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What Speedcore Is About:
Typically, a speedcore track can be characterized by a general anti-establishment and anti-music sentiment. Overall, the music is aggressive, angry and sometimes attempts to foster a hostile atmosphere for the actual listener. The DJs of speedcore push the electronic dance music boundaries and often used some offensive themes within their music in order to create extremes of this nature.
Even though most artists of the speedcore music genre are content to attack the music’s normal standard, or even the style of gabber music that has spawned them, speedcore’s extremism has caused some artists to turn inwards and actually parody this genre’s standards. Just like the way that happy hardcore relates to the hardcore techno and gabber techno, all of these songs are known to use samples of the themes that are more manic and lighter.
Aside from speedcore’s very fast tempo, which rarely ever drops below two hundred and forty beats per minute, often speedcore can be distinguished from all of the other hardcore techno forms by overridden and aggressive electronic percussion tracks which is punctuate often with hyperactive tom-tom or snare fills. The drum machine of choice is often the Roland TR-909 for all the speedcore producers because of its ability to generate the bass drum kits that are heavily distorted which anchor the percussion tracks.
Speedcore Uses a Heavy Synthesizer:
Several of the producers will even occasionally overdrive their kicks to a certain extent so that they turn into square waves, giving the speedcore music genre its very distinctive pounding sound. Just like all of the other forms of techno music, the synthesizers are also used heavily, and often produced disharmonic or heavily distorted melodies in order to complement the drums that underlay. Even though any hybrid or analog synth is able to be used, the digital/analog hybrid the Roland Juno 106 is a very common favorite among the artists of the speedcore music genre.
Within the speedcore music genre, the pure digital synthesizers are considered to be comparatively rare. Some of the samples that are used often in order to further heighten speedcore’s aggressive nature, with several artists use the audio samples of violent scenes that stem from movies that are produced by directors like Stanley Kubrick and Martin Scorsese. The especially popular samples of actors include R. Lee Ermey and Joe Pesci, specifically within the older works of speedcore music. |
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