> I can't define what is and what isn't hard house, since it's an ambiguous > term, but I do believe that a lot of these trance guys are coming to their > senses a bit and getting tired of all the formulaic trance that has flooded > the market for the past 2-3 years. I think a lot of them are turning to > what's being called "hard house" because it doesn't have as much of the > clich?d (aka cheese) stuff that makes so many people dis trance. In other > words, it's a safer sound, a sort of compromise between trance and > Relief-style hard house.
from what i understand, UK hard house is a completely different entity from US hard house. UK hard house is basically harder progressive house, whereas US hardhouse is bad boy bill, richard "humpty" vission, dj bam-bam, dj irene, some dj funk, etc. glyn