I feel so sad sometimes that there aren't more of us around. Esp. when I'm sitting at home listening to the happyhardcore.com radio and it says there are 300 other people listening, it's like, damn, where do you all live? When I first started going to parties and I told people I like happycore, they'd often say something like "Don't worry, you'll grow out of it" But i love it more now than I ever have, and it's been a good 5 years, and I don't even really go to parties anymore! For a while I couldn't understand how someone could NOT like this music, it's everything that's good! But everyone has different tastes. That's why it's so important that we who love this music come together, to prove (if only to ourselves) that we're not the only ones out there! I think the really disappointing thing for me was when I finally got to go to a couple happycore "NRG" parties, not as many people were responding to the music, dancing, getting into it, as I thought there would be. That's why I want to make a pilgrimage to the UK or Toronto someday, to see what a happycore party is supposed to be.

tell me about it- when i was on the east coast everyone says the music was out here and now that im on the west coast everyone says its out east- what the shit! i love hhc and am in some serious need of a party!

Well hey I love happycore. Its not so strange now. I have a few other friends that dig it to. We always got to raves with happycore. The next one in L.A i'm going to will have Frisky and hujib there. So u guys aren't totally alone. Just far and few hahahahaha

Psy is a niche in terms of the rave scene, but psy is really big with the new-age hippy crowd. Too bad you live out on the west coast, because my friend runs a psy monthly in Cambridge and sometimes in Boston. I attend pretty much every one and it was really weird to see how the crowd was so different from the rave crowd, but I did find several ravers in the crowd that I made friends with. My friend that throws the psy monthly also travels up and down the coast to play at different hippy festivals where psy is the music of choice.

There was a big HHC fad here in New England about five years ago, but it died down in the wake of junglism and the 2-step/garage movements.

Recently, I see this one hardcore DJ on line-ups every now and then, and he does not always spin HHC. I finally got booked to spin HHC for a party this December. The only reason I got booked is because I met this guy that wanted to start throwing parties and was into hardcore.