As these references became available, the trend started picking up momentum again, with amateur producers across the web started speeding up practically any song you could imagine.Īs producer and writer Fan Fiction explains it in his history of the genre for Skrillex's NEST HQ blog, the nightcore "formula" roughly comes down to a simple +25% speed shift, with a resulting tempo between 160-180bpm. Since then, YouTube channels with names like xMisterkinox and LonelyLilAngel have grown into extensive back catalogs for the genre, with some videos amassing as many as three million views. Still, around 2006, the track "Dam Dadi Do" from 2003's Caliente surfaced on YouTube, and soon members of the obsessive Nightcore Universe forum-established in 2010 as a network home for the community-began piecing together chronological playlists of the duo's output, dating back to 2003. Of the tracks that continued to float around online, it became difficult to determine with certainty which were from Nilsen and Søderholm, and which were from other producers imitating the style, since many had been uploaded online without production credits.
However, with the collapse of LimeWire in 2010-with the company ordered to pay a historic $75 trillion in damages-most songs from these early Nightcore releases became unavailable. Despite being distributed throughout the region on self-released CDs, these records didn't really take off until they got uploaded to filesharing and peer-to-peer sites like LimeWire, where the style's racing tempo and straightforward blueprint quickly resonated across the globe.
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Using some new, "top secret" software (at least according to their now-defunct website), Nightcore came into their own with some of their best, most ecstasy-inducing works to date, including early albums Summer Edition 2002, L'hiver, and Sensación. While they received only modest classroom marks for their first album, they soon followed the release with a more fleshed-out sound.
The project consisted, quite simply, in speeding up obscure trance tracks with cheap Dance eJay 3 production software, tweaking the pitch ever so slightly, and slapping their own name on the product. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Søderholm-created a project by that name for a secondary school project. The term "Nightcore" dates back to 2002, when two Norwegian producers-Thomas S.
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