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What isdarkcore?

On the hardcore line between breakbeat hardcore and digital hardcore.

EMERGED 1992

DARKCORE

Darkcore was British breakbeat hardcore's dark turn from late 1992: screams, manic laughter and funeral bells sampled over chopped breakbeats, and pads that sounded like moans instead of hands-in-the-air chords.[1][2][3] Reinforced, the label run by 4hero, put out Doc Scott's Here Comes the Drumz as Nasty Habits and Goldie's records as Rufige Kru, and Goldie's Terminator, as Metalheads, used time-stretched breaks.[2][3] By late 1993 the darker DJs had split from hardcore, and the sound fed into jungle.[4][3]

FIVE TO START WITH

  1. 1TerminatorMetalheadsSYNTHETIC / 1992
  2. 2Here Comes the DrumzNasty HabitsREINFORCED RECORDS / 1992
  3. 3Shot in the DarkDJ HypeSUBURBAN BASE / 1993
  4. 4Ghosts of My LifeRufige KruREINFORCED RECORDS / 1993

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