Before the Street Trash Alliance: A few rare German Early Hardcore releases

Mono Tone was not the first German "Hardcore only" label, but maybe one could say it was the first really big one. Besides the Planet Core crew, of course, and at that point they were into a mixed bag of genres.

The Mono Tone releases were featured on Thunderdome and everywhere else. But, alas, the label went away as quickly as it came. You can read (part of) the story about it elsewhere 
The Mono Tone roster partly re-grouped on the new Shock Wave label by The Speed Freak.
Shockwave gave rise to other labels like Anodyne or Speedcore Records, which became part of the Street Trash Alliance... the rest is Hardcore History.

But the entirety of this thing is not what we want to talk about. Rather, we want to look at the time *before* all that happened. There were some kicking Hardcore releases on German labels before that, too. Often on labels that usually were more into hard trance or intelligent ("armchair") Techno. And often by the same artists that later went to Mono Tone and the Street Trash family of labels.

BC Kid - Wild And Wonderful E.P. (Generator Records 9120-12)

BC Kid later became one of the main artists on Shock Wave, of course.
An early release with early hardcore, and, man, these hoovers are brutal. When you hear them loud & live it is like your skull gets melted from your head.
The BPM might not be as high as later brutal recordings, but in my opinion, this is harder than most "Speedcore" stuff.
Best track is Wild & Wonderful (eponymous!), with cool Akira samples, and some happy hardcore stabs that do not feel misplaced.
Followed by "go boom!"

Various - Destroy Deutschland ! (Force Inc. Music Works - 034)

Ooooh baby. Has there ever been anything better?
Techno label Force Inc had the guts to drop some political Hardcore.
The EP is split, not only in 2 sides, but there are also two styles.
Side A is early breakcore by Alec Empire (very rough!), and the b side is hardcore & gabber.
Mike Ink's "Lovely Ugly Brutal World" is probably known from Thunderdome.
The other tracks are more like acidic hardcore.

Shadowrun - SNES-E.P. Vol.1 (Force Inc. Music Works - 052)

Early collab by the Hardcore gamers Speedfreak & BC Kid.
All track names are references to some of the best Super Nintendo games (except for b1 maybe).
Style is already similar to the releases they later did on shock wave or mokum etc.
the winner track for me is "base you", with that very cool super parodius melody right in the middle of it.

Biochip C. - C8 E.P. ( Force Inc. Music Works - 045)

Very interesting early release by Martin Damm!
Because it already has the recipe for the later Speed Freak / Shock Wave stuff.
Including some very corny and fun samples.
But it's also still in a row with his earlier acid / hardcore releases.

Necromancer - Spacecakes EP (Generator Records 9116-12)

And here is a super early solo release by an aka of BC Kid / Psyche Out, too.
Quite similar to his later "Street Trash" releases, but also... close to rave / breakbeat, even trance, of that era (1993).
Not as extreme yet. But quite fun none the less!