Hard House: Search and Destroy

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Is any of it worthwhile? Specific tracks please.

― Ian White, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

With the privilege of having a couple close DJ friends who in th

e past few months have spun nothing but hard house, I sugge s

t :

Lisa Lashes - Unbeli e va b le

Andy Farley & BK - Beef Jerky (very beefy s ound i ng)

Warp Brothers - We W ill Su r vive

Vinyl Groover - Rok Da House

I've found hard house to be.. well, you enjoy it a lot more if you're a DJ. I don't really see how someone who is no t a DJ or int ense electronica fan can just sit and listen to it, outside of a club environment. It's one of the most repetitive forms of dance music... which isn't a bad thing if you're into it, but it's a huge turn-off to non dance music fans. I've had enough exposure to it, I appreciate it now, but I certainly hated it when I first started hearing it.

Actually.. someone once made a great statement regarding hard house.. "It's really just happy hardcore for the masses".. which is pretty much exactly right.

― Bobby D. Gray, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

I don't know why my above post is formatted so strangely... but I also would like to add "Pump It Up" by Potatoheads to the list of suggested tracks..

― Bobby D Gray, Thursday, 9 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Search: The Age Of Love by The Age Of Love.

Destroy: 3AM Til I Come

― suzy, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

good question. unfortunately, i don't have any ideas really. but will follow with interest.

suzy, not to get into pedantic genre business, but i personally wouldn't count Age of Love as hardhouse (too early 91? - poss, fits into when trance and techno weren't mutually exclusive)

ok, so maybe i did go into pedantic genre distinction;)

― gareth, Friday, 10 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Hmm. I feel sorry for this question. I have some Fergie mix CDs and I've listened to a few others and my main beef with hard house is that a lot of the hardness is now created by a) a high tempo or b) a loud kick drum. Those aren't hardness to me. I think most people would find a lot of much slower, much more balanced (in terms of the drum mix) tracks harder.

A good game to play is to listen to the first five seconds of every track on a Fergie CD and try and tell the tracks apart.

― Greg, Sunday, 12 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Erm...Hard House, is this officially a genre (tm) now? Because good Hard House to me means something like Green Velvet, of who you can search *everything*. Maybe Robert Armani, search "Circus Bells" and "Ambulance".

― Omar, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

It was too hard house, just that little bit too poppy to be tekkkno. But admittedly my dance culture Filofax is bigger than my dance music record collection ;).

― suzy, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, what is the absolute shame about 'hard house' is that it doesn't refer to Green Velvet.

Basically I'd go along with what Greg said - hard house is servicable and occasionally enjoyable, but it fails to achieve its own apparent goals - it's neither hard nor housey, but rather occupies a relatively uninteresting depression between the two terms.

― Tim, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Any number of house tracks sound "hard" but hard house means something specific whether u like it or not. And I don't. Like it.

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

Greg: A good game to play is to listen to the first five seconds of every track on a Fergie CD and try and tell the tracks apart.

I have a Fergie CD (Let There Be Hard House) and I tried it last night. That was the best game ever.

― Ian White, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (11 years ago) Permalink

11 years pass...

Every so often I meet people who are really into hard house and it gets me wondering whether it's all shit or not? It's not something we talk about on ILX that's for sure.

― This Is... The Police (dog latin), Thursday, 4 October 2012 08:37 (7 months ago) Permalink

you need to figure out if they are talking about Lisa Lashes or Underground Goodies. If they mean the former, then its a fair barometer that you can stop the conversation right there. If its the latter then, as they say north of the border, ''Taps Aff''

― straightola, Thursday, 4 October 2012 09:21 (7 months ago) Permalink

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