What a truely amazing album. This defines happy hardcore at its peak in my opinion. Pumped up Synthesizers, Uplifting Vocals, Crazy happy melodies, with a stomping bassdrum. Hixxy mixes the first disc. The mixing is a little bit sloppy, and is very fast, maybe like 185-190 bpm, insane, bonkers! Has a very good track selection with some un released stuff, some scratching here in there that is sometimes slightly out of place, also there is a exclusive mix of toytown with vocals. This mix is a non stop stomping, happy mayhem. Great.

Now onto the Sharkier side of things. Sharkey has a great track selection, very happy uplifting stuff, with piano breaks and nice rhythms.

Favs
Disc one.
1,2,3,15,16
Disc two.
2,4,9,10,12,13

Overall, this Album absolutely amazes me. This is how happy hardcore was at it's peak, totally uplifting, amazing vocals and melodies as i mentioned earlier. Definetly worth getting, amazing stuff, one of the best compilations i've heard.

Personally I feel that this is definately one of the best Bonkers out of the 10 that exist at the moment. This is originally how 'Bonkers' got it's name, because basically it is it's name, totally BONKERS!! The tracks are mental and melodic at the same time, i mean, nothing can beat 'together forever' on a large sound system! Okay so a few of the tracks may sound a bit dated (one being 'rainbow islands' on sharkey's mix) but they are great reminders of what happy hardcore was like in the 90's, fast, furious and totally uplifting! Any and every happy hardcore fan should have this compilation as it is original happy hardcore collection and there is nothing else like it!

This cd really does live up to its name! You get 2 cds are hardcore insanity. The 1st cd, DJ Hixxy's mix, is probobly the best mixed since it was mixed on 3 dexx. All the songs on his cd sound like a mixture between happy circus music, baby musical toys, and video game music. Plus, it has MC Sharkey doing some cool stuff and all the songs go 175 bpm! Cd 2, or DJ Sarkey's mix, is a little more on the gabba side. The bass line in the songs are harder and the songs sound like either happy circus music, baby musical toys, and dark & happy video game music. There is no MC on this mix, but the songs are pretty well mixed and they all go 175 bpm.

This is the Original Bonkers, Compilation. In my opinion Number 2 is a better collection of music. This captures the flavour of 96 when Happy Hardcore was at its peak. Check out thye vocal mix of Toytown at the start of Hixxys set, this mix as far as I know was never released and is the Best mix of it I have heard. Hixxys set was mixed on 3 decks. Hixxys is the best mix, it has a wicked track selection and some comical moments in it, with Beavis & Butthead samples and a nice childrens song to finish off with. :@)