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What isgabber?

On the hardcore line between digital hardcore and bouncy techno. Grew out of new beat (hi-nrg line) and acid house (house line).

EMERGED 1992

GABBER

Gabber is the hardcore of Rotterdam: fast, distorted kicks, shouted samples, and a youth culture of shaved heads, Australian tracksuits and Air Max trainers.[1][2] The scene began in 1992, split between Rotterdam, with Paul Elstak's Rotterdam Records and the Parkzicht club, and Amsterdam, with Mokum Records.[1] ID&T's Thunderdome parties and CDs, from October 1992, made it the Netherlands' biggest youth movement of the decade, until overexposure and parody pushed it back underground.[2][1]

A shaven-headed raver in a purple Thunderdome jersey printed with the word Gabber raises a fist with a friend at a hardcore party in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, in 2017.
A shaven-headed raver in a purple Thunderdome jersey printed with the word Gabber raises a fist with a friend at a hardcore party in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, in 2017.. Picture: Maverick L., CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

FIVE TO START WITH

  1. 1Amsterdam Waar Lech Dat Dan?EuromastersROTTERDAM RECORDS / 1992
  2. 2B.O.T.T.R.O.P.DJ HooliganNO RESPECT RECORDS / 1992
  3. 3Welcome to the ThunderdomeDJ Dano1993
  4. 4JiiieehaaaaDiss Reaction1995
  5. 5Drop It3 Steps Ahead1995

EXITS

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SOURCES

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