A small guide to interesting Hardcore Techno releases on the Future Sound Productions Bandcamp presence

As an "Oldtimer" there was something that took me a while to truly understand:

It's not easy to dig deep into the 90s Hardcore underground for newcomers. There are few physical record shops etc. anymore. If you want to get vinyl you need to become a discogs discspotter or something similar.

And if you want to get the "good stuff" on digital... well, then in a majority of cases, you are out of luck, because that shit simply hasn't been digitalized yet, and stays analogue.

One of the few resources available to feed this inclination is the Future Sound bandcamp page.

Future Sounds Production was / is an umbrella music publisher that encompasses, amongst other things, BOY Records, Generator, the Street Trash Alliance... and this Street Trash Alliance, as any good Hardcore entity knows, in turn incorporates cult labels Shockwave, Napalm, Speedcore Records, Agent Orange, and more! While BOY / Generator had some classic (proto-) Hardcore releases as well.

So, there is it, right before your eyes (or ears):

https://futuresound2.bandcamp.com/

a legit source for the good, hard stuff! In digital shape.

But as all releases from all labels are on one page it might not be so easy to *find* the real deal without much searching... as you would have to listen through all the house, trance, ebm, etc. releases too (which would definitely be worthwhile, though!).

Thus, let us lend you a hand, and offer you a very subjective and not really complete guide to a few interesting releases on the Future Sound Productions bandcamp:

1. V.A. - Braindead 1

legendary compilation of earliest hardcore and terror artists.

2. E-de Cologne - Hello Again!

Amongst the most zany gabber releases ever. done by patric c, who later did marvelous stuff as ec8or, test tube kid, or with other projects.

Napalm 03

This is one of the most notorious releases by napalm. "total destruction" ensured.

4. V.A. - This Is Spite

do you know early breakcore if you don't know this mini-compilation?
features patric catani, hecate, and the girls that later turned into gogo goddesses.

5. Desperation - Our Reservation

classic and very nasty early hardcore stomper.

6. O - Das Spiel

do you want to get to the root of the output by martin damm aka the speed freak? get this one. kinky german ebm new beat(s).

7. B.C.Kid - Wild And Wonderful EP

one of the wildest releases of 1993 indeed!
the kid later grow up to become a hero producer for the street trash alliance; and this one is an earlier hardcore-gabber masterpiece.

8. Xynomorph - Xynomorph

the boys from Wales - aka Somatic Responses - under a different alias on anodyne recordings.

Napalm 09

Hey hey, if you don't know this one, you're out of luck! One of the roughest and fastest releases out of the 90s that combined Death Metal with Hardcore beats.

10. The Shapeshifter - Back From Hell

insane-mind gabber, one of the primary hardcore releases. by the speed freak.

11. V.A. - Hardcore Traxx Vol.2

okay there's some "cheese" on here too, but this doesn't have to be a bad thing. and there is really extreme speedcore included, too. and most importantly, it's a big release with hours of listening pleasure.