The Slowcore Manifesto

The Slowcore Manifesto

When Hardcore came into existence in the early 90s, it was still very much tied to the Techno scene - in style, and in speed. It soon emancipated itself from that scene, though, and with that came new experiments in tempo. Tracks were getting faster and faster. And soon there were no limits on fast velocities anymore, genres like Splittercore and Extratone were added to the Speedcore spectrum, and you not only had tracks beyond 200 Bpm, but also 500 Bpm, 1000 Bpm, and way faster than that.
In Hardcore, the world between 140 and 140,000 Bpm is sufficiently explored by now.

But the question remains, why did this exploration only go in one direction so far?
Why did artists try to create tracks that go faster and faster, but not slower and slower?
Let's face it, the world between 0 and 140 Bpm is not sufficiently explored yet.
And that's what we want to change
We want to push the tempo slower in our tracks. 125 Bpm? 90 Bpm? 60, 30, 1 Bpm? There is no limit to the slowness of music, and we want to prove that.
There is a vast territory of slow Bpm Hardcore tracks that is yet to be discovered. Like a spaceship that has just landed and is about to explore a whole new planet.

Somehow, most artists so far turned a blind eye to the possibility of creating extremely slow Hardcore. But it doesn't have to be that way.
This is our manifesto, and from now, we will direct our energies toward slow Hardcore, and give Slowcore the attention, audience and spotlight it deserves!

The Slowcore movement lives!