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Originally Posted by hypertonic
can you explain further?
trance n' bass
"hard dance"
gloomcore
electro-step
hyphy
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Explain? Happy Hardcore - not the same as Gabba/ Gabber, which tends to be instrumental - was put out mainly on tapes and distrubuted often word-of-mouth, out of the back of people's cars, or at the raves themselves. You wouldn't see much of it in bigger record stores because they stopped stocking tapes at some point in the mid-90s, and certainly wouldn't stock 'underground' rave tapes. Or at least they didn't round here. Anyway, the point was that very little of it was on vinyl or CD - the vinyl was all for the DJs and usually in small quantities, so the genre (over here at least) thrived on tape-trading and the actual raves.
Bhangra, meanwhile, was until recently only available on tapes because it was cheaper to distribute/ create tapes than CDs. A lot of them would sell enormous amounts but fail to make the charts because they didn't have barcodes. Also, it wasn't terribly well-known unless you had a few mates with big cars and Indian families.
It's all changed now though. Eeh, I feel like'm gettan' ol', ahp.