Happy Hardcore

Happy Hardcore is a form of dance music typified by a very fast tempo (usually around 165–180 BPM), often coupled with solo vocals, and sentimental lyrics. Its characteristically 4/4 beat “happy” sound distinguishes it from most other forms of breakbeat hardcore, which tend to be “darker”. In its original incarnation, it was often characterized by piano riffs, synth stabs and spacey effects. This genre of music is closely related to the typically Dutch genre of Gabber. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Lovelife

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Nov 17 Tuesday 17 November 2009
Rick Ortiz presents Damage Inc. & Friends at House of Blues Damage Inc.	House of Blues Anaheim, Los Angeles CA, United States 33.809489 -117.923244	Add shout Buy Tickets
Nov 25 Wednesday 25 November 2009
Visa at Troubadour Visa	Troubadour West Hollywood, Los Angeles CA, United States 34.081484 -118.389291	1 person attending Add shout Buy Tickets
Dec 31 Thursday 31 December 2009
lol	Pirate's Cove Myrtle Beach, SC, United States 33.818948 -78.672466	3 shouts
Apr 18 Sunday 18 April 2010
Darwin at Music Hall Darwin	Music Hall Detroit, United States 42.337324 -83.045954	Add shout Buy Tickets

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Areskelian wrote:
7 hours ago

The plot thickens: Real hardcore music is gay as well, soooooooo....... Fuck it.

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Areskelian wrote:
7 hours ago

Displaying a negative opinion is not "trolling".

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TechnoToy wrote:
yesterday morning

Troll harder.

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Areskelian wrote:
Thursday afternoon

"i could have sworn this tag meant a joyful version of black flag" Yeah, that would make sense, because that's what real hardcore is, not the gay shit this garbage is posing as. Dumb genre, dumb tag.

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lunarforce666 wrote:
Monday evening

i could have sworn this tag meant a joyful version of black flag

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Usavvy wrote:
8 days ago

Love listening to it while bg-ing on WoW :P

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stodge123 wrote:
last month

all the tags on the site a screwed, i found if you listen to an artist radio station, you get less polluted tags.

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SP1984 wrote:
last month

big up the hardcore

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Cycek9191 wrote:
last month

Hello and welcome to HardcorePlanet.pl, the Polish hardcore uk hardcore happy hardcore oldskool Wonter Breakz Nu-Rave Gabber Center! http://www.hardcoreplanet.pl/viewpage.php?page_id=1

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FacelessShadows wrote:
last month

why isn't Force & Styles in the top artists? much better than Darren Styles' solo bollocks

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zorggie wrote:
last month

scooter, gtfo. D:

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NateTheMoleman wrote:
last month

DJ Splash, DJ Hixxy, Dougal and Gammer. The only happy hardcore I need.

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Fastro wrote:
September 2009

haha scooter

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fdsads wrote:
September 2009

this is not techno, ur an idiot, fuck off

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CRITIC117 wrote:
September 2009

FCK TECHNO..Thera are just one hardcore...Hardcore punk.

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Xmeagol wrote:
September 2009

What the frick!

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rachelleTHRASH wrote:
September 2009

enter shikari?

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TheOnlyRoc wrote:
August 2009

polluting it? haha then you should have come up with a more original name for the genre.

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ExoGeni wrote:
July 2009

http://www.last.fm/event/1161727 HappyHardcore.com radio celebrates 10 years!

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JasonMath wrote:
July 2009

Actually, you are both wrong. First of all, electronica is not a valid music genre - it was created by the media to refer to breakbeat electronic music (especially big beat) in the mid to late 1990's. The term "electronic music" has been used to describe electronically produced music for much longer, and is more appropriate. Therefore, you should tag it as "electronic". Also, hardcore can refer to hardcore techno or hardcore punk - they are both valid subgenres of music. As for happy hardcore, it evolved from breakbeat hardcore, which in turn evolved from acid house. Breakbeat hardcore split into happy hardcore (a.k.a. 4-beat) and jungle, which became drum & bass. Happy hardcore is part of the hardcore techno scene, though it is obviously somewhat different in sound from the rest of hardcore techno, and it sounds very different from the traditional techno made in Detroit and Chicago during the 1980's as well as minimal and ambient techno.

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