Hard Techno Sound Pack

[Elisabet Schwartzkopf]

Iwas just wondering what happened to this Gen ere of Techno .I did loved this Music so much that back from 2000 to 2005 I was only Djing hard techno at 135 bpm in many clubs . wich was lots of fun . I noticed that most of the Techno Artist like Adam Bayer , Marco Carola , Ben Sims, Jooris Voorn,ETC. they started to make more Housey techno since 2007 or sometime around that time.

Last Night this Dj played Super Hard Techno ( after my gay Housey set :P).and he pretty much cleared the dance Floor right aways . this is the 4 time i see old techno Djs do this in the Clubs.

I kind of felt that is like they where playing cheese trance from the 90s . but ohh well time changed and i feel that kind of Techno is not as good as it used to be. all those Dj tracks sounded Old and boring compared to nowadays Techno.

maybe is me but whats your thoughts about Techno ?

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.

Hardcore is rooted in the 1970s and early 1980s industrial music, specifically the elements of hard electronic dance music. Groups such as Throbbing Gristle,[8] Coil, Cabaret Voltaire, SPK, Foetus and Einstrzende Neubauten produced music using a wide range of electronic instruments.[9] The message diffused by industrial was then very provocative. Some of the musical sounds and experimentation of industrial have directly influenced hardcore since the beginning of the movement.

The term hardcore is not new in the music world. It was first used to designate a more radical movement within punk rock (Black Flag, Minor Threat, Bad Brains...) which, in addition to hardening the music, also attached importance to their attitude and their way of life as in the street where it was born: violent, underground, but engaged and sincere. The term has then been reused when hip hop emerged in the late 1980s, designating the harder part of the hip hop, with the same characteristics: a harder sound, engaged lyrics and a whole way of life dedicated to the respect of the values shown by rappers like KRS-One or Public Enemy. The term hardcore techno has first been used by EBM groups like ;GRUMH..., Pankow,[12] and Lether Strip[13][14] in the late 1980s, although their music had nothing to do with hardcore. ;GRUMH...'s Sucking Energy (Hard Core Mix), released in 1985, was the first track ever to use the term hardcore, within an EDM context.

In 1990, German producer Marc Trauner (also known as Mescalinum United) released the first hardcore techno track with "We Have Arrived".[15][16] The British group Together released its track "Hardcore Uproar", also in 1990. Music journalist Simon Reynolds has written books on hardcore techno, covering bands related to the Belgium hardcore scene like Second Phase and T99 or Dutch hardcore bands such as L.A. Style and Human Resource. Many of the iconic "stabs" that would become part of hardcore were popularized by these and other Belgian techno producers during the early 1990s, like the "Mentasm"[17] and the "Anastasia" stabs.[18]

In the early 1990s, the terms "hardcore" and "darkcore" were also used to designate some primitive forms of breakbeat and drum and bass which were very popular in England and from which have emerged several famous producers like the Prodigy, Altern-8 and Goldie. It introduced sped up hip-hop breakbeats, piano breaks, dub and low frequency basslines and cartoon-like noises, which has been retrospectively called 'old skool' hardcore (a.k.a. breakbeat hardcore) and is widely regarded as the progenitor of happy hardcore (which later lost the breakbeats) and jungle (which alternatively lost the techno style keyboard stabs and piano breaks).

An important event in the popularization of the genre occurred with the[16][19] release of the 1990 track "We Have Arrived" by the German producer Mescalinum United, of Frankfurt.[13][20] Trauner founded the label Planet Core Productions in 1989 and has produced more than 500 tracks, including 300 by himself until 1996.[13] Another important name of the hardcore scene was PCP: Miroslav Pajic, better known as Miro. His group PCP popularized a slow, heavy, minimal and very dark form of hardcore that is now designated as "darkcore" or "doomcore".

In the United States, the New York pioneer of techno Lenny Dee launched the first dedicated hardcore record label[21] Industrial Strength Records in 1991[20] that has federated a large part of the American scene, making New York one of the biggest centers of early American hardcore. Other American producers on the label included Deadly Buda and the Horrorist, but the label has also produced producers from other nationalities. At the same time in Rotterdam, the DJs and producers Paul Elstak[22] and Rob Fabrie popularized a speedier style, with saturated bass-lines, quickly known as "gabber", and its more commercial and accessible form, happy hardcore.[20][23]

Paul Elstak founded Rotterdam Records in 1992, which became the first hardcore label in the Netherlands.[24] In 1992 at Utrecht, a large rave called The Final Exam[25] led to the creation of the label ID&T. Launched in 1993, the concept of Thunderdome quickly popularized hardcore music in Europe with a catalogue of CD compilations and events, attracting thousands of young people that launched the gabber movement. Just during the single year of 1993, four compilations were released with increasing success.[26][27][28][29][better source needed] Many artists on the compilations have become well-known figures in the scene, notably 3 Steps Ahead, DJ Buzz Fuzz, The Dreamteam, Neophyte, Omar Santana, and Charly Lownoise and Mental Theo in the gabber/happy hardcore registry. The same year, the label Mokum Records was created[20] by Freddy B who had success with artists and groups like Technohead[30][31][32][33] Tellurian, the Speedfreak, Scott Brown,[34] and the Belgian musician Liza N'Eliaz,[35] pioneer of speedcore.

In England, the members of the sound system Spiral Tribe,[37] including Stormcore, 69db, Crystal Distortion and Curley hardened their acid-breakbeat sound, becoming the pioneers of the "acidcore" and "hardtechno" genres. In 1994, they founded the label Network 23 which among others has produced Somatic Responses, Caustic Visions and Unit Moebius, establishing the musical and visual basis of the free party rave.

Hardcore/Gabber clubs in Belgium, DJ Yves was resident DJ at Club X[38] in Wuustwezel and from the Hardcore room of the Cherry Moon[39] in Lokeren, DJ Bass (DHT) was resident DJ of the Hardcore room of Temple Of House La Bush[40] in Esquelmes (Pecq) and of La Florida[41] in La Glanerie (Rumes) which is next to the Complexe Cap'tain.[42] Thunderdome in Belgium was organized at the Antwerps Sportpaleis[43] and in clubs such as the Planet Hardcore (Club) in Dendermonde 3 April 1994,[44] the Extreme in Affligem on 16 December 1994,[45] the Club X in Wuustwezel on 7 June 1996[46] and 13 September 1996,[47] the Cherry Moon in Lokeren on 31 October 1997.[48]

Under the influence of Hardstyle and industrial hardcore, a new scene was developing featuring DJ Promo and his label The Third Movement. This scene now known as mainstream hardcore emerged in the early 2000s with a modern, mature, slower, and sophisticated form.[19] It was successful in Europe, especially in Netherlands and Italy,[19] with producers and groups like Endymion, Kasparov, Art of Fighters, The Stunned Guys and DJ Mad Dog. Happy hardcore continues its movement underground and has evolved bringing out other related genres such as eurobeat, UK hardcore, Freeform hardcore and Full-on Hardcore.

As the free party movement was successful in all the Europe, freetekno appeared. Numerous producers and labels emerged representing the hard techno and the frenchcore genres: Epileptik, Audiogenic, Les Enfants Sages, Tekita, Breakteam, Mackitek, B2K and Narkotek.

Meanwhile, in 2001, Norwegian DJ duo Thomas S. Nilsen Fiction and Steffen Ojala Sderholm began to develop the nightcore genre influenced by pitch-shifted vocals in German group Scooter's songs "Nessaja" and "Ramp! (The Logical Song)". Nightcore artists started appearing on services such as LimeWire in mid-2003, and YouTube in 2006.

The early 2010s saw the rise of hardcore internationally, with artists such as Angerfist gaining popularity quickly. The hardcore scene thrived during this period with many new producers and labels making their mark on the scene, both in Europe and the rest of the world, appearing even at North America's biggest music festival, Electric Daisy Carnival. In 2011, Angerfist entered the DJ Mag Top 100 at position #39.[51]

The end of the decade saw rapid growth of the hardcore scene in Europe. Hardcore festivals within the Netherlands saw a significant rise in attendance. 2019's edition of Thunderdome reached an attendance of almost 40,000 people and became the biggest hardcore event to ever take place.[55] Regular large scale events hardcore started happening outside of the Netherlands in countries like Spain,[56] Russia,[57] Austria,[58] Switzerland[59] and the Czech Republic[60] among other European countries. In America hardcore remains a relatively underground genre, but can be found in major cities being pushed by independent promoters and artists.

Hard dance is an umbrella category of electronic dance music genres characterized by fast tempos and hard kick drums, but less harsh-sounding and often a bit slower than hardcore. The category includes hard house, hard trance, hardstyle, some forms of Eurodance and regional genres, such as mkina, lento violento and others. Sometimes the category has crossovers with hardcore genres such as frenchcore or UK hardcore. Despite this, the category is sometimes referred to as synonymous with hardcore techno music generally.

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