Three of the many takes on hardcore

DUTCH HARDCORE/GABBER: Rotterdam Termination Source – Poing (1992)

1 Representing the brash, almost silly end of the hardcore scale, was an unlikely number two hitreally shouldn’t work as well as it does. The secret lies in the intricacy of the drum programming, which producer Maurice Steenbergen claims was the result of six months’ work. The distorted 909 kick morphs into a square wave packed with harmonics, one of the definitive sounds of gabber.