1000% Hardcore Vol.4 - Various Artists

Advantages: Familiar and enjoyable bold UK Hardcore Style. Hixxy's disk was in my opinion the highlight.
Disadvantages: Styles Breeze and Hixxy have played it safe and produced largely unimaginative works.

...Clubland X-Treme Hardcore Volume 4. The latest in the heavily titled and equally heavily popular UK Hardcore Dance compilation that has seen DJ Styles, Breeze and Hixxy producing and mixing their own compilations Bi-Annually since 2006. What is Hardcore? For those of you whom quite like dance music as a whole but don't quite know what makes hardcore different to other types of dance music, for instance the music featured in Clubland 14, I will give a brief introduction. Hardcore has a faster and heavier sounding beat. The beat usually stays very steady throughout the entire track except for breakoffs- points where the beat dissapears completely and the listener is put into a relaxed state with a mixture of slow strings and harmony. Hardcore uses lyrics more as an instrument than a dominating omnipresent part of music... Read review

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Advantages: It is fan-funky-tastic
Disadvantages: None

...(“,) Bigfishlittlefishcardboardbox (“,) I am one of those people who has a very wide and varied taste in music. I like music from the 70's, from the 80's, from the 90's and some of the recent stuff. Okay so I don’t like everything! However, my favourite music, something you are more likely to find in my personal CD player, or on my stereo is house music and in particular this CD - Clubland X-treme.... which is my opinion is the mother of all CD's! Clubland X-treme would only be suitable for those people who like dance music, go clubbing and like loud techno sounds. For those of you who have heard of The Ministry of Sound and own anything by them, you wouldn’t go far wrong with this album. The Clubland CD’s are a series, started with Clubland Vol.1, and are now at Clubland Vol.4. In between each volume being released... Read review

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Advantages: Low price, many tracks
Disadvantages: Inconsistant styles,

...Hardcore Adrenaline 2 was released in Autumn 07 and already has a new sequel out! Is this testiment to its popularity or proof of rushed production of the tracks? Basic Details Tracks: 55 Approx total runtime: 175 minutes Featured DJs: Stu Allen, DJ Seduction Label: GTV, Firm, Nukleuz. Other Titles in the Series: Hardcore Adrenaline 1 & 3. Sub-genre: Hardcore/Happy Hardcore Best Price: £5 (£0.09 per track) What does it sound most like? Hardcore Adrenaline 1. What is Hardcore? For those of you whom quite like dance music as a whole but don't quite know what makes hardcore different to other types of dance music, for instance the music featured in Clubland 14 & 'The annual', I will give a brief introduction. Hardcore has a faster and heavier sounding beat. The beat usually stays very steady throughout... Read review

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