Personal Experiences with Happy Hardcore

When I was first learning to really appreciate techno music, back in good ol 97', Best Buy was still the spot to get new music at. I drove up there with a friend looking for techno CDs. Not knowing the different genres of music, I came across a compilation CD called "Happy to be Hardcore" (Anabolic Frolic) in the techno section. Thinking, "I like metal, and this hardcore stuff sounds like it'd be pretty good." I paid $9.99 for the CD and we went driving off. I flipped on my 350watt 12's, popped the CD into the CD player, and turned it up. What followed ...was ...horrible.

 Track 1: Eruption, Reach out. What. the. fuck. Skipped

Track 2: JDS, Higher Love (Slipmatt remix). The most horrible synthesizers to ever be burned to a CD. ever. Skipped

Track 3: DJ DNA, Go Insane (Future Primitive Remix). This is the point where I hit stop on the CD.


Best Buy had a return policy where an opened CD was unreturnable and unexchangeable, and this was the worst music investment I had ever made. I offered the CD to my friend and he said no thanks. I didn't really know what else to do, so I rolled down my window and tossed it out like a frisbee.

Happy hardcore is the worst music ever created.