you know I got into happy hardcore when I was at a party about 5 years ago and I wanted to buy a Jon the Dentist tape...the guy didn't have one left but said to try this Anabolic Frolic tape because he played a similar style!! Who knew where one vendors lie would lead me!!)
I hear you. My introduction to happy hardcore was when a friend gave me a copy of the original Happy2BHardcore cd ("this sounds like something
you'd be into," he said with a bit of a patronizing tone as he gave it to me). I listened to it, fell in love with it, and when I saw "AnabolicF" come into #rave on irc several months later I messaged him. We started chatting and, well, here we are almost eight years later, married with a kid.
It's so funny... if my friend hadn't listened to that cd and then passed it my way, I would never have messaged Frolic and we would never have met, fallen in love, gotten married, and had Mr Moo.