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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

The Early Hardcore Techno Canon - A kickin' list of 90s Gabber tracks worth listening to

In recent years, there has been growing interest in the Hardcore Techno scene of the 90s again - as should be very obvious, by now.
Freshlings and rookies of all kinds poke their nose into this strange and shaded domain - and information, facts, and the truly good stuff remain hard to find.

Because, let's face it, this sound does not have much documentation, exposure, collected data for the outside eye... yeah there were a few fanzines here and there, one or two TV specials, but beyond that?
Thus we get the feeling it's mostly the same few tracks from this decade that get thrown around and around again... usually taken from the more well known "Hardcore" compilation CD franchises.

Thus, we arrived at the idea: how about creating a type of "Early Hardcore Canon"? A kind of road map for the brand new Hardcore Techno explorers - and everyone else, as well.
The tracks that connoisseurs, disc-spotters, and experts on this topic consider to be the vital, defining, and most important tracks and releases in this field. The backbone of the Hardcore movement, to this day.
This could be also useful for Early Hardcore DJs that are on the look-out for new material to feed their sets with.

Such a list - of course - can not be complete, and will be highly subjective.
As there were literally thousands of early hardcore tracks in the 90s - and the same amount of differing opinions on 'what's hot or not'.

But, alright now, here we again:

The Early Hardcore Techno Canon
  1. Lenny Dee - Hammer Head https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2_0EBc9F7s
  2. Darrien Kelly & Scott Brown - Geleihoofd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPLudCLnOC0
  3. Neophyte - Communicate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvVOLObNf10
  4. Hardsequencer - Brain Crash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tepFCfObUMA
  5. Program 1 - Shoot Dis ** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1fP316Q1Ow
  6. Euromasters - Alles Naar De Kl*te https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yE32aoIDjvY
  7. Asylum - M*scalum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZbmhWRXXHU
  8. Glitch - Heavy Mental https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYWR8aCruTY
  9. Rex Anthony - For You Marlene (Extended Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0VF0sVoUZM
  10. Final Analyzis - El Punto Final (Power Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PUXVaCM-tQ
  11. RMB - Place To Be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1EF8MNwtCs
  12. Ilsa Gold - Silke (Speed Freak Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7qX3Gv76dg
  13. 3 Steps Ahead - Hardcore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_C37Nx8X0M
  14. English Muffin - Follow The Leader https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rS-FQaAzLI
  15. Distortion - Frantic Thigh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBLs5zCkEHk
  16. Titanium Steel Screws - Paralyzed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfkN7ildM_w
  17. Gringo – Executed By The FBI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEeruO4mhSc
  18. Tellurian - C*cksuckers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrG5VV0JwJY
  19. Chosen Few - Gabberdam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvAIrpW--18
  20. MC R.A.W. - We Who Are Oppressed (Remix By Rob Gee, Repete & Damon Wild) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGdjL1O8WKs
  21. Bertocucci Feranzano - *** Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP9vhOpufho
  22. C-Tank - Nightmares Are Reality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3KI_zmO1qE
  23. DJ Dano - Welcome To Thunderdome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64apgdcb-o4
  24. Genetic Waste - Genetic Waste https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OAVcQxdvDQ
  25. Mike Ink - Lovely Ugly Brutal World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VMSWE-gjMg
  26. Knightvision - Who Is It? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjB08EjPDHQ
  27. Nasty Django & Cirillo - Deal Wit' Beats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAHdBKC-Ajk
  28. Reyes - Rock With Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdy_mUFeeHo
  29. Turbulence - Six Million Ways To Die https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JdjMdK0pw8
  30. Dr. Macabre - Poltergeist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_Ac0U18j70
  31. DJ Repete - Softy ***** ***** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUsJYVrwOhY
  32. Human Resource - Sound of Rotterdam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hmLr6F60oA
  33. Source Code - I'm Not A Number https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYhUrtD2OCg
  34. Juggernaut - Communism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf-mkvn3PTk
  35. Reanimator - Bigger And Bolder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PekR9P8S27Q
  36. Sigma 909 - Power Of *** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFIlAEmLCc4
  37. Wedlock - Acid Rain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GgTrNWUPaY
  38. Club X - Don't Deny The Beat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUV9vSgIYmA
  39. Igor - Talking About God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osRBJstCvso
  40. Gizmo - Guestlist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFzVS2s8kQw
  41. X-Buzz - Overload https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALusPIDIves
  42. DJ Skinhead - Extreme Terror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA3m6ENcIao
  43. Nasty Django - King of FFM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9ZMcY16ATM
  44. Program 1 - ** Skulls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7NJ_Oq3Bdw
  45. Leathernecks - At War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSi9VpJCUBs
  46. Smash? - Konstablerwache https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz_SiY7t7Jc
  47. Pilldriver - Pitch-Hiker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E53IM0jF-s
  48. Ace The Space - 9 is a Classic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDP8Ann3huo
  49. T Bone Castro - Base DJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrYRUVBNgR4
  50. French Connection - French Connection https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-i1vk7UXWA
  51. Pascal - His First Creation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YoO4B5f2f8
  52. Temper Tantrum - Industrial Strength https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8apP55QZ4Kw
  53. Short Circuit - Megahouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_epu8QgfqwU
  54. Bodylotion - Catastrophy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HeIOlhNWhM
  55. Hardsequencer - Feels so Good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O1xgxXjYco
  56. Lenny Dee & Edge - Silence Of Eternity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8gQcGxK_rI
  57. Bald Terror - Rotterdam Terror https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxQggfWCwEs
  58. Space Seed - Devistating https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jMTrkmQXM4
  59. Ramirez - El Gallinero (Axis remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZVgF5823fU
  60. Dyewitness - Brrr https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb9XgDqcD8M
  61. Lenny Dee - F**king Hostile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xhs936Mbz24
  62. Program 1 - Betrayer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOSc5CbrDNo
  63. Wedlock - I'm The **** You Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jdpquXbdDQ
  64. Cyclopede - Bad Mother https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Utl4P3H87Ss
  65. Human Resource - **** Em https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLsdZM4ZdIY
  66. Zekt - External https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfU3d5pjiLM
  67. SP23 - Network 23 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_AnOcHwGX0
  68. Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo - Verotted https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVF6yQSPVnY
  69. Terror Arnold - Gabba Mission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReQyWrNd6U8
  70. Omar Santana - Step The **** Back (Lenny Dee remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcuI9_MMuho
  71. Critical Mass - Psychotic Break https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mytSXoYPhT8
  72. Nasty Django - SGE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sAtP-Gngls
  73. Sorcerer - Silence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08Pto-kcVlk
  74. Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo - DJ **** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZKeoqR0uho
  75. Sorcerer - Summer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrJi_2Ctzp4
  76. Creepozoids - One More Time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79qaDJ1g-o0
  77. Speed Freak - Red Poison Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03PniNcLWBc
  78. Ralphie Dee - Mad As Hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeY3OWLdEH0
  79. Critical Mass - Psychotic Break (Lenny Dee remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tc_u-nIw3XA
  80. Original Gabber - Ad-Da https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js5pu2z4OC4
  81. Vitamin - My House Is Mine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbhSpH5M7os
  82. Vitamin - In 16 Beats Time Second https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcMOksl_MkQ
  83. Rave A Graphixx - There Is No Other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_9zYk7qIDc
  84. Riot Squad - Nonshlen Tustokken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWyRQXHIpZg
  85. Sigma 909 - Stay Down With The Hardcore https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpVjze91b9g
  86. Ingler - Trek https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKTP4l2Gebk
  87. Ech Heftag - Den Haag Hakke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfBByXEWXjA
  88. Topdrop - Achtung https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOBOgk8ZGcY
  89. Annihilator - I'll Show You My Gun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gzO0XHeAso
  90. Spy - Pathogen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSIIj1FUbz8
  91. E-De Cologne - Ein bisschen Frieden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRZY7ZnpmL0
  92. House Pimps - Get The Hook (Ilsa Gold remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lympvjd4nNY
  93. Cookiemunsta - Madnessinsanity (Housesucker Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZcFi44ETUo
  94. Hardliners - Motherfu**in Breakbeat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFJuyitgIuc
  95. Moka DJ - Hey Deighito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BECvp3Jy-TI
  96. Musical Vandals - Hoppa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1bxvFe-mr0
  97. Boom Terorrism - Gabberhouse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsGdp6e-z0Y
  98. Reyes - **** You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cckP7IwW3Fo
  99. Ilsa Gold - Elastico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kIPTG4-i4k
  100. Ilsa Gold - 4 Non Blondes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Lt5fRNgO8
  101. The Dark Raver - Direction of Fear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noWh_p6cdMQ
  102. Mind Candy - Mind Destroyer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKm1hAXsjB0
  103. Caustic Vision - Distrought https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQY7dmC4Tu0
  104. Disintegrator - Locked on Target https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8hTs_PfexY
  105. D.O.A. - Upon The Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKuJ6pyu3Oc
  106. Delta 9 - Phreaked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvEw7T9-iDY
  107. La Cosa Nostra - The Black Hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PVxrMbbR60
  108. The Speedfreak - We Shoot To Kill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiHDr7zXwjk
  109. Napalm - Scream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY0uHt7_Zq8
  110. Pelgrim - Amen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHgn2jLzRlU
  111. Hooihouse - Pien an de Eure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arRNb6rcrp4
  112. Titanium Steel - Dance The Night Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3S6GUD0NxZg
  113. Phave IV - Shape The Future (Speed Freak Remix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRVl5_HuOg
  114. Wasteland - First Time On This Planet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5wPTJ5O2C4
  115. Wavelan - Overphase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK9vLh4_y60
  116. The Undertaker - Flatliner (Graveyard Shift) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cSSRNu1LJI
  117. Moby - 1000 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNQDCcqQu2Q
  118. E-De-Cologne - Zimboculture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oGNjQmpOoU
  119. 80 Aum - Stronger Than Steel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWbNlChuiBo
  120. 909 Bassline - Imitated https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvebYBg-X-I
  121. Omniscience - Tired Of Having To Be Good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M3rEiSuTlQ
  122. Human Resource - Sick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMnBJpxqsj0
  123. Hocus Pocus - Hocus Pocus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl7PntdakjM
  124. 2 Low 4 Zero - Fast (De Kuip-Hardcore-Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XG2GtYtZShc
  125. DJ Gizmo - End Of The Beginning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TKDPvI17yg
  126. Hard Attack - Bonehead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGaL3uU13Nw
  127. Vitamin - Cosmic Trash https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ddLqsfvdA
  128. Marshall Masters - Stereo Murder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTftdLWUYhI
  129. The Mover & Rave Creator - Atmos-Fear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg7v9tKyQB0
  130. Global Hardcore Source - Let's Get This Thing Off The Ground https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brkWK9zyFu8
And here is also a Youtube playlist for more convenient listening:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvgSYgoYaFC88sAHwTCRrU83LW0tSfT8B

Thanks to the following people for helping with the list:
Painbringer, traffic_cone, bmolsbeck, John Galbrath, musicshaolin, RuffEd, Sönke

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