Recent Developments
In the 2000s, some producers produced neither Nu Style or oldschool gabber. They focused again on speed, with tracks normally go over 200 bpm. Subgenres have developed where scenes exhibit certain musical traits and are mainly defined by their kick drum sound. These subgenres include:
- Terrorcore uses same highly distorted kick drum as gabber. Tracks are normally minimalistic and non-melodic, and the themes are normally highly aggressive. Artists include DJ Plague, Nordcore GMBH, Noisekick, and Dj Smurf.
- Hardcore Techno removes the distortion from the kick drum, in favour of a more natural heavy reverb sound, which is usually affected by a filter. There's usually influence from breakcore, which uses distorted breaks over the 4/4 kick, and a lot of tracks have ambient sounds and a progressive feel. Artists include Hellfish, DJ Producer, Bryan Fury, Deathmachine, Teknoist, and Scott Brown. Occasionally, UK Hardcore producers try their hand at producing Hardcore Techno, such as Gammer and Brisk & Vagabond. Some UK Hardcore producers also like to put small sections of gabber within their tracks. Fans of this include Hixxy and Re-Con. Other Hardcore Tachno artists such as the 'Gabba Surgeons' draw from a whole myriad of genres including drum & bass, electro and house. There is also a cult following of Japanese hardcore techno, also known as j-core, where the general themes include sound samples from anime and videogames, arranges of Touhou Project soundtracks, and a greater emphasis on melody than its Western counterpart.
- Speedcore - A faster type of gabber usually 300 bpm or faster. The term "splittercore" is usually used for speedcore tracks of 500-900 bpm. The term "extratone" is used for tracks of over 1000 bpm; though the usefulness of this distinction is debatable due to the capacity of human ears to detect the differences in such high beats per minute.
- Cybergrind is a mixture of gabber (as well as other electronic styles such as industrial, intelligent dance music, techno, and/or power noise) and grindcore, performed by The Berzerker and Genghis Tron.
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