I don't even want to make the pretense that this timeline would be complete or "perfect". HC Techno was such a wide field, a "vast ocean" in the 90s, so there is lots of stuff that is bound to be missing, and is not included here.
But I think the timeline gives a good "first picture" and initial overview.
I hope it inspires the "new blood" in the HC scene to dig further, and look up some of the labels / artists mentioned here, or even do some extra research.
Feel free to "fill in the gaps" by commenting, or messaging us.
List with examples:
1984 Hard Electronic Experiments
Dead Tech - Catalavox
1990 Early Hard Tracks
Mescalinum United - We Have Arrived
Dilemma - Erase Your Mind
The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu – It's Grim Up North (Original Club Mix)
1991 First "Gabber" kicks
Trashman - Cosmotrash (Brooklyn Trash)
KAA - Emphasis (NRG Dub)
1991 First Doomcore Techno tracks
The Mover - In Deep Rage
The Mover - Gatecrusher
1992 Early Gabber Tracks
Euromasters - Alles Naar De Kl--te
Defcon - Blob
1992 First Breakcore
Alec Empire - Tötenposse Rides Out
1992 Early Acidcore / Hard Acid Tracks
Edge of Motion - Set Up 707
Disintegrator - In The Sun
1993 Golden Year of Oldschool Gabber
Hardsequencer - Feel so Good
C-Tank - Nightmares Are Reality
1993 400+ BPM Tracks
Lory D - Lochnar
Signs Of Chaos - AA Unitled (Killout 03)
1993 "Industrial" Hardcore Precursors
Caustic Window - The Garden Of Linmiri
Gringo - Slayer
1994 Early "Extratone" Track
Influid - The Destroyer (1.2 Million BPM Mix)
1994 Gabber Gets Harder
Scarface - Death is the Future
Mental Hardcore Associates - Let's Get Wappie (Rob Gee & Delirium Remix)
1994 Extreme Hardcore Tracks (on the road to "Speedcore")
DOA - Ya Mutha
DJ Skinhead - Extreme Terror
1994 More Doomcore Tricks
Freez-E-Style - Enter The Gates Of Darkness
1994 More Breakcore Tricks
Steve Shit - Power of Breakcore
Christoph de Babalon - Pleased with being alive
1994 Ravecore / Trancecore Productions
NIP-Collective - Warp 10
Razor - Rave Nation
1995 Amiga Hardcore
Nasenbluten - Intellectual Killer
Nasenbluten - Blows t the nose
1995 "Artcore" (or Ruffneck-Style) gets bigger
Phoenix - Dominate
Predator - Roots and Culture
1995 US Hardcore gets really wild
Delta 9 - The Hate Tank (Buckwild Mix)
Temper Tantrum - Destroy the World
1996 Gabber gets "bouncy"
DJ Weirdo & Dr. Phil Omanski - Young Birds
Critical Mass - Believe in the future (Dj Weirdo & Dj Sim Mix)
1996 Even More Doomcore Tricks
Arrivers - Things to Come
Miro - Purple Moon
1996 Happy Hardcore is (still) popular
Happymen - Love Is You (Stunned Guys Hardcore Mix)
Creasemaster & Slamdog - Bumb the Bass
1996 experimental hardcore
Taciturne - Mourning
Somatic Responses - Incubation
1997 French Hardcore at its (first) peak
Auto-Psy - Oxyde
Erase-Head - Dome
1997 Acidcore is hard as nails
Somatic Responses - Source of Disturbance
F.I.C. - Assessements
1997 Japanese Hardcore is crazy too
Burning Lazy Persons - If The Truth Be Known
1997-1999 dutch hardcore scene combusts, gets slower again
BSE - Hard Attack
1998 "Golden age of breakcore" ends
Society Suckers – Shizofrenic
DJ Scud & Christoph Fringeli - Bodysnatcher
1998 Rise of Extreme Speedcore
The Berzerker - Freedom
Low Entropy - Adrenaline Junkie
1999 ?
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