Awesome info, sounds like you were producing and/or DJing in the UK at the time?
Edit: And yes, I think “parallel evolution” of happy hardcore/happy gabber/bouncy techno sounds about right to me, because yes, much of it was concurrent. In the USA, almost nobody DJ’d actual breakbeaty happy hardcore – I did for a small period, and a handful of folks I knew of. But the gabber parties and “hardcore” (US use of the word, hardcore techno) would often have DJs/producers playing happy gabber and stuff along those lines (but again, I can’t think of too many folks in that world who would have put on a breakbeaty happy hardcore record).
