Samination Advanced Member
Sweden
10,214 posts Joined: Jul, 2004
195 hardcore releases
Posted - 2019/10/07 : 10:25:01
Well, Lev's avatar clearly shows us what he thinks of our opinion :P
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kazukism92 Junior Member
Chile
106 posts Joined: Aug, 2013
Posted - 2019/10/07 : 12:54:27
quote:Originally posted by djDMS:
Yes. He's bought every available copy cheap and now he's waiting until the demand for shit, slow, trancey rip-off Hardcore goes through the roof to sell them on at silly prices.
The idea to get every Bonkers will be impossible due to this.
Thanks Triquatra.
quote:Originally posted by LeVzi:
WTF was all that about ?
Bonkers 7 was utter shit, in fact , most Bonkers was ****ing awful. Bonkers 1 was about the only one I enjoyed, and that's before Sharkey started making that trancey shit sound and then fat **** hixxy followed him. So they brought Dougal in to appease the happy lovers, and the music had gone utter gash then anyway, so they bring in Mr Brown to appease the harder crown and he played very little.
Fk bonkers.
Stop beating around the bush and tell us how you really feel about the Bonkers series.
Triquatra Moderator
United Kingdom
12,088 posts Joined: Nov, 2003
Posted - 2019/10/07 : 16:31:44
same as most, really; all the percussion is samples. Sourcing from really basic 909 kits and then a bunch of claps and kicks that sound close to what they were using.
Practically all the melody synths are in Sylenth1 and on the odd occasion two old VSTs which have some nice vintagey 90s sounds; Hypersonic and Xphrase.
I try and stear clear of Nexus, but theres a string pad I've used a couple of times which is a nice one.
When the album and tracks are released the final thing I'll do is put up a Bee Trax Sylenth1 soundbank, free of course, with all of the presets I used/made along with the small sample pack of the percussion.
Sulphurik Senior Member
United Kingdom
261 posts Joined: Jan, 2009
Posted - 2019/10/10 : 20:29:35
quote:Originally posted by LeVzi:
WTF was all that about ?
Bonkers 7 was utter shit, in fact , most Bonkers was ****ing awful. Bonkers 1 was about the only one I enjoyed, and that's before Sharkey started making that trancey shit sound and then fat **** hixxy followed him. So they brought Dougal in to appease the happy lovers, and the music had gone utter gash then anyway, so they bring in Mr Brown to appease the harder crown and he played very little.
Fk bonkers.
Bonkers 7 wasn't what you say it was. Was the first Bonkers I bought. Were some great tracks all three mixes.
Sulphurik Senior Member
United Kingdom
261 posts Joined: Jan, 2009
Posted - 2019/10/10 : 20:44:55
quote:Originally posted by LeVzi:
Maybe not just a rant about Bonkers tbh, more a rant of what availible CD's there were back in the day, there was a distinct lack of quality tbh, some DJ's insisted on releasing mixes with piss poor track choices, which were NOT popular at the time, but then occasionally there would be a lesser known release that was unreal, like DJ's Take Control the Slipmatt CD was off the charts (Bare in mind this was 95 or 96) Big Nasty Dragon in the techno world were awesome releases, The United Dance ones were awesome for the first 5 releases, then went tits up. Hardcore Heaven (The oriignal ones) weren't much cop tbh. Tape packs were still way more popular back then tbh.
United in Dance 6 looks good enough to me, Slipmatt, Force & Styles and Sy & Seduction mixes look good!
You didn't think the original Hardcore heaven albums were much cop! I've three of them, my favourite probably is volume 2 but volume 1 and 5 were decent also. I'll have to take a listen to some tracks from HH vol 3. Good number of classics on Volume 4 also.
Samination Advanced Member
Sweden
10,214 posts Joined: Jul, 2004
195 hardcore releases
Posted - 2019/10/11 : 06:41:00
I guess it depends on the reason you started listening to the music.
I started listening to Happy Hardcore on the random, so my first foray into the style was through the likes of "Happy Hardcore - Shooting Star" and "Anabolic Frolic - Eyeopener" (yes, I pirated it to begin with).
I've tried to give older Brittish Hardcore a go, but I don't like it at all. It lacks the energy that was brought into Happy Hardcore through Bouncy Techno and Dutch Hardcore. So in a way, I'm thankful for Scott Brown ****ing up Brittish Hardcore :P
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Posted - 2019/10/06 : 22:59:10
I've three of them, my favourite probably is volume 2 but volume 1 and 5 were decent also. I'll have to take a listen to some tracks from HH vol 3. Good number of classics on Volume 4 also.
