For other uses, see Happy hardcore (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Hardcore (electronic dance music genre).
"UK hardcore" redirects here. For the UK hardcore punk scene, see Hardcore punk in the United Kingdom.
Happy hardcore
Stylistic origins
Breakbeat hardcore
hardcore
trance
Cultural origins
Early 1990s, UK, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany
Derivative forms
UK hardcore
Happy hardcore, also known as 4-beat or happycore, is a subgenre of hardcore dance music or "hard dance". It emerged both from the UK breakbeat hardcore rave scene, and Belgian, German and Dutch hardcore techno scenes in the early 1990s. The thing that makes happy hardcore stand apart from happy gabba, is that happy hardcore tends to have breakbeats running alongside the 4/4 kick drum.[1]
^Reynolds 2013, chpt. 11: "The difference between happy hardcore and happy gabba is slight: basically, the English tracks have sped-up breakbeats running alongside the stomping four-to-the-floor kick-drum, and at 170 b.p.m., they're slightly slower than happy gabba.".
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the hardcore homeland of the Netherlands through Dutch DJ and music producer Paul Elstak, where it became known there as happyhardcore or happy gabber...
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semitones. Playing 33⅓-RPM Vinyl Trance records at 45RPM was common in the HappyHardcore scene of the 90s and 2000s, which most likely inspired the genre. The...
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room too. Hardstyle also played a large influence in frenchcore and happyhardcore music, which both became popular in the late 2010s with the hardstyle...
& Fill on chart hit "Shooting Star" in 2001, originally recorded by happyhardcore act Bang!, reaching number 3 in the UK. She featured with Flip & Fill...
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