Warnman Advanced Member
Germany
2,677 posts Joined: Jun, 2010
Posted - 2011/01/17 : 23:08:42
quote:Originally posted by ultraskool:
I feel there is a 'spiritual connection' between church and Happycore music...
Yes, indeed! Although I am totaly atheistic, but this music genre certainly is the way to connect your spirit to the rest of your existence. It feels like a god is producing this stuff all alone.
F***, I love it!
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Ravers unite!
"Happy Hardcore: Love it... hate it... it's fun!" (Matt Stokes)
DarrenJ Advanced Member
Australia
2,626 posts Joined: Jul, 2003
Posted - 2011/01/18 : 15:57:07
Happy Hardcore
Recorded: Wednesday 29th June 2005 at 7.00 pm
St Andrews Church, King Street, Dundee. Music selected by DJ Sly (Quosh records)
Transcribed for the organ by John Riley
Performed by John Riley
Warnman Advanced Member
Germany
2,677 posts Joined: Jun, 2010
Posted - 2011/02/07 : 20:37:42
Here is the playlist (understood it was selected by Sy):
Bang - Shooting Star
Hopscotch - Midnight Express
Joining Of The Clans - Braveheart
Sy & Demo - Stay With Me
Q-Tex - Power Of Love
Force and Styles - Heart Of Gold (please notice Morti's link).
Entry fee will be EUR 7,-.
Hopefully weekend traffic will not slow down me too bad (about 200km away from my home town).
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Ravers unite!
"Happy Hardcore: Love it... hate it... it's fun!" (Matt Stokes)
Warnman Advanced Member
Germany
2,677 posts Joined: Jun, 2010
Posted - 2011/02/12 : 03:02:57
I returned from this event about 3h ago.
Simply being sensationally!
Church was nearly crowded with all kinds of different people. I noticed some open minded Gabba Ravers (probably from the Ruhr Area), nostalgics and persons, who didn't have any clue about this kind of music (mostly youngsters and eldery peoples).
The church was decorated very beautifully. Normal lightning was turned off and instead blue LED-lights had been installed, giving the church a slight touch of club atmosphere. Before the main event started, a mix of HHC-tracks was played for all the ones, who didn't know anything about this music.
The acoustic was typically church-like: absolutley fantastic!
After a short welcoming speach, Matt Stokes informed about us ablout the following program flow.
I loved his quotation of a 3rd party:"Happy Hardcore: Love it! Hate it! It's great!"
Right after the first played track, people were carried away. Most of them had closed their eyes and listened very carefully to the song, almoust forgot about applauding. Tmo "Midnight Express", "Power Of Love" and "Heart Of Gold" were played fantastically and were loved by the audience mostly.
After that Matt Stokes told us there will be more to come. Specially for this event in Germany, they played two more tracks. Those weren't HHC tracks but early Trance hymns - Trance at its best times.
People went nearly crazy , when Paul Ayres played "Cygnus X - Superstring" (an old classic hymn back from my home-town area, when Trance was quality stuff: Eye Q Records).
I can assure you, you need to visit such event once in your lifetime! Hopefully it will take place near your hometowns soon.
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Ravers unite!
"Happy Hardcore: Love it... hate it... it's fun!" (Matt Stokes)
I've heard more similar to this, it was a version of Shooting Star I remember correctly. Can't find it now but I'm sure I posted it on here a few years ago.
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Posted - 2011/01/17 : 14:44:45
