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#1 undo

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Posted 11 July 2006 - 07:33 PM

Probably the only genre I can indentify by looking at CD sleeves rather than actually listening to it? Good? Bad?

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Posted 11 July 2006 - 07:54 PM

my brother used to have a comp of this he would play during family trips. I had barely any context for dance music of any kind at the time so I'm not sure if I liked it or not, but at the very least it's fairly memorable stuff.
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Posted 11 July 2006 - 08:50 PM

Christian rock? Rock out and be in bed before 10


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Posted 11 July 2006 - 08:56 PM

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Posted 11 July 2006 - 09:18 PM

the exact opposite of music. Fuck Happy Hardcore. Its one of the things that finally killed rave culture, that and a little thing called Trance. Dance music for people that cant fucking dance.
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Posted 11 July 2006 - 09:23 PM

Was it better than Crazy Frog, at least?

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Posted 11 July 2006 - 09:24 PM

I don't think there's too much difference between the two
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Posted 11 July 2006 - 10:42 PM

I don't know exactly what it is... but for a time in about 1995 the entire "dance" section of a Champaign record store I went to was full of albums with covers like this:

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Posted 11 July 2006 - 10:46 PM

Yeah, I know all the covers to those have Roderick faces on them. And yet... that tells me nothing.

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Posted 11 July 2006 - 10:58 PM

Yeah, I know all the covers to those have Roderick faces on them. And yet... that tells me nothing.


Sorry. That was the extent of my happy hardcore knowledge.
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Posted 12 July 2006 - 01:07 AM

Absolute wank.
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Posted 12 July 2006 - 02:01 AM

Happy hardcore is a form of dance music typified by a very fast BPM (usually around 165-180), often coupled with male or female vocals, and saccharine lyrics. Its characteristically 4/4 beat "happy" sound distinguishes it from most other forms of breakbeat hardcore, which tend to be "darker". In its original incarnation, it was often characterised by piano riffs, synth stabs and spacey effects.


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Posted 12 July 2006 - 02:50 PM

At parties, I always viewed happy hardcore as a joke and yet when you talked to hardcore ravers, they considered it like the new wave (circa98) almost in an ironic way. Whoever said one of the deaths of rave was otm.

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Posted 12 July 2006 - 03:05 PM

Does it sound like Cascada?