nHARDCORE TECHNO

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 based on Belgian New Beat industrial style of Techno : Pleasure Game Le Dormeur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=w15fBy0VOWI&app=desktop
 origintated in Netherlands in the 1990's
 faster tempos (160-200 BPM)
 intensity of kicks and synthesized bass
 sometimes violent rhythms and thematic atmosphere
 use of saturation and experimentation close to that of “industrial dance music”
 would spawn “gabber”
 HISTORY
 1970's spawned from “industrial”
 Throbbing Gristle, Coil,,
 Coil (1990) Slur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNosMc351u8
 –Coil 2013 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7VAlw3d72s
 Cabaret Voltaire (1974)
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ4f_yJl3uY
 SPK, Foetus
 1980's inspirations
 Front 242,
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECQxrFYYk2g
 EBM style - “electronic body music” (inspired by industrial and new wave)
 minimalism, cold sounds, powerful beats, aggressive vocals
 EBM meets “new beat” and “acid house” → changed to a harder sound = “hardcore”
 terminology (“hardcore”)
 first used to describe radical movement within punk rock (Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad
Brains)
 hardened attitude, born from the street, violent, undergrand – but engaged and sincere
 term was reused to describe the harder edge of hip-hop (rappers such as KRS-One, Public
Enemy)
 “hardcore techno” first used by Ebm groups
 à;GRUMH..., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL8QN2RxuwQ
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Pankow, and Leæther Strip
 nothing to do with “hardcore” of the 1990's
 1990's “hardcore” and “darkcore” used to describe primitive forms of “breakbeat” and “drum
and bass”
 popular in England
 Marc Trauner, known as Mescalinum United – first to claim to make “hardcore techno”
with “We Have Arrived” (considered the track to have founded the genre)
 Together released “Hardcore Uproar”
 emerged from Prodigy, Lords of Acid, Goldie
 hip-hop breakbeats, piano breaks, dub and low frequency basslines and cartoon-like noises
 we now call this “old skool hardcore”
 the ancestor of happy hardcore (lost the breakbeats) and jungle
 1993 left its influences of Detroit techno and became known as “hardcore”
 INFLUENCED
 bouncy techno (pretty)
 (from Spain) Mákina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXjmv3AqK5I
 breakbeat hardcore
 happy hardcore
 UK hardcore
 powerstomp (four on the floor)
 **trancecore (Eclipse “Stairway to Brooklyn”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=0BGsReBDVYQ
 **freeform harccore (Blood, Sweat, and Tears “Little Fella”)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ZmScjSWXk
 ***** spawned BREAKBEAT HARDCORE
 Alternhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkczzkGrYDQ
 Psychore
 Gabber (Rob Fabrie, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRTtfHon1z8