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Hardcore techno is a kind of techno music closely related to the Gabber style. It originated in the early- to mid-1990s in largely industrial or post-industrial cities (Rotterdam, New York City, Newcastle, New South Wales) and simultaneously in commercial dance techno music looking for a harder sound; Mescalinum United's "We Have Arrived" (PCP 006, 1990) is considered by many to be the first hardcore track. Hardcore is typified by fast (160-300BPM) repetitive beats, often with a compressed kick-drum. It is considered a descendant of Industrial music and the more atonal, beat oriented early electronic music.
Hardcore techno is often obsessed with the obscene, morose, morbid, explicitly sexual or profane. Partly, this is because hardcore enthusiasts enjoy negative sensations, partly because they enjoy ironic provocation of other people's fears and aversions. Generally, hardcore techno seeks the social relationship which early punk rock or ska had: ironic, working class, demi-political, and seeking to transcend the oppressions of everyday life.
Hardcore Techno -Genres:
4-beat
Bouncy techno
Breakbeat hardcore
Breakcore
Digital hardcore
Gabba
Happy hardcore
New Beat
Nu Style Gabber
Speedcore
Terrorcore
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