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. 

Disco D Ghettotronics

Watch "Disco D - Ghettronics Side A" on YouTube

Valentines Day House Mix Tracklist

Tracklist for mix located here - http://soundcloud.com/november17/valentines-day-house-mix

David Jones - Dusty (Original Mix)
Marvin Zeyes - Next to You (Maya Jane Coles Remix)
Fedde Le Grande - Metrum (Original Club Mix)
The Borough Project - Burt (The Journey)
Big Black Boot - Vibrate 2011
Bingo Players - Cry (Original Mix)
Tom Novy ft. Michael Marshall - Your Body (Lissat & Voltraxx Remix)
Pleasurecraft - Satyr Song (Original Mix)
Benoit and Sergio - Walk and Talk (Original Mix)
Da Fresh - That Body (Original Mix)
Gabriel Rocha - Drunken Russian (DJ PP Edit)
Oliver S. - Doin Ya Thang (Original Mix)
Shlomi Aber - Taped and Gorgeous (Nic and Mark Fanciulli Remix)
Alex Kenji & Federico Scavo - Get Funky (Original Mix)
Gramophonedzie & Joey Negro ft. Shea Soul - No Sugar (Club Mix)
Truelove - Rock the Casbah (Original Mix)
Jon Rundell - Knick Knack (Original Mix)
John Aquaviva, Alex D'elia, & Nihil Young ft. Dan Diamond - Good Music (Original Mix)
Green Velvet - Answering Machine (Santiago & Bushido Remix)
ATFC - Tropicana (Original Club Mix)
Gonzalo & Gonzalez - Cuban Queen (Original Mix)
Muzzaik ft. Zaida - Work It (David Penn Remix)
Fedde Le Grande - Metrum (Edit)
123XYZ - Groove Amigos (Edit)
Richard Dinsdale - One Step (Original Club Mix)
Phunk Investigation - Wall of Sound (Original Club Mix)
Zedd - Legend of Zelda (Original Mix)

Richie Hawtin kissing Sven Vath

Yea...

Jon Bon Jovi is not dead.

Despite rumors to the contrary, Jon Bon Jovi is alive and well.

Now if you really want to entertain yourself, say his name 10 times fast.

Keith Charles - BeforeCommonEra

I recently came across this album and thought it was the shit. Keith Charles is an Atlanta based musician ...fuckit I'm not gonna explain it, you can read an interview with him here.

I'd go over every song in this album, because I pretty much liked all of them. He has a lot to say on this album, and lyrically takes you through the minutiae of his experiences, thoughts, and day to day life. Listening carefully, he paints a picture of his life. In one song, Minoring in Arson, he discusses his frustration about being underpaid to work at the Baja Car Wash in Fayetteville.

His vocals go everywhere from poetry reading style to more aggressive rhyming while riding the beats.

The music itself is really chill - Utilizing organic instrument samples, upright bass sounds, drum kits. The composition definitely has a real NYC sound to it. No big aggressive beats. Overall I'd say the music itself was intended to compliment the vocals, not vice versa.

Anyways, you can download BeforeCommonEra here, its a free download and well worth it.