Happy Hardcore
Happy hardcore is a form of dance music typified by a very fast tempo (usually around 165–180 BPM), often coupled with male or female 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. Happy hardcore evolved from rave music around 1991–1993, as the original house music-based rave became faster and began to include breakbeats, evolving into breakbeat hardcore.
Rave
Rave music consists of forms of electronic dance music that are associated with the rave scene.
Most often, the term is used to describe high in energy music, including some forms of trance music, that features samples, loops and synthesizers. Less intense forms of rave music include ambient music, and chillout music, usually used in separate areas of raves known as "chill rooms" that provide a place for "ravers" to rest and relax from the intense dancing.
Rave music closely followed the acid house phenomenon and was initially considered as a combination of fast breakbeat and more hardcore forms of techno. Early 1990s efforts by Nebula 2, Acen, Altern-8, The Prodigy (Experience), Utah Saints and The Shamen (En-Tact) were quintessential rave music and were being played at huge all night raves like Fantazia, Raindance, Universe and others.
By the early 2000s, the term was used more generically to mean any one of a number of different styles (or combinations thereof) that might be played at a rave party. In this sense, rave music is more associated with an event than a particular genre, per se. At a rave there can be different "arenas" or areas which play different styles of rave music. Very large raves called "massives" may include ten or more separate arenas, each with their own music style, ranging from hi-energy techno and trance to chillout and ambient in the chillrooms situated next to or within the surroundings of the main event.[1].
artists
21st Base Project
4 Tune Fairytales
Application
Back 2 Bass
Bad Boys
Beathoven
Boombastic
B-Rave
Chipsworks
Confideance
Critical Mass
DC-10
Dj Alone
Dj Bono Project
Dj Dave
Dj Liquid
Dj Paul Elstak
Dogma
Drexia
Dune
Hope
Hyperaktive
Intermission
Joyce Inc.
Kajsa
LCD
Lies In a Box
Lipstick
Loft
Magic Vision
Major T.
MC Rage
Mental Theo
Nakatomi
Pearl (1)
Phantasia
Pluto
Radiotrance
Rage at Dawn
Spectrum
Station 27
T.O.T.T
The Company
Tiny Tot
To Kool Chris
Universe
West Inc.
Wonderland
Xenia
Yasemin