Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2015

What was Experimental Hardcore?

With Experimental Hardcore i mean a certain style of music, which for example was made by fischkopf, early praxis, or labels like CFET, early Epiteth, or even the first phase of DHR recordings. i once described it as a crossover of experimental / avantgarde music and gabber, speedcore and jungle methods. so we had frantic rhythms, over-the-top distorted bassdrums, shattering percussion, mixed with avantgarde concepts, experimental soundcreations, odd, outerwordly drones and harmonies. i like to put it into comparision with both the intelligent electronica of the 90s aswell as the gabber/hardcore techno routines. it was a lot smarter, experimental, - may i say intellectual - than your average gabber or speedcore record. and it came from a much larger field of sound and possibilites - not just a "motherfucker" scream and a 909 mixed with a juno sound - but sounds from all possible sources, from classical music to electronic avantgarde to original industrial / dark ambient sounds, or even weird rock sources and "commodore" style computer sounds. yet, it was also much different to the "intelligent" electronica - first, of course, much more brutal, vulgar, direct, relentless. and also much rougher, less polished in sound, and, should i say - dancable. or rather, not dancable - rather intented to be able to get mad and all-out on the dancefloor to it.
what i loved with experimental hardcore, was the sheer possiblites of it. a track could have a 4/4 rhythm, or an unstraight one, or be beatless, or just a composition of sounds, or a net of multifacted parts - if you could imagine it, you could put it into sound. melodic, amelodic, arhythmic, pure noise - you name it.
this scene more or less emerged in the beginning of the 90s, and actually more or less ended with the end of the 90s. in the end, it gave rise to a variety of more specified genres - such as breakcore, frenchcore, "industrial hardcore", or influences on speedcore and noizecore genres.

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