Bouncy techno is a hardcore dance music rave style that developed in the early 1990s from Scotland and Northern England.
[citation needed] These different country entrails created a single pan European hardcore briefly in the mid-1990s.
DJ Kid told the crowd to "fuck off" on the mic before he stormed off stage when ravers turned hostile towards him playing such a set.
[6] A divide in the United Kingdom rave scene occurred as a result with separate musical paths of development.
[9] To keep crowds receptive, the slower and softer vocal/piano anthems would also be played but unorthodoxly mixed at greatly increased speeds to match them to the much faster and aggressive gabber.
[10] This created a peculiar clash of styles; an early template of what would become bouncy techno (this concoction was something he would eventually release as "The Event" (1993)).
Local artists and DJs soon appeared in Western Europe, Australia and Japan;[16] Q-Tex (Brown) and Ultra-Sonic played at the Mayday music festivals in Germany of 1994.
Records releases at raves;[19][20] and DJ Tom Wilson's award-winning Steppin' Out dance music radio show that captured 82% of the available listening audience during Saturday evenings on Forth FM.
Ironically, Brown's initial attempts to front Combined Forces new label venture was considered too hard in the Dutch landscape that he had changed.
Importantly, this particular music was not happy hardcore itself but alternative eurodance versions created for radio airplay in the style of Culture Beat.
[30] Bouncy techno had already been supported in small numbers at raves in England by the like of DJs Brisk, Chris C and Ramos.
[33] Artists in this field started to add bouncy techno characteristics to their compositions,[34] which created a new type of happy breakbeat music.
Due to several drug related deaths at Hanger 13 that attracted national press and parliamentary debate,[38] local authorities in Scotland clamped down on raves and clubs switched to house music.
[26] The new bouncy techno influenced happy breakbeat from Southern England was heavily pushed in Scotland as the next big thing but with little success.
[42] Bass Generator's own Judgement Day looked to fill their void with a traditional Hogmanay rave to specifically kick-start a bouncy techno revival for 1998.
Kutski dedicated several sets to bouncy techno on his BBC Radio 1 show, like the Rezerection Free Range Mix in 2011.
Whilst breakbeat hardcore itself was not popular in Scotland, its synthesiser sounds were found in bouncy techno's range of stab melodies.
These rhythmic combinations and arrangements were described by Simon Reynolds as being reminiscent of klezmer music, fairground-like melodies and oom-pah offbeat notes.
[48] Dancers were dressed in baggy tracksuit-like attire and had their own form of dance that involves a lot of rapid leg movements.