Editing Darkcore (section)

==Origins==
By late 1992, [[breakbeat hardcore]] was beginning to fragment, and darkcore was one of the subgenres to emerge, in contrast with [[4-beat]]. Darkcore is often characterised by dark-themed [[sampling (music)|samples]] such as [[horror movie]] elements, cries for help, sinister sounding stabs and [[synthesizer]] notes, along with syncopated [[breakbeat]]s in addition to [[4-to-the-floor]] beats and low frequency basslines. It also saw the introduction of effects such as [[pitch shift]]ing and [[Audio time stretching and pitch scaling|time stretching]] to create mood.<ref>{{Cite book|last = Reynolds|first = Simon|title = Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture|year = 1998|publisher = Picador|quote = Sometimes the imagery was directly drawn from horror movies, sometimes it was inspired by the residues of a Christian upbringing or by amateur forays into cosmology, angeloiogy, and mysticism.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last = Reynolds|first = Simon|title = Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture|year = 1998|publisher = Picador|quote = Using effects like time-stretching, pitch-shifting and reversing, the darkside producers gave their breakbeats a brittle, metallic sound, like scuttling claws; they layered beats to form a dense mesh of convoluted, convulsive poly rhythm, inducing a febrile feel of in-the-pocket funk and out-of-body.}}</ref>