Kodwo Eshun on gabber

Gaba Both the bass and the kick drum fuse together into a jackhammer motion which allows a kind of pistoning kind of quality. Gaba therefore becomes much more the music for... becomes much more apocalyptic and much more nihilistic because there's no bass anchoring your heartbeat. It becomes kind of heart attack music because the music attains such a punishing rate of velocity It reaches BPMs of between 180 and 210, 230 BPM. But it becomes not so much a series of kickdowns, more a kind of drilling noise, which kind of pummels your head and kind of literally drills through your cortex. And it allows a certain synaptic rearrangement, which is so intense and so strong,

that it becomes a kind of a pterodome, a war zone. It becomes a kind of how much can you take. Make some noise now!