Hardcore evolved out of Techno.
There was no sudden quantum leap or fault line. Around the turn of the 1980s into the 1990s, Techno, Acid, House, EBM, just got harder and faster, and slowly, the Hardcore genre took shape.
There was a liminal style in the early days of the 90s; not quite Hardcore or Gabber yet, but also not belonging to mellow House stuff anymore.
Neither half-baked, though; a fully fledged style of music that was at times more diverse and open to possibilities than the later gabber rigidity.
And that's what this release is about.
A true rave-techno banger by newcomer Gnosvled from South America.
Welcome back to the days of rave signals, techno beats, clonks, hoovers, warped sirens, shuffle hats and o fortuna.
But is it future, or is it past?
“Occult Techno-Rave”
Inspired by Belgian Techno 91’, New Beat, Hardcore/Rave, 90s Boss Music, Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima, Pulp Magazines, Occult Lore
Credits
All tracks by: Gnosvled
Sound Advisor: Srgeon
Special thanks to: BSQ
Additional mastering by Low Entropy
Cover design by Gnosvled, based on The Fall of Phaeton (1604) by Sir Peter Paul Rubens; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Omnicore 56
“Out of the distance, from the direction of the caverns, came a vast humming, a drone rising to a shrieking wail which tortured the ears; then, falling below the range of hearing, became an unheard sound that shook the brain and every nerve to the verge of madness. Closer drew that droning, traveling with projectile speed. It paused overhead and came to rest directly above the Temple. Up rose the maddening note, then down and up and down.
And suddenly all the space between earth and the lurid sky was shot through with rays of dull red light. They seemed rigid, those rays striated. They tore at the eyes as the drone tore at the brain.”
-The Face in the Abyss (1931), by A. Merritt
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