Great tribute to Squad-E there. He will be missed by many. Very interesting to hear Hixxy. I cant wait to hear more, Obviously he was at the top of the tree a long time and pulled the strings on a lot of things behind the scenes so really keen to hear his thoughts :)
Honestly i wouldn't be alive without people like Ian (Hixxy) & Hardcore. There's nothing better for my mental health, stick a Hixxy set on & life seems a little better. Thanks so much
I’ll always remember the hype around early 1997 when Bonkers 2 was announced. Getting that on tape and it doing the rounds in high school, does bring back treasured memories.
They came along after I followed the jungle path but I loved the artwork. Very good caricatures, to this day. I never saw any cartoons of the junglists done so well. 🤣
Awww, Hixxy sounds so enthusiastic and happy throughout the interview! He really is the embodiment of 90s happy hardcore. Absolutely love it! Fantastic interview so far! :)
The first big positive that I took from this is what a relief it is to see Hixxy looking healthy again. There's an older interview on RUclips with him and one of the Tidy Boys discussing their combined NYE event where he literally looked like he was minutes from a heart attack and it was genuinely worrying how he had let himself go. Stay healthy Mr Hicks 👍
a pleasure to listen to. after hearing hixxy and brisk tape packs whilst smoking with a few older lads from another school i got introduced to happy hardcore, and ive been a fan of underground dance ever since.
Amazing, epic, legend of my favourite era of the happy hardcore scene. I think this channel has gained so much respect from all involved in the scene that people are gonna be coming to you Tom to get on it rather you go to them 😜. Great work keep it up
Sone really good info about the happy hardcore days by Hixxy, I love it how he doesn’t own most of his releases and especially his Bonkers albums ha ha, (there must be someone out there who would happily give him some of them 😎) he sounds like a really nice geezer and I look forward to the other parts in this interview Well done Roar on your interviewing skills, you asking the questions which we love the answers for 👍👍👍
With regards to the DJ/producers at the time who where always on at the events. They sent the scene a certain way after mid nineties. As they was influencing no one outside of the circle was playing at any events up and down country. This was a brilliant point and I think that is happening today in the EDM scene . It’s the same DJs / producers on at the events . This scene has went really cheesy to ? I had never thought about this before it’s mad when you think about it . I like the likes of Chalet de wit etc now the Netherlands has always been on the forefront of music . Since back in the day
@@JonnyBDJ Holy shit!! Would of thought he was living the life..I guess u just never know..thnx for letting me know..Hope the brother found some kind of peace..life can be a serious bitch sometimes.
Maaaan, Now Im forever a OJ BUT maaaaattee, Hixxy tapes from Helter Skelter, Slammin Vinyl ect, the hixxy n Dougal, for my hardcore injection, a huge part to the soundtrack to my formative years, Hixxy u a proper legend bruvva, BIG UP EACH N EVERY TIME!
Happy gets a bad rap but it had so many wicked tunes, it’s definitely got a place in the whole rave story, me I loved it still play happy in my sets on vinyl,hixxy played some wicked sets, made top tunes and in my opinion is the god father of the U.K. hardcore scene, raverbaby, htid all awesome, big respect and a big inspiration for me
@ILL SUBZ so you don’t like two forms of hardcore that’s probably because you weren’t there, and even if you are old enough nobody gives a toss about your negative opinion, there’s loads of styles I don’t like but guess I don’t go in comment sections telling people, I just like what I like, top tip for you sunshine go concentrate on the style you like
Mickey Finn was the best 90s jungle DJ, Hixxy was the Hardcore Mickey Finn simple as that. Even as a Jungle head I knew how popular Ian was, everyone loved him, midas touch in the 90s.
I wish I could decide who was the best. No disrespect to Micky but Hype's scratching was better! I liked lesser booked guys like the late great multi-deck mixmaster GE Real!
Mickey Finn was certainly the don in the 90’s met him a good few times. Hixxy? No sorry. Seduction was killing hardcore a longtime ago in the very early 90’s way before hixxy had even thought about it!
@@reecednbfamilyofficial Seduction? Well if he played the same number of raves and tune selection as Hixxy did he'd be the Hardcore version of Mickey Finn.
@@nigelbenn4642 if you read properly before you post.. that’s exactly what I meant. John was doing the rave scene back in 1991 he has played and released more times than hixxy can ever imagine that’s why seduction is the don of hardcore and always will be.
@@reecednbfamilyofficial Jes I give up I honestly give up. You Tube is just full of idiots like you, full to the brim. Glad I'm DnB and don't have to deal with tools like you in the hardcore room. I'm out. Good luck Tom you'll need it with these tools on here.
Love Hixxy's earlier stuff like Jackattack, Peoples Party, Feel So Good, Let You Know, wish the sound stayed like that. The Panic & On Top remixes were hot too but those heavy beats didnt do the scene any favours in terms of direction, that’s just my opinion though. Big Up Hixxy :D RIP Squad E
Got my tapes from the loft the other month. Sadly Bonkers 1 has mould on it. My favorite Bonkers by far. The Toytown version on it contained a vocal version which I believe was never released.
Frankie Shag Bones mashing up the tunes and making you love them more than you already did. Hixxy articulates what makes us grin, a fundamental thing! Easy to forget that there were such limited functions on the mixers back then. None of these slice and dice square rainbow lit buttons and shit, check out my selector on the on off switch making it sound like it's fucking gating!! 🤣🤣🤣😎👌
Speaking of the bonkers cd albums I picked up over 40 cds last week at a car boot most was triple bonkers albums one was even a mint condition of the 10th anniversary ltd edition bonkers box set I paid a £10 for the lot bonkers 14 15 16 clubland hardcore extreme list goes on 👍
I know exactly what he means about the physical. I haven't had a set of decks for like 10 years or something but ive still got a load of vinyl that I will not part with. Ive got one of those crappy usb turntables for recording vinyl to laptop for conversion that the ex wife bought me years ago. Had my 2½ year old daughter last weekend and she broke into the spare room and started and started pulling some of my unboxed vinyls out of the sleeves and then (unrelated) started poking about at this record player. So I turned it on for her and she picked this M8 dj friendly vinyl basically coz it was orange now shes addicted to this one rhythmic state track. I dropped her of back at her mams later on the afternoon, went home, cracked the beers open and had a night just blasting all me vinyls through that crap turntable speaker thingy ma jig. Just felt miles better than going through me playlists on RUclips. Haha gotta thank me baby girl for that
That £1000 cheque back then was a lot of money in 90s think it was for the release on RSR hixxy remix of party people which of course was originally by M.A.N.I.C. every one ripped tunes in hardcore back then didn’t they .
It's good you're talking about the southcoast cos Fantazia's The First Taste compilation was on the street a couple of years before SMD, and the opening track on the album, by Sunset Regime is blatantly more happy hardcore than jungle or techno. Personally though, it's all about Love Decade's Dream On (All Around The World 1991). Could those pianos and breakdowns be any more euphoric and uplifting?! 🤣
make your own album series.... doesn't own them all haha - Bonkers were THE best, bring it back Hixxy! go drag sharkey out of his hole wherever he is and do some more albums!
@@ROARUKPods Really, really want to hear what he's up to now! Last time I read about him was on the fking Daily Mail, about his issues with prescription drugs.. Hope he's in a better place now!
I’ll be interested to hear how this interview progresses over the next parts. Seems bizarre to me that you’d constantly bang the drum to Magika about how polarising he was yet didn’t press it here, Hixxy was HATED by a huge section of the community through 95-96+ onwards for his part in where the scene was going. Can’t fault his achievements and I won’t badmouth anyone that likes him or his music but it’s commonly acknowledged he helped kill hardcore and you haven’t brought it up.
@whistle blower, very good point you raised, I think if you listened to hardcore (for me) pre 97, then the style Hixxy sent it in after this and others tbf lost alot of fans. Tom mentioned anyone who raved In the 90s will always mention him at the top.. Once again if you listened from the early 90s onwards I don't think those people possibly would. Slipmatt, Dougal, Ramos, Brisk etc were the main men.. just my opinion of course... Looking forward to the next parts...
@Damien crowe Looking forward to it too. I have no animosity toward him, seems a nice guy, not my style at all (I’d began to drift away by 96 and completely moved on by 1998) but still interested. Heard far more negative comments toward Hixxy, Dougal, Force and styles etc than I ever did toward Magika. You’re right my main years were 90 - 94 so he was never on top for the era I enjoyed. I think to say he was at the top of ‘happy hardcore’ is fair as he was certainly in the driving seat 96 onward. I will say I did enjoy a set of his at dreamscape around 95. Could have been 17 v 18. Be lying if I said he didn’t have me moving that night.
The North South divide deffo felt that way about Hixxy but he kind of redeemed himself with his Raver Baby events and label - 96 era he was certainly known for cheese but it wasn’t just him it was the whole south coast lot that pushed that happy sound
Hixxy is legend. My dad is DJing with him this summer. I am 7 and I love hardcore
Great tribute to Squad-E there. He will be missed by many.
Very interesting to hear Hixxy. I cant wait to hear more, Obviously he was at the top of the tree a long time and pulled the strings on a lot of things behind the scenes so really keen to hear his thoughts :)
Honestly i wouldn't be alive without people like Ian (Hixxy) & Hardcore. There's nothing better for my mental health, stick a Hixxy set on & life seems a little better. Thanks so much
Hardcore always cheers me up no matter how shit I feel
I’ll always remember the hype around early 1997 when Bonkers 2 was announced. Getting that on tape and it doing the rounds in high school, does bring back treasured memories.
They came along after I followed the jungle path but I loved the artwork. Very good caricatures, to this day. I never saw any cartoons of the junglists done so well. 🤣
Yes!! My most anticipated one since Force & Styles.
Awww, Hixxy sounds so enthusiastic and happy throughout the interview! He really is the embodiment of 90s happy hardcore. Absolutely love it! Fantastic interview so far! :)
I really enjoyed this interview!! Big up DJ Hixxy what a legend!!!
The first big positive that I took from this is what a relief it is to see Hixxy looking healthy again. There's an older interview on RUclips with him and one of the Tidy Boys discussing their combined NYE event where he literally looked like he was minutes from a heart attack and it was genuinely worrying how he had let himself go. Stay healthy Mr Hicks 👍
Hixxy is such a legend, so down to earth, Slipmatt is such a nice bloke too. Love these interviews.
Great interview, nice guy who helped a lot of people out in the 2000s, can’t wait for part 2!
a pleasure to listen to. after hearing hixxy and brisk tape packs whilst smoking with a few older lads from another school i got introduced to happy hardcore, and ive been a fan of underground dance ever since.
“Thumper” probably THE greatest HHC tune ever
One of my favourite all time hardcore tracks 💯❤️
Choon
Absolute legend of the scene. Great listening to his stories, his influences etc
Great podcast. Hixxy is proper sound.
Amazing, epic, legend of my favourite era of the happy hardcore scene. I think this channel has gained so much respect from all involved in the scene that people are gonna be coming to you Tom to get on it rather you go to them 😜. Great work keep it up
You say that but it’s not happening that often just yet!!
@@ROARUKPods surprising that ,perhaps alot are too modest to think they deserve the opportunity?
Some don’t like talking publicly, others think they are too big... 😈
You can hear the passion, this vid explains a lot about why he was number 1.
What an amazing interview!!! im mind blown!! :)
Great interview totally agree with what he said about Mc Marley one of the gest to do it! Looking forward the next installment. 👌
Oi oi Portsmouth Ravers !! Nice one Really enjoyed it !!
We used to have loads of hardcore events here in Pompey, shame those days are long gone!!!
Thank you Tom! ... Hixxy my fav DJ ever along with Druid! 1994 - 1996 they ruled for me! .... throw in Sharkey on the mic 🎤 👌🏽 magical
Dreamscape 17 v 18 - Hixxy and Sharkey one of my favs
Got to say I’m not into my happy hardcore left the scene in 93 but what a top fella. Inspirational chat for all young DJ’s.
Go on the Hixxy!
N.ireland Portrush loved The Hixxy and Sharkey nights back in the day
Sone really good info about the happy hardcore days by Hixxy, I love it how he doesn’t own most of his releases and especially his Bonkers albums ha ha, (there must be someone out there who would happily give him some of them 😎) he sounds like a really nice geezer and I look forward to the other parts in this interview
Well done Roar on your interviewing skills, you asking the questions which we love the answers for 👍👍👍
Cheers man.
I didn't know he was from Portsmouth.... you learn something new everyday
With regards to the DJ/producers at the time who where always on at the events.
They sent the scene a certain way after mid nineties. As they was influencing no one outside of the circle was playing at any events up and down country.
This was a brilliant point and I think that is happening today in the EDM scene . It’s the same DJs / producers on at the events . This scene has went really cheesy to ? I had never thought about this before it’s mad when you think about it .
I like the likes of Chalet de wit etc now the Netherlands has always been on the forefront of music . Since back in the day
been waiting for this one!!!
Awesome, been waiting for this one! Looking forward to the rest
Everyone should chip in and help Hixxy get all his releases. Im sure some out there have ones they dont want or second copies ;)
Yesssss
Absolute legend
I had all of the Bonkers CDs at one point. RIP Squad-E
Dont understand why its gutta be such a big secret but does anyone know what the hell happened to squad-e?
He topped himself sadly battling depression and inner demons
@@JonnyBDJ Holy shit!! Would of thought he was living the life..I guess u just never know..thnx for letting me know..Hope the brother found some kind of peace..life can be a serious bitch sometimes.
Haha I used to climb out my window and hold onto my radio aerial to get a faint kiss fm signal to tape it.
Best Hixxy tape - United Dance Future Science :)
What a lovely bloke!
What happened to Squad-E how did he pass? literally never know until I switched this on.
Maaaan, Now Im forever a OJ BUT maaaaattee, Hixxy tapes from Helter Skelter, Slammin Vinyl ect, the hixxy n Dougal, for my hardcore injection, a huge part to the soundtrack to my formative years, Hixxy u a proper legend bruvva, BIG UP EACH N EVERY TIME!
Happy gets a bad rap but it had so many wicked tunes, it’s definitely got a place in the whole rave story, me I loved it still play happy in my sets on vinyl,hixxy played some wicked sets, made top tunes and in my opinion is the god father of the U.K. hardcore scene, raverbaby, htid all awesome, big respect and a big inspiration for me
@ILL SUBZ so you don’t like two forms of hardcore that’s probably because you weren’t there, and even if you are old enough nobody gives a toss about your negative opinion, there’s loads of styles I don’t like but guess I don’t go in comment sections telling people, I just like what I like, top tip for you sunshine go concentrate on the style you like
Mickey Finn was the best 90s jungle DJ, Hixxy was the Hardcore Mickey Finn simple as that. Even as a Jungle head I knew how popular Ian was, everyone loved him, midas touch in the 90s.
I wish I could decide who was the best. No disrespect to Micky but Hype's scratching was better! I liked lesser booked guys like the late great multi-deck mixmaster GE Real!
Mickey Finn was certainly the don in the 90’s met him a good few times. Hixxy? No sorry. Seduction was killing hardcore a longtime ago in the very early 90’s way before hixxy had even thought about it!
@@reecednbfamilyofficial Seduction? Well if he played the same number of raves and tune selection as Hixxy did he'd be the Hardcore version of Mickey Finn.
@@nigelbenn4642 if you read properly before you post.. that’s exactly what I meant. John was doing the rave scene back in 1991 he has played and released more times than hixxy can ever imagine that’s why seduction is the don of hardcore and always will be.
@@reecednbfamilyofficial Jes I give up I honestly give up. You Tube is just full of idiots like you, full to the brim. Glad I'm DnB and don't have to deal with tools like you in the hardcore room. I'm out. Good luck Tom you'll need it with these tools on here.
Rip squads xx
Good old Hixxy!
What a good guy! Made me laugh.
Will be interested to hear what he has to say about Toytown.
remember the first time it was played out at the rhythm station aldershot 1995 the place went mental
Love it - you bring a cheque home and your Dad goes whats this about then? :)
Marley was an outstanding MC
Was funny seeing him dancing in Diehard, dropping the odd line here and there
RIP squad-e
You should get top buzz on
Love Hixxy's earlier stuff like Jackattack, Peoples Party, Feel So Good, Let You Know, wish the sound stayed like that. The Panic & On Top remixes were hot too but those heavy beats didnt do the scene any favours in terms of direction, that’s just my opinion though. Big Up Hixxy :D RIP Squad E
Amen to that. (as opposed to a donk at least!)
Got my tapes from the loft the other month. Sadly Bonkers 1 has mould on it. My favorite Bonkers by far. The Toytown version on it contained a vocal version which I believe was never released.
Toy town 😂😂
@@marcp3788 Yes Toy Town. Not my cuppa tea but has a rare vocal version on the album.
@@livinghere1972 I was guilty of being into that bonkers CD stuff when I was 12 lol that mould on your bonkers cd is because it's cheese lol
@@marcp3788Haha
ruclips.net/video/VbCu-c2X3QM/видео.html - First tune of this set is the vocal mix you refer to. Hixxy b2b Dougal, Marley on the mic, let 'ave it!!!!
Frankie Shag Bones mashing up the tunes and making you love them more than you already did. Hixxy articulates what makes us grin, a fundamental thing! Easy to forget that there were such limited functions on the mixers back then. None of these slice and dice square rainbow lit buttons and shit, check out my selector on the on off switch making it sound like it's fucking gating!! 🤣🤣🤣😎👌
Speaking of the bonkers cd albums I picked up over 40 cds last week at a car boot most was triple bonkers albums one was even a mint condition of the 10th anniversary ltd edition bonkers box set I paid a £10 for the lot bonkers 14 15 16 clubland hardcore extreme list goes on 👍
I know exactly what he means about the physical. I haven't had a set of decks for like 10 years or something but ive still got a load of vinyl that I will not part with. Ive got one of those crappy usb turntables for recording vinyl to laptop for conversion that the ex wife bought me years ago. Had my 2½ year old daughter last weekend and she broke into the spare room and started and started pulling some of my unboxed vinyls out of the sleeves and then (unrelated) started poking about at this record player. So I turned it on for her and she picked this M8 dj friendly vinyl basically coz it was orange now shes addicted to this one rhythmic state track. I dropped her of back at her mams later on the afternoon, went home, cracked the beers open and had a night just blasting all me vinyls through that crap turntable speaker thingy ma jig. Just felt miles better than going through me playlists on RUclips. Haha gotta thank me baby girl for that
South Coast Hardcore - Southampton posse and Portsmouth posse :)
Shout out to the Rhythm Station Posse :)
DJs in the 90s - we were the geeks lol
@@LeonEdwards1976 the theatre of dreams missed that place so much when it closed 😢
That £1000 cheque back then was a lot of money in 90s think it was for the release on RSR hixxy remix of party people which of course was originally by M.A.N.I.C. every one ripped tunes in hardcore back then didn’t they .
It's good you're talking about the southcoast cos Fantazia's The First Taste compilation was on the street a couple of years before SMD, and the opening track on the album, by Sunset Regime is blatantly more happy hardcore than jungle or techno.
Personally though, it's all about Love Decade's Dream On (All Around The World 1991). Could those pianos and breakdowns be any more euphoric and uplifting?! 🤣
Hixxy hardcore heaven Vs slammin vinyl the re match best set ever !!!!
I can't stand Toy Town, but I have to say that when I hear a football crowd doing it, it's amazing!
Noice one!
make your own album series.... doesn't own them all haha - Bonkers were THE best, bring it back Hixxy! go drag sharkey out of his hole wherever he is and do some more albums!
Has Sharkey been on here yet?
Not yet!
@@ROARUKPods Really, really want to hear what he's up to now! Last time I read about him was on the fking Daily Mail, about his issues with prescription drugs.. Hope he's in a better place now!
He is.
Ricky 'DJ Hixxy' Gervais
😂😳
Rhyhum station crew come alive
It’s Ricky Gervais.
No.
The low point of the 90s rave scene
It’s a rich tapestry.
@@ROARUKPodsit's a good interview and he's a nice bloke but hearing Toytown again triggered my PTSD!
I’ll be interested to hear how this interview progresses over the next parts. Seems bizarre to me that you’d constantly bang the drum to Magika about how polarising he was yet didn’t press it here, Hixxy was HATED by a huge section of the community through 95-96+ onwards for his part in where the scene was going. Can’t fault his achievements and I won’t badmouth anyone that likes him or his music but it’s commonly acknowledged he helped kill hardcore and you haven’t brought it up.
It’s four parts.
@whistle blower, very good point you raised, I think if you listened to hardcore (for me) pre 97, then the style Hixxy sent it in after this and others tbf lost alot of fans. Tom mentioned anyone who raved In the 90s will always mention him at the top.. Once again if you listened from the early 90s onwards I don't think those people possibly would. Slipmatt, Dougal, Ramos, Brisk etc were the main men.. just my opinion of course... Looking forward to the next parts...
@Damien crowe Looking forward to it too. I have no animosity toward him, seems a nice guy, not my style at all (I’d began to drift away by 96 and completely moved on by 1998) but still interested. Heard far more negative comments toward Hixxy, Dougal, Force and styles etc than I ever did toward Magika. You’re right my main years were 90 - 94 so he was never on top for the era I enjoyed. I think to say he was at the top of ‘happy hardcore’ is fair as he was certainly in the driving seat 96 onward. I will say I did enjoy a set of his at dreamscape around 95. Could have been 17 v 18. Be lying if I said he didn’t have me moving that night.
The North South divide deffo felt that way about Hixxy but he kind of redeemed himself with his Raver Baby events and label - 96 era he was certainly known for cheese but it wasn’t just him it was the whole south coast lot that pushed that happy sound
Giving this a miss. 🧀