uc hard house Hard House Ever Vol. 1 Mix Robin1976

[Robin1976]

I'm sharing this 90s US Hard House style mix, I hope you like it. I'm not a professional DJ, I'm a novice.

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[Frenchcore]

US hard house is more jumpstyle sounding than what most would know hard house as 

[Robin1976]

Greetings, mate. Here's a note on the origins of US Hard House and the styles that came after it, such as the one you mention, jumpstyle.

In the mid-1990s, a new type of house music began to emerge, with a slightly harder and faster beat than usual, mainly in the city of Chicago. These tracks were influenced by ghetto house and artists such as DJ Funk, DJ Hyperactive and DJ Deeon. It was common to find highly sexual lyrics, and Latin and rap elements were also incorporated. Soon this style was called Hard House or US Hard House outside the US.

Legendary DJs from the Chicago house scene embraced this new style and made it popular. Artists such as Bad Boy Bill and Bobby D were a strong influence on people who were just starting out with hard house as their banner. People like DJ Trajic, Mike Flores, DJ Venom, Kevin Halstead, and Alex Peace (Dance Works) were some of the first stars of the hard house movement around 1996.

Among many record labels, one stands out above all others: Underground Construction, better known as UC, led by DJ Attack. It was responsible for releasing hundreds of productions by many producers eager to continue expanding the hard house sound, first following in the footsteps of Chicago's ghetto house and gradually integrating new trends such as those coming out of L.A., making it a harder style. The influence of this label was such that in many places the genre was referred to as ‘underground’..

Hard House quickly spread to one of the centres of House music in the USA, Los Angeles, where it was particularly well received by Latin audiences. It was in 1997 that a large number of labels began to be created to release a multitude of tracks, which would soon be called LA Hard House because it was a harder version of the Hard House that had arrived from Chicago and would soon also influence the sound there, separating it from the original concept. These tracks had a really hard and powerful rhythm, with a long, open bass drum, accompanied by acid, strident sounds and very explicit lyrics. Some of the labels that brought about the change were Greedy Records and Groove Nation, with artists of the calibre of DJ Work!, Michael Trance, AM/FM Alexander and the well-known Mark V & Poogie Bear. In Chicago, labels such as Jasper Stone Trax and the aforementioned UC adapted these trends, releasing tracks by Los Angeles producers and giving opportunities to new artists such as Angel Alanis, Dj Bam Bam and Dj Rip.

It was in 1998 when Hard House exploded and began to spread across Europe, driven in part by the Hardcore Newstyle and Jumper trends led by people such as Da Tekno Warriors and DJ Isaac. In countries such as the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain, US Hard House began to be heard, especially the harder tracks. With these influences and following the escalation of hardness, a series of producers emerged in L.A. who opted for even wilder sounds, tracks with more power and distortion in the bass drums, with more aggressive sounds in the central scratches and higher speeds. It was time for new labels such as Abstract Music and Waxworks Records, and producers such as George Centeno, Nemesis, Darren R and Raoul Zerna, people who took the concept of Hard House to the extreme, drawing heavily on Hardcore and the rawest Acid. These were years of great popularity, with a large number of compilations being released and tracks being licensed to international labels, with the old record companies coexisting with the new ones.