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Frenchcore/Hardtek

Postby cornishacid » Mon May 11, 2009 2:05 pm

I fucking love this stuff. Anyone else feeling it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdK4LuSs94g

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Postby rokhausen » Mon May 11, 2009 5:12 pm

YES!!! it's the new love of my life as well 8)
wow, this dude's really good.

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Postby cornishacid » Mon May 11, 2009 5:53 pm

It slips really nicely into a breakcore/dark dnb set.

thats mat from weasel busters. you should check out their stuff.

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Postby djtheblade » Mon May 11, 2009 6:14 pm

I understood Frenchcore to mean stuff like Radium, Speed Freak and the Sickest Squad, I also thought that Hardtek was something quite different?

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Postby rokhausen » Mon May 11, 2009 8:16 pm

hmmm, i'm still trying to feel it out... isn't hardtek like... frenchcore's slightly bouncier, sugar-shocked younger cousin? i've been listening to this guigoo vs kefran double-cd i found for the last 3 months and it totally rules!

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Postby Usinabuzz » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:24 pm

You found the best frenchcore video i ever found on the internet.
It's funny we agree about which one is the best but it is explainable.
Frenchcore is very limited in its diversity of building tracks. They almost sound the same.
Go to a standard french rave and you can easily get bored because of all the tracks sounding the same.
You have kick on each step, bass alternative to the kick, snare on 2nd and 4th step, 180 to 200 BPM, the breaks appear every 16 measures.
Add one synth line, voice samples and you're done.
If you're lucky, you'll get some acid loops and/or amen break.

Mat Weasel sounds great but pay attention to what he drops : he only triggers beginning of bars (frequently at double speed by holding the pad because he probably has set it up to trigger twice per step ; you can notice it also because he makes one or two mistakes in this vid) and drops simple effects on that. Efficient, but not quite impressive.

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Postby splatterer » Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:45 am

I love this stuff too - and the best of all is to have party on drugs to it ! :P
It´s the greatest feeling when the speakers fuck out these high quality bd´s :D

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http://astrofonik.com/V2/index.php?opti ... &Itemid=48

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Postby cornishacid » Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:27 pm

djtheblade wrote:I understood Frenchcore to mean stuff like Radium, Speed Freak and the Sickest Squad, I also thought that Hardtek was something quite different?


I think you might be right actually. I'm really liking Weasel Busters, Narkotek & Heretik System at the moment, I think they're hardtek.

Has anyone heard either of the Teknival mixes by speedfreak, androgyn network & nout?? - fuckin storming.

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Postby Walle » Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:25 pm

Androgyn Network :twisted:

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Postby Doornen » Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:34 pm

cornishacid wrote:
djtheblade wrote:I understood Frenchcore to mean stuff like Radium, Speed Freak and the Sickest Squad, I also thought that Hardtek was something quite different?


I think you might be right actually. I'm really liking Weasel Busters, Narkotek & Heretik System at the moment, I think they're hardtek.

Has anyone heard either of the Teknival mixes by speedfreak, androgyn network & nout?? - fuckin storming.


Yup, Teknival 1 & 2 mixes are pretty solid. Yet... Every Radium (or Androgyn Network) mix seems to be mostly the same. Still, good stuff.

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Postby djtheblade » Thu Jun 25, 2009 5:59 am

Does it make me gay if I still prefer Dutch style? Don't get me wrong, some French and UK stye is fucking deadly, i'm just drawn to the minimalistic power of that open Dutch kick. I'm not a right-wing bonehead in trackies, honest.

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