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June 15, 2015 at 3:42 pm #1058353
New Gabber for 2015 recommendations please! 🙂
June 15, 2015 at 9:43 pm #1279034not sure if Gabba even exists much as a current genre (I have searched for info in English, Dutch and German; and found suprisingly little given how popular this genre was across Northern Europe). It may have been merged into hard tekno / european hardcore / breakcore. The nearest sort of more modern music I can think of would be the tracks DJ Massie mixes – most of his mixes are posted up on here.
June 15, 2015 at 10:13 pm #1279035PS: gabber isn’t actually a genre as such ; its slang in an ancient Amsterdam dialect for “mate / friend” which is actually borrowed from Yiddish and was more to do with a lifestyle about DIY culture; squatparties etc. The way we call this music “gabber” in English is a bit like calling pilsener beer “lager” when that is actually what the beer is stored in rather than the drink itself.
what also happened since the 90s is the term “gabber/gabba” got a bad reputation in NL as it was briefly hijacked by hard right wing (same as how skinhead culture was in UK in 1970s/1980s) although the real gabber / underground scene is of course very multicultural and tolerant. I think the music still exists but it is to some extent rebranded as “hard tekno”. Another factor is in NL it has been diluted a bit by more commercialised hard dance / hardcore.
June 18, 2015 at 7:31 pm #1279037The hardcore or gabber…sometimes I cant tell the difference, wiki dare to have a list of gabber artists;
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_gabber_artists
June 18, 2015 at 7:37 pm #1279038And a search on soundcloud gave me this;
June 18, 2015 at 9:16 pm #1279036@!sinner69! 702741 wrote:
The hardcore or gabber…sometimes I cant tell the difference,
that is exactly what I find; although thinking back to 1990s when me and a friend started setting up a music/multimedia studio based around gabber-culture in SE England/London (which is how rtn VFRmedia originated). it was definitely more of a lifestyle than simply a music genre.
This is not easy to explain; it is like explaining gezelligheid / hygge / Gemütlichkeit in English. Coincidentally gezelligheid comes from an old Dutch word gezel which also means friend (the English term “geezer” may be related).
For us it was very much linked to squatting buildings and not just using them for parties but also for art installations; music production (we would sample anything that would make a noise; including banging heavy objects together) and random tech experiments/hacker stuff; the loud music and consumption of much cheap booze and other stuff may also be a way of keeping active and warm in buildings that were very much affected by North European weather and where the heating was often defective or non existent.
As I have been looking after my mind and body better in recent weeks I decided to get some beer for tonight; unfortunately I could not find any Grolsch so had to make do with the 0,650 l Heineken bottle which is on special offer at the local supermarket (and has a correct NL barcode; in the UK you have to be careful when buying pilsener from any foreign brand or you get stitched up with “Engelse kattepis”).
Proost / Prost / SkÃ¥l / L’chaim!
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