If you are looking for something different to do tonight, you’re in luck. Something very cool sounding is happening in Christchurch Cathedral and it’s FREE in.
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios in association with the artist Matt Stokes and Christchurch Cathedral present Sacred Selections, a live pipe organ recital featuring experimental transcriptions of underground music at 8pm.
Paul Ayres performs Happy Hardcore tunes as recognisable and playable music on a pipe organ. With its mix of celebratory, uplifting tunes based around hectic breakbeats and rapid pace, Happy Hardcore creates an infectious energy that harks back to the golden era of UK rave. The eclectic choice of anathemic tracks performed at Sacred Selections has been selected by one of Hardcore’s most renowned dj/producers and span a decade.
OMG! Imagine that massive organ in Christchurch playing Happy Hardcore!
Specifically …
“Shooting Star” – c
“Midnight Express”- Hopscotch
“Braveheart” – Joining of the Clans
“Stay With Me” – Sy & Demo
“Power Of Love” – Q-Tex
“Heart Of Gold” – Force and Styles
Music selected by: DJ Sy (Quosh Records)
Transcribed for the organ by: John Riley ( St Paul ‘s & St George’s Episcopal Church, Edinburgh )
Performed by: Paul Ayres ( St George’s Church, Hanover Square , London )
Not sure what to expect? Here’s a rendition of Q-Tex’s Power of Love..
I’m sold. More info here
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
yer ones a cheesy bastard – here’s some proper hardcore filth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRT4T3CjhfU
eeeeeugh!
yer ones a cheesy bastard – here’s some proper hardcore filth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRT4T3CjhfU
eeeeeugh!
cheesy mike???? CHEESY? i feel sorry for ye man, you’ll never feel the fire burnin’ and fly on the power of love. there is nowhere you can turn, there is nothing you can do…
cheesy mike???? CHEESY? i feel sorry for ye man, you’ll never feel the fire burnin’ and fly on the power of love. there is nowhere you can turn, there is nothing you can do…
thats proper scary shit.
i’m scared
thats proper scary shit.
i’m scared
I saw this a while, should be interesting!!!!
I saw this a while, should be interesting!!!!
UltraSonic is for Christmas
but Q-tex is Forever
UltraSonic is for Christmas
but Q-tex is Forever
Disaster, got there at about 5 mins before the start and there were already at least 100 people locked outside – they closed the doors as it was full. By the time we left around 10 past 8 there were still droves of people coming into the Cathedral grounds about to be dissapointed.
So did you get in Niall? Let us know how it went…
Disaster, got there at about 5 mins before the start and there were already at least 100 people locked outside – they closed the doors as it was full. By the time we left around 10 past 8 there were still droves of people coming into the Cathedral grounds about to be dissapointed.
So did you get in Niall? Let us know how it went…
Dude, we were the last 5 people through the door! They were shutting the door in my face as I walked up to it.
It was definitely a unique performance. To hear Happy Hardcore songs talked about with such reverence and scholarship is something I’m not used to.
The organist was great, faithfully reproducing the melodies and euphoria of the songs. When they are played on a church organ like that they transcend the dodgy production values and cheesiness to a certain extent and then other times the cheesy melody can’t be ignored.
He finished with a Paul van Dyke trance tune which I can’t remember the name of , very well known. it was picked by a local DJ and transcribed for the organ in the past few days. It was a better transcription than the rest.
They teased us by telling us they also do heavy metal renditions on the organ as well as another genre I can’t remember right now..
Dude, we were the last 5 people through the door! They were shutting the door in my face as I walked up to it.
It was definitely a unique performance. To hear Happy Hardcore songs talked about with such reverence and scholarship is something I’m not used to.
The organist was great, faithfully reproducing the melodies and euphoria of the songs. When they are played on a church organ like that they transcend the dodgy production values and cheesiness to a certain extent and then other times the cheesy melody can’t be ignored.
He finished with a Paul van Dyke trance tune which I can’t remember the name of , very well known. it was picked by a local DJ and transcribed for the organ in the past few days. It was a better transcription than the rest.
They teased us by telling us they also do heavy metal renditions on the organ as well as another genre I can’t remember right now..
How packed was it in there audience wise? I couldn’t believe it was so full they had to close the doors that early!
Tell me you have some video of the performance man!?
Paul Van Dyke tune – “For An Angle” maybe?
How packed was it in there audience wise? I couldn’t believe it was so full they had to close the doors that early!
Tell me you have some video of the performance man!?
Paul Van Dyke tune – “For An Angle” maybe?
All the seats were taken and there were about 50 people sitting on extra seats on the sides. I think they closed early as it was due to start @ 8pm sharp.
I don’t have any video, because it wouldn’t have been very good from where I was.
I think the Paul Van Dyke Tune was Perfect Day??
All the seats were taken and there were about 50 people sitting on extra seats on the sides. I think they closed early as it was due to start @ 8pm sharp.
I don’t have any video, because it wouldn’t have been very good from where I was.
I think the Paul Van Dyke Tune was Perfect Day??
jaysus, ive seen it all. paul van dyke tunespotting on nialler9. hah? no blog award for you honey piglet!
jaysus, ive seen it all. paul van dyke tunespotting on nialler9. hah? no blog award for you honey piglet!
Skool boy error dudes – get it!!!. I had a sneaking suspicion it might fill out so we were there at 20 to 8 and got a seat right up the front.
It was a unique type of event alright but I wasn’t blown away and I thought some of the songs didn’t transcribe all that well to the organs. The Paul van Dyke tune Perfect Day was possibly my favourite but given trance makes use of a lot of organ type sounds that wasn’t a surprise. I also enjoyed the first track Shooting Star by Bang, there was a little chuckle up near us when he played that classic high pitched synth break your hear on so many happy hardcore tracks. The cover of that classic Breavheart tune went down well also but again the original relies heavily on organ samples anyway.
I felt quite nostalgic really thinking of the many hours spend perfecting the prodigy step in my bedroom to DJ Dougal and Co. It was funny how it was jam packed full of late twenty something’s who 10 years ago would have been popping bangers and downing vodka where as last night a lot of the crowd were probably heading home to nibble on expensive cheese and sip red wine after the gig. The music still brought a smile to my face though.
Video would have been pointless as there was nothing to video but id did cross my mind that it would have been worth recording if you had a quality mike. The third genre was Trance but I really would have loved to have heard some death metal interpretations.
Skool boy error dudes – get it!!!. I had a sneaking suspicion it might fill out so we were there at 20 to 8 and got a seat right up the front.
It was a unique type of event alright but I wasn’t blown away and I thought some of the songs didn’t transcribe all that well to the organs. The Paul van Dyke tune Perfect Day was possibly my favourite but given trance makes use of a lot of organ type sounds that wasn’t a surprise. I also enjoyed the first track Shooting Star by Bang, there was a little chuckle up near us when he played that classic high pitched synth break your hear on so many happy hardcore tracks. The cover of that classic Breavheart tune went down well also but again the original relies heavily on organ samples anyway.
I felt quite nostalgic really thinking of the many hours spend perfecting the prodigy step in my bedroom to DJ Dougal and Co. It was funny how it was jam packed full of late twenty something’s who 10 years ago would have been popping bangers and downing vodka where as last night a lot of the crowd were probably heading home to nibble on expensive cheese and sip red wine after the gig. The music still brought a smile to my face though.
Video would have been pointless as there was nothing to video but id did cross my mind that it would have been worth recording if you had a quality mike. The third genre was Trance but I really would have loved to have heard some death metal interpretations.
for a less cheesey alternative…you should check out Maxence Cyren’s album on F-Comm from last year, it’s all piano versions of classic techno records, eg Windowlicker, Knights of the Jaguar etc….some seriously amazing stuff on there….gets the hairs on the back of the neck tingling.
for a less cheesey alternative…you should check out Maxence Cyren’s album on F-Comm from last year, it’s all piano versions of classic techno records, eg Windowlicker, Knights of the Jaguar etc….some seriously amazing stuff on there….gets the hairs on the back of the neck tingling.