Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Review: Fisch23 CD - Various Artists - Otaku - Slick But Not Streamlined (Fischkopf Hamburg)


Review taken from "An unofficial guidebook to Fischkopf Records, a label associated with the Hardcore Techno scene in the 1990s, based in Hamburg, Germany."
Read more about it here: https://fischkopfrecordsguidebook.blogspot.com/

Fischkopf at Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/label/4356-Fischkopf-Hamburg


Fisch23 CD - Various Artists - Otaku

(A review track by track)

1-01 Taciturne - Liquid Theatre 1:31

strange ambient intro. cult track.

1-02 Taciturne - Praxis Dr. Fischer 6:20

Legendary drone-speedcore track. Doctor Fischer has the cure for you! Just go to his praxis.

1-03 E.P.C. - Persistance 5:12

Oh what a beatiful noise!

1-04 Amiga Shock Force - Violent Geisha 3:14

mix between breakcore and early speedcore with an amiga feel.

1-05 Auto Psy - If 6:09

when i played this track, a guy once asked me "what kind of terrorist music is this?". good description!


1-06 Burning Lazy Persons - Catastro 4:15

The overdose of noise and drums.

1-07 Trash Enemy H. Q. - Braintraining 1:06

noise and distortion with a painful sound without drums or anything else.

1-08 Burning Lazy Persons - Poisoned Radio Wave 4:34

ooh, painful audio signals and overly distorted hardcore drums. i'm luving it.

1-09 P. Server - Ratings (Terror Unit H.Q.) 4:36

cool monotonous acidcore track.


1-10 Shangoe - Army Of Darkness 6:58

interesting breakcore out of hamburg.

1-11 R.A.W - Sudden Death 7:37

the other r.a.w. track from the otaku compilation. impressive as well!

1-12 Monoloop - Chill Out 7:55

breakcore madness in between being chilled (as indicated by the piano) and being killed (as indicated by the screams).

1-13 Amiga Shook Force - Sex, Mord & Kunst 4:17

one of the fastest tracks of its era. hyperfast beats next to crazy rap samples.

1-14 No Name - Y-droid 6:35

Slick and without mercy.


1-15 Orderly Chaos - 45m 4:23

The so real dark ambient experience.

2-01 Jean Bach - Tausend Stimmen 3:19

very crazy and over the top track by jean bach. heavy distortion.

2-02 Taciturne - Avarie De Machine 4:49

made up of sounds of heavy machinery? great!

2-03 E.P.C. & A.N.T.I. - Sharpomatic 6:06

noisy hardcore with a total "piss off!" attitude.

2-04 No Name - Control 4:18

one of the most classic and most fierce hardcore tracks. if you haven't heard this one, you are missing out!


2-05 Taciturne - Der Toten 4:24

the one and only fischkopf track that became a real "hit". was in high demand in the dutch gabber scene and ended up on countless compilations.
as you probably already know this track, I don't need to describe it here :-)

2-06 Fields Of Defacement - Bang-Bang (Live In Hamburg 96) 7:05

Live recording. Brutal. Acidcore. With gabber and general hardcore elements. Entrancing. Exalted. Shows the power of a hardcore techno live performance.

2-07 Amiga Shock Force - Shoot 'em Breax 4:20

A perfect early breakcore track. Hip hop and guitars.

2-08 Johnny Ego - Untitled 5:25

again an interesting hamburg breakbeat track.

2-09 R.A.W - Cold War Memory Nightmare 6:56

great, great early breakcore. interesting use of sounds and "melody". also a good but haunting cold-war feel.


2-10 Burning Lazy Persons - "R" 4:09

vicious nice and nasty track by nawoto suzuki.

2-11 Taciturne - In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi 6:01

samples the chuch of satan. non 4/4 beats. slow, distorted, noisy. dark and scary.

2-12 Orderly Chaos - Pine 5:20

painful sounds and pure ambient.

2-13 Trash Enemy H. Q. - Pestilence 6:15

truly interesting track. acid sounds. very dark and epic melody. no real hardcore beats and rhythm. close to industrial.


2-14 Orderly Chaos - Melt Away Love 5:21

pure ambient track. interesting, repeated melody. wonderful track.

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