What is Darkcore?

Information about Darkcore

Darkcore
Stylistic origins: Breakbeat hardcore
Cultural origins: Early 1990s, United Kingdom
Typical instruments: Synthesizer - Drum machine - Sequencer - Sampler
Mainstream popularity: Low
Derivative forms:Drum and bass, especially Darkstep
Subgenres


Darkcore is a music genre that became popular in the United Kingdom hardcore rave scene in 1993. It is recognized as being one of the direct precursors of the modern electronic music genre known as drum and bass. Darkcore was a counter movement to the happy alternative that occurred at the same time - both styles evolving from breakbeat hardcore.

Qualities

Darkcore is characterized by layered breakbeats at around 150 to 160 bpm combined with very low frequency bass lines. In addition to these basic traits, dark themed samples such as horror movie theme music or cries for help were commonly included. As the style evolved, the almost gratuitous use of horror elements was dropped as producers relied more on simple effects such as reverb, delay, pitch shifting and time stretching to create a chaotic and sinister mood.

Artists

Many of the British hardcore and junglist DJs of the day dabbled in Darkcore for a time, mostly around its heyday in 1993, but some of the more notable DJ/producers of the darkcore include:

Significant Releases

The 1993 CD release Hard Leaders III - Enter The Darkside contains many popular darkcore tunes of the era.

Darkcore today

Today, darkcore is used to describe the entire array of breakbeat producers and DJs who work within the 160-190+ BPM tempo range. This includes darkcore, though its current configuration is notably different in quality and process availability as well as the fact that modern drum and bass elements are included.

See also

  •  • [ e] Hardcore
Bouncy techno - Breakbeat - Breakcore - Darkcore - Freeform - Gabber - Happy - Hardcore Breaks - Industrial - Makina - Speedbass - Speedcore - Terrorcore - Trancecore - UK
Other electronic dance music genres
Ambient | Breakbeat | Drum and bass | Electro | UK garage | Hardcore | House | Industrial | Synthpop | Techno | Trance | Triphop
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Darkstep - Drumfunk - Futurestep - Hardstep - Intelligent - Jazzstep - Jump-Up - Liquid funk - Neurofunk - Techstep - Trancestep
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Ambient | Breakbeat | Drum and bass | Electro | UK garage | Hardcore | House | Industrial | Synthpop | Techno | Trance | Triphop
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