Make 'Em Mokum Crazy

Make 'Em Mokum Crazy
Compilation album by various artists
Released	9 September 1996
Genre	Happy gabba
Length	60:51
Label	Mokum Records
Producer	Various

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Babysue	5/6
Robert Christgau	A–

Make 'Em Mokum Crazy is a compilation album of music by various artists released in 1996 by Dutch record label Mokum Records. The album, which consists solely of music from the label's catalogue, displays the happy gabba or "popcore" sound that had emerged from Dutch underground raves during the mid-1990s and had partly started to reach mainstream success, such was the case with the album's lead single "I Wanna Be a Hippy" by Technohead. Upon its release, the album received critical acclaim for its upbeat, manic tone and happy spirit. Robert Christgau named it the 53rd best album of 1997, and, as an example of its acclaim had continued over years, Rolling Stone named it the 30th greatest EDM album ever in 2012.

Dutch dance music record label Mokum Records was founded in 1993 by Freddy B. Originally releasing intense gabba music, such a "I'll Show You My Gun" by Annihilator, the label eventually started to release the lighthearted, "hilariously giddy" tone of happy gabba music over the ensuing two to three years. Happy gabba, and its darker originator gabba, have been described as taking "the sound of Dutch Nineties skinheads who liked their drugs speedy and their music even speedier." The label described the happy gabba music it released as "popcore", and its releases were popular in Dutch underground raves being held in warehouses. After the label had seen international success with "I Wanna Be a Hippy" by Technohead in late 1995 and early 1996, the Make 'Em Mokum Crazy compilation album was conceived by Mokum in attempt to document their catalogue and how the "popcore" sound was transitioning from its underground origins "to the top of the Euro pop charts."

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