Showing posts with label electronic music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electronic music. Show all posts

Obscure Genres : Gabber

Sunday, August 9, 2015


Gabber Baby! In Europe this isn't so obscure but in the usa it is. It's also known as Rotterdam Techno. So I've loved gabber for a pretty long time since I was a like 13 years old I've listened to this shit. It's basically the heavy metal of electronic music. At that time I listened to alot of punk rock and metal music all goth status but my true passion lies with EDM I'm a raver at heart and it affects me the most out of other kinds of music. Anyways this music is 160-200BPM, uses a distorted bassline with trance, techno and electro riffs or screaming / disturbing vocals. It's the dark side. It's Evil techno lol. It can be happy the more old Skool gabber is fun and bouncy but modern Gabber like angerfist is fast and sinister. If you like heavy bass and insane drops with 200bpm distorted kicks you'll love this too. Some may think it's not creative enough not involved enough but gabber isn't about creative it's about hardcore music and this is the best of it. On a side note there's even a dance to go rough this music it's called hakken. I might talk about dances later

Not to say it isn't possible to be creative. I believe some of the mixes I've done of gabber music are creative. They are structured a certain artistic way and the way I DJed the mixes was influenced by the artistic experience I was trying to conjure up. Here are my gabber mixes:





Top Artists via last.fm give em a listen :)
Angerfist
Neophyte
3 Steps Ahead
DJ Sharpnel
Evil Activities
The Prophet
Helblinde
Endymion

Obscure Genres : Neurofunk


So Neurofunk. The name is kinda weird. This is a more  darker sounding subgenre of drum and bass electronic music. It started around 97 in London and got its name from critics saying it sounded like funk but done differently thus neurofunk.

It's close relatives in my opinion are jungledarkstep and intelligent.
The music is good it's kinda like jump up dim and bass but without that usual bum tat dida dida bum tat and more unusual usually more like a bum bump bump doot... doot... do da bum bum bum blat... blat.. blat dut dut. You probably can't really understand that but that's what it's kinda like as best as I can put it in a blog.

They usually use a dark gritty bass stab as the synth melody to a track and emphasize it with the drum and bass kicks and snares and what not usually a serene soundscape for the breaks and build up then they drop dirty neurofunk style basslines that emphasize darkness and a feeling of sudden anxiety after being in a happy place. That's what it's like to me and that's definitely interesting and artistic in my book. I enjoy it. I made a mix of mostly spor he's a producer spor is actually just the name for his drum and bass projects his name is really Jon Gooch. But anyways I made a mix you can listen to it it's neurofunk.
Top Artists via last.fm give em a listen :)
Noisia
Spor
Black Sun Empire
Phace
Calyx & TeeBee
Ed Rush & Optical
Black Sun Empire & Noisia
Mefjus