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djdave2007 Junior Member
United Kingdom
111 posts Joined: Nov, 2006
Posted - 2011/01/13 : 02:24:57
Heres a question for all you hardcore ravers,
where do you think hardcore music will be in say 5-10years time?
Do you think it will die out (never!),more new styles? etc.
I love all the pre 2000 happy hardcore, i am not much of a fan of current hardcore (with exceptions!) so the future could go anyway it likes as i will still be listening to the old stuff!
Interested to see what yous all think including the guys in the business.
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warped_candykid Advanced Member
United States
4,001 posts Joined: Jan, 2004
Posted - 2011/01/13 : 04:32:50
I feel like Happy hardcore is going to continue on it's trancey-influenced path, bringing the minimal style as well which will die out when the next fad comes in. I think there will be some artists who try to push the genre to sound just like sped-up trance, with no words. There will be artists who make it like sped-up trance and add too many words (with no chipmunks). There may be some artists who try to keep the pipe organs and kick drums, but I don't see Hardcore doing away with it's Trance influence it seems to be stuck with. I do wish artists would try to incorporate more tracks with happier, energetic, insane, wild, and hard (everything that made Happy Hardcore what it was/is) back into the genre. I also wish that Hardcore would incorportate Eurobeat influences with the disco sounds and wild keyboard synths (though I think Eurobeat kind of copies Happy Hardcore, just slower).
Wilky Banned
United Kingdom
6,198 posts Joined: Mar, 2008
Posted - 2011/01/13 : 06:16:04
I think UK hardcore now has lost all meaning and feeling. it just follows the same formula.. even the new producers (well some of them) are trying too hard to be somebody they are not... even the established people are trying to be.someone else... take Jamie ritmen as sonic vox... he is soooo trying to be darren styles or be very similar...
the thing is with hardcore now without ever hearing a tune its like you've already heard it but you havnt... well in a way you have... the last mix u listened to was basically that tune...
Mortis Advanced Member
United Kingdom
7,493 posts Joined: May, 2004
341 hardcore releases
Posted - 2011/01/13 : 08:01:10
quote:Originally posted by Wilky:
I think UK hardcore now has lost all meaning and feeling. it just follows the same formula.. even the new producers (well some of them) are trying too hard to be somebody they are not... even the established people are trying to be.someone else... take Jamie ritmen as sonic vox... he is soooo trying to be darren styles or be very similar...
As far as Ritmen goes, he was part of Force & The Evolution along with Styles so you've got to think they have similar music tastes and production styles so that's no surprise to me.
As far as the op goes...who knows. Hardcore is currently going for a mini evolution so we'll have to see what happens when it finally goes through the big evolution. It's at a point similar to 99' before the trancy style started to be written well in 2000/01. I think in the next 5 years we'll continue to see more electro influence, more dubstep and less vocal influenced tracks than usual.
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"Maybe in a day and age in which even our rappers can't get to the end of a verse without having an existential crisis, we should find a place for happy hardcore"
Triquatra Moderator
United Kingdom
12,640 posts Joined: Nov, 2003
Posted - 2011/01/13 : 08:35:25
I expect hardcore will continue to be influenced by whatever style of music is the fad in the UK at the time.. ergo the whole dubstep thing now, and the who electro thing from the past 4 years..trance before that
has anyone else heard Britney Spears new song? LOL
acidfluxxbass Advanced Member
United Kingdom
5,000 posts Joined: Apr, 2008
Posted - 2011/01/13 : 09:40:37
I think we'll still hear fluctuations in the commercial style of hardcore. Dubstep, drum and bass, and minimal influences.
Smaller artists will attempt to imitate it as much as possible. Freeform will continue to go its course, maybe dabbling in more innovation gradually.
Breakbeat hardcore I reckon will continue to wither away, hopefully as CLSM and Entity keeping it hanging in there. Though that said, Darwin and Fracus have slammed out quality tracks in Out Of Control etc
and here i was thinking u were gonna post something a little more recent ;)
You're right, there have been some pretty silly tracks from even last year (they haven't had time to release any this year I guess). That version of the track is certainly a little better, at least it has a much better kick. Guess it just isn't to my taste.
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Mortis Advanced Member
United Kingdom
7,493 posts Joined: May, 2004
341 hardcore releases
Posted - 2011/01/13 : 12:27:53
A lot of people don't know that Technohead actually sampled this song:
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"Maybe in a day and age in which even our rappers can't get to the end of a verse without having an existential crisis, we should find a place for happy hardcore"
Torpex Advanced Member
Poland
824 posts Joined: Nov, 2005
Posted - 2011/01/13 : 12:30:49
UK hardcore (with related genres - freeform, brekbeat hardcore etc.) is fantastic at the moment. There's just so much good music around in obvious and non-obvious places alike. I'm really baffled why people focus so much on the elements that bother them (dubstep & electro influences etc.) rather than on the truckloads of varied and awesome music that's out there. If your favourite labels/artists are failing you, just seach out of the box a little and you'll surely find amazing sounds.
Mortis Advanced Member
United Kingdom
7,493 posts Joined: May, 2004
341 hardcore releases
Posted - 2011/01/13 : 12:33:51
quote:Originally posted by Torpex:
UK hardcore (with related genres - freeform, brekbeat hardcore etc.) is fantastic at the moment. There's just so much good music around in obvious and non-obvious places alike. I'm really baffled why people focus so much on the elements that bother them (dubstep & electro influences etc.) rather than on the truckloads of varied and awesome music that's out there. If your favourite labels/artists are failing you, just seach out of the box a little and you'll surely find amazing sounds.
Future? I've never been this optimistic. :)
I agree 100% with this statement.
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"Maybe in a day and age in which even our rappers can't get to the end of a verse without having an existential crisis, we should find a place for happy hardcore"
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