This is about Hardcore and Gabbers. I live in Holland and i'm going to Hardcore party's about 12 years now, so I know a lot. I've read in this article that Hardcore had died in 1998 but it never did. The Hardcore scene was smaller from 1999 for a couple of years there were less party's being held. But it had never been gone we only went underground. Now 2006 Hardcore is from 2003 at full strength again. Massive Hardcore parties are being held from a couple of hundered till 35000 thousand people.
Parties like : Nightmare
in Rotterdam, Thunderdome, Masters of Hardcore, Ghostown, Dominator, Beter kom je niet, I hate Trance, Megarave and a lot more. There also a lot more styles inside the hardcore scene like: Oldstyle, Hardcore, Newstyle, Darkcore, Industrial and the hardest like: Terror and Speedcore. The clothes have changed as well from Australian training suits and Nike air max, nowadays it's army boots and clothing like: Lonsdale, Fred perry, Hooligan, Pittbull, Ben sherman but a lot of us wear stil our nike's.
The scene is well represented at the internet if you want more info about Hardcore here are a couple of sites copy in your browser:
http://www.mastersofhardcore.com/
http://thunderdome.id-t.com/portal/
http://gabber.pagina.nl/
here are a couple of sites where you can listen to Hardcore
music copy in your browser:
http://www.mohradio.com/ old & new hardcore
http://www.hardcoreradio.nl/ new hardcore
http://www.hardbase.net/ hardcore and also hardstyle
HARDCORE FOR LIFE
Greets Gauke