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Encyclopedia > Digital hardcore

Digital hardcore is a music genre or style that was first defined by Alec Empire. Digital Hardcore Recordings is also the name of the record company that Alec Empire set up in Germany in the early 1990s. Digital hardcore reached the peak of its popularity in the mid-1990s and spawned a rapid growth in labels specializing in the genre, but has since regressed to "underground" status.[citation needed] A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... Alec Empire (born May 2, 1972) is a German musician. ... Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire. ...


Digital hardcore is an abrasive and typically electronic music, created with samplers and drum machines. The music is a combination of hardcore punk, hardcore techno, drum and bass/breakcore and other similar styles. It has close ties to industrial and noise music. It is in some ways similar to the more modern nintendocore. Most of the time, lyrics are anarchist slogan A sampler can be any of the following things: In general, a sampler is any broadly representative cross-section of some collection; for instance, food products are sometimes packaged in samplers containing a variety of chocolates or beers. ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ... Hardcore punk (aka Hardcore) is a subgenre of punk rock, the sound is thicker, heavier, and faster than punk rock and implimented 1970s heavy metal influences in its music. ... Hardcore Techno, often referred to as hardcore (not to be confused with hardcore emo or punk, which is sometimes in the USA just called hardcore), and known as hardcore to people in The Netherlands, is a style of techno music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple... Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to DnB, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ... Breakcore is a loosely defined electronic music style that brings together elements of industrial, jungle, hardcore techno and IDM into a breakbeat-oriented sound that encourages speed, complexity, impact and maximum sonic density. ... Noise music is music that uses sounds regarded as unpleasant or painful under normal circumstances. ... Nintendocore is a genre of music inspired by the music or soundtracks which accompany 8-bit video games, most notably those on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). ...


Some of the most popular digital hardcore acts include Atari Teenage Riot (Alec Empire's own band), EC8OR, The Shizit, Bomb 20, Cobra Killer, Hanin Elias, Panic DHH, Ambassador 21, Tuareg Geeks, Schizoid, Christoph de Babalon, Mad Capsule Markets, Shizuo, and Lolita Storm. Atari Teenage Riot is a German hardcore techno group formed in Berlin in 1992. ... Already both involved with Alec Empires Digital Hardcore Recordings, Patric Catani and Gina V. DOrio formed EC8OR in 1995. ... The Shizit was a digital hardcore band from Seattle, USA, formed by J.P. Anderson and Brian Shrader in 1999. ... The Cobra Killer duo of Gina V. DOrio and Annika Trost began as part of Alec Empires Digital Hardcore movement. ... Hanin Elias (born 1972) is a German industrial/techno artist. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Tuareg Geeks is a Mexican experimental music group signed to Digital Hardcore Recordings. ... Schizoid is the moniker of Canadian musician Jason Smith, best known for his work in the underground Digital Hardcore scene. ... // History The Mad Capsule Markets are a Japanese Rock band that formed in 1985. ... Shizuo was the Digital Hardcore Recordings manifestation of David Hammer, with occasional vocals and an animated stage show by Annika Trost. ... Lolita Storm is a London-based rock group. ...


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Digital hardcore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (396 words)
Digital Hardcore Recordings is also the name of the record company that Alec Empire set up in Germany in the early 1990s.
Digital hardcore reached the peak of its popularity in the mid-1990s and spawned a rapid growth in labels specializing in the genre, but has since regressed to "underground" status.
Digital hardcore is an abrasive and typically electronic music, created with samplers and drum machines.
hardcore techno: Information from Answers.com (738 words)
Hardcore techno, often referred to as hardcore (not to be confused with hardcore emo or punk, which is sometimes in the USA just called 'hardcore'), is a style of techno music that originated in the early-to-mid-1990s in multiple locations including Rotterdam, New York City and Newcastle, New South Wales.
Hardcore techno is usually composed using music sequencers, and many earlier tracks were produced on home computers with module tracker software.
Freeform is most frequently called hardcore due to its similarities in tempo and rhythm but it also has elements that show influences from other genres such as acid house and drum and bass.
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