Dance music in Europe
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baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
nochexxx
harco pronting
STN
sou'wester
Ah yes, I have a CD of this somewhere - pretty good stuff.
viktorvaughn
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by the way i'm actually quite against the prejudice "underground" people hold against "mainstream" types. i can certainly have fun at a place filled with guys with spiky greased up hair and bimbos. have nothing against people of another aesthetic persuasion... just becuase someone is wearing a silk screened blazer and fake rolex don't mean they're necessary an idiot... and i'm not being sarcastic.
swears
preppy-kei
This is what all the cool kids are into, anyway:
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WTF 4chan memes making it all the way to Dissensus? How DID that cesspool end up having so much cultural influence?
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luka
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im not sure its that simple. london has a special thing which cant be reduced to being multi cultural. i read hear that toronto has the biggest jamaician population outside ja itself. how much canadian music do you listen to? manchester is shit for music but has a varied population. sydney is full of people from different places, how much aussie music are you playing out these days?
Hardstyle/Jumpstyle/Hard-Jump/ReverzeBazz & loads of other mad 1s is mostly Flemish/Gaulish/Iberian from what I've seen, with outposts further North-Northeast, Italy... & Wollongong
Its as much G'd up Hard Trance as it is slightly burnt out Hardcore... proper alien rave. I like Jumpstyle & some of the more odd Hardstyle, some redic breakdowns, synth build-ups etc. Chk; Karl F 'Sinty Pitch', Snartz 'I Sampled Marissa EP', The Pitcher 'Grindin', Noise Provider 'Bits & Bytes EP', Chicago Zone 'Hands Up', Ruthless & Vorwerk 'Stalker', Highstreet Allstars 'Around The World' , Looney Tunez 'Verzoekjes' 140bpmish+, very digital, massive layers of detuned sawtooths & distortion, but a very surgical & clean distortion. Some of it is proper shite tho... stay the fuck away from technoboy
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yeah pure distorted washing machine stuff - one beat loop styles. It can all sound a bit too samey but in the right mood nosebleed monotony is good fun.
viktorvaughn
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Hardstyle/Jumpstyle/Hard-Jump/ReverzeBazz & loads of other mad 1s is mostly Flemish/Gaulish/Iberian from what I've seen, with outposts further North-Northeast, Italy... & Wollongong
Its as much G'd up Hard Trance as it is slightly burnt out Hardcore... proper alien rave. I like Jumpstyle & some of the more odd Hardstyle, some redic breakdowns, synth build-ups etc. Chk; Karl F 'Sinty Pitch', Snartz 'I Sampled Marissa EP', The Pitcher 'Grindin', Noise Provider 'Bits & Bytes EP', Chicago Zone 'Hands Up', Ruthless & Vorwerk 'Stalker', Highstreet Allstars 'Around The World' , Looney Tunez 'Verzoekjes' 140bpmish+, very digital, massive layers of detuned sawtooths & distortion, but a very surgical & clean distortion. Some of it is proper shite tho... stay the fuck away from technoboy
Cool thanks.
ReverzeBazz is an excellent sub-genre name...
Hardstyle is a Low Countries hybrid of Hard House with Gabber kicks
It sort of came about because as the Gabber culture aged a lot of the older Gabbers were a bit too old to last the pace in the main area of the raves, so they'd play something light and funky for the girls and the older crew - this being Gabber they ended up playing hard house, and it was from experiments there that Hardstyle was forged.
Pretty soon Hardstyle sort of took over from Gabber in the public imagination - plus it has the useful properties of not being associated with skulls, skinheads, the far right, the 90's, tracksuits, etc etc...
It's pretty much exactly what happened to Drum and Bass after UK Garage sucked all the women away...
I remember being at this street festival in a small Dutch provincial town - 7 lorries blasting out hardstyle to 30.000 people and one battered truck playing Gabber to three or four dozen Gabber heads in full regalia... But Gabber is provincial music nowadays...
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Jumpstyle pretty much started off with bunches of drunken teens in provincial nightclubs clowning around to hardstyle sets - it took on a life of it's own as dj's started making and playing records specifically to cater for that odd, ungracious, oompa loompa-like (but firmly and incongruously rooted in local folk traditions) style of dancing.
there's another thread to be made again about the popularity of the offbeat bassline in Trance and Hard House in areas where there is a strong ancestral culture of local Brass Bands with Tubas.
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U-Basstard
tragic mix
get it started fella, i'm completely fascinated with this thread. I tried to hint at the local dance style incorporation thing with Jumpstyle far less eloquently on a thread last year. Kids in the North East (Newc/Sund/m'bro) and Scotland do a skipping style to Makina/hard/happy house and bouncy shite, which could possibly be traced to traditional scots dancing (not sure of the name, but it's the one with the crossed swords laid out on the floor). The traditional element is definitely there though, i've Djed makina at a day centre for excluded kids and they all love getting on the mic with these set/standardised rhymes and cadences passed to them from older siblings, very much like trad folk songs. Some of the kids are fucking furious though, if they had the style and dexterity of the better grime MCs it would almost be worth paying them some attention.