Happy hardcore is a genre of hardcore techno music emerging around 1991–1993.
Happy hardcore may also refer to:
Hardcore is a 1979 American crime drama film written and directed by Paul Schrader and starring George C. Scott, Peter Boyle and Season Hubley. The story concerns a father searching for his daughter, who has vanished only to appear in a pornographic film. Writer-director Schrader had previously written the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, and both films share a theme of exploring an unseen subculture.
Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) is a prosperous local businessman in Grand Rapids, Michigan who has strong Calvinist convictions. A single parent, Van Dorn is the father of a seemingly quiet, conservative teenage girl, Kristen, who inexplicably disappears when she goes on a church-sponsored trip to Bellflower, California. Andy Mast (Peter Boyle), a strange private investigator from Los Angeles, is then hired to find her, eventually turning up an 8mm stag film of his daughter with two young men.
Van Dorn then suspects that his daughter was kidnapped and forced to join California's porno underworld. His quest to rescue her takes him on an odyssey through this sleazy adult subculture.
Hardcore is an album by Daddy Freddy.
Hardcore, formerly called hardcore techno, is a subgenre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands from the emergent raves in the 1990s. Its subgenres are usually distinct from other electronic dance music genres by faster tempos (160 to 200 BPM or more), the intensity of the kicks and the synthesized bass (in some subgenres), the rhythm and the atmosphere of the themes (sometimes violent), the usage of saturation and experimentation close to that of industrial dance music.
To understand the emergence of hardcore one has to go back to the 1970s, to find signs of hard electronic dance music within industrial music. Groups such as Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Foetus and Einstürzende Neubauten produced music using a wide range of electronic instruments. The message diffused by industrial was then very provocative. Some of the musical sounds and experimentation of industrial have directly influenced hardcore since the beginning of the movement.
To be happy is to experience happiness: a feeling of contentment or joy.
Happy may also refer to:
"Happy" is a song recorded by Michael Jackson for the Motown label in 1973. The song featured on Jackson's album Music & Me. Its full title is "Happy (Love Theme from Lady Sings the Blues)", although it was never featured in the film or the soundtrack for Lady Sings the Blues. The song was released as a single in Australia, backed by "In Our Small Way".
Jackson continued to perform the track in concert as late as 1977, citing it as one of his favorite songs.
The song was not released as a single in the UK until 1983 to promote Motown's 18 Greatest Hits compilation album, on which the song was included. Upon its release, "Happy" (credited to Michael Jackson plus The Jackson 5) peaked at #52 on the British pop chart. It was also issued as a single by Bobby Darin and included on his posthumous Motown LP Darin: 1936-1973. It was later recorded by the song's composer, Smokey Robinson, and appeared on his landmark solo album A Quiet Storm.
According to Robinson, the song was inspired by the film's melody, which was originally composed by Michel Legrand. He explained, "I was looking at the movie one day, and I was listening to that melody, and I thought it was just such a beautiful melody, until I wanted to write some words for that melody, which I did, and I went and I sang them for Berry Gordy, and he was really upset because I didn't write them before he finished the movie so they could've been in the movie."
Happy is a 1997 album by the Australian new wave band Real Life. Real Life consisted at the time of David Sterry, Danny Simcic, Allan Johnson and George Pappas. A limited edition release of Happy featured a bonus remix album called Happier.
We are the children of the night
We fight for the future of our nation
Lets come together and unite
Nothing's gonna stop us now!
We are the children of the night
We fight for the future of our nation
Lets come together and unite
Nothing's gonna stop us now!
Let the fire burn inside
Nobody can stop this generation
Cos we're the children o the night
Dont ever let them put u down!
Get up,get up
Get up, now is the time to change
Get up, get up
get up, there is no time to waste
Get up, get up
get up, dont ever let them put u down
Get up, come along and join the scene
Live your life a rave machine!
We are the children of the night
We fight for the future of our nation
Lets come together and unite
Nothing's gonna stop us now!
Let the fire burn inside
Nobody can stop this generation
Cos we're the children o the night
Dont ever let them put u down!
Get up,get up
Get up, now is the time to change
Get up, get up
get up, there is no time to waste
Get up, get up
get up, dont ever let them put u down
Get up, come along and join the scene
Live your life a rave machine!
We are the children of the night
We fight for the future of our nation
Lets come together and unite
Nothing's gonna stop us now!
Let the fire burn inside
Nobody can stop this generation
Cos we're the children o the night
Dont ever let them put u down!
Get up,get up
Get up, now is the time to change
Get up, get up
get up, there is no time to waste
Get up, get up
get up, dont ever let them put u down
Get up, come along and join the scene