It is coming up to nearly 30 years ago. In 1994 a new compilation emerged, called Rave Parade, Do you remember this CD series? It only...

The year is 1999. And Hardcore was almost as dead as the dodo. It wasn't a viable scene anymore, a scene where the commercial side of...

The year is 1994, and I'm young. Very young. 10-11 years old (or young, depending on how you look at it). A lot of things happened in the...

For those people who have never been to my website and don't know that Mysteryland (a.k.a. Mystery Land) 1998 was my first event, well,...

The year is 2001, and the world is a different place to live in, compared to the present day. Music was different, but so was partying....

My dad is going to hate me. Well, hate is a strong word. But he might dislike the following review. Why is that? Well, it's one of his...

Let's go back in time. Roughly 20 to 22 years, back in time. Hardcore was 'dead', according to the news outlets from back in the day. It...

The other day I was listening to an album mix, made by an artist called Groan-er. This got me thinking, and ponder. Sitting there, in my...

The first working week of 2023 is about to end. Just a few more hours, we can hold onto the thought of the upcoming weekend. It is so...

Innercity. Oh, Innercity. What have they done to you? What was once a very successful event, was cancelled, and never revived. It died a...

A few days ago, someone I follow on Soundcloud posted something special. I follow a lot of people on Soundcloud, and every day it's like...

From talking about Robbie Williams to talking about another word that starts with the letter R: Rotterdam. I am not from Rotterdam (far...

I remember when I bought this album, isn't that strange? Well, not 100% strange, but it's weird that I know that I didn't buy this, but...

Another epic collection from the 90s, released by Arcade and ID&T. A series than ran between 1994 and 1997, to quickly die a death not...

Yesterday (or the day before) I received a message on Facebook from one of the regulars to this site, AoS, and he mentioned that he...

On March 25th 2021 the world was told that Wayne Donnelly, a.k.a. Squad-E, Hypasonic, Doogie D, passed away. The UK Hardcore community...

Today is the first day of a long bank holiday weekend ahead. We are to celebrate the Queen's amazing job of being so many years on the...

Who remembers Hardcore Generation? Who is old enough to remember buying 'cheap' Hardcore CDs in the 90s, using Guilders, not Euros? And...

It is Wednesday, the worst day of the week. You can see the weekend just ahead of you, but it's unreachable. So you need a kick to get...

If you remember the devils in the picture above, you are a legend. You might dislike the devils or what they represented (the Happy...

Thunderdome. A legendary name in the Hardcore scene. The originator some might call it. But whatever your stance is on Thunderdome, they...

Back in October I was 'introduced' to someone called Dy5on. The mix was made by the main contributor of the site, M@rt!n-J, and his mix...

Remember the label Pengo Records? A well known (and sometimes much hated) Dutch Happy Hardcore label from the mid 90s. During the 90s it...

The year is 1997. Arcade, a Dutch run label, decides to release a new compilations. This compilation would be called 'Trance 100'...