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Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)

Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany in the early 1990s. It is distinguished by faster tempos (160 to 200 BPM or more) and a distorted sawtooth kick, the intensity of the kicks and the synthesized bass (in some subgenres), the rhythm and the atmosphere of…

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Cultural origins
Late 1980s – early 1990s, Netherlands (Rotterdam), Belgium, Germany (Frankfurt)
Stylistic origins
Techno · acid house · new beat · EBM

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Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)

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Stylistic origins · 4
Hardcore (electronic dance music genre) → acid house, EBM, new beat, Techno
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Hardcore (electronic dance music genre) → Late 1980s – early 1990s, Netherlands (Rotterdam), Belgium, Germany (Frankfurt)

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Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)Stylistic originsacid house1.00infobox
Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)Stylistic originsnew beat1.00infobox
Hardcore (electronic dance music genre)Stylistic originsEBM1.00infobox
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