I've always associated hard house with towards-ghetto Chicago house, ala the less tech-y relief stuff. Perfect example in my mind would be DJ Elin's Mad Cow. Hard house would be ghetto, but minus the ghetto accoutrements (yet another French misspelling I suppose).
For what it's worth, DJ Groove in Chicago was explaining to me that this term doesn't sit too well with a lot of the Chicago DJs who once spun that style of record. Many of them are moving to different styles/labels for those styles these days as less people make that type of music. But then again, this is just one cat in Iowa citing one cat in Chicago from a vague memory, and I don't follow harder house religiously enough anymore to be an authority on the subject. What do I know? Tristan ========================================== PHONOPSIA<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/5102/index.htm "FrogboyMCI" on AOL Instant Messenger New mix, "Propper Techno" and new Album, "Québécois", online now. -----Original Message----- From: Cyclone Wehner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 313 Detroit <313@hyperreal.org> Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 5:07 PM Subject: Re: [313] HardHouse? >The term 'hard house' is fluid too - everyone from Mrs Wood to Derrick >Carter/Gene Farris is tagged that. > >I think with the latter 'tech-house' has superceded it though, it's >considered classier/more cred, maybe. 'Hard house' is associated with Baby >Doc's sound. He claims to be the man behind 'hard house'. It's the Trade >vibe, too, with DJs like the late Tony de Vit and Fergie championing it. >Very big in some facets of the gay scene. > > >>>I didn't know there was a difference. Isn't it also called HardHouse? >> >> >> Actually there is currently a fairly strong distinction (Stateside, >>anyway) between that music and hard house. Hard house is much more loopy and >>4-4, and definitely less complex. It is closer to tech-house than to >>trance/hard trance/acid trance. Derrick Carter plays techy and hard when he >>comes to Detroit, and it always upsets me because elsewhere he plays much >>more upbeat and eclectic. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com
