Sulphurik Advanced Member
United Kingdom
982 posts Joined: Jan, 2009
Posted - 2022/05/17 : 18:52:34
quote:Originally posted by GoBeserk:
i love the dutch scene
it has that complete 'f*** you' atitude the uk scene lacks
the uk scene is brilliant dont get me wrong we have some amazing hardcore producers
but cmon... its hardly the evilness of nosferatu, evil activites, ophidian is it...
The Uk scene doesn't need that attitude.
The UK scene has always been the happier side of hardcore but not always. There have been various styles in the UK which are darker and harder similar to the Dutch hardcore/ gabber sound.
Sulphurik Advanced Member
United Kingdom
982 posts Joined: Jan, 2009
Posted - 2023/01/09 : 22:01:09
I do like the sound of some of the old Ruffneck style tunes from Ruffneck himself and some of the other artists. I liked back then when they used the heavier kickdrums and the juno synth riffs and also the breakbeats worked well in many tracks.
This sounds a really good classic from the Trickster & Undercover Anarchist
Sulphurik Advanced Member
United Kingdom
982 posts Joined: Jan, 2009
Posted - 2023/05/05 : 21:12:41
Dutch hardcore/gabber is a style of hardcore have listened to or have tried to get into in the past. Yeah there's some tracks I've liked the sound of but there's larger number of tracks I don't like the sound of.
There are tracks that musically sound good but they could have sounded even better for different reasons eg. sound good musically but then inclusion of unnecessary vocal samples/ explicit samples. tracks that have alot of distortion on the kickdrums which were unnecessary in my opinion. Could have sounded much better with less distortion. Melodies could have sounded much better including the screech synth ones with distortion and very repetitive and ones with not much of a melody which I'm not fan of.
The older gabber tracks had more percussion (hi hats, breakbeat etc) along with the kick which worked well such as in Ruffneck Records tracks. Gabber sound towards end of the 90s seemed to remove percussion elements completely. They gave tracks less energy in my opinion. Wasn't particularly keen on the sound of kicks in late 90s.
For me kickdrums have to be lower tone sounding so not a fan of the high pitch kicks around in alot of tracks these days.
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Posted - 2018/03/05 : 17:36:43
