Well it depends on what your distorted version of hard house is there is US Hard House - Venom, Irene, Bam Bam etc..which is def not something you would hear JP play UK Hard House - BK, Nick Sentience, Andy Farley..not quite popular here, also something JP would never play and then there is "Hard House" - what the idiots that don't know the proper label for "techno" is, when they hear someone like JP or JV play something really hard