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Old Skool expert? Fancy helping others out? #36 | 14/04/2002 | Elliot i'm trying to track down a tune . its happy hardcore and its called 4 o'clock in the morning by DJ Doggle can anyone help. ... More |
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About Hardcore Music
Quite simply without a doubt - Hardcore music was the ultimate 'feel good' music of the early 90's. It brought together thousands of people by giving them something they could all relate to regardless of who they were or where they came from. It was a unique type of music, yet had lots of different styles.
But, strangely, as quickly as it appeared it disappeared too. It progressed so rapidly over it's 3 short years that after morphing itself into lots of other different styles it then banished itself to the history books.
Rave music and Hardcore music went together, hand-in-hand. The following clip has been taken from the album sleeve "Dance 'Til Dawn" published by The Eclipse Nightclub, Coventry. I think it just about sums up what we can all remember about the Rave scene at the time:
A secret location in a field in Barby, Northamptonshire - so secret that 6,700 people turned up! The farmer thought it was quite a lot of people for a party, as did the police who had been in a traffic jam for 4 hours on the road that ran through the village. Police presence was noted. 2 CID officers arrive at 3am and lock both doors to their car, which is not that unusual except that they were still inside the car at the time! Raving did that to some people! A raver called 'Catler' goes steeple jumping over the hedges off into the sunset with no clothes on. Raving also did that to some people.
And the tabloids said we were killing ourselves.
Die laughing more like.
It's a fad, it'll be over in a month
But who exactly was creating the Hardcore music? Well some of the groups moved from making other types of music (Acid, Hip Hop, House) into making the Hardcore tunes. The transition didn't cost them a penny as there was no need for new musical instruments and equipment, but what a challenge it must have been to their creative skills! And the other artists were, of course, new to the scene - breathing more and more life into it all the time.
People would often listen to the music and say to me "… but all the tunes sound the same". That comment always made me laugh my bollocks off. They couldn't have been more wrong - no two Hardcore tunes ever sounded the same - and that's a fact!
When I pass McDonalds on Saturday mornings at 8:30am, it's full of kids clad in Joe Bloggs, who've just left Friday night raves
The Hardcore and rave scene sometimes did strange things to people while they were high on the vibe; and taking another clip from The Eclipse I'd like to leave the last word to 'Anon', an unnamed raver who pulled a club DJ by the shirt sleeve while he was standing on a balcony overlooking the dancefloor.
'Ere' that bloke is wanking!'
They thought they'd seen it all; couples getting to know each other intimately in toilets, dancefloors, cupboards, stairways, cars, car parks, the occasional offer of free fellatio to security by the girls to get them in on busy nights. But here was the ultimate, a 20 year old youth furiously masturbating at the front of 1,000 people on the main dancefloor.
As ID magazine said, "Beats putting your hands in the air".
I'd like to give a big 'thank you' to The Eclipse Nightclub, Coventry, who I have leached some of the above material from (without asking for their permission first). You can visit their web site (which was created specifically for the release of the album "Dance 'Til Dawn") at http://raft.vmg.co.uk/eclipse/.
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