The Hardcore Overdogs: Space Invaders are donning Hardcore Sounds: The gritty, dark, and rough side of The Hague's submerged Techno-Electronica empire

Saturday, August 3, 2024

Space Invaders are donning Hardcore Sounds: The gritty, dark, and rough side of The Hague's submerged Techno-Electronica empire

If you are Gen-X / Millennial, one of your "youth" memories will probably include watching MTV at night, and seeing the music video to "Space invaders are smoking grass" popping up now and then. that track was a true "underground" (and above) hit, and was just ubiquitous at its time.
If you were in the know, you were aware that this was not a "one track wonder", but actually a track by I-F a bona fida legend of electronic music, who has a much vaster sonic oeuvre to offer.
equally legendary and (and vast) is the scene connected to the sound, more or less based in the sweet nice idyllic megalopolis known as the hague; even though it might count less inhabitants than Tokyo, this city still feels like some feverish cyber-tech dream at times (oh, and make sure to check the beach while you visit. it's very soothing).
regarding the hague's electronica scene, you probably already know all about it (if not, do some deep digging, it's worth it!), so we will not focus on a superficial look at it, but go right to it's core.
because besides all kinds of beautiful binary benefits, it also offers some quite grim and hard experiences as well.
so let's look at 10 examples of exactly that.

the tracks here are either rough, dismal, or disturbing in different ways.

1. Unit Moebius - Zipper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkWE3X6BK74