Gabber (IPA pronunciation: English /gæ. bər/, Dutch /xɑbər/), gabba or hardcore, is a style of electronic music and a subgenre of hardcore techno. "Noisecore" redirects here For the style of metalcore see Mathcore. Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production "Noisecore" redirects here For the style of metalcore see Mathcore. "Gabber" literally means buddy or friend. In Russia it is known as "krassava" which means "cool. " Although in the late 1980s a house variant from Detroit first reached Amsterdam (the Netherlands) it was the producers and DJs from Rotterdam who evolved it to a harder house variant which we today know as "Gabber" style or "Hardcore". Amsterdam (pronounced) is the capital and largest city of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Holland in the west The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Rotterdam (pronounced) is the 2nd-largest City by population in the Netherlands, located in the province of The specific sound of Rotterdam was also created as a sort of reaction to the more pretentious and snobby house scene of Amsterdam. And with Rotterdam being a gritty working class city this type of house music fit well. Though house-productions from Frankfurt's Marc Acardipane were quite alike to the Rotterdam style it was the popularity of this music in the Netherlands which made Rotterdam the cradle of Hardcore Gabber. Marc Trauner, better known by his numerous aliases including Marc Acardipane, Mescalinum United, The Mover, Pilldriver, Marshall Masters The essence of the gabber sound is a distorted kick sound, overdriven to the point where it becomes a square wave and makes a recognizably melodic tone. A distortion is the alteration of the original shape (or other characteristic of an object image sound waveform or other form of information or representation A bass drum is a large Drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. A square wave is a kind of Non-sinusoidal waveform, most typically encountered in Electronics and Signal processing. Often the Roland Alpha Juno or the kick from a Roland TR-909 was used to create this sound. The Roland Juno-106 was a hybrid digital/analogue polyphonic synth manufactured by Roland Corporation in 1984. The Roland TR-909 Rhythm Composer is a partially analog, partially sample-based Drum machine built by the Japanese Roland Corporation Gabber tracks typically include samples and synthesised melodies with the typical tempo ranging from 150 to 220 bpm. In Music, sampling is the act of taking a portion or sample, of one Sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or element of a new recording Beats per minute ( BPM) is a unit typically used as either a measure of Tempo in music or a measure of one's Heart rate. Violence, drugs and profanity are common themes in gabber, perceptible through its samples and lyrics, often screamed, pitch shifted or distorted. Pitch shift is a Sound recording technique in which the normal pitch or tone of a sound is altered ("shifted" for effect or for other purposes

Contents 1 Origins 1.1 The origins of the gabber sound 1.2 Nu style gabber 2 Style 3 Misconceptions 4 See also 4.1 Record labels 5 Notes 6 External links

Origins

The origins of the gabber sound

In general the track We Have Arrived (1990) by Mescalinum United is considered to be the first gabber track. We Have Arrived is a gabber track by German producer Marc Trauner under the alias Mescalinum United first released by Planet Core Productions Marc Trauner, better known by his numerous aliases including Marc Acardipane, Mescalinum United, The Mover, Pilldriver, Marshall Masters Hardcore/gabber music is a fusion of techno and industrial with a dark, aggressive atmosphere. Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of Experimental music, especially but not necessarily Electronic music. In the early to mid nineties a clear gabber fashion took form. Between 1993 and 1998 loads of gabber fans dressed in (multiple, layered) Australian and Cavello tracksuits, Nike Air Max sport shoes (with punctured air chambers), bomber jackets, and the majority of the male gabbers had shaven heads. //wwwiloveshellsuitscom]A tracksuit is an article of Clothing[] consisting of two parts- Trousers and a Jacket. Nike Air Max is a line of shoes first released by Nike in 1987. The flight jacket, or bomber jacket is a garment originally created for pilots which eventually became part of popular culture and apparel Female fans often shaved the sides and back of their head and wore their hair in a pony tail.

The style began in the late 1980s, but some claim that it was diluted in 1995 by happy hardcore and, for hardcore fans, by commercialisation which resulted in a younger crowd being attracted to the scene. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. Happy hardcore is a form of Dance music typified by a very fast tempo (usually around 165–180 BPM) often coupled with male or female vocals, and The commercial organisation ID&T helped a lot in making the music popular by organising parties (most notable are the Thunderdome parties) and selling merchandise. ID&T is a Dutch Entertainment and medium enterprise that was founded in the early 1990s and organizes the largest Dance events in the Thunderdome is a famous concept in Hardcore techno and Gabber music and is mainly used for an ongoing series of parties and CD-albums The name gabber is somewhat less used these days to describe this music style, specially due to this stigma created in the mid 1990s. Many would now prefer to call the style 'hardcore'. After surviving underground for a number of years, in 2002 the style regained some popularity in the Netherlands, although the sound is more mature, darker and industrial. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands Around the world, it never lost its original grip, and music was evolving and creating new subgenres and approaches, from Digital Hardcore to Breakcore, from Noisecore to Speedcore. Digital hardcore is a Music genre fusing elements of Hardcore punk and Electronic music. Breakcore is a loosely defined electronic music style that brings together elements of Industrial, jungle, Hardcore techno and IDM into a breakbeat-oriented Speedcore is a form of Hardcore techno that is typically identified by its high rate of Beats per minute and aggressive themes

Nu style gabber

There was a somewhat decisive split in the hardcore scene starting in the late 1990s. Some producers started embracing a slower style characterized by a deeper, harder bass drum that typically had a longer envelope than was possible in the traditional, faster style. This newer sound was referred to as "Main stream" or "New Style" (or "Nu Style") and "New Skool" and as the tempo got slower and slower it began to become similar to hard house. UK Hard House or simply Hard House is a style of Hard Dance music that emerged in the 1990s Many hardcore enthusiasts hated hard house and the club scene it typified, and frequently DJs would be booed by one group of fans and cheered for by another at the same party, depending on the tempo and style of music they were playing. A nightclub (or "night club" or "club" is a drinking, dancing, and entertainment venue which does its primary business after dark This is similar to the rivalry and mutual dislike that surfaced earlier between fans of "regular" hardcore and happy hardcore. Eventually the two styles met in the middle, and most gabber today is produced in a bpm range of 160-170. This is typically a little bit slower than the Rotterdam style of the mid-1990s and somewhat faster than the slowest New Style tracks that emerged.

Style

Gabber is characterised by its bassdrum sound. Essentially, it comes from taking a normal synthesized bassdrum and overdriving it heavily. The approximately sinusoidal sample starts to clip into a squarewave with a falling pitch. This results in a number of effects: the frequency spectrum spreads out, thus achieving a louder, more aggressive sound. It also changes the amplitude envelope of the sound by increasing the sustain. Due to the distortion, the drum also develops a melodic tone. It is not uncommon for the bassdrum pattern to change pitch throughout the song to follow the bassline.

The second frequently used component of gabber tracks is the "hoover", a patch of the Roland Alpha Juno synthesizer. Hoover sound refers to a particular Synthesizer sound in Electronic music, commonly used in Hard House music and other styles The Roland Alpha Juno series of keyboards were analog polyphonic synthesizers with digitally controlled oscillators manufactured by Roland Corporation in A "hoover" is typically a distorted, grainy, sweeping sound which, when played on a low key, can create a dark and brooding bassline. Alternatively, when played at higher pitches, the hoover becomes an aggressive, shrieking lead. Faster gabba tracks often apply extremely fast hoover-patterns.

The aforementioned two subgenres of gabber differ in essentially one thing: the tempo.

• Oldskool gabber, staying true to its mentality, defines "hardness" in speed; tracks rarely go under 160 BPM, and bassdrum rolls often go up to a speed where the beats themselves are hardly distinguishable from each other.
• Nuskool gabber, however, slows the speed down to 150 BPM, but extends the length of the bassdrum so the bass-frequency resonance keeps on longer. (In this aspect, "nugabber" obviously cannot be considered less powerful than its precursor, although slower hardcore is often less energetic. ) A typical style is one best made known by Rotterdam Terror Corps: the beats are divided into triplets and all hoover notes are played in a short, staccato-like fashion, giving the song a march-like feel. Rotterdam Terror Corps is a Dutch gabber group formed in 1993 that is known for its hard beats and is considered by many as a pioneer in the genre In Musical notation, the Italian word staccato (literally detached, plural staccatos or staccati) indicates that notes

Misconceptions

The gabber scene is often associated with the use of amphetamines, ecstasy, ketamine and other drugs. Amphetamine, and related drugs such as Methamphetamine are a group of drugs that act by increasing levels of Norepinephrine, Serotonin, and Dopamine MDMA ( 34-methylenedioxy- N -methylamphetamine) most commonly known today by the street name Ecstasy (often abbreviated E, X, Ketamine is a drug for use in human and veterinary medicine developed by Parke-Davis (today a part of Pfizer) in 1962

In the early 1990s, gabber gained a following in the neo-fascist rave scenes of Germany and the American Midwest. This page specifically pertains to fascism after World War II Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. ^[1] However, most gabber fans do not belong to the aforementioned groups, and many producers have released tracks that vocally speak out against racism. ^[2]

See also

• List of gabber artists
• Hakken

Record labels

• Bonzai Records
• Enzyme Records
• ID&T
• Mokum Records
• Rotterdam Records

Notes

External links

• Gabber Planet Gabber Planet, the biggest italian hardcore community by Dj 3-mor
• Portuguese Hardcore Gabber Portal Info on Hardcore and Thunderdome
• Geordie Gabba Mafia (Newcastle, UK) Artists and DJs from Newcastle (UK) Gabber scene. Run by DJ Smurf
• CyberRave European Gabber site Germany, Holland, Italy and UK
• Rave-O-Lution The oldest, since 1995, online hardcore site with loads of pictures and scene info

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