The Hardcore Overdogs: The Hardcore Overdogs Compilation - Submit your tracks until September '23!

The dog days are upon us!

As you might have noticed, for nearly a year now, there has been a new e-zine around for Hardcore Techno past and present. Us.

"The Hardcore Overdogs".

The zine not only focuses on Hardcore, but also related genres like Dark Ambient, Industrial, Acid, etc. especially if there is a direct connection to the Hardcore scene via producers or releases.

While it's main aim was to showcase underrated and overlooked *new* Hardcore stuff, it now also has a lot to say about past Hardcore, both well-known classics and sidelined releases.

It's not just about notifying people about this or that release, but a lot of in-depth articles and features have been published, analyzing political and cultural backgrounds to Hardcore music, interviews with famous or infamous Hardcore producers, themed charts, scrutinizing whole label catalogues, and much, much more.

So, after this "big success", how about celebrating The Hardcore Overdogs with its very own compilation release?

This is a call to send in your tracks!

Here are the facts:

Title: "The Hardcore Overdogs" compilation

Label: the compilation will be released on Omnicore Records (a Doomcore Records sublabel) in digital format as a "free or pay what you want release" on bandcamp!

Deadline: 01.09.2023 (that's 1st September, 2023, for you US-americans ;-)

After 01.09.2023 23:59 no further tracks will be accepted! So be on time, please ;-)

Styles: All non-mainstream Hardcore styles are desired!

Such as Speedcore, Oldschool, Gabber, Acidcore, Doomcore, Terror, Experimental, Slowcore, etc. etc.

Whatever you want. But please nothing like Uptempo, Mainstream / Mainstyle Hardcore, or Frenchcore and so on.

Could also be a 90s style or more new, modern music. All is possible.

Also styles that are linked to (are adjacent to) Hardcore in way or the other, such as Dark Ambient, Drone, Industrial, Techno, EBM, etc. etc. etc. are suitable.

This mirrors the spectrum of styles that are featured in The Hardcore Overdogs (and Omnicore Records, too!)

But because this "openness" will likely lead to a lot of submissions, we will be very *strict* on which tracks we accept.

So don't be annoyed when your track doesn't get onto the compilation.

5. We don't do mastering. We assume that as a producer your sound quality is good enough so that the track can be released "as it is", without further mastering.

But if you really want to have a mastered track as a submission, you need to care about the mastering yourself.

6. All submissions should be sent to: low.entropy.80@gmail.com with the topic "The Hardcore Overdogs compilation".

7. Any further questions, and / or inquiries, can also by sent to this email. Feel free to ask away.

Btw: If you are unsure about which style to send, you can also ask us beforehand about this topic.

8. But above all: have fun! And make some wicked Hardcore tracks :-)

We're looking forward to hearing from you.

Woof!

The Hardcore Overdogs

Links:

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/p/what-are-hardcore-overdogs-mission.html

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/