is the case for me with the Fracus & Darwin CDs. One in particular for a track is In The Dark. Absolutely hate the long intro of the track, it just kind of stalls how perfectly fluid the mix is. Other than that, the rest of the track is great and a good way to lead up to Tip Of The Tongue.
The three freeform tracks I like (Tip Of The Tongue, Lemonade Raygun, and I guess Futureshock remix is freeform). I just didn't think their presence here was as strong as previous inclusions on HU mixes, like last year's Fracus & Darwin mix and CD4 of HU3. But I'm glad to see freeform was included in the album somewhere!
My biggest complaint of the album is Fierce of Fire for various reasons. The track itself sounds good, but I think the vocals sound like they're a bit higher in volume than they should be. Other than that it's a well produced track.
I'm not one to complain too much on length of tracks on mix CDs since I find these albums to be more of a way to showcase new material as well as highlight the abilities of the DJs, but Fierce Of Fire is just WAY too short on this album! It even sounded like it got cut off abruptly the first few times I listened to the mix. If it was time constraints, you had at least another minute to play around with since it's clocking the album at 78ish minutes. And if you needed even more than that for the track, cut away from Accelerate lol. Sure it's a popular track, but there wasn't anything particularly different in the 2nd half of that track.
And also I felt a bit sorry for the track being the one and only proper breaks track in the whole mix. At least there were 3 freeform tracks, this needed at least another 1 or 2 breaks track so Fierce Of Fire doesn't completely stick out like a sore thumb. I guess this is the main disadvantage of cutting back to 3 albums, there's just so many styles of hardcore to try and highlight compromises had to be made.
Other than those few issues, the rest of the album is great. I know I didn't mention all tracks but I still enjoyed them very much. Fracus and Darwin tracks are always brilliant, loved Skinny's track, like the Breathe In track although I much prefer the version that showed up on Hardcore Innovators CD3. Fracus and Darwin did an excellent job at highlighting various styles, as well as various producers in hardcore in just 78 minutes. Easily THE BEST mix in these 3 CDs.
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