WoW what a show we have lined up!! hi everyone, hope u can join us this week for another fun packed show. this time we have the one and only DJ Sy on interview!! He chats about his production techniques, offers DJ tips and also discuss the strangest things that have happened to him at raves. we also have a audio report from last weekend's rather bangin event at High Voltage in Bedford with Stormtrooper and co. we catch up with the DJs, promoters and ravers to see whats turning this little night into a lengandary stomp! music policy: 8 tl 9 = Upfront Hardcore (vocal and bouncy) 9 til 930 = History of Hardcore Half Hour Mix (not obvious classics, rarer cuts from years gone by) 930 - 10 = Upfront Hardcore (harder edge stuff) hope you can make it, 8 til 10 this Friday (18 May 2007) www.historyofhardcore.co.uk James Dub
Sy was a great oldschool hardcore. Don't like any of his Happy Hardcore stuf but he did some great mixes between 91-94. Is sy playing any oldschool stuff.
might have a listen the production on the newer stuff is probably the best around in dance music, and i love the bouncy vocal stuff.
what you laughing for? the production values on hardcore is almost identical to pop music. Just cause you don't like the music doesn't mean it isn't the best produced dance music around.
I think you are being pretty blinkered in that view because of your love for 80's remixes and happy hardcore It depends what you look for in a track but I wouldnt say that Happy Hardcore is really pushing any boundaries...from the few recent tracks ive heard, the sounds are still the same from when i listened to it 15 years ago and I dont think the likes of Cee-Lo, Ron Fair and Willi-am would be impressed with your happy hardcore/pop comment
sorry to hijack your thread James Dub, im not slating your thing, i thought that video you did was pretty good tbh
I didn't say it was pushing any boundaries in song writting i meant that the production values used can't be beaten in dance music, and i'm talking the big boys like breeze and styles scott brown people who have been producing along time, probably longer than most other dance producers around. If you listen to hardcore 15 years ago and any other dance/rave music from then the production is abismal(mainly because of the technology), but none the less if you think it still has the same quality then your have a very bad ear for this sort of thing.
Its a very polished sound but that does not mean its the best, its takes breakthroughs in production done by other artists often years before and recylces them in a more watered down/commercial format. Aphex twin,Bjork,Venetian Snares,Daft Punk,Ed banger limewax,underground resistance and loads producers are light years ahead of what been used in those styles now.
imo it is the best, even artist like daft punk don't have the same clarity that some of the top hardcore producers have in there tracks, and some of the top hardcore producers engineer for a lot ot pop music these days because they are that good the likes of scott brown. If you have good monitors you can tell how clean it is compared to everything else.
I can understand if you like the digital sound why the styles appeal to you and many others Clean to me though does not mean the best production imo. I prefer the warmth which comes from a more analogue sound or live sound i find pop and happy hardcore soulless and over produced for the very reason you like it. Horse's for course's I am not saying by any means scot browns not a good producer but alot his techniques have been pinoneered by other producers first.
You cant have listened to much dance music if you think that is the case but again i depends what you want to hear
alright alright calm down (in scouse accent) lol. agreed i reckon the production on new hardcore has come along way since the early days and is of an extremely high standard now. however i think its very hard to say one genre is better than another, they're all so different.
