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Oct 17 22:26 UTC 2002 |
hi - saw the question about hard house and i couldn't resist. i spin hard
house in the baltimore area, but i also like techno, jungle, straight (and
gay hahahhaha) house and a whole bunch of others, and yes i detest happy
hardcore as being a candy kid's nightmare they forced on the rest of us :)
one has to differentiate between U.S. hard house and U.K. hard house. in my
opinion U.K. hard house is a lot more mature and better to listen to, it's
a touch slower and more rhythmical and less bass happy, but then i could be
prejudiced here :). some good U.S. hard house people - bad boy bill (already
mentioned), dj venom, dj irene (she has two really good cd's you should check
out), and bubblehedz is pretty good as well. as for U.K. hard house, the
queen of all the hard house dj's is lisa lashes (She rocks!) but also check
out anne savage, bk, fergie, andy farley and lee haslem. all of this used
to be on audiogalaxy (R.I.P.!!) but probably could all be found on kazaa as
well. before anyone starts screaming about copyrights and paying the artists,
almost all of the downloadable tracks are from live shows, which aren't even
available on cd and are usually a lot better. if you're going to start with
any of them, download lisa lashes' "live on slam fm" part one is better than
part two but they are both awesome.
progressive house is pretty good as well, check out mauro picotto and deep
dish (they're a bit slower). dj dan is probably my thrd favorite dj and has
some of the best cd's, he's from chicago, as well as green velvet/dj kashmir
who is either from chicago or detroit, but he is interesting because he sings
LIVE it's quite amazing to see.
if you want a good place to listen to this stuff, try the following links:
BBC Radio 1 is probably the best:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/dance
they have shows from a number of good dj's - check out fergie's show, judge
jules' show and of course the essential mix (with pete tong)
ministry of sound radio is also great:
http://www.ministryofsound.com/music/radio
both of the above links are from the UK. they also will tell you track
listings, so you can get to know what you like and actually tell which songs
are done by who.. this is good for dj's like me who get to listen while at
work (this is a new thing having internet access at work :) happy happy!) and
write down any slamming songs i hear during the day, bad thing is that they're
hard to find since a lot of them are uk only.
anyways happy listening!
derek
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