hardcore

Also known as techno hardcore, hardcore (EDM), hardcore EDM, hardcore electronic, EDM hardcore, hardcore techno

genre of electronic dance music

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Stylistic origins: Techno acid house new beat EBM
Cultural origins: Late 1980s – early 1990s, Netherlands ( Rotterdam ), Belgium, Germany ( Frankfurt )

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Commons category: Hardcore techno
inception: 1989-00-00

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

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