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((short description|Music genre))
((Distinguish|text="Hardbass" festival, annual unrelated [[hardstyle]] festival in the [[Netherlands]]))
((Use dmy dates|date=March 2022))
((more citations needed|date=December 2018))
((Infobox music genre
| name              = Hardbass
| native_name       = ((lang|ru|Хардбас(с)))
| other_names       = Pump, Nasos, Kolbasa
| stylistic_origins = ((hlist|[[Pumping house]]|[[Bouncy techno]]|[[Hardstyle]]))
| cultural_origins  = Late 1990s, [[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]]
| instruments       = ((hlist|Synthesizer|[[drum machine]]|[[Music sequencer|sequencer]]|[[Sampler (musical instrument)|sampler]]|keyboards|[[digital audio workstation]]))
| subgenres         = ((hlist|[[#Late 1990s–mid 2000s: Saint Petersburg, metal shade, drug raves|Early hardbass]]|[[#Late 1990s–mid 2000s: Saint Petersburg, metal shade, drug raves|metal shade]]|[[#Late 2000s–early 2010s: sober hardbass, hardbass attacks and spread to Europe|sober hardbass/hardbass attacks]]))
))
((Russianmusic))
'''Hardbass''' or '''hard bass''' (((lang-rus|хардбас(с)|khardbas(s)((efn|Sometimes, an additional [[Es (Cyrillic)|''с'']] (s) is not written.))|xɐrdˈbas))) is a subgenre of [[pumping house]] that originated in [[Saint Petersburg]], Russia during the late 1990s, drawing inspiration from [[bouncy techno]], [[hardstyle]], as well as local [[Russian culture|Russian]] influences. Hardbass is characterized by its fast [[tempo]] (usually 150–175 BPM), donks, distinctive [[bassline]]s (commonly known as "[[UK hard house#Hard bounce|hard bounce]]"), distorted sounds, heavy kicks and occasional [[chant]]s or [[rapping]]. In several European countries, so-called "hardbass scenes" have sprung up,<ref>((cite web|url=https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/69qv76/russias-hard-bass-scene-is-even-more-ridiculous-than-the-harlem-shake|title=Russia's Hard Bass Scene is Completely Insane|last=Eror|first=Aleks|website=Noisey|date=12 April 2013 |access-date=26 April 2017))</ref> which are events related to the genre that involve multiple people dancing in public while masked, sometimes with [[moshing]] involved.

== History ==
===Late 1990s–mid 2000s: Saint Petersburg, metal shade, drug raves ===
Hardbass first began to emerge in the late 1990s, mainly in the [[Saint Petersburg]] [[electronic dance music]] underground, when the [[pumping house]] genre, built around the ''bamboo bass'', or ''donk bass'' (a type of metallic [[bass (sound)|bass]] synthesizer sound, first invented by [[Klubbheads]] in 1997), became a staple in local raves.<ref name=rbth>((cite web|author=Oleg Yegorov|title=Russian Hard Bass: How Musical Monstrosity Went Viral|date=22 December 2017 |url=https://www.rbth.com/arts/327108-russian-hard-bass-how-it-went-viral))</ref> Eventually, party nights dedicated solely to pumping house were held in Saint Petersburg and to a lesser extent, in Moscow. The most famous venues for pumping raves in Saint Petersburg included those held in the "Rassvet" (''Dawn'') club and forest raves in a [[quarry]] near ((ill|Mednoe Ozero|lt=Mednoe Ozero|ru|Меднозаводский Разлив)), an [[artificial lake]] not far from Saint Petersburg. Among the DJs kickstarting the domestic pumping house production in Russia were DJ Tolstyak, DJ 8088, DJ Yurbanoid, DJ Solovey, Dj Glyuk, and many others.

[[Image:3130. Меднозаводский Разлив озеро.jpg|thumb|right|Mednoe Ozero in 2018, the site of infamous Mednoe Ozero forest pumping raves]]

This raving scene was markedly different from its later offshoots. It formed a distinct subculture, mostly catering to the [[Low class|lower]] and [[Middle-class|middle class]] youth of Saint Petersburg. Drug use (especially [[barbiturate]], [[xyrem]] and [[amphetamine]] use) became prevalent in the scene.

To increase the energy of the parties, Saint Petersburg producers and DJs started to increase the [[Beats per minute|BPM]] of the pumping house they played and produced, eventually reaching 150 BPM and beyond. Saint Petersburg producers would include distinct [[whistle]]s and other [[Sample (music)|sample]]s into their production, which would later crystallize into the hardbass sound as it is generally known. At the same time the characteristic lingo of hardbass formed, including:
<ul>
<li>terms for ''hardbass'' music itself, like; ''kolbasa'' meaning ''sausage'', a derivative of ''kolbasitsya'', a jargon verb meaning hard partying; ''pump'', or ''pamp'', short for ''pumping house''; ''nasos'', the literal translation of the word ''pump'' into Russian;</li>
<li>terms for adherents of the culture, like ''byk'' (''bull''), ''rave gopnik'', ''kolbaser'' or ''kolbasyor'', meaning ''one who parties really hard''</li>
<li> terms relating to drug use, like ''spidy'' (derivative of ''speed'') for ''amphetamines'', ''butirat'' for ''xyrem'', ''soli'' (''salts'') for [[illegal drugs]] in general</li>
</ul>
The scene was known for its dark atmosphere, which, combined with rife drug use, resulted in popular dark satirical party [[chant]]s, like ''I have stolen and sold everything from my [[Flat (housing)|flat]], but in the end I was thus able to go to kolbasa''.

The scene formed darker offshoots, most prominently the ''metal shade'' subgenre, pioneered by DJ Barabass, DJ Rentgen among others, known for dark and menacing atmosphere, robotic or low pitched monstrous voices and donk bass, mutated into sounds akin to metallic rods hitting one another.

This scene wasn't much concerned with [[nationalism]]. According to members of the Moscow Hardbass School, a wave of nationalistic chants started, however, when local hardbass producer DJ Zheleznye Sharniry began to add [[skinhead]] chants, like "[[Fourteen Words|1 4 8 8]]", into his productions, "purely for fun", an influence from the widespread [[Neo-Nazism#Russia|Russian skinhead]] culture of the 2000s.

===Late 2000s–early 2010s: sober hardbass, hardbass attacks and spread to Europe===
In 2006, a satirical movie titled ''Pumping Terminator Vol. 1'' appeared on YouTube, featuring an older man dancing in a manner typical of [[gopnik]]s and chanting [[chastushka]]s about the clubbing lifestyle in club-goers' lingo during breaks.<ref>((cite web |title= PUMPING TERMINATOR (vol.1) |date = 6 December 2006 |access-date = 5 February 2021 |publisher = youtube.com |url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86hVdRdMpsI |language= ru))</ref> The soundtrack of this movie included three [[pumping house]] tracks produced by XS Project.

[[Image:Pumping Hardbass Metal Shade hand gesture.png|thumb|left|''Hardbass koza'', hand gesture that became associated with hardbass attacks and hardbass dancing]]
In 2010, XS Project, a group of four music producers from Saint Petersburg, released yet another satirical movie on YouTube, together with radio presenters of ''Gop FM'' station, accompanying their ''Bochka, Bass, Kolbasyor'' (''[[Kick drum]], [[Bassline|bass]] and kolbasyor'') track, which was released in 2003. In the movie, several artists, DJs and radio presenters, disguised as gopniks, danced in gopnik style on a Saint Petersburg children's playground. The movie was intended to mock the so-called subculture of ''rave gopniks'' – young people in tracksuits who would go to rave parties in Russia not to have good time, but to get trashed and cause trouble.<ref name=rbth/> The mockery was in the lyrics, which called for a sober and healthy lifestyle, contrary to the way rave gopniks lived. However, street youth in Eastern Europe liked the video and preferred to eschew the irony, and, given the rise of sober right-wing lifestyle in Russia around that time, the dance moves showcased in the movie became basis of a long-lasting series of [[flash mob]]s akin to the [[Harlem Shake (meme)|Harlem Shake]] meme of the time, when young people in various cities of Eastern Europe would begin to dance, all of a sudden, in gopnik style in the middle of public spaces.<ref name=rbth/><ref>((cite web |title = Ondertussen in Rusland (Meanwhile in Russia) Xs Project – Bochka Bass Kolbaser |url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxOObDYl7Pw |author = MusicLover4Lifeee | website=[[YouTube]] |date = 29 November 2011 |access-date = 8 July 2018))</ref> However, according to hardbass fans interviewed on one occasion in 2011 in Russia, these flash mobs were a direct answer to spontaneous [[lezginka]] street dancing flash mobs, frequent around that time in Russia and popular among young [[Russian Caucasus|Russian Caucasian]] males in industrial cities. Hardbass, as they opined, was a [[Slav]]ic alternative to [[lezginka]]. The public places where hardbass flash mobs (or ''hardbass ataki'', meaning ''hardbass attacks'', according to participants) were held included university lecture halls, malls, public transport, and more.((Citation needed|date=March 2022)) Frequent attributes of these flash mobs included [[Adidas]] tracksuits, [[balaclava (clothing)|balaclava]]s and [[Flare|smoke flare]]s.((citation needed|date=February 2022)) The dance moves for hardbass dancing mostly included disorganized feet stomping, jumping and specific hand gestures, with hands clenched in fists with thumb and pinky fingers protruding.<ref name=rbth/> This gesture became known as ''hardbass koza'' (''hardbass goat'', meaning ''hardbass [[sign of the horns]]'') in Russian. At first, the [[flash mob]] spread mainly only in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, but eventually dancers from other Eastern European nations, such as Lithuania, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Serbia  joined in.

Some commentators in [[Slav]]ic countries of the [[European Union]] at first considered these flash mobs to be serious manifestation of right-wing propaganda, especially given the lyrics in the song, saying ''"We bring hardbass to your home, 1 4 8 8"'', with ''"[[Fourteen words|1 4 8 8]]"'' being a [[neo-Nazi]] [[Jargon|lingo]] for "[[Fourteen words]]" and [[Hitler salute]].<ref name=radioprague/> However, experts quickly grasped that the usage was ironic, and that the hardbass crowds consisted mostly of [[football hooligans]] and bored teenagers, rather than of actual [[neo-Nazis]].<ref name=radioprague/> [[Neo-Nazis]] around that times also dismissed the connection to hardbass, blaming it on left-wing and anarchist circles instead.<ref name=radioprague/> However, commentators still identified some right-wing sympatizers in the hardbass attacks, but, according to Miroslav Mares, an expert in [[far-right politics|far-right extremism]] from [[Brno]] [[Masaryk University]], the influence of hardbass attacks on public opinion was negligible.<ref name=radioprague>((cite web|url=https://english.radio.cz/hardbass-we-will-bring-heil-hitler-your-home-8561235|title=Hardbass: We will bring Heil Hitler to your home|author=Rob Cameron|date=16 August 2011 ))</ref>

The next wave of hardbass exposure to the world began when the ''Narkotik KAL'' (''Drug is BAD'') music video became viral on YouTube in 2011. The context for this video was a protest, albeit satirical, against [[illegal substance]] use and abuse in Russia, and especially against so called "[[desomorphine|krokodil]]", which became more widespread after [[perestroika]].<ref>((cite web |title = Hard Bass School – narkotik kal |url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fro6je9L5kg |author = Biosioho | website=[[YouTube]] |date = 2 June 2011 |access-date = 8 July 2018))</ref><ref>((cite web |title = What is Gopnik? |url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qif-Qz7NY48 |author = Life of Boris | website=[[YouTube]] |date= 29 September 2016 |access-date = 22 August 2018))</ref>

===Mid 2010s–late 2010s: memes and limited mainstream in Russia===
From the mid-2010s, hardbass frequently features as an [[Internet meme]], accompanying [[gopnik]]s, squatting, alcoholic habits and poverty as the central stereotypes of the [[Russian culture|Russian]] and [[Slavic culture|Slavic]] lifestyle.<ref>((cite web|author=Tomas Blahuta|date=29 September 2017|title=Slovanská kultúra si získava internet. Nechýba hardbass, squat, alkohol, zvyky či typická chudoba|trans-title=Slavic culture is gaining internet. There is no lack of hardbass, squat, alcohol, habits or typical poverty|url=https://refresher.sk/46883-Slovanska-kultura-si-ziskava-internet-Nechyba-hardbass-squat-alkohol-zvyky-ci-typicka-chudoba|access-date=10 December 2021|website=refresher.sk|language=sk))</ref>

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