Happy Hardcore
Happy hardcore is a form of dance music typified by a very fast BPM (usually around 165-180), female vocals, and saccharine lyrics. Its characteristically 4/4 beat "happy" sound distinguishes it from most other forms of breakbeat hardcore, which tend to be darker. It often has piano samples and spacey effects. This genre of music is closely related to the typically Dutch genre of Gabba. Happy hardcore evolved from rave music around 1991–1993, as the original house music-based rave became faster and began to include breakbeats, evolving into breakbeat hardcore. In the UK, happy hardcore was at its peak between 1994 and 1997. In the more current past Happy Hardcore has made a large re-emergence into the mainstream, more specifically it has received coverage in ''Mixmag''. It has spawned various new record labels in the United States, Canada, the UK, and Japan and continues to grow in popularity.