UK hard house
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UK Hard House or simply Hard House is a style of House music that emerged in the 1990s.
[edit] Sound
Hard house is typified by a set formula of up-tempo house music compressed kick drums, signature style off-beat basslines and the use of 'hoover' type sounds. In contempt of the name it shares some parts in style with house music, but borrows elements heavily from trance music (synths and sometimes breakdown formula), and hardcore/rave music (hoover sounds, chants). Generally, hard house is part of a wider group of styles called hard dance and has little in common with the modern trance or house scenes going for a stronger storm sound.
[edit] History
Tony De Vit was one of the pioneers of the sound in the early 90's, playing a harder, louder, faster style of dance music. The hard house scene grew in popularity throughout the 90's with Trade and Chuff Chuff being joined by several other large club nights e.g. Sundissential, Tidy Trax, Insomniacz, Slinky, Passion and many more.Many of which have also now moved over to other types of dance music.
Hardhouse has evolved since tony de vit in 1995, the sound has turned more into hard nrg - not to be confused with hard 'dance' which is just a general clumsy reference to a much wider style of music...hard nrg is the main type of underground hard dance now, punctuated by harder sounds, more flowing basslines, experimental hard analogue synth riffs and genrally played at about 160bpm in comparison to the old hardhouse standard 140-150 depending on th era. Records of this genre 'harddance' the underground type tends to be recorded on vinyl and mastered at 150 bpm but played anything up to 165 when mixing, though this is the preserve of a more futurisic new wave evolved type of the original music. Generally a total shift from the original more 'handbag' roots which it started from. Notable energy producers are eufex who was producing around the time of tony de vit and the much newer producers like riggsy,sparx,pearce m, semtex, mark h, j nardi and j.dwyer, shenton, casper, dj resh (of the lisa pin up all time chart)who created 'the prophecy'.# Grady g, captain tinrib, minty, karim, ben stevens, marc johnson, gemstone, hilze, of which most are uk hard dance artists but also now international.
Hard nrg is a much wider larger scene than most could even imagine. Its now far removed from house unless you are ignorant!lol!justkept the deep dums now its in a field of its own.
[edit] Notable Hard House/nrg DJ's
Paul Glazby, Andy Farley, Marc Johnson, Superfast Oz, Ben Stevens , Justin Bourne (soon retiring), JayPaul, Riggsy, Steve NRG, dj RESH, SPARX, shenton, minty, hilze, gem stone, steve hewitt, grady g, narc, defective audio, lisa lashes, eufex, general lee, semtex, tim stokes, frank farrell, dave owens, marc johnson, phil coogan, jp and juksey, lab 4 (the late), Andy whitby, Lisa Pin-up, BK,
the music scene shifts....many more names to follow to be historically acurate.
please feel free to add more if you can!
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