there is a project i have been doing since i even started producing music.
well, at least the first seeds were sown then.
happy hardcore always has been a kind of guilty pleasure for me.
producers sample a lot of catchy melodies and pop stuff. the mainstream behemoths, abba, madonna, olivia newton john...
but it's not just the pop billionaires who are apt at creating catchy cool melodies...
i am talking about indie rock here... alt pop.
they have more bittersweet, joyful-tearful melodies than any mainstream pop producer could do...
and now and then, a producer picks up these underground swooners and puts them in a tune.
it's ultra rare, but it happens.
let's revert to the starting point. my love for this nano-genre appeared when i listened to a happy hardcore tune called "started with a bass" by jorge & rico.
the breakdown felt so good, it flew me to the stars!
only much later i learned that they sampled an 80s underground pop song - colour box, with "suspicion".
somehow, the catchy cool melodies by indie pop artists or alternative rockers sound even better, when pitched up to a pixie-like voice sound.
another track in that vain is "suddenly" by space cube. the sample's from an obscure 80s underground thing, too.
and then there's DHR with DJ Bleed's "in bed with marusha", or alec empire himself with "doesn't make it alright", which samples the specials (or are they considered to be mainstream now?.
i tried to have a few stabs at that genre myself, by sampling obscure new wave and other acts.
for example here and here:
hopeful that there will be more post punk underground hardcore dance in the future!
do you know more alt rock and indie pop hardcore techno tracks?
let me know!
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