From techno to hardcore: reading the spectrum

"So what's your style?" We get the question at every party, and the honest answer fits in one sentence: a spectrum, not a box. Our nights run from techno to hardcore, and everything in between talks to everything else. Here are eight markers to find your way. Markers, not borders: the best sets cross them without warning.

From most hypnotic to most violent

• Raw techno. The foundation. Around 130 to 140 BPM, a rough, repetitive matter with no reassuring melody. Slow trance: the track does not build up, you sink into it.
• Hard techno. The kick hardens, the tempo climbs towards 150. This is the airlock: the moment the room understands the night will not come back down.
• Industrial. Less a speed than a texture: distortion, metal, factory sounds. It can crawl at 135 or hammer at 160, what matters is the grain.
• Acidcore. The TB-303 up front, acid lines snaking over heavy kicks. A direct inheritance from the French free party scene, and you can hear it: dirty, alive, unpredictable.
• Gabber. Rotterdam, early nineties. The kick saturates, the tempo settles around 160 to 190, and the word comes from Dutch slang for "mate". Thirty years on, a generation that never saw the original raves hears it without nostalgia: not a revival, just music.
• Hardcore. The common trunk of the whole fast side: distorted kick, between 170 and 200, energy before subtlety. The moment you stop dancing with your legs and start dancing with your whole body.
• Frenchcore. The French answer: faster still, around 200, a bouncing kick and melodies worn proudly. We have had the luck of hosting references of the genre, from Maissouille to JKLL.
• Uptempo. Beyond 200, saturation becomes the language. DIKKE BAAP, who played for us in September 2025, is one of its figures. It is not "too fast": it is another way of listening.

One night, several registers

The warehouse format is built for that journey: one room that climbs, one room that breaks, and hours to travel between them. It is exactly what we wrote in the return of hardcore and gabber: tempo is not an identity, it is a tool.

And the spectrum never closes. Eight markers today, room for whatever comes tomorrow. To hear it live instead of reading it, upcoming dates are on the events page.