What is Hard House?

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UK Hard House or simply Hard House (not to be confused with Chicago hard house) is a style of House music that emerged in the 1990s. Tony De Vit (1957 to 1998) was one of the pioneers of the hard house sound in the early 90's, playing a harder, louder, faster style of dance music. The hard house scene grew in popularity throughout the 90's with Trade and Chuff Chuff being joined by several other large club nights e.g. Sundissential, Insomniacz, Slinky and many more.

Hard house is typified by a set formula of up-tempo compressed kick drums, signature style off-beat basslines and the use of 'hoover' type sounds. In contempt of the name it shares very little part in style with house music, but borrows elements heavily from trance music (trancy synths and sometimes breakdown formula), and hardcore/rave music (hoover sounds, chants sometimes). Generally, hard house is part of a wider group of styles called hard dance and has little in common with the modern trance or house scenes.

Record labels

Artists

  • Dark By Design / Gaz West
  • Phil York
  • Technikal
  • Wardance/Subkrusher www.myspace.com/djwardance
  • Steve hill
  • Paul Glazby
  • Ben Stevens
  • Paul Maddox
  • Lee Pasch
  • Ilogik
  • Paul King
  • Bonzo
  • Nick Collins (The Establishment, The Househunters and Obsessive Behaviour)
  • Defective Audio
  • OD404
  • Superfast Oz
  • Ghost in the Machine (GITM) - USA
  • MDA & Spherical
  • Simon Eve
  • Equinox
  • BK
  • Alex Penn
  • Dynamic intervention
  • Jana
  • Andy Farley
  • Champion Burns
  • Ingo
  • Wid & Ben
  • Warp Brothers
  • Elvis Garland
  • Ajay

DJs

  • Craig R
  • Miss Behavin'
  • Yoji Biomehanika
  • BK
  • Steve Blake
  • Justin Bourne
  • Billy 'Daniel' Bunter
  • Jon BW
  • Chris B
  • Chris C
  • Cheeky Scott
  • Cally & Juice
  • Tony De Vit
  • Jon Doe
  • Andriko
  • The Edison Factor
  • Simon Eve
  • Andy Farley
  • Vinylgroover
  • Guffy
  • Tom Harding
  • Lee Haslam
  • iD
  • JP
  • K90
  • Chumi
  • Karim
  • Lisa Lashes
  • JayPaul
  • James Lawson
  • Jon Bishop
  • Ian M
  • Simon Paul
  • Olly Perris
  • Dean Peters
  • Lisa Pin-Up
  • DJ Digga
  • Proteus
  • MDA & Spherical
  • Ed Real
  • The Red Hed
  • Bonzo
  • Phil Reynolds
  • Tara (Reynolds)
  • Jana
  • Anne Savage
  • Miss Shiva
  • Tom Berry
  • Signum
  • Ashley Sinclair
  • Soma
  • Matt Smallwood
  • Nick Sentience
  • Ritalin aka Prime
  • Skol
  • Ben Stevens
  • Stimulant DJs
  • Technomangabitch
  • The *Ting*
  • Weirdo
  • Ali Wilson
  • Andy Rise
  • The Tidy Boys
  • Wid & Ben
  • Andy Whitby
  • Cally Gage
  • Technikal
  • Mike Stevenson aka DJ Mikey Mike
  • Steve O'Brady
  • Elvis aka The Future Sound of Elvis
  • Ajay

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The Tidy Boys are Amadeus Mozart and Andy Pickles who are also the founders of the Tidy Empire. These include all the Tidy labels,;Tidy Trax, Tidy Two, Untidy and Synapse.
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House music is a style of electronic dance music that was developed by dance club DJs in Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. House music is strongly influenced by elements of the late 1970s soul- and funk-infused dance music style of disco.
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Ghetto house, booty house or Juke house is a type of Chicago House which started being recognised in its own right from around 1992 onwards. It features minimal 808 and 909 drum machine-driven tracks, and sometimes sexually explicit lyrics.
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UK Hard House or simply Hard House (not to be confused with Chicago hard house) is a style of House music that emerged in the 1990s. Tony De Vit (1957 to 1998) was one of the pioneers of the hard house sound in the early 90's, playing a harder, louder, faster style of dance
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Hip-house, also known as house rap or grime, is a musical genre that mixes elements of house music and hip-hop. The style rose to prominence during the 1980s in New York and Chicago.
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Italo house (often simply referred to as "Italo") is a form of house music popular in Italy, Britain and United States since the late 1980s that fuses house and Italo disco.
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Latin house is an electronic dance music subgenre that mixes together house and Latin American music, such as that of Brazilian, Cuban and Colombian origin.

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