Truth be known: ALL the world's Happy Hardcore is made by only 12 guys, who have more pseudonyms than a shark has teeth, and who churn it out at such a feverish pace you'd almost think that there's probably a program that makes it for them.

Originally posted by COREY K...

wait a minute...

how can I just jump into the finer points of anal beads without first explaining WHY i want you to rip them to shreds?

Old School Rave/Hardcore:
Rave is the precursor to modern Hardcore. THIS is the precursor to modern Jungle/Drum n Bass (and Happy Hardcore). In the early 90s this is what was real RAVE music. It dominated the oldskool underground scene with spastic beats and chipmunk female vocals--influencing all latter ventures into jungle and happy hardcore. There was a sub-sub-genre of this that split-off around 93-94 that got really fucking silly, with samples of children, cartoons, and nursery rhymes, called Toytown for its infantilism. It gave birth to Candy Ravers.

Happy Hardcore
Happy Hardcore is like the spoiled little sibling of the Hardcore family, who got all the breaks, all the looks, all the money, all the chicks and all the successes of life without having to work for it. Just about despised by every other genre, Happy Hardcore is the most popular Hardcore music of all, with its signature chipmunk vocals and silly sing-a-long anthems and shameless hug-a-thon optimism that pisses everybody off to no end. This is the core realm of the candy ravers. Some of the stuff feels so godawfully childish that I feel like a pedophile just listening to it, but its not all bad. Truth be known: ALL the world's Happy Hardcore is made by only 12 guys, who have more pseudonyms than a shark has teeth, and who churn it out at such a feverish pace you'd almost think that there's probably a program that makes it for them. Just randomize the key values, get Sugar from YTV to sing the lyrics, and away you go.

Corey