Hardcore techno is a form of contemporary popular music with an aggressive edge, created using personal computers.
Hardcore techno is a kind of techno music closely related to the Gabba style. It originated in the early- to mid-1990s in largely industrial or post-industrial cities (Rotterdam, New York City, Newcastle, Australia) and simultaneously in commercial dance techno music looking for a harder sound; Mescalinum United's "We Have Arrived" (PCP 006, 1993) is considered by many to be the first hardcore track. It 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.
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