27/06/2025
What is hardcore? It means many things to many people, and they’re all correct. It’s best described as a feeling, an attitude, a way of life. So how do you begin to write its history? It took four intensive years (and many many revisions) for club culture journalist Holly Dicker to curate a decade of research into Dance or Die – out now with Velocity Press!
Join us on Thursday 17 July in the Worm Foyer during Eendracht Festival for the DANCE OR DIE ROTTERDAM launch, and the first PRSPCT Radio live show in way too long, from 7PM til 11PM.
Browse PRSPCT records – and purchase your copy of Dance or Die – whilst knocking back a few HARD CORE beers with the PRSPCT family for an evening of discourse and diehard DJ sets, presented by author Holly (and former PRSPCT Radio host) out-bossing the boss.
Did you know that PRSPCT in its primordial days was actually a breakcore party, before its UK-born Rotterdam-raised tattooed-punk chieftain decided to indelibly fuse British drum & bass with Dutch hardcore to create the raving label empire we all know and love today?
That's why for this special edition of the resurrected PRSPCT Radio live show, we're going back to the roots with some extra awesome guests:
Thrasher joins the founding fathers of (American) breakcore and punk-rock jungelism Baseck and Doormouse to decide once and for all what the hell is breakcore anyways, and why is it the most hardcore of the hardcore. Baseck is gonna play us his 30 most influential breakcore tracks – in 30 minutes!! – before reminding us why he's the baddass m/f in the scene right now. Plus killer closing sets from the most Rotterdam gabber in Rotterdam right now, REEZA, and the eviscerating Sunshine Terrorist Kilbourne bringing the hardcore heat all the way from NYC!
Can't make the event, but wanna read up and nerd out with us?
Order your copy – https://velocitypress.uk/product/dance-or-die-book/
And tune into the PRSPCT YouTube channel for the after-show broadcast on Wednesday 23 July
What is hardcore? (and breakcore??) Let's find out together!
