Gabba

Often related to the excessive use of Ecstacy and other drugs.

The style started in the late 1980s, became popular because of Happy hardcore[?] that also caused it to become a lot less popular with the old crowd.

The commercial organisation ID&T[?] helped a lot in making the music popular by organising parties and selling merchandise.

Styles of related music are Terror or Terrorcore[?], Happy hardcore[?]. The in late 1990s Hardhouse[?] can be considered a derivative from Gabber and Hardtrance[?].

When gabber house parties became less frequent, gabbers often went to hardtrance[?] parties instead.

The term originated in the Netherlands and is derived from the Jeddish[?] word gabber meaning friend. The story is one of these gabbers wanted to enter a club in Amsterdam, where the bouncer said, "No gabber, you can't come in here."