Brisk & Fade — Skillz & Stylez
Blatant Beats [BB027], 2001If I could, I would post the entire discographies of Blatant Beats and Next Generation all over my blog.
Also, if this doesn’t hype you up, you might be dead.
happyhardcore mode today
Brisk & Fade - Stay Here Forever
don’t even get me started on how this is one of my favorite tracks of all time
Eclipse - Be Happy (Brisk & Vagabond remix)
Northern Lights - Love Of My Life
Northern Lights is Brisk & Ham. Man, reading Discogs you realize that this entire genre consisted of like twelve people.
Brisk & Trixxy - Euro Love
I accepted it when Eyeopener turned out to be a eurodance cover. Somehow it hit me harder when Euro Love was. “Euro Love”. Yeah I dunno.
(It’s a cover of Wonderland’s Fantasy Of Love.)
I guess I lose all right to bitch about Flip & Fill and all them now.
Brisk & Trixxy - Eyeopener
For a while there, every single set and every single mix had either this tune or Euro Love or both.
The lyrics come from one-hit eurodancer Koko’s Open Your Eyes, and the other samples are from Redman and Method Man’s How High.
Brisk vs. Rebel Alliance - Floor Friction
1995 was right around when happy hardcore was switching from breakbeats to 4/4 kickdrums. Interestingly, this track was backed by both.
Northern Lights - Love Of My Life (Brisk mix)
Force & Styles - Shining Down (Brisk remix)
Brisk - Dancing Thru The Knite
Now that I think to look it up, the top hits suggest it’s Dancing Thru The Night, but Knite makes it into the top 10, and it could plausibly be a reference to Luna-C’s label, Kniteforce.
Frisky ft. Daniella - Clearly Now (Brisk mix)
In honor of Sucker Punch:
Brisk & Trixxy - Goodbye Summertime
Back after Salon ran out of money to pay names like Paglia but before they reinvented themselves for the Bush years as the netmagazine of left-of-NPR-we-know-because-we-listen-to-NPR types, one of their few running beefs was with WWASPS, a collective of brutal, offshore or otherwise loosely regulated “reform” camps for teens.
For a while it was one of my dreams to debut the rogue military with which I’ll ultimately conquer the world by liberating one of these camps, to the tune of this song. And isn’t that the height of goddamn adolescent messiah fantasies?
It’s still one of my dreams.