Angelcore

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Angelcore is an electronic music genre that composes dark / haunting instrumental sounds against melodic / ethereal female vocals (and some high-pitched few synth leads between as well), yielding a dialetical contrasting final sound. Common influences for Angelcore are other electronic music genres like Witch House, Phonk, Electroclash, Trance (music) and Synthwave, while having a bit of goth aesthetics from Darkwave too.

Characteristics

By mixing dark and heavy low-pitched sounds against high-pitched female vocals and plucks, it generates some harmonics on levels of combined frequencies (i.e, low-pitched notes are played on longer duration and lower pitch variation up/down than the high-pitched notes counterpart). The Angelcore genre also employs graphically the aesthetics of angels, medieval swords and dark backgrounds, be either on images for album of tracks or in the profile picture of artists for such EDM genre - this should not be confused with the Angelcore graphic design, a same name to describe an angelical trending of light pastel colors, resembling pure and warm feelings (no dark/haunting feeling), as found in platforms like Tumblr and Pinterest. Yet, the Angelcore EDM genre so, can be regarded akin to a fusion of gothic hardcore elements against this light pastel Angelcore graphic aesthetics (and sometimes this output being known as Krushclub aesthetics or Fallen Angel/Dark Angelcore aesthetics).

Production

This EDM genre often employs high-pitched leads made from chopped vocals (for example, from a WAV recording), and then, configured later as short-duration plucks played in an arpeggiato way (i.e, like an harp). Detuned oscillators, low/high-pass filters to boost drums/basses, reverb/chorus effects, overdrive distortion and the well-known "reese bassline" are other tools to achieve an Angelcore sound, albeit being used for other kind of electronic music likewise. It's also worth note that sound fonts for drums resembling the classical TR-808 and TR-909 ones are linked as well, due influences from Witch House and Phonk genres, so such sound fonts, together with some bitcrush effect (also known as audio crusher) and bass stuttering technique (for background noises), achieve the "lo-fi" amateur/casual music recording.

History

The Angelcore genre started early 2020s with the internet artists akiaura and LONOWN (both that also compose Witch House and Phonk music), after composing the song Sleepwalker (together with the singer STM), they gained a lot of popularity on platforms like TikTok, YouTube and Spotify, making even the genre being known as "TikTok-type beat" before the term Angelcore started being used. Other artists followed this trend and started creating their own songs resembling that "TikTok-type beat" with the asthetics of angels, major artists (besides akiaura and LONOWN) for the Angelcore scene became being MitroWave, DJ Anemia, crier, angelrot, rivoices, pavlos, SPYRAL, anØthr, criticaleye, Hugeloud, deactivated, Øneheart, Navjaxx, etc.

Subgenres

• Knightcore, the low-pitched male vocals counterpart of Angelcore (but the known high-pitched pluck leads are still preserved)

See also

• List of electronic music genres

References

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