---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Stewart Caig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>The MC's at raves circa late 89 were using the phrase hardcore back then, >but the phrase happy hardcore hadnt been invented at that point as far as I >knew of. I remember aroun d the time that music started getting a little >harder with the likes of Cubik, Technarchy and then in thier wake all the >hard Euro rave stuff that was coming out on Target and Music Man was >considered 'hardcore'. It wasn't during that period around 91 when there >were all the Fantasia raves and the like and there were 500+ uplifiting >piano samples over a breakbeat and a female vocal tracks coming out every >week that I started hearing the term 'happy hardcore'. and tracks like those continued having more ot do with jungle than with stompy nonsense for a couple more years. check stuff on these comps: http://www.discogs.com/release/167618 http://www.discogs.com/release/171610 http://www.discogs.com/release/171616 http://www.discogs.com/release/238717 http://www.discogs.com/release/83447 all of those contain stuff that led to both jungle and happy hardcore as we know then on it. most years on the tracks are like 91-93 and all feature break beats, pianos, and female vocals. tom ________________________________________________________________ andythepooh.com
