Happy Hardcore

Happy Hardcore (short: HHC) is one, in contrast to the normal hardcore techno, “happy” style, but a quick (usually 160-180 BPM) bass drum used. Not always, but often typical for Happy Hardcore Pianohooklines are fast, breakbeat elements and female vocals. The latter are often hochgepitcht and usually come from well-known pop songs. Due to its cheerful nature is viewed as the Happy Hardcore Hardcore Techno massentauglichste among the styles.

The commercial peak was the Happy Hardcore 1995-1997, the boom subsided thereafter. However, Happy Hardcore further developed in the underground and brought forth many new artists (see: known representative). Happy Hardcore origin of most productions, the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, the USA and Japan.

Speedcore

Speedcore is a generic term for the fastest version of hardcore techno. There is no universally accepted definition, which delineates the “slow” Gabber for “fast” speed core. However, it can be assumed that both can be separated by BPM numbers ranging from 250 to 300. Sharpness of separation is not a necessary and desirable.

Main features of Speedcore are extremely stressed speed, overdriven percussion, the sounds can come from drum machines or sampled are, continue to count sounds, catchy monologues, human sounds and screams of horror movies and related genres of the most common additives. Very artificial sounding synthesizer sounds and melodic sequences that are dark, seldom cheerful, mid-1990s often acidlastig or “rocking” can sound (with guitar samples, for example, by Cannibal Corpse), complete generally in the repertoire.

Raggacore

Ragga-core is a variant of electronic music, mixed in the hard experimental music (mostly breakcore) with ragga or dancehall is. The first ragga-core slabs were probably Clearance Bin / Breakbeat Malaria by Venetian Snares from the year 2001 (under the pseudonym Snares Man!) And Bounty Killer Killer of Knifehandchop from the year 2000.

Trancecore

Trance Core is a subgenre of hardcore techno.

Trance Core is found mainly in Great Britain where he end of the classic 90s Happy Hardcore supplemented and partly replaced. In Great Britain Trancecore largely through the often sonically similar free form was followed.

FDProject

FDProject is a German music project in the field of electronic music. Underlying this is the musician and composer Frank Dorittke (born 27 October 1964) from Dinslaken. His musical style ranges from Berlin school to rock. Hallmark of his compositions is the sympathetic guitar playing, often with references to the music Mike Oldfield.
Life

Early on, Frank found Dorittke his love of music and guitar since 1989 and is guitarist for the hard rock band Dinslakener Imagine. In the band he plays the lead guitar, a Gibson Flying V Left Hand, a special version for left-handers. Other members of the band are Horst Juhst (vocals and bass), Steffan Gilbert (vocals and percussion) and Artur Left (guitar).

In the early 1990s he discovered the electronic music as a second passion, especially through the works of Tangerine Dream (Stratosfear), Klaus Schulze and Jean-Michel Jarre. He began with a Commodore 64 and the sequencer software from Steinberg Studio 16, to write their own songs. Over the years he expanded his equipment to synthesizers and effects units. Only in 2003 he released his first CD Electronic Dreams. In elections to the vibrations in the same year he was awarded “Best Newcomer”. There are other awards followed for subsequent albums.

Voice Crack

Was a Swiss duo Voice Crack, the experimental electronic music was playing.

The duo consisting of Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang was formed in late 1972 and entered in 1984 under the name Voice Crack. The duo impressed with his music since the 1980s, the concept of “cracked everyday electronics”: use the musicians everyday electronic devices like dictaphone, record players, etc., which they drew new sounds by controlled it with hand movements and light on a complex control system.