Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)

Not to be confused with electronicore, hardcore punk, breakbeat hardcore, or happy hardcore.
"Doomcore" redirects here. Not to be confused with sludge metal, which fuses doom metal and hardcore punk.

Hardcore
Stylistic origins
Cultural originsLate 1980s – early 1990s,[1] Netherlands (Rotterdam), Belgium, Germany (Frankfurt)
Subgenres
Fusion genres
Local scenes
Other topics

Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno)[2][3] is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany[4] in the early 1990s. It is distinguished by faster tempos and a distorted sawtooth kick (160 to 200 BPM or more[5]), the intensity of the kicks and the synthesized bass (in some subgenres),[6] the rhythm and the atmosphere of the themes (sometimes violent),[7] the usage of saturation and experimentation close to that of industrial dance music. It would spawn subgenres such as gabber.

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  5. ^ "PSYCHEDELIC FREESTYLE | A-wave.com|=awave". Retrieved 12 May 2012.
  6. ^ Dirk Moelants (13 September 2003). "Dance Music, Movement and Tempo Preferences" (PDF). p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 October 2013. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
  7. ^ Ishkur. "Ishkur's guide". Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2013.