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Re: Gabber

Are the American midwest and northern Europe the only places where people actually like(d) gabber? Maybe it's the meth? Anyways, I went to a day party in Minneapolis last winter and they were playing gabber in the afternoon - it was very refreshing. Especially after living on the west coast for so long, if it gets too much past 130 bpm, people starting going 'eww, they're playing hardcore.' Lame. I finally decided to go to Even Furthur in Wisconsin next month and I guess they play gabber during brunch - good for waking up and starting the day I suppose. Also The Mover is playing, that should be interesting. I always dug this track,

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL5xh-wt3Vc[/youtube]

I have it on this Industrial Strength compilation, thought it was a weird one for the comp because it's so much slower than all the rest of the tracks. I had no idea it came out in 1990!

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Re: Gabber

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s62Dw0eExJY[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBjvN98U7Ws[/youtube]

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Re: Gabber

gabba has made a comeback in the last 2 years, all the art school kids seem to love it.

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Re: Gabber

Must be hard standing still in front of an easel listening to that stuff...

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLkaQjJcic4[/youtube]

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Re: Gabber

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glCiyXeNOOs[/youtube]

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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZOk8lN9jKM[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okMt5oUPhnk[/youtube]

Such a strange culture, what's up with the Mc's...
You ever been to one of these Gabber parties Starbo?

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Re: Gabber

The guy in the upper video is actually a very famous party organizer from NL, who became ridiculously rich of his endeavours.

In the 90s I wasn't into the gabber scene at all, actually they were beating me up because i was part of the alternative scene.. It was a real culture war here :-) Weird thing was, i was listening to stuff like Aphex Twin's Classics, Atari Teenage Riot and other electronic music that shared a lot of the sound aesthetic with the gabber scene.

Later on I was also attending hardcore drum n bass and breakcore parties, that sampled the fuck out of the gabber stuff, but was attended by the alternative scene that I was a part of. Halfway the first decade of the century, when gabber wasn't that mainstream anymore here in NL, the borders between the harder alternative electronic sounds and the hardcore gabber scene became a bit more diffuse.

I organized a party with David Vunk who used to play free tekno in the early days, Ra-X who did a hardcore set, Bunker's hardcore acid act Filter Fedde and Dissolvement, who was a big player in the free tekno scene but also played at industrial hardcore parties that were attended by the gabber scene. Party was called "Harder Than The Rest" and actually drew a mixed crowd of gabbers, the alternative scene, free tekno peeps and bunker hoodie wearing nerds. It was cool, but the venue I organized it in didn't allow me to do it again for unknown reasons.. I also had Roberto Auser at that party, but not as a musician, but as a visual artist, he made a murder investigation scene in the chill out area :-)

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Re: Gabber

So no fancy tracksuit in your closet? Gabber music being mainstream and getting beaten due to different taste in obscure electronic music subgenres could surely only happen in the Netherlands wink Wonder why electronic music became so big in NL?

In my backwater country where everyone have to think the same, other than collecting records you could maybe catch one hour electronic music once a week on radio. Jackpot if you manage to catch some Sven Väth at Loveparade or something like that. It's striking how cut of we where before the internet.

Guess Thunderdome (and also some 'Goa') is how i started listening to electronic music, still have all those double CD's and I would have absolutely loved to visit one of those Thunderdome raves as a teen. I have probably rambled about this before but videos from Expo Centers full of Dutch kids in tracksuits dancing under the influence of ecstasy led our government to try to stop the techno culture with the formation of a whole freaking police squad who's sole purpose was to fuck with ravers (so we wouldn't turn into Dutch Gabbers). I used to dance at an Sthlm club called Docklands that became infamous in 90's due to the constant police raids. Countless of cold winter nights i have frozen my ass of trying to get home from this club or some other warehouse when this 'Rave commission' stopped the party. Those f*uckers often waited until public transport stopped before pulling the plug, and getting from one side of Sthlm to the other is easier sad than done at 3am. One of the Docklands organizers became so resentful that when Sweden applied for the Olympics he tried to go domestic terrorist by blowing up the would have been OS symbol, the statue 'Människan och Pegasus', luckily he was caught. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXHXoZfnI6w https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mats_Hinze

Anyway sounds lovely! Organizing techno parties and being a DJ sure was a teenage dream...

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Re: Gabber

I moved to Vienna recently and am blown away by how popular it is here these days. Lots of young female DJ's playing gabber, though clearly from a more alternative background than what gabbers where in NL back in the days.

Well, Vienna had Ilsa Gold in the 90's. Which is still truly hilarious and great.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_DNXK_Lxl8[/youtube]

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