Speedcore · Updated daily
New Speedcore Releases
Every new Speedcore release on Spotify, picked up the day it drops - 717 tracks on the radar and counting. Latest drop: .
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Latest Speedcore releases
717 tracks
What is Speedcore?
Every new Speedcore release lands here on release day, updated daily. Speedcore is hardcore pushed past its limits - 300 BPM and beyond, from the 90s underground to Japan's rhythm-game scene.
Speedcore is hardcore with the brakes cut: 300 BPM and up, kicks fired like machine-gun rounds, and a proud tradition of asking “how fast is too fast?” and ignoring the answer. It sits at the extreme end of the hardcore continuum, past even uptempo, where tempo itself becomes the instrument.
From “Thousand” to N.Y.C.
The urge to break the speedometer is as old as rave itself. Moby’s 1992 experiment “Thousand” famously peaked around 1,015 BPM. As a genre, speedcore took shape in the 1990s hardcore underground, and the name stuck after Disciples of Annihilation’s “N.Y.C. Speedcore” in 1995. At the far edge, tracks at 1,000+ BPM earned their own tag, extratone, where kick drums fire so fast they fuse into a solid tone.
Japan runs the fast lane
Today a striking share of new speedcore comes from Japan, where the J-core scene and rhythm-game culture treat extreme tempo as craft. HDRR’s speedcore feed is led by names like Nanahira, Sakuzyo, DJ Genki, Zekk, Team Grimoire and lapix, producers who move fluently between speedcore, J-core and rhythm-game soundtracks.
The sound
At these tempos the rules change: kicks become texture, melodies compress into stabs and hooks have milliseconds to land. Good speedcore is surgical - precise kick engineering and arrangement that keeps chaos danceable. It shares hardcore’s distorted-kick DNA but pushes it somewhere closer to noise music’s intensity.
Where to hear it
New speedcore flows into the Uptempo Release Radar and the Hardcore Release Radar, with the strongest current tracks charting in the Hardcore Top 100. Every speedcore release we track is listed above, updated daily.
Questions, answered
Where can I find new speedcore releases?
This page lists every new speedcore release on Spotify that HDRR tracks, updated daily. Speedcore also flows into the Uptempo Release Radar and Hardcore Release Radar playlists alongside the rest of the fast hardcore family.
What BPM is speedcore?
Speedcore generally starts around 300 BPM and can run to 600 BPM and beyond; the earliest tracks called speedcore sat around 240-300. Anything at roughly 1,000 BPM or more gets its own tag: extratone.
What is extratone?
Extratone is speedcore's logical endpoint - tracks at 1,000+ BPM, where kicks fire so fast they blur into a continuous tone. It grew out of late-90s experiments with extreme kick-drum speeds.
What is the difference between speedcore and uptempo?
Uptempo is the mainstream-facing fast end of hardcore, usually around 200-260 BPM, with festival-scale production. Speedcore starts roughly where uptempo stops (around 300 BPM) and cares more about extremity than accessibility.
