100% Hardcore - Various Artists

Advantages: Very cheap. Genuinely great tracks found within. Good variety.
Disadvantages: For this price... none.

...Hardcore Adrenaline. An album set up to compete with the other hardcore compilation series : Hardcore Heaven, Clubland Xtreme Hardcore and Bonkers 2 years ago. H.A. is the album that appears to have had the lowest budget. This probably explains its extremely low retail price. This is not to say HA is not a brilliant album however :). Basic Details Tracks: 55 Approx total runtime: 239 minutes Featured DJs: DJ Seduction, Stu Allen Label: GTV Other Titles in the Series: Hardcore Adrenaline 2 & 3 Sub-genre: Hardcore/Happy Hardcore Warning: Parental Advisory, explicit lyrics. Best Price: £5 Price per Track: £0.09 What is Hardcore... Read review

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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. In... 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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