New radical and electronic music

I'm a 90s kid, and yeah, we had some fun. Especially related to music. Grindcore, Death Metal, Gabber, Hard Acid, Rave... music that really knocked you out and went from 0 to 60 in 3.5.
The decades that followed were a bit more boring. Or maybe, not boring. There was cool stuff, indie rock, pop, dance pop.
But everything felt less extreme and... hardcore.
Of course the above mentioned scenes still existed, too, in the underground.
But they kept repeating themselves, loop after loop after loop...

So I am very happy to see (or hear) that there are now lots and lots and lots of new artists and bands, that are really tough, extreme, wild, anarchist again...

Things obviously happen on many fronts. First, a lot look back at the 90s, take some stuff from there, and try to continue the thread.
New talented hardcore bands, new punk rockers, and so on...
Then there are new "genres" that get really tough now...
And, most importantly, a lot of people combine the old with the new, old rage with new anger... and throw many genres into one pot.
So there musicians with metal guitars and rave beats and hardcore screaming... or rap artists that break down into gabber and death metal... or jungle punks.
And the common dominator (sic) seem to be the very loud and harsh screams by the vocalist.

Oh and these bands often do not shy away from political and cultural statements, too.
Which is another breath of fresh air after a decade of "unpolitical" music.

So, I wanna recommend 17 artists or bands that are worth checking out. (Yeah, I know not all of them are brand new. But all of them recently released hot new stuff.)

(and one more time: these are songs from lots and lots of different genres).

1. Eville - Ballistic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NBLkvUTAvk (Metal / Jungle)
2. Hands Off Gretel - Territorial P*ssings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3qYl-6SYU8 (Metal / Punk)
3. IceLipzz - Be My Dog https://gabberindustriesberlin.bandcamp.com/track/be-my-dog (Gabba / Punk)
4. Partyof2 - Punk B!tch (Live From London) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kjkwj7Qzla4 (Rap / Aggressive)
5. Slash Need - The Money Will Roll Right In https://slashneed.bandcamp.com/track/the-money-will-roll-right-in (EBM / Metal)
6. XOXO - Punisher https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kBUYRq26GA (Metal)
7. Astrid Gnosis Titan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_HN9S6ILR4 (NuGabber)
8. Stoneburner - Catch and Kill https://stoneburnerofficial.bandcamp.com/track/catch-and-kill (Metal / Industrial)
9. Mimi Barks - Power durch Verrat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5bp6RjEbLE (Doom Trap)
10. Tsytska — Menstruation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4DRGGN_KNU (Female Black Metal)
11. Ramel x Jeune Lord - Etat De Droit https://newfleshrecords.bandcamp.com/track/etat-de-droit-2am-mix-free-download-rods02 (Techno / Rap)
12. Slaughterhouse - Sick and Tired https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcs_a2CdIlI (Punk / Alternative)
13. Poppy - Dying To Forget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoedCng--Rs (Aggressive Metal / Pop)
14. Zheani - Designer Sadness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X961ka0k1a0 (Metal / Trap)
15. Bound By Endogamy - Killed By Shame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDNqWlQIIDI (Acid / EBM)
16. Ege - I Love Stealing From Woolies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZsdP2trO0 (Hyper Pop / Rave)
17. Vial - Scorpio Moon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHAhA7LOeqE (Death Punk)

And here is a mix set that combines this new radical music with the older hard electronic stuff from the 90s.

Review: Tony Kashmere & Free Spirit : "Amalgamate" [Counterflux Series 05] - Part 2

Review by Wouter Schotte aka .less. / pointlesspoint
Amateur dj & musician
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Rémi Andrade aka Free Spirit, netlabel Chase Records founder, teams up with Tony Katana (Tommy Bonnevialle) under his Tony Kashmere alias to bring us the fifth chapter in his 'Counterflux' series: mixes spanning different electronic music genres, being it hard(core) techno, acid, gabber, ambient, drum 'n bass, and more, spanning 3 decennia.
Every episode gets distributed online, fully tracklisted on GabbaTracklistWorld.com (link 1) and send to friends and fanboys/girls. The man chooses to not put the releases on Discogs, unfortunately.
For the fifth episode we've got 2 dj's who practice deeper crate digging, so we're in for a journey.

Artwork

According to Rémi, the artwork is a scene from Cronenberg's movie 'Scanners', since he associates this movie with acid music. The Scan X track in this mix would fit perfectly with the movie's atmosphere. The title comes from 'Biocarbon Amalgamate' company in the movie and its logo, visible as a watermark on the artwork

Format

80 minutes CD-R. Distributed online as mp3 and wave file.

Review

In contrast to Tony's mix, Rémi's set opens with breakbeat rave madness from a Martin Damm's alias. I've heard Phase IV tracks used effectively in a mix by Zyper C... and i also appreciate it here. I always love it when breakbeat or broken stuff gets mixed with straight 4/4. I can assure you that the moment Taciturne's track kicks in, your hardcore head will get necked!
Dashcraft's track is a kick + percussion filler techno track (you need them too), after which banging industrial acidcore from Lasse Steen underlined by La Peste's sped up IDM fuckery creeps in like the deadly fog over the bay in John Carpenter's classic horror story.

Thrilling atmospheres are reminiscent of his very very awesome third mix in the series (check link 2),
namely:
– broken beats morphing into straight 4/4, see the previous paragraphe.
– ambient intermission: the beatless synth part halfway Scan X's track from 1993 predicts a dark future, from which a new act starts from the ground up: Katharsis' 'Urolith' lets a simple kick progressesing into a nifty techno track.

Quite surprising is how a hardhouse/hardtrance/goa crossover track from Ninu & Wasi 'The Executioner' [Distorsion Times 003] "2021" ends up in this mix. Rave alert!
Koenig Cylinders track '99.9', albeit well knowjn, almost feels like a filler track, compared to the beast that follows... . Kicking relentless industrial techno from the Healy brothers and Caustic Vision. Metallic sounds getting used as hammers forming stabbed patterns. Banger!

The ending i am somehow less fond of. The Enticer's broken fierce melody and distorted beats halt the last bars of the previous punishing techno, after which a noisy Burning Lazy Persons track on the Trash Massacre vinyl compilation that supported the eponymous 2025 event, closes off.

Free Spirit offers us a showcase of the variety of hard(core) techno. Building up, keeping interest, solid overall. Tracks spanning decennia move us back and forth in the spectrum. One small remark would be that the recording could have been mastered a bit to make it a bit louder.L
Pay attention to how tight this mix is, how it flows... tracks spanning decennia. Listen closer... now this is how you do it, you vinyl junkies!

Link1:

Counterflux series tracklists:
https://www.gabbatracklistworld.com/index.php?explore=search&search=counterflux&searchType=all
https://www.mixcloud.com/ChaseRecords
Online listening
https://hearthis.at/counterflux-series/

Link 2
Counterflux 03
https://www.mixcloud.com/ChaseRecords/free-spirit-shaking-the-concrete-counterflux-series-03/

Contact:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1BJs4uaL5j

Tutorial: How to run a DIY Techno Label - Chapter 1: From demo 2 release

The Hardcore Overdogs presents a special guest feature by Doomcore Records

Hello Sinners,
As you (might) know I run a DIY label (Doomcore Records and its subs).
I wrote a lot about it in the past, also about some releases, the artists...
I often get questions by fans or people who want to start a project or label themselves.
"How do I set up a label?" "How do I promote my music?" "Should I put butter or jelly on my toast?"

So, in response to this, I decided to give a few rare sneaks peaks... into the inner workings and mojo of a DIY underground label.
I plan to write a few tutorials and doing some visual visualizer vids, too.
Here is the first one in this series. A (very) short video.
It shows the path of a gloomy industrial doomcore techno release, from start to finish.

Tutorial:
How to run a DIY Techno Label

Chapter 1: From demo 2 release

Step 1: an artist sends me a demo by mail
Step 2: i check the tracks
Step 3: i acknowledge the artwork
Step 4: i mail them back
Step 5: i write a promo blurb
Step 6: i upload the tracks
Step 7: i release them
Step 8: release is out
Step 9: success

You can check the video here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/izl50EzADko

The History of Gabber House: A look back at Rave Records from The Hague

In the Hardcore Techno Overdogs magazine we usually focus on the underdogs... well, maybe that term is not entirely correct. Let's say we focus on the under-appreciated labels, that still duly deserve their spotlight.
Because of this, we neglected the "motherland of gabber" a bit so far - The Netherlands.
After all, every boy and his dog was raving to the wicked hardcore beats of gabber madness in the 90s - right?
So gabber from holland is hardly hardcore of "underdog" quality... and everyone already knows it, right?

well, while that was true for the 90s, it might not be so true anymore. We maybe could define a kind of "temporal overdog". Stuff that indeed everyone knew in the 90s, but in today's media culture, is shadowed and under-appreciated because everyone else focuses on the "big" labels mostly.

So let us look at the various interesting dutch gabber label from the 90s.

And this time, we want to tell you about 7 very interesting releases on the label Rave Records from ’s-Gravenhage (aka The Hague).

T.O.P.D.R.O.P. - Achtung! (RAVE 13th)

"hey meine gabber freunde". who doesn't know "achtung!"? and in case you really do not know it...
this track takes the early hardcore classic "b.o.t.t.r.o.p" by dj hooligan (see the similarity in name? a clever trick!), well at least it's acid sample, speeds it up and boom boom adds more gabba basses to it.
a track that either smashes or clears the dancefloor, depending on whether the crowd is hard enuff.

Noisegate - Goddamn' Mind (RAVE 028) 

"goddamn mind" is one of these releases that goes from 0 to 60 in 3.5. the track starts, boom! the bass hits and there is slaughter.
take no prisoners!
other tracks are cool as well.
generally, this is one of the "gabber" releases that do not focus so much on melodies or nice harmonies, but are just lovely NOIZE.

Square Dimensione - A Brand New Dance (RAVE 35th) 

You might know this one from a mayday rave recording, or other sets...
Almost trancy intro, beats come in, then some cool rapping, everything get's harder... word!
A track on the b-side, "brand new bassdrums", in an early pill-driver style bass-drum only track.
One of the more complex simple gabber tracks (hah!)

DJ Isaac - Bad Dreams (RAVE 45TH) 

"Bad Dreams" later became a Thunderdome classic. But this early draft on here is even bigger, bolder, rougher and tougher!

Various - The Erotic Kingdom E.P. (Rave 8th) 

One of the more sleazy hardcore / techno releases.
The main track is some house / funk affair, that also feels like early rave-hardcore, if you catch my drift.
Most interesting to me is the "happy hardcore" edit, because this is neither the breakbeat happy hardcore that was typical for 92, nor the "happy gabber" of 1996.
It's legit oldschool gabber, with some mellow / happy sounds, and that combination is very rare, my friends!

Ech Heftag! - Uit Je Dakkie (RAVE 18TH) 

Has this ep been pre-mastered to a cassette tape? There is definitely something odd (i.e. lo-fi) about the levels and sound...
Either way, it kicks more hard this way, I suppose.
Brutalist Hardcore for 1993.

The Falcon - Tear You Apart (RAVE 23) 

Do you remember when gabber (or "rave") labels released acidcore EPs too?
Like this one. Very cool.
There is some weird rhythm stuff going on, as it feels like some elements run at different or "broken" speed (somehow).
and that bass is extra large.

Hellcreator - From The Past (Self-Released)

Going by the title, this is a collection of past tracks by Hellcreator.

In case you don't know Hellcreator, he was one of the earliest producers in the Early Hardcore revival. New producers, that is - as opposed to those who do it since the 90s.
But it was never just "early", but also close to terror / speedcore.
And one thing that always stood was his prominent use of rave-y / trance melodies, almost like krautrock or shoegaze even.
So there is the opposition of calm, soothing, "cheerful" melodies - and all the terror beats.
And I really like that!

https://hellcreator.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-past

The original Gabber creators: looking back at 11 tracks by the Euromasters and friends

I guess everyone who is into Gabber heard the name Euromasters being mentioned, one time or another.
After all, a lot of people consider them to be the creators of the first true Gabber track ever - Alles naar de klote. That's the origin of Gabber right there.
That track really rocked the scene, was also widely known beyond the Hardcore moshpits. I remember a few german music mags crowning the track as one of the best releases of that year.

And it even lent its name to a wicked dutch movie ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117142/ ) - about rave, crime, and gabber house, of course.

What might be lesser known is that they also were involved in lots of other cool tracks and releases. They also did side projects or solo stuff.

And that is what we are looking at, here. 

1. Rotterdam, Ech Wel! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzXiht93wT0

"Amsterdam waar leech dat dan" is probably the other well-known tracks by Euromasters. This b-side to the record release sounds actually quite similar... but i prefer this one even one notch more!

2. Alles Naar De Klote (250 Bpm Remix By Dimitri) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QO2ebqVYoKY

hey, dimitri! this is the tracks we've been talking about... but it is even harder & faster :-)

3. He scheids! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE0gNBjjaoI

a dutch guy once told me this one is about soccer, and rivalry between teams (of other nations?)
regardless of the message, this is one of the most bad ass rough gabba tracks ever!

4. Oprottûh (Hooligans Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhrtV-WnWpE

as far as i know, euromasters established the "loud scream, bass drum, go!" formula long before other labels did... this track is a good example of that!

5. Noiken In Die Koiken (German Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlxmFhukr4k

the title is about a profane act in the kitchen.. weird?
love the bass vibrations here.

6. Everybody Clap Your Hands (Original Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP1GYcG4kpc

notable for being one of the few gabber tracks that does not really follow a "four to the floor" beat.

7. De Klootzakken - Dominee Dimitri https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T3dxhQ3S-I

this is madness! some of the most insane psycho hardcore sounds ever.

8. Hooihouse - Pien An De Eure (Kuilgras Hop) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgJxr7nlIqw

solo project by teun hooihouse. a early "speed up" track. heavy and fast.

9. Ziekehouse (Semtex Mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Hr5fXq--o

a later solo project. it seems the samples, and therefore most of the track, is made up by the sound of fire crackers!

10. Sonic Warrior - Supersonic Guerilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gOTf37U10g

teun hoihouse used an aka to create the intro to the terrordrome iv compilation.
it's much more than an intro, it's a complete tracks, yet a very unusual track, because at the same time...it's still an intro!

11. A Message from Hell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UCSPIUHlJE

sounds like this one was sent from hell, indeed! even though it has that funny sample by british punk band the "toy dolls".

The History of Gabber House: A look back at Hard Stuff Records

In the Hardcore Techno Overdogs magazine we usually focus on the underdogs... well, maybe that term is not entirely correct. Let's say we focus on the under-appreciated labels, that still duly deserve their spotlight.
Because of this, we neglected the "motherland of gabber" a bit so far - The Netherlands.
After all, every boy and his dog was raving to the wicked hardcore beats of gabber madness in the 90s - right?
So gabber from holland is hardly hardcore of "underdog" quality... and everyone already knows it, right?

well, while that was true for the 90s, it might not be so true anymore. We maybe could define a kind of "temporal overdog". Stuff that indeed everyone knew in the 90s, but in today's media culture, is shadowed and under-appreciated because everyone else focuses on the "big" labels mostly.

So let us look at the various interesting dutch gabber label from the 90s.

And this time, we want to tell you about 7 very interesting releases on the label Hard Stuff Records.

Mental Hardcore Associates - Let's Get Wappie (Hard Stuff 021)

Gizmo played this at the mayday rave, hey hey! 50,000+ ravers getting wild to this track.
There are also two other mixes that do not feel too different to the original.
It's an interesting mix of very, very hard "dutch oldschool" with hoovers and all, and "guitar terrorcore" like the americans did.

Thomas E - Datastorm EP (Hard Stuff 14)

Thomas Elers is a bit like the forgotten man of acidcore. also from denmark, like zekt or choose.
He did some wicked acid/techno on german labels like labworks.
But also did some gabba-acidcore, like on this release.
And this one is very, very crazy. Just as over the top as the best stuff by e-de cologne or bse dj team.

Wasteland - Ibiza (Hard Stuff 12)

Ibiza is an interesting tune, as it sounds one half hardcore, one half hardtrance, and one half arcade video game music (yes, three halves).
There is also a "boom boom remix" that make me feel as if the venga boys went gabba (even though the melody is completely different).
Yet the killer tune on here is "First Time On This Planet". Gabba with one of the fastest use of a T99 like sound I ever heard. I guess the sampler had a meltdown towards the end.

Brainblower - Mental Hangover (Hard Stuff 10)

a good release to show how varied gabber house and hardcore techno were in the "beginning".
a1 is a very fast oldschool tune with the typical "rave" stabs.
the next track on the other hand is almost slow, with an industrial sounding drum and an interesting groove.
plus there is lots of acid to be found here, and other madness.

Cellblock X - Secrets Of Nutrition E.P. (Hard Stuff 11)

A project by Thomas Elers that is closer to pure "acid" techno. but very hard acid. and, unlike batteries, a few gabber-speedcore sounds are included as well!

Charley Lownoise & Mental Theo - The Bird

Have you heard about the bird? Yup, the trash men's 60s garage song was already a well known cult classic long before an american cartoon series adopted it in their episodes.

this time, our favorite birdsong get's the gabber treatment, and it get's it good.
at a time when charly & theo were still very wild & hardcore, before their european chart success.

there is also a kool acidcore test as the b side.

Illegal Alien - Frankfurt vs. Den Haag (Hard Stuff 016)

’s-Gravenhage (or "The Hague" for english people) is such an idyllic european megalopolis, placed neatly near the ocean at this side of the atlantic... and they got a hot gabber scene too.
the track here is actually by gabber legend "3 steps ahead" using one of his akas.
hardcore drum... check... repetitive "hoover" melody... check.... hyptnotic acid lines... check!
there are also three alternative mixes to the original track on the record.

What other dutch labels are underrated in your opinion? let us know!

Review: Tony Kashmere & Free Spirit : "Amalgamate" [Counterflux Series 05] - Part 1

Review by Wouter Schotte aka .less. / pointlesspoint
Amateur dj & musician
https://hearthis.at/pointlesspoint/
https://soundcloud.com/pointlesspointlesspoint
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Free Spirit (Rémi Andrade) and Tony Katana (Tommy Bonnevialle, here disguised as 'Tony Kashmere', a moniker for 'softer' material) collaborate in the fifth chapter of the 'Counterflux' series, a series of CD mixes born from the mind and spinning hands of Free Spirit, bedroom dj and former Chase Records owner. Each installment highlights multiple aspects of hardcore techno, acid techno, and many other styles in electronic music. The sets are offered online for download (Facebook/mediafire/...); in addition, 13 cd copies with artwork are always sent to fans and friends. The length of the two sets, along the lines of mixtapes, had to fit on a single CD, a long-play CD.

Tony Katana belongs to a group of versatile French dj's who spin the better 90's underground hardcore techno, gabber, and speedcore, blending them with contemporary releases. He regularly shares live mixes via Facebook (under Tony Katana) and YouTube. Other notable French names include DJ Fusion, Mascore, Martyr, DJ Ash, and more.

Some of Katana's mixes are among the best in the contemporary underground hardcore techno and gabber revival. Well-known and lesser-known 90s tracks are mixed with, among others, newer industrial Italian releases in a tight, rhythmically thumping style, making combos of different elements of tracks, sometimes touching on the psychedelic style of SpeedyQ's and Tec-9, with occasional long transitions. John Dark and SpeedyQ's are, for the record, amongst his major influences for Djing for the explorative & adventurous nature of their output. All of this contrasts quite sharply with a good portion of Dutch Dj's. "Early rave" (a marketing gimmick!) is not included here.

A mix clocking in at +200 bpm, 'Décharge cabalistique' (see link below), is, in my opinion, a very good example. Only after listening to a few mixes did I realize the man has an extensive background in classical music (see his piano renditions of metal albums in the link), and that skill and sensitivity are reflected in both the almost harmonically rhythmic mixing, as well as the harmonically logical and equally surprising contrasts in melody and harmony. In this Counterflux Part, Katana tries to emulate Free Spirit's style (digging deep in genres, mixing long transitions, technoid elements, …).

I listened to this Counterflux mix first in part, once in its entirety, and finally with the video.
I did the latter to better understand the mixing work. Initially, I was a bit lost in how Katana reinvented himself. After the fragile intro by Ulver, somewhat IDM-like, not completely my thing, the mix picks up with more experimental, technoid tracks by Liza N Eliaz and Lorentz Attractor, bathed in pads, creative 303 lines, and reverbs that create and build atmosphere. These tracks also appear in the excellent mix 'Matt Fraktal – Fraktal + Timeless'; could this have been a source of inspiration, i asked myself? Tony answered affirmative.
The first culmination is a long transition from Lorenz Attractor's 'Complexity Crisis' into 'Industrial TR' by Vdd Energise (sample: 'ecstasy!!'), with the hats pattern(s) as common ground. overall The menacing atmosphere that had been building finally explodes accompagnied by a our beloved marching 'hardcore' bassline. Wonderful! Then Katana shifts back a gear, the atmosphere builds again with techno, acid techno by Propionic and Koenig Cylinders flowing nicely with harmonic key into Headshop's 'Universe' from the PCP stable; a track that falls somewhere in between hardcore, acid, hardtrance, unique in itself. I remember discovering tracks like these when digging further into hardcore techno after the popular gabber period... . Luckily we don't feel that old yet, and people spin it in 2025!
Katana masters the art of casting tracks, giving them a role in the story; here the for me unknown 'Filmcore' by Simstim. Equally clever is the use of lesser-known, more of 2 strong filler techno tracks by FFM and Marc Acardipane (, followed by the strange melody of Zekt – Fixed, after which follows a more obscure proto goatrance track and one Marc Acardipane track. FFM's track is mixed very well and for a long time. Seeing it mixed live gives me a better understanding and respect for the calm and apparent simplicity with which track after track are seamlessly woven. The techno track by Matrix Project on AREA51 appeals to me less because I simply don't like this kind of monotonous techno too much. The introduction of this track and the fantastic track by Mechanism (with a slightly lower gain?) sounds a bit rushed. I learned it sounds that way because it was brought in the first break.

Whereas a previous mix featured a modernist piece as the intro, the minimalist classical electronics of Matmos now provide the outro. Original! Listen carefully to the complexity of the resulting harmony.

In my opinion, the mix could have been longer, which makes it seem like there was a bit of a rush to deliver the last three tracks (which perhaps couldn't have been mixed any other way).

The good reasons to listen to Katana's mixes are also present here: distinctive track selections, transitions, rhythmic layering, atmosphere, harmony and melody, and contrast. Could you guys give the file a bit more gain on your next CD? Fantastic!

Considering that Katana is constantly exploring new areas of the electronic music spectrum, a black metal-tinged speedcore set mixed with Persian classical music could be on the menu next, or am I being too hasty? Stay tuned!

Glaze your ears.

Wouter.

LINKS

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Tony-Katana/pfbid0vD3Bgoyq51kjt3k1UccUUgyc5P46CsjsJWiKnxfwXBdJ7LFVmXXo1mZniVj6DV41l/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@tonyktn

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-820786501

Audio samples:

Tony Katana – Décharge Cabalistic

https://www.gabbatracklistworld.com/index.php?explore=view&trackid=6206
https://www.facebook.com/100078252973008/videos/395023396957969/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWDltmwGBCs

Matt Fraktal – Fraktal + Timeless
https://www.gabbatracklistworld.com/index.php?explore=view&trackid=4679

Review: Uncertain Menace - Ruines Industrielles Obscures (Audio Riots 08)

Audio Riots drops a new release, and this time it's by Uncertain Menace.
What can we say about it? This one is heavy, through and through!

There is some stuff in Acidcore now (and acid too, really), that to me sounds more like psytrance, a bit softer, mellow... and I would say, this release goes in the entirely different directon, thankfully!
Super deep drums and sounds. Like the evil offspring of Industrial Techno, Noizecore, and Hard Acid.

Have fun - and do a caustic smile!

Tracklist:

Audio Riots 08 - Ruines Industrielles Obscures

1. Signal Noir 04:53
2. Fractured Reality 03:55
3. Acid Breakfast 03:00

https://audioriots.bandcamp.com/album/audio-riots-08-ruines-industrielles-obscures

Off-Charts: Hardcore Animals

Hardcore Techno and Gabber House bring out the animal in you!
Because:
You stomp like a bull on the dancefloor, howl like a dog, roar like a lion... and paddle your arms around like a penguin or other walking, earth-bound, non-flight bird thingy.

No wonder there are many animal themed tracks and releases within this style, too.

Here are some of them (also includes tracks of other genres, as usual)

1. Animal Intelligence - The Object of Rave
2. Kotzaak - Like a Raging Bull (compilation)
3. Erase Head - Pussy Cat
4. Cannibal DJ - Dog will Hunt
5. The Prodigy - Run with the Wolves

6. Biochip C - Cranefly Warriors - Massive Toad Activity
7. Whaleekomittee - Save The Whales
8. Hecate - Hate Cats EP
9. The Outside Agency - ...ants
10. Phoenix - Who's In Control ?!

11. The Outside Agency - Metal Slug
12. Rat of Doom - Before The Breakdown
13. Rolando - Knights of the Jaguar
14. Darius G - ... like an Animal
15. Fischkopf compilation - Otaku: Slick but not Streamlined

16. Gangstar Toons Industries - Camel
17. Cobra Killers - Cobra Z
18. Dominion - Unicorn evils
19. Scorpion - Second Bite
20. Thomas Ehlers - Elephant Junk Attack

21. Charly Lownoise and Mental Theo - The Bird
22. The Falcon - Tear you apart
23. Party Animals - Hou Op
24. Mouse - T4
25. Raver's Nature - Monkey

26. DJ Mongoose - Rip Shit Up
27. DJ Waxweazle - Hardcore Power
28. E-de Cologne - No Dolphins Allowed
29. GTO - The Bullfrog
30. Ramirez - El Gallinero

31. Pink Potassium - Radioactive Goldfish

We're running a new feature: "Off-lists"

Paper fanzines were filled with charts; some DJs turned there charts into lists such "10 favorite Dutch Gabber tracks".

Features in zines often also have additional lists such as "9 anime related Hardcore tracks".

We wanna build on both these currents; but, with these "Off-Lists" we will focus on themes and motifs that are more out-there, abstract, off-the-center. Exploring aspects and ideas that are rarely highlighted when people talk, think, or write about Hardcore.

The Hardcore Overdogs cool contest! Win a free t shirt!

do you like the hardcore techno overdogs online magazine?
aaand do you want to support us?
aaaaaaand do you want to win a cool tee?

taking part in this contest is very easy:
post a link to the hardcore overdogs ( https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/ ) or doomcore records ( https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/ ) somewhere on the internet.
send us a link or pic of your post.

that's easy! nothing more that needs to be done.

send it to this address: tapeductseven@gmail.com

of all participants, we will choose a winner, and the winner get's send a free shirt including shipping costs.
and the winner can choose which shirt they want. we have 4 merch shirts available so far, in most colors and all sizes!

cheers,
the hardcore overdogs over and out

woof!

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