“Past 1000BPM, the sounds become frequencies,” notes Federico Chiari, a hardcore researcher based in Milan. The point at which, to many, it no longer resembles music. When the BPM hits the thousands it becomes extratone. From here, however, genres like Breakcore and terrorcore (characterized by a maximum BPM of 300) or speedcore (300 plus), generate a sonic assault quite unlike any other strain of dance music. This makes them at least manageable for a dancefloor. Most commercial billboard singles clock in between 118-122 BPM, whereas typical hardcore and gabber tracks sit between the 150 and 200 BPM range. AKA the world’s fastest genre, and the high-point of a BPM arms-race that’s been building in dance music since the mid-’90s. While users in the comment sections of have declared this extreme BPM range the least listenable music on the internet, officially, it goes by the name extratone. “Thousand” has more recently been recast for contemporary ears techno producer Perc created his own edit in 2014 which was used to close his Boiler Room set that same year. The vigorous tune was later recognised by Guinness World Records for its extreme tempo. As the title suggests, it was one of the first recorded songs to reach past 1,000 beats per minute, registering at approximately 1,015BPM at its peak. In 1993 mainstream producer Moby released the track “Thousand”.
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