Off-Charts: Happy 909 day!

It's the 9th of september, or 09.09.2026 for us europeans and you know what that means... it's 909 day!
so let us celebrate this drum machine with a list of tracks that make... good use of it!
and also check our past feature about this unique drum computer: https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-basic-sounds-of-hardcore-and-gabber.html

cheerio!

1. Sigma 909 - Right Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmtGZjDXH7Y

2. Charly Lownoise & Mental Theo - Rockin' Party (I Can't Handle It)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnOb-v2fazA

3. Distortion - Franthic Thigh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBLs5zCkEHk

4. Program 1 - Betrayer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfhzlAKfLTM

5. Titanium Steel - Paralyzed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbCeUY9pHHw

6. Cyclopede - Chemical Warfare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2AhXbiT1mU

7. T.N.T - Better than Better
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9nvvtvWals

8. Human Resource – Sick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cCuXHv5C4E

909. Rob Gee - 909 Hit Me 1 Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zoXEPKgTak

10. Genetic Waste - Genetic Waste (World Premiere Brooklyn Remix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPPAJGjng98

11. Electronic Subforce - Hard Spirit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGNlaHucB9Y

12. MC R.A.W. - We Who Are Oppressed (Remix By Rob Gee, Repete & Damon Wild)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGdjL1O8WKs

13. Program 1 - MF Skulls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7NJ_Oq3Bdw

14. Hard Attack - Bonehead
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGaL3uU13Nw

15. Unit Moebius - Zipper
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzFSE8odDTg

16. XE-DUS - The Groove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG8p81ffGmc

17. Nasty Django & DJ Cirillo - Cocorico (1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGleJSVLkxQ

18. Phrenetic System - Fantasy (Original Mix)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyrDv4jBBRA

1909. Robert Armani - Hit Hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRS3ZPIJUUU

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

Paper fanzines were filled with charts; some DJs turned their charts into lists such as "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.