Draft:Hardgroove (music)

Hardgroove is a sub-genre of techno music characterised by 130-140bpm looped samples of rolling, bouncing percussive elements. Hardgroove emerged out of a fusion of both Detroit Techno and the percussive elements of Chicago House, Caribbean, and Latin music with the 1996 mixtape by Ben Sims, Hard Groove Trax.

The name "hardgroove" was a rejection of the term "funky techno" by Sims and is today being produced by artists such as Regal68, Elisa Bee