A lot of people have asked me what the party's are like in the UK ...
Here's a little history ....
In 1988, illegal warehouse party's started all around the UK. Every weekend 1000's of people would go to empty warehouse's for party's.
Around 1990 the Police had stopped most of them, so these 'raves' tried to become legal. The first allnight party's started and in the early 90's the music was mostly UK breakbeat -
Bands like: Prodigy, SL2, N-joi, Shades of Rhythm, Dream Frequency, Altern 8 etc
DJ's: Carl Cox, Slipmatt, Fabio & Grooverider, DJ Sy and more.
There were only a few DJ's that didnt play breakbeat at UK party's - CJ Bolland, Joey Beltram, Dave Angel, Lenny Dee.
The party's were huge, up to 25,000 people and the party's were made better by good quality XTC.
In the middle of the 90's, the Rotterdam sound (or gabba as we called it) became very popular in the North of England, Wales and Scotland and there became a divide between the happy hardcore people and the gabba people, so smaller gabba party's started.
Towards the late 90's a lot of party's stopped and got closed down because of drugs and people dieing from bad quality drugs so a lot of the big party's stopped and the 'rave' scene sort of died.
Over the last few year, the scene has started to pick up again.
There are a lot of big party's now, but the music is mostly happy hardcore, with a small room for terror/speedcore. Sometimes the big happy hardcore area's have guests like Neophyte & Tommyknocker but that's as hard as it will go.
There are a lot of very good small terror style party's now around the UK, but you will only get about 100 - 200 people there.
So, things are slowly getting better in the UK !
Also, in the UK we have different names for hardcore styles then in Holland :
"Hardcore" (Angerfist, Endymion, Neophyte etc)
UK - We call this gabber, or 'newstyle' gabber !
"Terror"
UK - This is sometimes called hardcore techno ! or hardcore gabba
"UK Hardcore" - Producer, Hellfish, Bryan Fury
When you say UK hardcore in the UK, people mean happy hardcore !! All that piano sing along shit !
I hope you found that usefull !
Smurf, News at 12, Newcastle, England !
Here's a little history ....
In 1988, illegal warehouse party's started all around the UK. Every weekend 1000's of people would go to empty warehouse's for party's.
Around 1990 the Police had stopped most of them, so these 'raves' tried to become legal. The first allnight party's started and in the early 90's the music was mostly UK breakbeat -
Bands like: Prodigy, SL2, N-joi, Shades of Rhythm, Dream Frequency, Altern 8 etc
DJ's: Carl Cox, Slipmatt, Fabio & Grooverider, DJ Sy and more.
There were only a few DJ's that didnt play breakbeat at UK party's - CJ Bolland, Joey Beltram, Dave Angel, Lenny Dee.
The party's were huge, up to 25,000 people and the party's were made better by good quality XTC.
In the middle of the 90's, the Rotterdam sound (or gabba as we called it) became very popular in the North of England, Wales and Scotland and there became a divide between the happy hardcore people and the gabba people, so smaller gabba party's started.
Towards the late 90's a lot of party's stopped and got closed down because of drugs and people dieing from bad quality drugs so a lot of the big party's stopped and the 'rave' scene sort of died.
Over the last few year, the scene has started to pick up again.
There are a lot of big party's now, but the music is mostly happy hardcore, with a small room for terror/speedcore. Sometimes the big happy hardcore area's have guests like Neophyte & Tommyknocker but that's as hard as it will go.
There are a lot of very good small terror style party's now around the UK, but you will only get about 100 - 200 people there.
So, things are slowly getting better in the UK !
Also, in the UK we have different names for hardcore styles then in Holland :
"Hardcore" (Angerfist, Endymion, Neophyte etc)
UK - We call this gabber, or 'newstyle' gabber !
"Terror"
UK - This is sometimes called hardcore techno ! or hardcore gabba
"UK Hardcore" - Producer, Hellfish, Bryan Fury
When you say UK hardcore in the UK, people mean happy hardcore !! All that piano sing along shit !
I hope you found that usefull !
Smurf, News at 12, Newcastle, England !