In light of my listening experience yesterday, I went back to the Hardcore channel this morning with a vengence and I’ve been listening to it all day! It’s quite interesting to hear how hardcore in 2004 is picking up on the popularity of trance music. To think back in the early 1990s hardcore grew from breakbeat house, it spawned jungle, darkcore, doomcore, speedcore and gabba (which was still going strong in Holland when I left in 1998). Trance developed from progressive house and now the two seem to be influencing each other.

My track of the day is another hardcore track, which I managed to find the title for through the wonders of Google. Although it took a little bit of tweaking of the search criteria, cutting down on the lyrics and adding ‘happy hardcore’ otherwise I ended up with a bunch of churches

Featured on another mix by Xpanse, Whitewash. Born Again is released on the Quosh label on 25 October 2004.