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Happy 2b Hardcore: Chapter Three Moonshire

The hippest music around right now, as the success of Daft Punk and Cassius demonstrates, is a minimal house stripped of majorkey piano breakdowns and wail

ing divas in favor of a streamlined flux that's one part sonic wallpaper, one part sonic Wallpaper*. With the signifiers of gay abandon abandoned, all that's left is that once-threatening, nowquaint disco 4/4, a soothing balm to a club culture knocked senseless by the aggressive rhythms of jungle, big beat, and gabba.

So no wonder the least hip music to be found in clubs is a Frankenstein monster built from everything the inhabitants of this unfurnished house put out with the trash. "Happy ...

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