quote:Gabbatrance is a mixture of hardcore beats and trancey sounds & rythem patterns. This formula has been created, developed, refined and eventually vinylized by one of the founders of the first and moost succesful DJ-team ever, being... The Dreamteam's DJ Buzz Fuzz. Keep This Frequency Clear... OK?!
This EP was from 1997.
I have heard a number of Gabber (or 'Gabba' as it seems) tracks with a Trance edge from the 90s...
Yesterday while I was walking into town I was listening to a new mix I downloaded. After the original version of DJ Isaac- Bad Dreams (everyone always plays the remix) something happened! A track came in with a Trance like build. At first I thought it would be a modern Upfront Hardcore track but it turned out to be Gabber! This track had a real vibe to it, some nice vocals! Can’t describe it! I later hunted this track down & found it out to be Cixx- To Da Bass (Original Mix) from 1996 (off a label called Dead Fly Cuts. I had never heard this track before so guessing it could be rare? Needless to say it was beautiful and I felt blessed listening to it! Now this tune sounds very very ahead of itself to me! It sounds alot like some of today's Hardcore so was suprised at how old it was! It has got me thinking Is this how Hardcore should really sound?
Forget the watered town basslines & soft kicks, this tune did have a hard (but not over the top) kick which most (but not all) modern Hardcore lacks! You know it is Hardcore when listening to it! While alot of people think that Trance is the 'New' Happy hardcore I think that is debatable. Trancecore came out long before 1997 (Jones & Stepenson- The First Rebirth from 1993 being one example) & it seems most artists only make this style because 'the scene must move forwards' when really, all they are doing is going sideways!
Anyway as for the track itself; here it is! Cixx- To da Bass: A track that is ten years ahead of it's time & yet almost forgotten! If only all new Hardcore was like this!
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Posted - 2008/12/22 : 16:39:32
Now this tune sounds very very ahead of itself to me! It sounds alot like some of today's Hardcore so was suprised at how old it was! It has got me thinking Is this how Hardcore should really sound? 
