1994 was 30 years ago

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thirdform

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can even hear wishdokta/grant nelson's garage stylings in this.
Vibes and Wishdokta were known for operating in the happy circuit.

The statement it was all one thing/it's all house music is certainly trite, but it hints at a truth, I think. the centre cannot hold.
 
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gremino

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thirdform said:
can even hear wishdokta/grant nelson's garage stylings in this.
Vibes and Wishdokta were known for operating in the happy circuit.

The statement it was all one thing/it's all house music is certainly trite, but it hints at a truth, I think. the centre cannot hold.
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This one is like sped up garage house:



Another idea worth doing more. Or what about happy hc with deep house sounds?
 
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version

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thirdform said:

What is retroactively called happy jungle these days, expressing that very tension.

big choon.
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Sounds like the Twin Peaks sample again. Wonder if they pulled it from the Moby tune or direct from the show. Kind of hope it's the former, tbh. I like the idea of these things being sampled over and over, picking up something from each successive tune they're sampled from.
 
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Like I said, the jungle/happy split was taking place in '94

In a way this is inhibiting for the jungle revivalists, you are right. they don't, necessarily so, through historical circumstance have to wrestle with that.
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In '94, when I was living in Belsize Park, I came across a record shop in Mornington Crescent - right round the corner from the tube station - dedicated entirely to happy hardcore. It seemed like a striking development: that there had been enough of a cleavage that you had a store that only stocked happy tunes. Remix Records - run by a guy called Jimmy J. Deejay and producer.

Actually looking at my happy hardcore piece from that time, the store initially opened selling "jungle with a bit of happy". But by middle of '94 it was "happy with a bit of jungle"

An odd location for a record store - bit too far from the Camden action, not much street traffic. Perhaps part of the focusing of identity was to lure the new happy-and-only-happy believers, make it into a destination store - worth going out of your way for.

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thirdform

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blissblogger said:
In '94, when I was living in Belsize Park, I came across a record shop in Mornington Crescent - right round the corner from the tube station - dedicated entirely to happy hardcore. It seemed like a striking development: that there had been enough of a cleavage that you had a store that only stocked happy tunes. Remix Records - run by a guy called Jimmy J. Deejay and producer.

Actually looking at my happy hardcore piece from that time, the store initially opened selling "jungle with a bit of happy". But by middle of '94 it was "happy with a bit of jungle"

An odd location for a record store - bit too far from the Camden action, not much street traffic. Perhaps part of the focusing of identity was to lure the new happy-and-only-happy believers, make it into a destination store - worth going out of your way for.

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yes, London was never really a happy hardcore epicentre, so jungle with a bit of happy or happy with a bit of jungle was the kind of sound until mid 95 when it merged with scottish hardcore and dutch cheese, essentially just becoming a ravey eurodance at 175 bpm.
 
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I do have a soft spot for this kind of teenage moron energy stuff though, like a football chant cadence on speed.

 
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thirdform said:
yes, London was never really a happy hardcore epicentre, so jungle with a bit of happy or happy with a bit of jungle was the kind of sound until mid 95 when it merged with scottish hardcore and dutch cheese, essentially just becoming a ravey eurodance at 175 bpm.
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Labrynth had happy hardcore nights and I remember things at Bagley's, a big venue, done by Double Dipped.

Mind you, one time I went, the happy room - a huge cavernous space - was completely empty. Just us and this one pilled-up kid bouncing all around the room manically, like he was on an invisible pogo stick. Bounced over and shook me by the hand and then bounced off again.

This is a tune I remember first hearing at Labrynth

 
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thirdform

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blissblogger said:
Labrynth had happy hardcore nights and I remember things at Bagley's, a big venue, done by Double Dipped.

Mind you, one time I went, the happy room - a huge cavernous space - was completely empty. Just us and this one pilled-up kid bouncing all around the room manically, like he was on an invisible pogo stick. Bounced over and shook me by the hand and then bounced off again.

This is a tune I remember first hearing at Labrynth

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oh yeah of course there were happy nights, as there were huge nights at bagleys and co for hard house/hard trance (probably even bigger.)

What I meant though was more that happy was geared to much more of a monoculture. pre-adult sexuality, druggy and very white. For obvious that wasn't going to appeal to a london crowd living in cramped tower blocs.

Jungle is dangerous and sexy in a way happy just couldn't be.
 
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