Omnicore Records started almost 3 years ago - on Sunday, the 5th of December, in 2021.
Time to look back at that label a bit.
Omnicore originally started as a sublabel of Doomcore Records.
The releases on Doomcore Records were very "limited" in style: Doomcore, Industrial Hardcore, Techno, maybe a bit of dark acid and techno now and then.
But as Doomcore Records grew in size and caught the attention of the international music press and beyond, artists started to send in demos that were outside these quite strict stylistic concepts.
So, we could not release these. But some of them were very, very good, and it was painful to reject them.
As we had started a sub for Doomcore Records already a few months before - Slowcore Records for tracks under 130 bpm - the idea appeared that we could create another sub for these labels.
So it was not Slowcore or Doomcore this time; but no other style either. We wanted to have a label with *a complete absence of style limits*. A label for any type of music.
And despite the name - Omni-Core - to neither limit the artists to "hard core" releases.
Thus, beatless ambient, chiptune, idm, krautrock releases can be found on Omnicore, too.
Yet, over the years, a few stylistic paths became visible anyway:
A lot of releases relate to the early Hardcore Techno sound of the 90s; but not the bouncy, cheerful Gabber kind, but the real tough, rough, proto-Speedcore, Acid / Underground / Noize shape of sounds.
And another "main indication" are retro-rave hardtrance type of sounds - like the Hamburg or Frankfurt school of trancecore.
This does not mean we are stuck in the past - we got plenty of new sounds, too!
So, the Omnicore journey goes on, and we are open to all - *omni* - styles.
We'd love to see more out-of-the-ordinary releases in the future - maybe spoken word, or post punk, ambient black metal, audiobook or or or...
Either way, if you got something interesting in store, core or not, feel free to send us your demo!
mail to: tapeductseven@gmail.com
More info and links:
https://soundcloud.com/omnicorerecords
https://www.discogs.com/label/2516092-Omnicore-Records
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/
https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2021/12/omnicore-records.html
Notable releases:
Various Artists - Best Of 2023 (A good introduction to the label)
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-2023
Various Artists - Hardcore Fury - Volume 1 (Oldschool Hardcore Terror)
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/hardcore-fury-volume-1
Omni Terror (same)
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/omni-terror
List of some of the artists that have released on Omnicore:
James F
Bohemian
Librarium
Brandon Spivey
Taciturne
DJ AI
Pardonax
Cement Tea
DJ Asylum
DJ Alphira
Butcherbaby
Low Entropy
Raver Blaster
Plinn 1518
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Also check this fresh Omnicore Records showcase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obNANwDD1g8
Time to look back at that label a bit.
Omnicore originally started as a sublabel of Doomcore Records.
The releases on Doomcore Records were very "limited" in style: Doomcore, Industrial Hardcore, Techno, maybe a bit of dark acid and techno now and then.
But as Doomcore Records grew in size and caught the attention of the international music press and beyond, artists started to send in demos that were outside these quite strict stylistic concepts.
So, we could not release these. But some of them were very, very good, and it was painful to reject them.
As we had started a sub for Doomcore Records already a few months before - Slowcore Records for tracks under 130 bpm - the idea appeared that we could create another sub for these labels.
So it was not Slowcore or Doomcore this time; but no other style either. We wanted to have a label with *a complete absence of style limits*. A label for any type of music.
And despite the name - Omni-Core - to neither limit the artists to "hard core" releases.
Thus, beatless ambient, chiptune, idm, krautrock releases can be found on Omnicore, too.
Yet, over the years, a few stylistic paths became visible anyway:
A lot of releases relate to the early Hardcore Techno sound of the 90s; but not the bouncy, cheerful Gabber kind, but the real tough, rough, proto-Speedcore, Acid / Underground / Noize shape of sounds.
And another "main indication" are retro-rave hardtrance type of sounds - like the Hamburg or Frankfurt school of trancecore.
This does not mean we are stuck in the past - we got plenty of new sounds, too!
So, the Omnicore journey goes on, and we are open to all - *omni* - styles.
We'd love to see more out-of-the-ordinary releases in the future - maybe spoken word, or post punk, ambient black metal, audiobook or or or...
Either way, if you got something interesting in store, core or not, feel free to send us your demo!
mail to: tapeductseven@gmail.com
More info and links:
https://soundcloud.com/omnicorerecords
https://www.discogs.com/label/2516092-Omnicore-Records
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/
https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2021/12/omnicore-records.html
Notable releases:
Various Artists - Best Of 2023 (A good introduction to the label)
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/best-of-2023
Various Artists - Hardcore Fury - Volume 1 (Oldschool Hardcore Terror)
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/hardcore-fury-volume-1
Omni Terror (same)
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/omni-terror
List of some of the artists that have released on Omnicore:
James F
Bohemian
Librarium
Brandon Spivey
Taciturne
DJ AI
Pardonax
Cement Tea
DJ Asylum
DJ Alphira
Butcherbaby
Low Entropy
Raver Blaster
Plinn 1518
pfp
Also check this fresh Omnicore Records showcase:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obNANwDD1g8
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