Simon Reynold's first coined the term "hardcore continuum" to conceptualise music that came out of the UK's rave scene (https://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/the-wire-300_simon-reynolds-on-the-hardcore-continuum_introduction). I am a child of that continuum, and I love making mixes that span it as much as possible, from the slow tribal sounds of djrum to stop-start 2-step garage riddims to jittery footwork beats and (quite literally in this mix) back again.

This is my first conscious attempt to encapsulate the variety of the rave music that I love, hence part 1. I want to make more in the future and hell, if any promoter is reading this, I would love to play sets like this.

If you want a track ID just comment on the mix and I'll reply :-)

Discrete Explorations of the Hardcore Continuum - Part 1

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+++upcoming+++

22.11.25 Radio Greve @ Rockin' Squat (Brussels)
06.12.25 Fundraiser Niemand is Illegaal @ Zinneke (Brussels)

+++past+++

2025

31.10.2025 BATS @ Cafe Afsnis (Gent)
04.09.2025 Plug & Play (b2b baby rocket) @ Garage Noord (Amsterdam)
23.08.2025 Lithos @ RAUM (Amsterdam)
15.08.2025 Creature Kin x Honky Donk @ ACUD (Berlin)
12.07.2025 Grands Carmes (Brussels)
28.06.2025 Slimfest (Amsterdam)
20.06.2025 C12 (Brussels)
22.05.2025 PLOP3 w/ Big Toilet Radio @ Garage Noord (Amsterdam)
04.04.2025 Doorgedraaid (b2b K-resmatek) @ Decadance (Gent)
28.3.2025 Smiling Chaos @ De Sering (Amsterdam)
22.03.25 TERRORKIQUE (b2b glumglum) @ Minus One (Gent)
07.03.25 sxyqueerparty @ De Plak (Nijmegen)
12.02.25 Cafe Central (Brussels)
06.2.25 Slim Radio DJ Contest @ Garage Noord (Amsterdam)

2024

25.12.24 Cafe Central (Brussels)
21.12.24 Grands Carmes (Brussels)
09.11.24 40 more years @ De Onderbroek (Nijmegen)
01.11.24 We Are Various (Antwerp/Online)
27.10.24 Hard Drift @ Bar Jalousy (Brussels)
25.10.24 Slutcore @ Grands Carmes (Brussels)
20.09.24 Amsterdam Bangs @ Vrankrijk (Amsterdam)
14.09.24 Forbidden_Under_18 @ Cafe Central (Brussels)
20.07.24 Grands Carmes (Brussels) 
19.07.24 Crazy Circle (Brussels)
22.06.24 Dyke Night for the Lavender Fight @ Vrankrijk (Amsterdam)
21.06.24 Pure Hardcore @ Vondelbunker (Amsterdam)
25.05.24 Honky Donk @ Panke Culture (Berlin)
24.05.24 Plug & Play @ Kanaal40 (Amsterdam)
17.05.26 Crazy Circle (Brussels)
27.04.24 Social Bangxiety @ Club Makossa (London)
26.04.24 Vandelay Radio
18.04.24 KFK Hope (Brussels)
08.03.24 Landbouwbelang (Maastricht)
16.02.24 Tinderdome @ Markt Centraal (Amsterdam)
14.02.24 Social Club (Leuven)
13.01.24 Plug & Play @ Kanaal40 (Amsterdam) 

2023

16.12.23 Trashland @ Vondelbunker (b2b mesin slat) (Amsterdam)
08.12.23 Blond (Gent)
14.10.23 139Angles @ Kanaal40 (Amsterdam)
16.09.23 Queer in Wonderland @ Ekko (Utrecht)
05.08.23 Anal Pride @ Vrankrijk (Amsterdam)
07.07.23 Trashland @ Landbouwbelang (Maastricht)
01.07.23 The Crazy Circle (Brussels)
16.06.23 Blond (Gent)
19.5.23 The Crazy Circle (Brussels)
13.5.23 Lezlinkup 3xNyx Takeover @ Nyx (Amsterdam)
15.4.23 Landbouwbelang (Maastricht)
25.2.23 Zestyland @ De Sering (Amsterdam)
22.2.23 Vrankrijk (Amsterdam)
21.2.23 sxyqueerparty @ De Plak (Nijmegen)
20.1.23 The Queer Agenda  @ Sexyland World (Amsterdam)

2022

17.12.22 Quatsch @ Landbouwbelang (Maastricht)
14.12.22 Vrankrijk (Amsterdam)
19.10.22 Satanic Panic @ Vrankrijk (Amsterdam)

Who is "Gobs", and why are they from "de BXL"? To ask this question is to fundamentally misunderstand what Gobs, inter alia, de BXL, is. Gobs is an emotion unsaid, an idea not thought and a force of nature. It's getting up at 5 in the morning only to nap at 10. It's getting the munchies but being too lazy to obtain food. It's that guilty pleasure you get from writing about yourself in the third person.

Mainly though Gobs de BXL is a Drum & Bass producer from Brussels, and a sick one at that (just ask my friends).