Wednesday, January 8, 2025

The Hardcore Overdogs e-zine turns two!

The Hardcore Overdogs is celebrating its very second anniversary! This e-zine was started on Saturday, December 17, 2022
In order to celebrate this, here are some stats:

From the beginning of the zine to the day of this post, we have published 273 different articles.
Our articles have been read 42133 times as a whole.
Our top 5 categories turned out to be:
  1. Features (147 articles)
  2. 90s Era (99)
  3. Contemporary Music (57)
  4. Releases (34)
  5. Reviews (28)
We've been involved in a variety of different projects, including:

Our very own second part of "The Hardcore Overdogs" compilation on Omnicore Records - https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-hardcore-overdogs-compilation-2
AI research regarding Hardcore, Techno, and music creation in general over at https://laibyrinth.blogspot.com/
The 90s Gabberpedia - an Underground Hardcore Techno Encyclopedia
https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/p/the-90s-gabberpedia-underground.html
The Ultra Marine Audio Network https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2023/11/introducing-ultra-marine-audio-network.html
The Mental Hardcore Health Newsletter - https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/search/label/Mental%20Health
Doomcore-, Slowcore-, and Omnicore Records https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/
and many, many, many more!

So, we hope you enjoyed our second year as much as we did.
We gonna lose our babyteeth soon, and promise to keep things up, and be as Hardcore as usual.

Woof!

Oh, and one more little extra: Here are the ten articles you read the most the last year!

  1. Yoko's Hardtrance and Rave Sleeper Hits https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2024/05/yokos-hardtrance-and-rave-sleeper-hits.html
  2. "Hardcore Never Dies" - a review and opinion on the 90s Gabber movie https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2023/12/hardcore-never-dies-review-and-opinion.html
  3. Review: Alec Empire - Death Rays https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2024/12/review-alec-empire-death-rays.html
  4. The Magician's Legacy: Unveiling the Mystical Archetype in Hardcore Music https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-magicians-legacy-unveiling-mystical.html
  5. The surreal and bizarre world of 90s Hardtrance and Hardcore Techno Music Videos https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-surreal-and-bizarre-world-of-90s.html
  6. Production Tutorial: How to create a 90s Gabber kick https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2024/08/production-tutorial-how-to-create-90s.html
  7. Vicious Responses on a Somatic level: A look at 11 tracks by the Welsh brothers, and their new EP on Aneurysm Recordings https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2024/09/vicious-responses-on-somatic-level-look.html
  8. The Early Hardcore Techno Canon - A kickin' list of 90s Gabber tracks worth listening to https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-early-hardcore-techno-canon-kickin_24.html
  9. From "Frontal Sickness" to "(Maria) I Like It Loud" - Marc Acardipane, the 'Forgotten Man' of Techno https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2024/05/from-frontal-sickness-to-maria-i-like.html
  10. Looking at the facts: Thunderdome played only a minor role in the history of Hardcore Techno https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2024/07/looking-at-facts-thunderdome-played.html
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Great new Hardcore Techno related releases from October to December 2024

Okay, so the situation is this:
There is a lot of awesome, exciting Hardcore music being poured out. Yet, this still goes largely unnoticed. The sound is just not *getting through*. Many people focus on the same labels, artists, festivals, over and over again. So most of the "good stuff" remains - invisible.

And now, in order to actually *push* these very new underground sounds, we are starting this new series on noteworthy novel releases.
We won't focus entirely on Hardcore here, but also adjacent and otherwise special genres.
And, of course, not just on the unknown dogs, but also some well-known releases that retain an interesting and / or underground sound.

Here is the fourth (and final) entry for 2024.


1. The Darkcreator & The Man Unknown - Mirror Me [FDD.007]



Doomcore / Doomtechno.


2. Minimum Syndicat - S.C.H.O.R.L. (KILLEKILL029)



Electro / Hypnotic / Techno.


3. Alec Empire - Death Rays (Self-Released)



Haunting Ambient and Noise.


4. Naos - Resurrection (wave VIII) (Self-Released)



Occult Doomcore.


5. PFP - NDE unacceptable noise_v001 (Self-Released)



Self-released noise.


6. Braintrance - Tsunami E.P. (Braintrance)



Ravecore / Hardtrance.


7. Acid Special #2 - 303 Headbangers [MOK318]



Acid, Acidcore, and Gabber.


8. DJ AI & Low Entropy - Intelligence of Doom [GBBR099]



AI aided Doomcore Techno.


9. Hecate and Friends - Various (Self-Released)



Breakcore / Experimental


10. V.A. - Ravebreakerz 02 (RODBKZ02)



Techno / Electro / Breaks / Oldschool
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