Monday, April 13, 2026

Overdog of the past: Headcleaner - Hard Sound Project 1 + 2


I learned about The Hard Sound project releases because DJ Eiterherd promoted them on his Widerstand label webpage - long ago, end of 90s.
And when I finally listened to them, woah, blown away!

There is hardly any hardcore-related project that was, or is, so experimental.
This is as far away from "mainstream gabba" then arnold schoenberg was to the bee gees. (nothing against the bee gees! but you guess what i mean, it's just different... hey, arnold!)

hardly any four-to-the-flour pattern, rhythm all over the place... no hoovers, rave sounds, horror screaming, no junos or rave stabs.
not like "normal" techno or even "normal" free party tribe vibe either...


weird, surreal, extraterrestrial, peculiar, unique, avantgarde, morose, ascerbic.
some tracks even seem to channel odd / old 1910-1960 sound experiments... musique concrete, minimalism... neue musik.

but all these tracks are super-aggro and brutal like a hammer despite of this... or *maybe* because of this!

in my opinion, there never was a release *quite* like this again.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/57575-Headcleaner-2

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