The Hardcore Overdogs: Question: What is Doomcore Records?

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-Doomcore Records is a DIY electronic music run out of Hamburg, Germany.

-It is dedicated to the darker, tougher, or more bittersweet sides of repetitive electronic music: Doomcore, Techno, Dark Gabber, Industrial, even a bit of EBM or Gothtronica now and then.

-With over 200 releases so far, it is the biggest record label dedicated to Dark Hardcore and Doomcore music.

-This also makes it the biggest Hardcore-adjacent label in Hamburg

-And one of the biggest labels in Hardcore globally

-...and one of the biggest labels in Techno history

source: Interview with Nkisi, The Wire, November 2018

-The label so far followed a policy of "strictly underground"; so no fancy press shootings, promo clips, trying to suck up to the majors, music press, media darlings etc. (If you never heard of the label before, this is the likely reason for that).

-Despite of this (or because of this), it attained its own slice of "worldwide fame". The label has been featured in one way or the other in most of the major music media outlets. For example The Wire, Pitchfork, Crack Magazine, Fact Magazine, Groove, etc etc etc.

-You can be sure that its tunes and tracks have been dropped in clubs and squat basements, too, on all continents, in most of the major cities (with the possible exception of Antarctica).

-Almost all of its releases are of the digital download variety, usually hosted on such sites as bandcamp. Doomcore Records vinyl does exist, though. But following the above-mentioned policy, this is hard to get and for sure won't be listed on sites like discogs. This also involves dub plates, lathe cuts, and so on.

One of the few "official" Doomcore Records vinyl sightings are the "Doomland" compilations which were done in cooperation with Teknoland Productions.

source: "The Shadowy World of Dark Techno", Bandcamp Daily

-Some of the artists that have released tracks on Doomcore Records include:

Nkisi

Drvg Cvltvre

Taciturne

Syrius 23 (of the FFM Shadow Orchestra)

The Uninvited (member of the Minimum Syndicat)

saraunh0ly

AnTraxid

Brandon Spivey

The Man Unknown

Silent Humanity

Low Entropy

-The artist roster is also quite global and includes producers from China, Russia, Ukraine, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Chile, Iceland, Dominican Republic...