If we add the aggressiveness and raw aspect of the samples, we’ll find music inspired by Nietzsche, the philosopher known for writing ideas as hurtful and powerful as a hammer aimed at your head. It’s no surprise, then, that Hardcore became so popular in Germany.The following songs are further proof of that dark world to which everyone is invited, yet few choose to enter. If you like heavy sounds and wild nights, then get ready to meet paradise.
England
Chicago House crossed the Atlantic to rattle the minds of British youth. They drove Acid House and rampant drug use to the edge. When the beat was not fast enough to keep up with a cocktail of mind-bending substances, they started to speed up the track to make way for a new form of Techno. These were some of Hardcore tunes that you were likely to encounter at a rave.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6frEWBvOzsc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTsi2-mBAdA
Germany
In an interview with iD magazine, Caspar Pound, founder of Rising High Records, praised the German scene: “It’s stronger, darker, scary (…) I don’t like going to a club and seeing 600 people waving their arms with smiles on their faces. I like to watch 600 people in a dark, torrid place; it’s not a question of happiness, it’s something more aggressive, more intense.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3TIJ7B_jVc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7RmMUl4PdU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP1VWykFJGs
Belgium
The New Beat was based on the Acid House, Electric Body Music, and Industrial genres. This makes it into a complex, robust, heavy, and deafening structure that could play all night and never have a passive, slow moment. This is why it’s so popular in Europe, where people search for intense and untamed emotions. If you’re looking for an epic party like the ones found in Brussels, Berlin, or Amsterdam, go for New Beat.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10UCrRMlj20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BC_bdwk3pr0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvxZWZcj6Lg
Learn about Manchester’s very own Madchester scene that was also created through the introduction of new drugs or listen to the Blur song that became symbolic of sexual revolution.
Translated by María Suárez
