UK hard house, the Glossary
UK hard house or simply hard house is a style of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1990s and is synonymous with its association to the Trade club and the associated DJs there that created the style.[1]
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- House music genres
Acid house
Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesizer-sequencer, an innovation attributed to Chicago artists Phuture and Sleezy D circa 1986. UK hard house and Acid house are house music genres.
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
Blackburn
Blackburn is an industrial town and the administrative centre of the Blackburn with Darwen borough in Lancashire, England.
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Bolton
Bolton (locally) is a town in Greater Manchester in England.
Bouncy techno
Bouncy techno is a hardcore dance music rave style that developed in the early 1990s from Scotland and Northern England. UK hard house and Bouncy techno are electronic dance music genres.
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Breakbeat
Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that tends to use drum breaks sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B. UK hard house and Breakbeat are electronic dance music genres.
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Breakbeat hardcore
Breakbeat hardcore (also referred to as hardcore rave, oldskool hardcore or simply hardcore) is a music genre that spawned from the UK rave scene during the early 1990s. UK hard house and Breakbeat hardcore are English styles of music.
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Brixton
Brixton is an area of South London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England.
Brixton Academy
Brixton Academy (originally known as the Astoria Variety Cinema, previously known as Carling Academy Brixton, currently named O2 Academy Brixton as part of a sponsorship deal with the O2 brand) is a mid-sized concert venue located in South West London, in the Lambeth district of Brixton.
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Burnley
Burnley is a town and the administrative centre of the wider Borough of Burnley in Lancashire, England, with a 2001 population of 73,021.
Charing Cross
Charing Cross is a junction in Westminster, London, England, where six routes meet.
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Crush on You (The Jets song)
"Crush on You" is the second single released in 1986 from the Jets' debut album The Jets.
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Diva house
Diva house or handbag house is an anthemic subgenre of house music that became most popular in gay clubs during the second half of the 1990s. UK hard house and Diva house are house music genres.
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DJ Mag
DJ Magazine (also known as DJ Mag) is a British monthly magazine dedicated to electronic dance music and DJs.
Drum machine
A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns.
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Drum roll
A drum roll (or roll for short) is a technique used by percussionists to produce a sustained sound for the duration of a written note.
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Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.
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Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.
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Happy hardcore
Happy hardcore, also known as 4-beat or happycore, is a subgenre of hardcore dance music or "hard dance".
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Hard NRG
Hard NRG, nu-NRG, filthy hard house, or more recently just filth, is an electronic dance music genre similar in structure (with regard to sequencing and programming) to UK hard house form, taking influences from German hard trance. UK hard house and hard NRG are electronic dance music genres and English styles of music.
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Hardbag
Hardbag is a genre of electronic dance music popular in the mid-1990s. UK hard house and Hardbag are English styles of music and house music genres.
Hardbass
Hardbass or hard bass (с (s) is not written.|xɐrdˈbas) is a subgenre of pumping house that originated in Saint Petersburg, Russia during the late 1990s, drawing inspiration from bouncy techno, hardstyle, as well as local Russian influences. UK hard house and Hardbass are electronic dance music genres.
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Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)
Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany in the early 1990s. UK hard house and hardcore (electronic dance music genre) are electronic dance music genres.
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Hardstyle
Hardstyle is an electronic dance genre that emerged in the late 1990s, with origins in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. UK hard house and Hardstyle are electronic dance music genres.
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Heaven (nightclub)
Heaven is a gay superclub in Charing Cross, London, England.
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Hi-NRG
Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy") is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music (EDM) that originated during the late 1970s and early 1980s. UK hard house and Hi-NRG are electronic dance music genres.
Hoover sound
Hoover sound refers to a particular synthesizer sound in electronic music, commonly used in rave techno, hardcore techno, gabber, breakbeat hardcore, trance, hard house and hard NRG.
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House music
House is a genre of electronic dance music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat and a typical tempo of 115–130 beats per minute. UK hard house and House music are electronic dance music genres.
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Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers
Jive Bunny and the Mastermixers are a British novelty pop music act from Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England.
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Keyboard instrument
A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers.
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Klubbheads
Klubbheads is a team of dance music producers and DJs from the Netherlands.
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Lab 4
Lab 4 is a U.K. based hard trance act formed in 1994 by Adam Newman and Les Elston.
Liverpool
Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.
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Mixmag
Mixmag is a British electronic dance and clubbing magazine published in London.
Music sequencer
A music sequencer (or audio sequencer or simply sequencer) is a device or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information in several forms, typically CV/Gate, MIDI, or Open Sound Control, and possibly audio and automation data for digital audio workstations (DAWs) and plug-ins.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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New beat
New beat is a Belgian electronic dance music genre that fuses elements of new wave, hi-NRG,Simon Reynolds: Generation Ecstasy: Into the World of Techno and Rave Culture. Routledge 1999,, p. 124. UK hard house and new beat are electronic dance music genres.
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North West England
North West England is one of nine official regions of England and consists of the ceremonial counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside.
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Official Charts Company
The Official Charts Company (OCC or Official Charts; previously known as the Chart Information Network, CIN, and the Official UK Charts Company; legally known as the Official UK Charts Company Limited) is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France.
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Pontins
Pontins is a British company operating holiday parks in the UK, founded in 1946 by Fred Pontin.
Progressive house
Progressive house is a subgenre of house music. UK hard house and Progressive house are house music genres.
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Psychedelic trance
Psychedelic trance, psytrance, or psy is a subgenre of trance music characterized by arrangements of rhythms and layered melodies created by high tempo riffs.
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Resident Advisor
Resident Advisor (also known as RA) is an online music magazine and community platform established in 2001 and dedicated to showcasing electronic music, artists and events across the globe.
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Rob Tissera
Rob Tissera (born 1966) is a British hard house disc jockey and record producer.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
Sampler (musical instrument)
A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples (portions of sound recordings).
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Synthesizer
A synthesizer (also synthesiser, or simply synth) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals.
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Techno
Techno is a genre of electronic dance music which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range of 120 to 150 beats per minute (BPM). UK hard house and Techno are electronic dance music genres.
Tempo
In musical terminology, tempo (Italian for 'time'; plural 'tempos', or tempi from the Italian plural), also known as beats per minute, is the speed or pace of a given composition.
The Fridge (nightclub)
The Fridge was a nightclub in the Brixton area of South London, England, founded, in 1981, by Andrew Czezowski and Susan Carrington, who had run the Roxy during punk music's heyday in 1977.
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The Jets (Minnesota band)
The Jets are a Tongan American family music group from Robbinsdale, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Tidy Boys
The Tidy Boys are a UK-based hard dance music duo formed of Andy Pickles and Amadeus Mozart.
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Tidy Trax
Tidy Trax, currently known as Tidy, is a record label based in the United Kingdom.
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Tony De Vit
Antony de Vit (12 September 1957 – 2 July 1998) – accessed May 2011 was an English DJ and music producer.
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Trade (nightclub)
Trade was a culturally important gay club night held at Turnmills in London founded in 1990 by Laurence Malice.
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Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged from EBM in Frankfurt, Germany, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, and quickly spread throughout Europe. UK hard house and Trance music are electronic dance music genres.
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Turnmills
The Turnmills building was a warehouse originally on the corner of Turnmill Street and Clerkenwell Road in the London Borough of Islington.
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U Found Out
"U Found Out" is a song by British girl duo the Handbaggers.
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UK singles chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
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Wigan
Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England, on the River Douglas.
See also
House music genres
- Acid house
- Afro house
- Afro tech
- Amapiano
- Ambient house
- Balearic beat
- Baltimore club
- Bassline (music genre)
- Big room house
- Changa tuki
- Chicago house
- Deep house
- Diva house
- Electro house
- French house
- Funky house
- Future house
- Garage house
- Ghetto house
- Ghettotech
- Gqom
- Guaracha (Colombia)
- Hardbag
- Hip house
- Italo house
- Kwaito
- Latin house
- Microhouse
- New Jersey sound
- Outsider house
- Progressive house
- Stadium house
- Styles of house music
- Tech house
- Tribal house
- Tropical house
- UK funky
- UK hard house
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_hard_house
Also known as Bouncy house (music), Donk (music), Hard Dance, Hard House, Hard bounce, Hardhouse, Pumping house, Scouse House, Subground.
, The Fridge (nightclub), The Jets (Minnesota band), Tidy Boys, Tidy Trax, Tony De Vit, Trade (nightclub), Trance music, Turnmills, U Found Out, UK singles chart, Wigan.