Rave tunes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0L4JmLj4YA

HH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKDU7IrWOUw

sounds like Toy Town but isn't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZyQNxz70pU

Slipmatts dub was a massive tune. But if your going for the cheese you'll like these https://youtube.com/watch?v=XZJLibsNpKc&feature=share

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=YBQmV2zZK5o&feature=share

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I have a pretty low tolerance for most happy hard. There's some tunes, probably the ones I was listening to 25 years ago that I still think are cool so most of the stuff I didn't hear was likely not good enough and I guess that means popular enough to make it to my ears. I think they went overboard ripping old rock/pop songs, for example.

#csb #needcoffee

Apart from the odd tune I'm not a fan of Happy Hardcore as soon around 96 i'd had enough. Hixxy, Force and Styles, Gammer and even Dougal and Vibes who i used to like we're just playing pure cheese which i thought just sounded like kids music at the time and i would have only been 18 myself.

Yeah, there must've been a sweet spot for this. I was listening to happy hard alongside gabber I think so I dunno, it was all new and interesting to me at the time. Not another fucking top 40 guitar song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-v5HMrWacU

The tracks with more normal "housey" vocals like this or the crazy synth melodies were the ones I most liked.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHT6rfNe234

Slipmatts dub was a massive tune.

Agree, top drawer

Right so no sped up pinky and perky sounding lyrics and definitely not pan pipes. Most stuff pre 96 or Scottish should be good be ok

What was the verdict on gabber?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndLcnxn2Nis

:-*

I am too much of a pussy for gabber.

I only got into techno because the guy that ran the techno radio show locally was on after the metal show I used to listen to and he'd mix things like this Rob Gee track into the metal...

https://youtu.be/wSLaNwirTqs?t=57

He also played all kinds of rave, trance and stuff so I gradually got into other styles.

There is a lot of crossover between the harder ends of quite a few music styles.

I vividly remember running into my mate from school who I used to swap death metal tapes with at a dance party in Melbourne with CJ Bolland playing.

My techno dj mate here is a former metalhead too.

There's a PHD research project in this topic, I can smell it!

Google is watching 👀 you mention Rob Gee and next time i go on YouTube top of my recommendations is this
https://youtu.be/JM6dPV8O11Q

Ultra Violence had metal crossover and even won a Kerrang award i think. When hardcore got too happy 96-99 i went from floppy haired white tracksuit wearing raver to skin head metal and gabber lover. Clarkee and Producer were my favourites Scorpio, Gizmo, Darkraver, Buzz Fuzz, Marc Acardipane, Neophyte and Lenny Dee before he started NY speedcore or whatever it was called. I'd usually leave the Tecno Drome when Loftgroover or HMS came on that was my limit. I always thought Rob Gee was funny like a bit of a spoof but a bit shit.
This is definitely metal techno
https://youtu.be/SxtjdptAILw

Google is watching 👀 you mention Rob Gee and next time i go on YouTube top of my recommendations is this

You did post a Highlander video 20hrs ago. It couldn't possibly be that... :P

Who was the metal band that had a whole remix album? It was like Manipulated (metal) and Remanipulated (gabber remixes).

It was Fear Factory

Remanufacture / Demanufacture

T-1000 was banging!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HOrDM0PsM0

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Fear_Factory/The_Gabber_Mixes/35481

Shit i used to love Fear Factory but this was released when i was still bouncing about with glow sticks. I used to hear the odd metal gabber track but just thought they were the odd bootleg remix and didn't know this album existed. The first comment on that video is definitely true 😂 my first metal gig was Raging Speedhorn and people were throwing haymakers in the mosh pit. It was great.

Another good article by the guardian on northern england / bleep days

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/03/bleep-dance-music-80s-yorkshire?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I am about half way through this at the moment:

https://velocitypress.uk/product/join-the-future-book/

How is it? It's mentioned in the article and the author has popped up in the comments. It was such a short lived thing really but I guess he goes into pre and post influences on that sound / scene?

I am finding it an interesting read, I have read a few similar books recently. I enjoy the side-stories about what was going on behind the scenes.

"Letters of complaint flooded to Virgin, as ill-prepared speaker systems were blown and destroyed across the UK."

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