It was a shame that Michael Mann blew the chance of a Miami Vice remake on it being all srsbznss with no chance to revel in the ‘80s, ‘cause Donald Glover would make an AMAZING Tubbs

With their strength in nuclear reactor design and operation, ammunition stores supplant fuel stocks as a major limiting factor of U.S. Navy operational endurance; if they could replace bulky, vulnerable chemical-propellant ammunition with pure energy from said reactors they’d have less need for the bases.

shydad420:

shinji what are you doing

third impact

its 4 o clock in the morning
why on earth are you
starting the third impact

because i’ve lost control of the eva

hideback:

Egon Schiele (Austrian, 1890-1918)

Stylized Floral on Decorative Background, 1908

I heard so much about Dark Souls, so I finally picked up a used copy for like $10. Played it a bit and was like “oh, this is like Vagrant Story, except it sucks”.

Wait, Vagrant Story, FFXII, and all the Tactics games were set in the same universe? That’s… pretty cool actually, those were basically my favorite Square games.

(One of my favorite things about Parasite Eve is how the Natural History Museum level was designed by someone who had clearly read a room by room description of the actual museum, maybe even looked at a map, but had clearly never visited or even seen pictures of the place, it’s like a weird alternate universe.)

Are the cast of Jersey Shore still a thing? How long until they start showing up as a nostalgia thing?

hungarian:

say “oh my god look at the blood on her pants” in a crowded hall & the girls who turn around are the ones on their period

wait, is Paris Hilton our Dolly Parton?

(I would totallygo to Pariswood)

Spring! Yay!

emeraaldnymph:

♍

The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn (To Everything There Is A Season)

realistically,

Ultimate Warrior got me thinking - it’s weird seeing people riffing off ’80s masculoptimism citing Hulkamania-era WWF as a baseline (and not an inspiration). Professional wrestling is to sports drama what pulp is to fiction, and there’s always been self-aware commentary in there.

musiclily:

tyleroakley:

poopflow:

smokeweedandeatpizza:

This is where that aubrey gif came from.

IM CRYING

well this was just perfect

da fuck

swampgallows:

For sammyeatshands:

First thing about happy hardcore is that the genre is constantly changing. Happy hardcore from 1994 sounds nothing like the happy hardcore from 1999, or from 2004, or so on. Every couple of years the sound shifts, which is why an introduction to happy hardcore needs to be given sort-of chronologically.

Another fun thing about happy hardcore: there are only a handful of people who make it, but they have more aliases than fingers and toes. Discogs is a really good site to check what an artist’s other names might be, or joint acts, or what have you. The best is to look up music by the labels they were released on, rather than the artists themselves.

First up, oldskool happy hardcore was considered an offshoot of jungle back in the day. It is sometimes called “breakbeat hardcore” or just “old school”. You’d be looking for out for artists like:

• DJ Red Alert & Mike Slammer
• Vibes
• Wishdokta
• Seduction
• Jimmy J
• “Scratchmaster" DJ Sy
• Billy Daniel Bunter
• Future Primitive
• Cru-L-T/Luna-C
• Slipmatt/SMD

Good places to start are Kniteforce Records and Just Another Label. Unfortunately for the old old school above, most were listed on bootlegs to avoid copyright issues (like 89 Revival and SMD) or found in cassette tapes of live mixes like Vibealite and Helter Skelter. Lots of songs sampled preexisting house/dance classics of the early 90s like Bizarre Inc. and Ratpack, and therefore had trouble with official releases. 

==A shameless plug for my friend M27, an amazing DJ with an enviable collection of the old school classics, which he regularly mashes with jungle and hip hop and releases on cassette. 

Moving on, there is a variant of old school sometimes referred to as "toytown” or “cheese” because it is regarded as being highly infantile, featuring chipmunk vocals, slamming piano riffs, and children/cartoon samples. This is around the mid to late 90s where things really start getting hyperactive and separating from jungle influences, trading breakbeats for 4/4; It is the happy hardcore. This era is very important because 90% of these artists founded happy hardcore as it’s known today, and continued throughout the years to produce and splinter the sounds and directions of the genre.

• Brisk
• Ham
• Vinylgroover
• Bang! (of DDR fame)
• Robbie Long & Devastate
• Hixxy
• Kaos & Ethos
• DNA
• DJ (Kevin) Energy
• Sharkey (“Toytown”, anyone??)
• (Scratchmaster) Sy & Unknown
  
• Force & Styles
• DJ Stompy
• DJ Demo
• Triple J (Jimmy J)
• The unbeatable MC Junior (R.I.P.)

==And here, another shameless plug for my good friend DJ Flapjack, who professes in the cheesy style of happy hardcore. If you like this stuff, you’ll get more than enough from his expert mixes. Check the labels Essential Platinum, Next Generation and Blatant Beats, and as Slammin Vinyl for more. Cheesy happy hardcore has its own fair share of bootleg labels, including but not limited to Juicy Cuts/Silk Cuts and Ravers Choice.

FROM THERE, happy hardcore in the early 00s started taking a harder, yet more trance-like direction usually dubbed UK hardcore, with many of the above artists following suit:

• Scott Brown (Plus System, Interstate, Q-Tex) (I’ve posted less popular tracks because everyone knows Elysium, Lost Generation, Power of Love and its many remixes, etc.)
• Dougal & Gammer (and their many tracks together)
• Breeze & Styles (These two are personally responsible for some of the greatest UK hardcore hits out there, save for the bigguns up there like Scott Brown and Dougal & Gammer.  Recently Darren Styles hit it big with his newer tracks and has somewhat left Breeze in the dust.)
• Brisk, Fade, Ham, and Vinylgroover all return with a vengeance in their new style of “bangin hardcore” in this era.
• UFO
• Sy & Unknown (DJ Sy, again)
• Storm & Euphony
• CLSM
• Weaver
• Re-con (who also sings)

Good labels to check out for these genres are Raver Baby, Evolution Records/Evolution Plus, Quosh, Essential Platinum 2002, and the Bonkers compilations. I don’t know any DJs who play this genre anymore but I am planning to, so keep an eye on my soundcloud!

From this came an acid-influenced (that’s 303 acid, not the drug acid) even harder, more driven style of hardcore called freeform. Aforementioned DJs Sharkey and DJ (Kevin) Energy had made their homes in this genre when I came into the scene.

• Kevin Energy
• Alek Száhala
• Eryk Orpheus
• AMS
• AC Slater (who now produces electro)
• K-Complex
• Oli-G
• Robbie Long & Devastate (they’re back!)
• Stormtrooper
• V.A.G.A.B.O.N.D. (closer to the ‘bangin hardcore’ of NextGen/Blatant Beats but cooperates well with the genre, I think)

Good labels to check out are Nu Energy and its multitudes of sublabels, Bedlam Records, Thin N’ Crispy, Raw Elements, and the Hardcore Tsunami compilations released by HappyHardcore.com. Unfortunately I have lost touch with this subgenre, as it is no longer being produced (to my knowledge) and didn’t resonate with me much in the first place.

And now there’s the new “clubcore”, nicknamed such for being released on the Clubland X-Treme Hardcore compilation albums. I personally can’t stand most of this, but it’s super popular. I dunno any of the labels it’s being released on, so your best bet is just to stick to the Clubland CDs.

• DJ S3RL
• Jamie Ritmen
• Darren Styles (of Breeze & Styles)
• Chris Unknown (of Sy & Unknown)
• Squad-E
• DJ Kurt & Joey Riot, known for their “powerstomp” subsubsubgenre

Some newer (mostly Australian) artists within the newer genre that I do like are:

• Darwin
• Orbit-1/The Acolyte
• Entity
• Nu Foundation (R.I.P)
• Chwhynny (plays her own instruments and does her own vocals)

This brings us about to the modern era, but I have lost touch with the newest stuff coming out. The genre is closing in on being two decades old and has changed so, so much in that short time (and this is without even going into its actual “hardcore” roots that eventually sprout into gabber, speedcore, terrorcore, hardtek, and the like). The journey into happy hardcore is an expansive and rewarding one, and hopefully these links will provide a great start into discovering more from the kind that interests you. 

Enjoy!