Hardcore (breakbeat)
In electronic dance music, the term hardcore refers to the breakbeat-heavy dance music popular in Great Britain between 1990 and 1993 . Hardcore was an integral part of rave music .
In addition to hardcore , a number of other names are used for this genre to distinguish it from other hardcore styles, which mostly also indicate the British origin: For example Breakbeat Hardcore, UK Hardcore, British Hardcore, Breakbeat Techno or UK Breakbeat.
The term hardcore can also be found in connection with British breakbeat music in many breakbeat tracks of this time. Examples are "Hardcore Massif!" (1991) by Carl Cox or "Hardcore Will Never Die" and "Funky Hardcore" (both 1992) by producer Q-Bass (Dan Donnelly).
A hardcore act was The Prodigy . The artists, who were originally rooted in rave culture, released their debut album “ Experience ” in 1992 , which can be stylistically assigned to hardcore. Starting with their follow-up album, however, they developed a completely independent sound, which should reach its climax with “ The Fat Of The Land ”. They mixed elements of hardcore with big beat .
In the early 1990s the hardcore scene split into two different directions: The cheerful Happy Hardcore (not to be confused with the term for happy hardcore techno ) on the one hand and the continued breakbeat-heavy styles Jungle and Drum and Bass on the other side. While hardcore and (breakbeat-heavy) happy hardcore fell in popularity over the years, drum and bass shed its hardcore roots both musically and by name. Certain elements of the hardcore can also be found in newer breakbeat styles such as big beat or nu-skool breaks .
Typical style hardcore breakbeat tracks
- 4-MEGA - Drop This
- Billy Daniel Bunter feat. Gem - Let It Lift You
- Blame - Music Takes You
- DJ Eruption - I Need Somebody
- DJ Eruption - Rescue Me
- Ruff Rider - Move Ya Bod
- SY & Unknown - Moments In Time
- Sound Corp - Dream Finder
literature
- Sven Schäfer, Jesper Schäfers, Dirk Waltmann: Techno-Lexicon. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-142-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Discogs.com: Track released , accessed September 2, 2006
- ↑ Discogs.com: Track release , accessed September 2, 2006