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Frenchcore: the genre that decided hardstyle naps too much
Read more . . . →A few weeks out from Defqon.1, and if the mainstage hardstyle isn’t doing it for you, frenchcore is both the answer and the warning. Faster, rollier, 200 BPM and climbing, built on a kick that gallops where hardstyle stomps. Defqon hands it real estate every year because the people who love it do not love it quietly. Three to start with. 1. Dr. Peacock & D’ort - Frenchcore Lullaby Dr. Peacock basically built the modern frenchcore audience, and “Frenchcore Lullaby” is him being funny about it. Nothing here is putting anyone to sleep. 2. Billx - Jump Now Billx came...
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Defqon.1's hard half: where hardstyle is the warm-up
Read more . . . →Defqon.1 hits Biddinghuizen at the end of June and most of the coverage fixates on the mainstage hardstyle. Fine. But the reason this festival makes every other summer lineup look soft lives one stage over, where the kicks stop being polite. Hardcore, frenchcore, uptempo, the harder end of the site. If regular hardstyle already feels too gentle for you, here’s your map for the rest of the week. 1. Angerfist - The Nightmare Man Angerfist has been the face of Dutch hardcore for two decades and “The Nightmare Man,” out last November, is him doing the thing nobody does better....
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