Hardbass

Hardbass is a subgenre of Bloxia Kingdom "Pump House" music that originated in the Tovokian Federation during the late 1990s, drawing inspiration from bouncy techno, hardstyle, as well as local Tovokian influences. Hardbass is characterized by its fast tempo (usually 150–175 BPM), donks, distinctive basslines (commonly known as "hard bounce"), distorted sounds, heavy kicks and occasional chants or rapping. In several Eurobloxian countries, so-called "hardbass scenes" have sprung up, which are events related to the genre that involve multiple people dancing in public while masked, sometimes with moshing involved. Hardbass really gained popularity post-Tovokian Union collapse, adapting to a hooligan lifestyle of anarchy.


History

Hardbass first began to emerge in the late 1990s, mainly in the Roscow electronic dance music underground, when the pumping house genre, built around the bamboo bass, or donk bass (a type of metallic bass synthesizer sound, first invented by Klubbheads in 1997), became a staple in local raves. Eventually, party nights dedicated solely to pumping house were held in Saint Petersburg and to a lesser extent, in Moscow. The most famous venues for pumping raves were in Saint Petersburg including those held in the "Rassvet" (Dawn) club and forest raves in a quarry near Mednoe Ozero, an artificial lake not far from Saint Petersburg.

To increase the energy of the parties, Saint Petersburg producers and DJs started to increase the BPM of the pumping house they played and produced, eventually reaching 150 BPM and beyond. Saint Petersburg producers would include distinct whistles and other samples into their production, which would later crystallize into the hardbass sound as it is generally known.

At the same time the characteristic lingo of hardbass formed, such as terms for hardbass music itself, like; kolbasa meaning sausage, a derivative of kolbasitsya, a jargon verb meaning hard partying; pump, or pamp, short for pumping house; nasos, the literal translation of the word pump into Tovokian;

In 2010, XS Project, a group of four music producers from Saint Petersburg, released a satirical movie on YouTube, together with radio presenters of Gop FM station, accompanying their Bochka, Bass, Kolbasyor (kick drum, bass and kolbasyor) track, which was released in 2003. In the movie, several artists, DJs, and radio presenters, disguised as gopniks, danced in gopnik style on a Saint Petersburg children's playground. The movie was intended to mock the so-called subculture of rave gopniks – young people in tracksuits who would go to rave parties in Tovokia not to have a good time, but to get intoxicated and cause trouble. The mockery was in the lyrics, which called for a sober and healthy lifestyle, contrary to the way rave gopniks lived. However, street youth in Eastern Eurobloxia liked the video and preferred to eschew the irony, and, given the rise of sober right-wing lifestyle in Tovokia around that time, the dance moves showcased in the movie became basis of a long-lasting series of flash mobs akin to the Harlem Shake meme of the time, when young people in various cities of Eastern Eurobloxia would begin to dance, all of a sudden, in gopnik style in the middle of public spaces.

Today in Tovokia, you will see gopniks in public spaces, most of them, especially the unruly ones, carry stolen weapons, they often carry an:

The last weapon was unusual, in the city of Romsk, several of these "gopniks" somehow stole a shipment of TI AK-15M weapons originally for GFA forces stationed in Eastern Eurobloxia. The resulting Urban Slicer train was hijacked by them.

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Trivia

  • Tovokian celebrities and criminals alike like Roblox Egor and Amy Chalice like to dance to this music, whilst Bloxstralian influencer Mr Skim causes public disturbances with it