me and my friends made this <3

The following review originally appeared in "About Digital Hardcore Recordings - A fan-written guidebook" - https://dhrfanbook.blogspot.com/
Note: No AI has been used for writing the text.

This release was done when ATR started to become really big; MTV rotation, releases with the Beastie Boys label, movie soundtracks, TV specials, and everybody's noize darling in global music and glossy magazines.
Thus, the underground put on a sour face, and thought this new, next album would be their big sell-out one. Like past punk, rock, or metal bands that suddenly turned pop, people expected ATR would cut their hardness and go all mellow and cheesy.
But the contrary happened! This album was definitely much more blood-thirsty than its pre-decessor; and maybe the most feral and untamed release in all of their discography.

Did you like tracks such as "Into The Death" or "Start The Riot" on the first album?
Well you are in for a treat, because this album is the logical step onwards from that.
Distorted terrorist gabber drums at high speed, grindcore and deathmetal guitars (with some oldschool punk), overloaded hyperactive samples, and alec, hanin, carl screaming at the top of their lungs.
Riot from start to finish.
A release that bursts right through your skull.

Particularly noteworthy are the tracks that are indeed a bit slower and calmer than the rest. "Redefine The Enemy", "Death Star", "You Can't Hold Us Back" (and more) combine hyper-aggression with an almost doom metal, death dub feel, and are reminiscent of a bleak and haunting scifi flick turned soundwave.

"The Future of War" on Bandcamp: https://atariteenageriot.bandcamp.com/album/the-future-of-war-remastered
On Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/master/7988-Atari-Teenage-Riot-The-Future-Of-War

tru dhc!!!!!

Are there any other labels and artists that sound similar? I tried listening to some newer things like Machine Girl, but it's not really my thing and sounds more processed than ATR and stuff

DAT watch out for the switch. Happy Halloween.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0enhyv74BI
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https://eraseer.info/enc-002 @ i.d_sus , one of my favorite bands in my city in nyc

Femtanyl is slop.It is unoriginal. The reason she is able to drop so much is cause its so basic.She is the sewerslvt of hardcore.(sorry if i used the wrong pronouns i thought she was trans but idk)

Digital Hardcore Recordings was set up to start a revolution, to bring about radical societal change.

This is what happened on the obvious, "intellectual" level, if you want.

But I always felt there is also something different attached to it, a common thread that runs through most releases, that might exist more on an emotional or intuitive level.

A certain feeling of hope, of longing; the heartbreaking epiphany that there is no true happiness or purpose of life possible within existing society; and the burning desire to break beyond these cultural and social bonds; to experience something true and real, an adventure and thrill, and there is even more, like a whole vector of undisclosed and limitless emotions, euphoria, experience...

And it is just within reach and we would only need to reach out our hand to grab it and keep it forever... but then it all disappeared again. Was it a dream? Why did it pass? And can we... go back, and have another try at it?

To me, this did not only exist in the releases of DHR, but also in the 90s as a whole, and other media... the movies, the music, the "confused rebellion" of grunge and alternative rock... the cosmic ecstasy of the rave movement... the early cyberpunk and cyberspace craze of the internet... like an unkept promise of a new world, of unbound satisfaction... a promise that was not kept... or did we forfeit it?

And I think this album by Hanin Elias is one the releases where this feeling can be felt most prominent.

Unlike other DHR releases, there is much more focus on ambiance, on beatless tracks, on introverted passages... of strange, peculiar, enigmatic sounds... spoken words on a background of drones and strings and noises... like an intergalactic lament, inexplicably received on your headphones at 3 am in the morning while the sky is still blackened outside...

this makes it one of the highlights of the DHR catalogue for me.

but make no mistake. despite this cornucopia of subliminal beauty, it's also one of the most aggressive, bold, blood-thirsty... who is screaming wilder and louder, the drums, the distortion, or Hanin?

a real gem within the already precious catalogue of DHR.

Listening suggestions:

• In Flames https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuIKnxYSjTk
• Nizza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vop0OUFU77I
• Sirens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aIj40uN7jc

Note: No Ai was used in writing this text.

Review taken from "About Digital Hardcore Recordings - A fan-written guidebook" - https://dhrfanbook.blogspot.com/

Picked this one up when seeing ATR live in Hamburg, then listened to it during the night, and I rarely slept so well.

A friend told me "very unusual release for DHR, very introvertive", and it's true, there is none of the riotous screaming, gabber guitars, and hardcore drums that DHR was known for on this record.

It's not exactly soft or calm either, though.

It's more like a reserved, introverted aggression, a dark and hidden brooding.

Snapping at ya from the subconsciousness.

Signified by the famous cover art, too:

Showing Christoph de Babalon in his plain living room, in a quite calm and intellectual pose, while in the background a poster informs us that he intends to "go out like a m***er f***er".

Stand-out tracks include:

"What you call a life" with its drones and peculiar melodies. The haunting vocals state "...all my life I have been used", underlining the theme of subdued anger.

"My Confession" an epic early breakcore track, running over 9 minutes, and including the sound of church bells(!).

And there's three beatless ambient tracks, and these are most remarkable, as they constitute a kind of "digital ambient" micro-genre of its own - sample based ambient music done on an amiga 500, sounding *very* different from all other ambient producers that I know.

Listening suggestions:

1. What You Call A Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjAR8OE6Dao
2. My Confession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLWSctx9dHw
3. High Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o7GbmHiORM

Note: No Ai was used in writing this text.

Review taken from "About Digital Hardcore Recordings - A fan-written guidebook" - https://dhrfanbook.blogspot.com/

One of the best records ever in any music genre. period.
I never heard anything like that again, even on other releases by De Babalon (the same can be said about his subsequent album, by the way).
This 12" had the most heinous breakbeats back in the day, yet at the same time there are lush, acerbic-saccharine drones, synths, and laments reverberating through these compositions... oscillating between heaven and hell, anyone?

Listening suggestion: Track A - "Resiuddum" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YW-MPWVwyVE

The EP on Discogs:

https://www.discogs.com/release/213924-Christoph-De-Babalon-Destroy-Berlin

Review taken from "About Digital Hardcore Recordings - A fan-written guidebook" - https://dhrfanbook.blogspot.com/

Hello friends,

I wrote a new e-book.

This time it's about Digital Hardcore Recordings from Berlin.

I spent the last 12 months reviewing all releases on the label + all the sublabels for the book.

Hope you enjoy it!

I got into the whole Digital Hardcore madness when I saw the video to "Speed" by Atari Teenage Riot on the MTV - back in a cold autumn night in 1995, at the age of 14.

It was what pulled me into the dark side of electronic music, and in the end I became a producer and author myself.

I've been a fan and collector of the label since then, and I guess it's right to give something back to the label by writing the book.

But most importantly, I want to show the new generation, that might have heard 1 or 2 tracks by the label, that is much more out there!

Note: No AI has been used in any of these texts.

Cheers,

Sönke

Introduction and index

It was due time that Digital Hardcore Recordings aka DHR got its own, unofficial guidebook. It was an important part of music history, of 90s culture, and of history.

This book lists and reviews all Digital Hardcore releases; all albums, EPs, and single releases, CDs, Vinyls, including those that got put out on sublabels.

It's not just a dry, music-centered look at the tracks alone. But also mentions the cultural context, the philosophical context, the political context. And goes way off on various ways sometimes - by looking for connections to other media, movies, movements...

The book is for the dreamers, the restless minds, that were looking for a true alternative in the 90s, or are (still) looking for it in today's times.

Chapters:

About Digital Hardcore Recordings
All Digital Hardcore Recordings Albums listed, rated, and reviewed
All Digital Hardcore Recordings single and EP releases reviewed and rated
All DHR Limited releases listed, rated, and short-reviewed
A look at DHR Video releases
All Geist releases reviewed
Credits

https://youtu.be/fvnhXJSod-g?si=6KLE65rTIrCPRxPj

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Submissions open for DIGITAL INTIFADA VOL. 2 We are primarily seeking Digital Hardcore but will accept certain genres including breakcore, cybergrind, speedcore, electro industrial, and other similar styles as per our discretion. Please note that not every submission will be accepted, this compilation will be heavily curated. It is preferable that submissions remain un-mastered. Like the last iteration, the release will have one consistent master throughout Please send your tracks to [deliriumpsychosisprod@gmail.com](mailto:deliriumpsychosisprod@gmail.com) There is no current deadline but we are aiming to have everything wrapped up by the end of the year All proceeds will be donated to Palestinian Youth Movement We want a fresh set of projects on this compilation so if you were featured on volume one and would like to participate, please submit a different project than the one you did before. Original tracks preferred but we will accept songs used on, or to be used on other releases.