Freeform

Freeform or Freeform Hardcore is an electronic music genre that took shape in the late 90s and early 2000s. in England . Distinctive features: speed of about 170-175 bpm, typical for hard dance or hardtrans direct barrel, bass in off-beat, frequently used fast arpeggiators / gates and “acid”, trance or psychedelic-trance melody, breakbit inserts (electro, drum and bass etc.). As a rule, tracks have a slightly aggressive, or slightly sad color.

The freeform was created in an attempt to give the English happy hardcore a more serious and diverse sound, during the crisis of the latter. As a result, a style appeared consisting of elements of almost all other basic styles of dance electronics on a dense and fast rhythmic basis.

The flagship of the freeform is the Nu Energy Collective label alliance, as well as the group of the same name (Kevin Energy, Sharkey, AMS, K-Complex, Arkitech). Kevin Energy is the main promoter of this music and, in fact, the person who created it in the form in which it currently exists.

A separate subgenre can be distinguished Finnish (psychedelic) freeform, faster and more likely reminiscent of an overclocked psychedelic trance.

The closest sounding styles are the modern UK Hardcore, the Dutch transcore of the 2nd half of the 90s, and the English hardtrans.