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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Review: The Speed Freak - No Compromise (Noice / Re:Fusion)


Refusion is the label for "oldschool" release by The Speed Freak & the crew (at least that's what I suppose). But, apart from excavating holy grails and other legendary artefacts of the past (the napalm backcatalogue, force inc electro releases, anodyne, steel on mille plateaux...) there are fresh and newly released tracks, now and then.
And this is one of them, a new album by The Speed Freak!
According to the info blurb, it's composed of tracks that were originally produced for Noice (another label associated with this), and here they are, in new and finished album versions.
I might be missing something, but going by the track names at least, they had not been released on Noice before.

The style is very diverse, there is industrial hardcore, "napalm records" type stuff, schranz-core hybrids, weird electro stuff... a bit like in the old days, but not buried in the past either. Frenchcore / tek basses rumble through most tracks, and I guess this will annoy a few people, but for once I don't mind them here.

A solid steel banger by The Speed Freak. Very "noice" indeed!

1. If I Started [Album Version] 04:26
2. Loud And Clear [Album Mix] 04:05
3. Chaos Is Coming [Album Mix] 03:20
4. See You [Album Mix] 03:36
5. Single Purpose [Album Version] 04:23
6. Face [Album Mix] 04:17
7. Killbox [Album Version] 03:36
8. Hands Up Who Wants To Die [Album Mix] 04:02
9. Save Us From Ourselves [Album Mix] 04:02
10. Poison [Album Mix] 03:22
11. Outtake [Album Version] 04:34
12. We Ain´t Playin´ [Album Version] 03:31

https://refusion.bandcamp.com/album/no-compromise

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