Gabber , gabba, or hardcore, is a style of electronic music and a subgenre of hardcore techno. The style was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, in the late 1980s which makes it the cradle of the gabber culture. The essence of the gabber sound is a distorted kick sound, overdriven to the point where it becomes a square wave and makes a recognizably melodic tone. Often the Roland Alpha Juno was used to create this sound. Gabber tracks typically include samples and synthesised melodies with the typical tempo ranging from 160 to 220 bpm. Violence, drugs and profanity are common themes in gabber, perceptible through its samples and lyrics, often screamed, pitch shifted or distorted

Gabber is characterised by its bassdrum sound. Essentially, it comes from taking a normal synthesized bassdrum and overdriving it heavily. The approximately sinusoidal sample starts to clip into a squarewave with a falling pitch. This results in a number of effects: the frequency spectrum spreads out, thus achieving a louder, more aggressive sound. It also changes the amplitude envelope of the sound by increasing the sustain. Due to the distortion, the drum also develops a melodic tone. It is not uncommon for the bassdrum pattern to change pitch throughout the song to follow the bassline.

Nu style Hardcore

One of the great things that happened to Hardcore when it became Nu Style, was the editing and the effects grew heavier. The distortion kick tricks where widely explored and taken to new hieghts of genius. Labels like H2oh began to really get deep into the editing with, numerous panning and eq rhythm effects etc. and not just for the purpose of making one song like that, but for the purpose of creating and developing a new sound movement that spread like wildfire in the hardcore scene. This mainly happened from 2001 - 2005 when a new Producer by the name of Dre Hectik began to Engineer for Omar Santana at H2oh records. With the experience and structure of Omar Santana and the fresh and aggressive ideas from Dre Hectik, it was noticeable the Hardcore became a lot more respected for its production. Then labels all around the world began to adopt this new production technique for themselves and the style shifted towards mass audio editing which still makes hardcore even more hardcore to this present moment.

Hakkuh                                                

Hakken (sometimes Hakkûh) is a form of dancing originating from the Dutch Hardcore and Gabber scene. The term is mostly associated with the Gabber subculture, and originally coined by DJ Darkraver from The Hague. In Australia, the dance it is mainly referred to as gabber(noun) or gabbering(verb), named after the music it is performed with it. The dance consists of small steps that quickly follow to each other to the rhythm of the bass drum. The lower body (down from the pelvis) is the most important part, though it is not unusual to move the arms and torso too.The dance is mainly performed to Hardcore house and more specifically Gabber music. Because one is supposed to keep up to the beat of the song, the dance is usually done fairly quick, since the BPM of this music style can easily reach 260 BPM. It is not unusual for visitors of big Hardcore Parties to use drugs (such as ecstasy and to a lesser extent speed and cocaine) to be able to keep on going until the end of the party.