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| Company type | Event |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hardcore Music, Hardcore Music Events |
| Founded | 1995 |
| Headquarters | Den Bosch , Netherlands |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Matthijs Hazeleger, Eugenio A. Dorwart |
| Website | mastersofhardcore |
Masters of Hardcore is the name of a Dutch hardcore music label and of its related music festival events.
Masters of Hardcore music label was founded in 1995 in the Hemkade in Zaandam by DJ Outblast and King Matthew. Bass-D & King Matthew teamed up with other famous DJs like Paul Elstak and Buzz Fuzz.[ citation needed ]
In 1998, after a low profile period, the label Masters of Hardcore started to organize their parties as an independent and Bass-D & King Matthew decided to continue to produce Hardcore Music on the Masters of Hardcore label. Their first party was successful. Masters of Hardcore organized a lot of parties in big music festival locations in the Netherlands (the Beursgebouw in Eindhoven, and the PBH-Hallen in Zuidlaren). There also were parties in Germany (Dortmund Westfalenhalle, the event is called Syndicate now) and in Switzerland (different cities over the years).
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Hardcore is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany in the early 1990s. It is distinguished by faster tempos and a distorted sawtooth kick, the intensity of the kicks and the synthesized bass, the rhythm and the atmosphere of the themes, the usage of saturation and experimentation close to that of industrial dance music. It would spawn subgenres such as gabber.
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