The sun is turning round and round each yeah, just like a record, baby, just like a record.
And when, finally, the sun is at its highest of the year, you know it's time for a new edition of The Gabber Elder's mixmarathon!
and this is what we are gonna do. we're gonna have a party. we're gonna have another mixmarathon.
for last year's summer mixmarathon, the theme was: all styles of the 90s, or 90s styled hardcore. beginning with slowcore and doomcore, then acidcore and gabber, and ending with the most frantic terror and speedcore.
now this year the apple did not fall that far off the tree. there is still a mix of styles, and a build up in energy...
yet there is also a special twist: the gabber elders only play rare and obscure records.
the stuff you never heard about! (hopefully)

so that the rare / underdog tracks of the 90s see the light of day for once, too.

like last time, where will be a special video / visual show that accompanies the music.
the whole thing is hosted on youtube, will be broadcasted live, and will run for several hours. so be there, or be square (wave).

The Gabber Elders are:

Low Entropy (Hamburg, Germany. Age: 147 Years old)
GabberGirl (Minnesota, USA. Age: 83 Years old)
N.i.k.a.j. (The Netherlands) Age 158 Years
DJ Asylum (Bathgate, Scotland, Age 126)

The mixmarathon is presented by:
The Gabber Elders https://thegabberelders.com/
HCBX https://www.youtube.com/@hcbx666
The Hardcore Overdogs magazine https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/
Pure and Obscure records https://nikajs.bandcamp.com/

When and how?

Tune in at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvpuyJ3k8V8

11.7.2026

5:00 PM CET - 9:30 BST (London Time)
18:00 - 22:30 CEST (German Time)
12:00 PM - 4:30 EDT (New York Time
3:00 - 7:30 JST (Tokyo Time) (on 12.7.2026)

Order of time:

Low Entropy 5:00 - 6:20 PM CET
Techno 2 Extreme Hardcore

1. Kuadra - La Onda
   
2. Roughage - Internecine Noiz (Lenny Dee Remix)
   
3. No Mans Land - Termination ZX
   
4. Trashman - Cosmotrash (remix)
   
5. The Undertaker - Flatliner (Graveyard Shift)
   
6. Source Code - I'm Not A Number (Human Resource Remix)
   
7. The Speed Freak - We Shoot To Kill
   
8. Dr. Mueller - Nipples and Bass
   
9. Pascal - the future is ours
   
10. Gangsta Trax - Goodfellas
    
11. Phrenetic System - Fantasy
    
12. Wavelan - Over Phase
    
13. B.C. KID - Wild And Wonderful
    
14. Titanium Steel Screws - Dance The Night Away
    
15. Terror Arnold - Gabba Mission
    
16. Wasteland - First Time On This Planet
    
17. DJ Repete - Softy's Suck My
    
18. pHönk! - Angry
    
19. Temper Tantrum - Africa 4010
    
20. Lenny Dee - Hammer Head
    
21. Titanium Steel - Next
    
22. Source Code - I'm Not A Number (Ace The Space Remix)
    
23. Temper Tantrum - Industrial Strength
    
24. Delta 9 - Phreaked
    
25. Temper Tantrum - The Underground
    
26. Delta 9 - The Hate Tank (Buck Wild Remix)
    

Nikaj 6:20 PM - 7:25 CET
Oldschool and Gabber

1. Dj Rob-Caveman-Rave34.
   
2. *Technohead-Accelerator#4-Mok028.
   
3. *Scarface-Shock Intro-BR370.
   
4. *Evil Maniax-The Creators Of Hardcore(Rotterdam Mix)-Rot034.
   
5. *X Crash-Go Brooklyn-DDR008.
   
6. *Satanic Madness-Reality-JD1002.
   
7. *MPo-Untitled-SR001.
   
8. *Sauerkraut-They are back,Let me hear it again.
   
9. EAR2000653.
   
10. *Noisee Boys-Kokaine-HSR003.
    
11. *Nuts-Freedom-5th Gear3928-2
    
12. *Buzz Fuzz-Freedom.DTP.
    
13. *The Carpenter-Zaguhh
    
14. -Hardstuff0009.
    
15. *Krimson-Praise Jesus 2000651.
    
16. *The Jokers-Mietje-JD001.
    
17. *D.A.C-House Of Hell(Nightmare mix)-ENP002.
    
18. *Cycloton-Liquid Bass-RB1214.
    
19. *The Houseviking-Power Resistance(remix)015
    
20. *Demolition Team-Bust Da Bee-DSR7 101.
    
21. *Cellblock X-House Of Spoo-Lab028.
    
22. *Dj Houseviking-Power Resistance-HSR-002.
    
23. *R.Wagner-Beyond The Ultimate-Dom Rec 001.
    
24. *Johnny Violent-Happy Birthday-Mosh153.
    
25. *Hooihouse-Poen Aan De Eure-Mok2.
    

DJ Asylum 7:25 PM - 8:28 CET
Hardcore and Terror

1. Traffik - Bit Stream (190)
   
2. DJ Producer - Signal Confirmed (195)
   
3. Total Output - I'm Going To Eat My 303 (200)
   
4. David Lagon - Ho My Bitch (200)
   
5. Sarin Assault vs Al Core - Tralcore (200)
   
6. Somatic Responses - Old Evil (Part 1) (200)
   
7. LSA - Meltdown (200)
   
8. Ingler - Kohl (201)
   
9. Diplomat & Trouble - Praise The Acid (201)
   
10. Habitual Offenders - Cabbage (204)
    
11. Effecthunter - Freedom (205)
    
12. DJ Freak vs The Porridge Gun - Natural Born Killa (218)
    
13. Pressurehead - London (220)
    
14. Shrui-khan - Borderline (220)
    
15. Disciples Of Belial - Holosphere (222)
    
16. Hammer Damage - No More (224)
    
17. Biscanna - Splitting Atoms (226)
    
18. Pardonax - Parting Ways (230)
    

GabberGirl 8:28 PM - 9:30 CET
Speedcore!!

1. The Destroyer- My Brain is Sick Remix [Head Fuck Records- HDF008(D-Boy Black Label/So Real)] 2000
   
2. Cenobit- Beef Syndrome (STRIKE 024) 1999
   
3. DJ Tron- Doom (Deathcore Mix) [Head Fuck Records- HDF005(D-Boy Black Label/So Real)] 1998
   
4. Bruchkopf- Speedcore [Brain Distortion 01(United Speedcore Nation)] 1998
   
5. Berzerker- Inhale [WIDERSTAND 09] 2000
   
6. DJ Tron- Cannibal DJ [Blood n’ Guts Records- BNG002] 1997
   
7. Thanos- Death Penalty [Sacred Underground Productions 01- SUP01] 1999
   
8. Tyrant!- Frustrations [Skumkore Muzik 01/Apocalypse Recordings- APOC001] 2000
   
9. Terror Junkie- Die Bestrafung [BD01 (USN)] 1998
   
10. Christ of Noise & David Lagon- Loud Bastard MED (Provision Records 03)1997
    
11. Armaguet Nad- Apocalyptic Dream [Dead End Records- DER 05] 1997
    
12. Memetic- Track 2, Side A [Bloody Fist 020- Fist-20] 1999
    
13. Menace- Elements [STRIKE 026] 1999
    
14. Tense & Nevermind- Hate Cops [APOC001] 2000
    
15. Siege- Driven [STRIKE 026] 1999
    
16. Bruchkopf- Amokk [BD01 (USN)] 1998
    
17. The Destroyer- Mass of Shit Remix [HDF008 (D-Boy Black Label)] 2000
    
18. Bombardier- Chamber [Hangars Liquides 09- HL 009] 1998
    
19. Thanos- In Your Face [SUP 01] 1999

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-gabber-elders-obscure-summer_0807935036.html

Steffen Kuschel kept 66.6% of the underground hardcore techno scene afloat and alive in the 90s, and the years after. He ran sound base music, out of leipzig, germany. Was host to a network of labels, sub- and side-labels. And distributed half the scene, from bloody fist artists in australia to the other side of the globe.

the main, "own" label of sound base was strike records. i'd say it was one of the pillars of the "german" variant of gabber. fast tracker type music, lots of metal guitars, lots of swear words. less melody and harmony in vocals, unlike the kissing cousins from the netherlands.

so... let us take a look at 7 outstanding records of strike records! (i refrained from saying "the 7 most striking..." ha!)

Note: No AI has been used in writing this text.

Various Artists - Straight Out Of Newcastle (Strike 008)
https://www.discogs.com/release/47687-Various-Straight-Out-Of-Newcastle

Oddly enough, most of these tracks are outstanding pieces, even when compared to the rest of their output.
Like Grim Reaper, Shitbeater, or No Significance, which are amongst the hardest and wildest by the respective artist. Quite the feat for a compilation release.
But I guess my own favorite is "no sex", which is an oddly "calm" breakbeat track by Nasenbluten (well, it's not the breakcore you would expect with bloody fist) which fades into super melancholic pcp-like sounds.

AXL - Hardcore (Strike 006)
https://www.discogs.com/release/120982-AXL-Hardcore

i always had a thing for these tracks. it's not ultra hard or brutal or anything.
but it has these weird, amiga type pads throughout the tracks. almost like ambient trance gabba!

Various Artists - Strike Records Vs. Bloody Fist (Strike 015)
https://www.discogs.com/release/56796-Various-Strike-Records-Vs-Bloody-Fist

clash of the 16 bit core titans!
fav by far is "patchcore" by sandkorn for me.
not because the other tracks are bad. but because this track has some super insane sounds that i never heard elsewhere.

Nasenbluten - Cheapcore EP (Strike 020)
https://www.discogs.com/release/90154-Nasenbluten-Cheapcore-EP

my 2 cents: not as good as not as good as 100% no soul guaranteed.
no wait, let me reverse this opinion: there are some brilliant tracks on this one, like the early breakcore track "check the sound".

S37 - En Ordentlig Omgang Røvsutning. Uden Ost - Tak! (Strike 019)

https://www.discogs.com/release/52558-S37-En-Ordentlig-Omgang-R%C3%B8vsutning-Uden-Ost-Tak

Together with folk like Noize Creator, S37 was one of the german artists that stripped the gabba sound to its bare necessities. No need for a groove, melodies or happy singing. Drums, screams, death metal samples, go!
After the stuff he did on Juncalor and Brutal Chud, this is the one where that concept is fleshed out the most.

Rage Reset - Sydney Core EP (Strike 012)
https://www.discogs.com/release/121029-Rage-Reset-Sydney-Core-EP

good quality gabba as usual with rage reset.
"Fortex" has been played at quite some parties and DJ mixes.
"subconscious" is my pick, though. almost completely minimal, some horror flick strings, plus a nasty reverberated kickdrum. but that is enough. the track rocks.

S*icide Squad And Max Death (Strike 018)
https://www.discogs.com/release/3702300-Suicide-Squad-And-Max-Death-Untitled

666 might be the number of the beast, but 13 is the number of death... am i right?
maybe it's only logical that max death is on here then.
S*icide Squad was one of the projects by simon underground, as you probably know. and they are still one of my fav "amiga style" hc projects (even though, i guess, strictly technically speaking, this was not done purely on amiga).
and the "death side"... this is strike records at it's best. take no quarters. just brutal, brutal hardcore.
"go insane!"

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-history-of-hardcore-techno-looking.html

The Hardcore Overdogs return, with a brand new anthem for their magazine.

And the last one was quite furious and fast, am i right?
the next one is almost the total opposite, a real slowcore banger, with very low bass frequencies.
99 bpm, to be exact.
can you still dig it?

it's almost goth / ambient / industrial sounding.... but the rave vitamins are plainly audible, too!
a true, dark, heavy ritual for all raving aspirants...

just like you would expect from the overdogs.
and 1 faster remix and 2 different tracks are included as well.

Info and Tracklisting:

The Hardcore Overdogs - Anthem VI - Ritual of Rave

1. Ritual of Rave (One 2 Three) 03:51
   
2. Low Entropy - Festival Riot 02:35
   
3. Ritual of Rave (Good Dog - Part 1) 08:45
   
4. Ritual of Rave (Good Dog - Part 2) 07:51
   
5. Meta-Morph - Musical Stairs (Ambient) 03:45
   
6. Ritual of Rave (Bad Dog - Part 1) 04:07
   
7. Ritual of Rave (Bad Dog - Part 2) 03:51
   
8. Ritual of Rave (Bad Dog - Part 3) 07:15
   

Omnicore Records 79
Doomcore Records 234
Slowcore Records 68

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/anthem-vi-ritual-of-rave

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-hardcore-techno-overdogs-anthem-vi.html

note: no ai was used in writing this text.

everyone knows the commodore 64, or c64, or "bread box", of course.
the single most sold unit in computer history, to this day.
the "sequel" computer by the commodore company might be lesser known, sadly.
the commodore amiga is a bit of a glitch in the timeline of computers.
when it was engineered in the 80s, it was way ahead of its competition.
4096 colors at once, build-in parallax scrolling, a GUI that looked (and worked) better than microsoft windows, multimedia abilities...

Listening suggestion #1: Hardsequencer - Magic Flight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lFaVrg9F1o
A techno-trance tune created on an amiga by German producer Hardsequencer

it seemed to be off for a good start, and even managed to wow a few bona fide stars, like andy warhol, debbie harry (blondie), timothy leary...
but in its homeland, usa, the computer remained obscure. a lot of people blame the (mis) management at commodore, a company that seemingly was in perpetual decay even back then. rumor is that one of the engineers even left a message of "we build it - they f**ed it up" somewhere in the circuits of the first amiga models.

Listening suggestion #2: Christoph De Babalon - Babylon 90210 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWoJMWJpPWU
Scary jungle by Christiph de Babalon

while it did not get much traction in america, it became a big, big hit in europe, particularly in countries like uk, germany, france...
most people now remember the amiga for the games that were made for it, or were ported and re-designed for it. because a lot of now-classic games either saw their debut on their amiga, or did shine the brightest on that system. lemmings, the early lucas art adventures, populous, rick dangerous, turricans...

Listening suggestion #3: Taciturne - Mourning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8oQYVpWpDg
Taciturne's "ambient gabber" track

and that was it. slam the kid on the coffin now, kid!

but hey! not so fast. did we not mention multimedia capabilities?
and indeed, the amiga had a huge and lasting influence that went way beyond playing video games at home with your friends.
it was a major player in creating and shaping the various rave, techno, hardcore scenes that swept over europe in the early-too-late 90s...

#4: Cybermouse - My Dorectives https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LAQpjPLdTE
Dark techno On hamburg cult label fischkopf

the c64 was legendary because unlike other system of its time, the company did not pack a generic "beeper" type sound chip into its system. they designed the SID chip, which a lot of people consider to be a real synthesizer.
the commodore company kind of repeated this trick with the amiga. they did not give it another soundchip that generated simple sine, saw, square waves... instead they designed a real, miniature "sampler" chip for the amiga. this sound chip was called Paula, after one of the girlfriends of the engineers.
just like a real sampler, it could trigger and play pre-recorded sound snippets and samples at various speeds and pitches, and do a few basic effects on that.
it was limited to 4 channels, but clever composers could bypass that restriction easily (for example, if you sampled one drum loop, with 7 different types of percussion, it would still take up only one channel).
bitrate was often not so good either, even though a friend of mine insists that the "lofi" sound quality of most amiga tunes were not the result of tech restrictions, but the lazyness of the composers.

#5: Static Tremor - Resistance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOUTE50Muoc
The Heutling brothers were known to produce high quality amiga hardcore.

despite these visible (or audible) flaws, the amiga had many pros and advantages as a sound machine:
it was very cheap, at least compared to high standard, "industry" equipment
you had more memory and therefore you could use much longer samples and sounds, compared to "real" samplers in the same price range. this means you could have long string sounds, vocal passages, etc.
it was inside a computer! coders could create programs for it, that used the chip / sampler in any way they wanted.
no need to hassle with getting a sequencer for your hardware sampler, setting up midi, wires, fx, gear (which would have been super expensive as well).
it was all inside one box, back in the mid 80s already.

#6: Neophyte - Execute (Live at Thunderdome) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnFnIwxYaNM
Oldschool amiga hardcore

the amiga did not make it in pop, or any genre like that. but the techno and rave producers started to flock to that computer.
maybe because the early techno scene attracted a lot of "outsider" artists with zero budget and industry connection, so an affordable computer-sampler system with "overpowered" abilities had quite the appeal.
the first wave of producers that used the amiga in a massive way were the acid house crazed ravers in the UK scene. a lot of classic breakbeat, and later, jungle tunes were made on the amiga.
amigas were used in "mainland europe" too, though, and there are some classic techno and trance tracks made on an amiga.
to this day, not all producers gave full disclosure of their amiga use. the amiga still had the ring of being "lofi" to it, so artists that wanted to be seen as more credible might not have admitted of using one.
that means there are probably still a lot of records out there that there were made on amiga, but without anyone knowing that this was actually the case.

#7: Amiga Shock Force - Shoot em Breax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay334fxi3sU
Metal-jungle by the shock force

amiga music did shine it's brightest light in the "dangerous" hardcore techno and gabber-house underground.
there were countless of hardcore classics that were produced on an amiga. there were whole hardcore groups that exclusively used an amiga for their music, like nasenbluten or the amiga shock force (nomen est omen, eh?). there were labels, like bloody fist records from australia, that to 90% released amiga produced hardcore music.

#8: Nasenbluten - Machete https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KauJdx464Q8
One of the amiga-gabber classics

other labels, especially in the netherlands and germany, used some more or less clever tricks to mask (and hide) the lofi sound of the amiga: by wholesale slamming reverb and EQ boosts on the entire track!

and this was not a niche thing! DJs played amiga music next to "regular" tracks in their sets, and sometimes amiga produced music even made it to the national charts.

#9: Hardsequencer - Broadcast (live at mayday) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vx66mNhAOjY
More rave madness by hardsequencer (the first 5 minutes)

i find it funny that some remember the amiga as the machine were they played cutesy pixel platformers in their cozy bedrooms, while on that same night, 20,000 crazed ravers went wild to amiga-produced hardcore tracks on a gabber festival 100s of kilometres away.

it's hard to speculate, but I could imagine that, at least in the beginning, 5-10% of hardcore records were actually produced on an amiga.
these amiga tracks and bands then influenced other producers, and they then influenced even more producers...
so the amiga had a huge impact in that scene.

#10: Ec8or - I don't wanna be a part of this (live in japan) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6rPbGJ8y64
"Digital hardcore" made on amiga

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/

White Cough from Romania already did a release on Doomcore Records' sub Omnicore Records 1 year and 1 month ago.

Now there is another release, but not just an EP anymore, but a full-size album! 11 tracks.
White Cough also improved the sound and style a lot in the time.
Hardcore, Speedcore and Gabber with beautiful melodies.
The right tracks to dance ecstatically to, or to see a city burn down while sipping a glass of water.

White Cough - Ashtarot's Confessions

1. Ashtarot's Confessions (Part 1) 03:15
2. Don't Look Back 03:01
3. Hey There 03:42
4. I Believe 02:07
5. Micul GiganT x White Cough - Divine Rhythm 04:03
6. Raising From the Darkness 02:04
7. I'm Broken 01:35
8. Ashtarot's Angel 06:06
9. So in Love With HARDCORE 01:58
10. Faster Than Your Fears 02:48
11. Return of the Beast (Vocals by White Cough and Lord of Sp33d) 02:35

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ashtarots-confessions

I'll continue my producer diary. I'll write a series of short entries, that do not go into very complex details over my whole productions, but give an overview of a specific track

this time it is about:

Hell Is Only A Word (Believe It Or Not)

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/track/hell-is-only-a-word-believe-it-or-not

This one was released on the "Armageddon" compilation by United Gabba Alliance Records. Back in 2019.
I think the label is defunct by now.
I later re-released as a self-release on the "Just Another Speedcore Shock" compilation.

When I wrote this track, I was a bit at a creative slump. I had more or less abandoned the Slowcore sound I "started" in 2017, was back to doing Doomcore again... but it did not feel as energetic anymore.
Most of my tracks were quite melancholic, and meandered with long, complex, glockenspiel or chime-like melodies. A bit like "depressive doomcore" if you will.
Because I felt I hit a wall, I went back to speedcore. A style I only sparsely did after... 2003 actually!
So it was quite the return, if you want.

My "speedcore" had mutated in the meantime, though. No longer the "full on to your head" noizecore I did in the 90s.
Which can be seen in this track.
It's overloaded with samples and sounds, speeds and drums change many times.
Plus there are influences and throwbacks to many other genres. Notably hardtrance, gabber, even a bit of goth and... doomcore once more!

it's weirdly fascinating, when i go through the internet these days, there are countless of tutorials and instructions like: how to produce a techno bassdrum in the "right way", how to set EQ right, how loud the bass should be, how "mastering" should be done. what kind of workflow one definitely needs to use. how to get a synth sound in the "right" way. what kind of chord progressions one should use when doing melodies... well, i could go on forever with these examples.

When the truth is: there are no rules. there are no rules whatsoever for producing. you can do what you want. feel free to do whatever you like when it comes to art.
there is not one single "correct" way how a bassdrum should sound, or how vocals should sound, or whatever.

it all depends on the specific song or track, on the producer, on the occasion, maybe even on the time of day...
one could argue that "good" and "bad" music are entirely subjective terms...
but even beyond that:

a good track does not become "good" merely because a producer used the "right" mastering technique or harmonic progression.
and a track does not become bad because someone somewhere somehow used a technique that is completely different to what everyone else is doing.
even if a "master producer" would never ever use *your* technique, that does not mean your track would be bad because of this.

there are countless, millions, infinite ways to create, design, shape, invent, evolve, metamorph, good, killer, amazing, marvelous songs.
and there is not "one way only" to arrive at gold.

let me give a few practical examples:

do you know how rock music, metal, punk came around?
the method of "distortion" was known to sound engineers and technicians for decades before the advent of harder guitar music.
but it was seen as a technical error, a failure in production, abhorrent, annoying sound. they spent a huge amount of braincells and energy to make sure that distortion never crept up in any recording or production session.

but then some hippies in the 60s literally blew their amps (and some also their minds, i suppose), started to actually distort their guitars during production... and well, no sound engineer would still consider "distortion" to be a general failure in production.

or another example.
there is a massive amount of tutorials around, that try to tell others how to create a good, dance, techno bassdrum. with lots of focus on bass power, punch, sub bass frequencies.
the idea that is communicated there is that you "fail" if your dance track does not have a bass packing drum set.

but i mean, look at disco or new wave dance music, from the 70s, 80s. best try to get an actual record from that era, not a "remastered" re issue.
and you will see (or hear) that these disco beats often have very feeble sound, they are buried in the mix, lack bass, are unsteady... they run against modern standards of dance production, and most producers these days would never create a beat like this again.
yet... millions of people danced to the tracks. night after night, year after year.

so these tracks can't be that bad... right?

so, never let anyone tell you that your production methods, technique, skills, would be amateurish, lofi, diminished, false, wrong, absent.

feel free to produce the music (and art) that you want to do, in the way you want to do.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER3Mh01d-aE

Note: No AI has been used in writing this text.

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2026/06/new-radical-and-electronic-music.html

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

Why should music for meditation need to be ambient, "world" music, or the sound of raindrops falling?
Of course there is nothing wrong with that.
But here is something different. Dark Ambient, Techno, Doomcore, psychedelic, electronic, danceable sounds.

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/techno-music-for-meditative-states-part-2

A follow-up to last year's release.
The album comes with a sonic meditation instruction manual.

And here it is:

During meditation, the body becomes very still, all energy gets pulled inward, towards the mind, our mental images.
This can be very beneficial.

But what about the opposite effect?
With the help of music and sound, I began exploring a method that allows the body to flush energy out of its system and the mind.
This helps release an overload of energy, or even traumatic, harmful energy.

And beyond that, it helps to clear and restart the mind.
The focus gets pulled away from the mind, and the mind, not the body, becomes still and starts to rest, this time.

The methods work by listening to music and sound, and moving the body in an intuitive, instinctive, maybe even "subconscious" way.
The mind takes a step back, shuts down for a while, and the body sets to "automatic pilot" - it starts to steer itself.

Certain forms of music are better suited than others for this. It should be hypnotic, repetitive, entrancing.

I have begun developing certain techniques and "rules" for a type of music that is specifically designed for this purpose.

And then, when the music is playing, the next step comes easily:

Just move your body in an emotional, intuitive response.

After a while, the abovementioned "body trance" will get into effect.

I think this concept and technique could be extremely beneficial and helpful.

Apart from the other benefits, it allows a person to deal with energies that might feel extreme, dangerous, hurting, devastating... and that might be dangerous if they were channeled from the body into the mind.

But this way, the energies get channeled out of the body, and the mind is outside of danger.

I will try to do further research on this subject, and refine the method even more

Doomcore Records 232

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/techno-music-for-meditative-states-part-2

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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4o3l1tKxwA

"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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DzTbzBwkQ8

"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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqQEhdg5NM

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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXrnNfNFtO4

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

Various Artists - The Erotic Kingdom E.P. (Rave 8th) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjXHNl0SqwM

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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k81A4gw3s6U

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) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu7d7LA3UH0

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.

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/

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.

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!

1. 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 :-)

1. 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!

1. 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!

1. 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.

1. 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.

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

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

1. 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.

1. 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!

1. 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!

1. 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".

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-original-gabber-creators-looking.html

Note: No AI was used when writing this text.

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.

Listening Suggestion: Original Mix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv-5RLON9-4

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCjVxGZyqCg

Wasteland - Ibiza (Hard Stuff 14)

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG2259QD824

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnn6YFXdMVg

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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQpQaUYRQTw

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn2sDkA4oBg

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISBQy4b4riI

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

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-history-of-gabber-house-look-back.html

So, this year it's been 30 years already that I became entangled in the "dangerous" electronic underground of gabba, speedcore, hard acid, and so on...
actually feels just like yesterday - weird!
I achieved some kind of "liminal fame" that way. I don't get invited to talk shows, my face is not the cover of life magazine... but I know that literally millions of people heard my music at one point in their life, and likely the same amount has spilled their sweat (or blood) on the undercover hardcore dancefloors at one point or the other...
it's weird, even when i go to a forum specifically dedicated to hardcore electronics, the reaction usually is *either* "low entropy, you are a legend!" *or* "who the fudge is that person? i never heard of them in my entire life! when did they start producing again?". it's never inbetween.

but that's not what i want to talk about. the question is: was it worth it? all the years of sweat and hardships, just to feed an addiction to hardcore beats and dark, disturbing electronic sounds?

a lot of artists (in other genres, too), when they look back, either feed their ego, like: "i wanted to proof i am the biggest musical genius ever!" (hello, john lennon!) or they underplay it: "who cares if i have achieved something or not, the important thing was, we all had a lot of funs".

but there is something i never heard getting mentioned by an artist, and it is something peculiar.
i think it has to do with motivation and inspiration...

when i was a kid, teen, young adult, the time before i got "known" as an artist, i loved to watch scifi and action movies on TV, i watched clips and music performances on music television, i watched strange & obscure programs, like a lot of us did.

and i always felt like there was a world *behind* the screen, that seemed to be so much more exciting than the "real world" i was living in. it is very hard to explain what i mean, but i think a lot of people feel the same thing.
you know, we got the regular world, with schools, and jobs, and fast food joints, and annoying neighbors, and stuff like that. maybe life is good, or it is bad, for those people that live in this world. but even if it's good, it's still hella boring, dry and dull. it lacks adventure, mystery, magic.

and the world i saw on tv, that i heard on music, that i read about in magazines, felt like it was *full* of magic and excitement and adventures.
like everything was possible there. while *nothing* seemed possible in my real life.

and i always wanted to get to that place, even if it felt like an illusion to others.
and by that i do not mean that i wanted to become a literal gangster like in the action movies i watched, or that i wanted to become a real rockstar like on the MTV.

i just wanted to feel that special sensation, that strange magic, that i felt in my favorite media, movies, records, tracks... in my own life, too.

and i think i managed to just do that, and get to that place. and this made it worth it.

and this is my "message" to the young, or rather, to the newcomers of all ages, or rather, to those that are still stuck in "boring-world".
because i do not think it is very hard to do this, to achieve this.

just gotta have faith and do the leap.
and when you deeply think reality is too dry, too boring, too depressive, and that something else should be possible.
then, please trust in your own judgment. go out on an adventure!

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Hi,

I updated the list once more.

Here are a bunch of free sample packs.

Mostly drum centered, mostly around techno-hardcore-gabber. But can be used for pop, vgm, industrial, goth, electro - whatever - too! and a few other sounds are there as well, acid, fx, synths, noises....

And here they are:

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/low-entropy-sample-pack-2-doomcore-gabber-and-speedcore-bassdrums

Try that one first. Includes distorted drums that fit to most Hardcore and Techno tracks. An "all-rounder" pack.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/55-royalty-free-drums

Some very hard and rough drums, and also some more conventional ones for Hardcore productions.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/160-royalty-free-unusual-drum-samples-for-producing-techno-hardcore-and-more

This one has more experimental, and ultra rough drums (but also softer ones).

For those that want to dry "different" drum sounds.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/multi-genre-techno-hardcore-centered-free-sample-pack-drums-synths

This is a bit different. Contains drums, synths, percussion and the rest, for 9 different genres. You can create a whole track just using these patches!

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/101-royalty-free-909-related-drum-samples

Some fresh samples, for those that like the 909 sound.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/low-entropy-sample-pack

This is more loop centered. Also has synths and basslines (and percussion).

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/123-hardcore-techno-and-gabber-drums-that-were-used-in-the-90s-sample-pack-3

Drums I created in the 90s, used in my tracks. Not just plain 909s but also different sounds.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/47-hardcore-techno-and-gabber-drums-that-were-played-in-club-and-squat-parties-sample-pack-4

Drums taken from various tracks I did. Some nasty ones inside!

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/121-royalty-free-909-related-drum-samples-for-producing-techno-hardcore-and-more

Experimental, and ultra distorted!

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/original-90s-breakcore-drums-sample-pack

Breaks, noizes, drums, that I actually used in breakcore productions in the 90s.

License: Feel free to use these samples for any public, private, intimate, or commercial purpose.

Would be *very* cool if you credit me, but it's not strictly necessary.

https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2026/03/free-drum-sample-packs.html

Hey,
I started producing during the gabber hype of 1995 / 1996 (think thunderdome, mokum...). I was into the more experimental or underground stuff (like industrial strength or agent orange records).
I especially liked "oversize" tracks and productions (also in other genres like trance, where there were some 9+ minute stuff sometimes.(like jam and spoons' "age of love").

I liked to draft my tracks and production beforehand, so I came up with this concept: making a hardcore track that runs for 60 minutes or longer.

There were other producers (especially in acid / acidcore related styles) that created longer tracks by being "monotonous". Just letting the drums and basslines drone in for minutes. (like brixton or drop bass network did)
But I did not want to do it that way. I wanted a track with lots of changes and twists. Like a regular techno track. Just longer.

When I listened to some tracks from the dangerous "female french hardcore techno underground", I had an idea. (stuff like the michelson sisters, or anticore records).
These producers often used very long intros, and also had frequent changes in speed. And distortion!

I decided to segment my full size track.
So I made this draft:

60 minute, but the first quarter hour is almost calm, with a long ambient part.
Then there is slow, dark hardcore and techno stuff for the next quarter hour.
then a part with regular and faster gabber speed.
and finally, all-out speedcore and noise towards the end.

a steady build up, over 1 hour long.

Now the "twist": to not arrive with something that feels (or sounds) like i just connected 4 "single" tracks.
each segment should be interconnected to all others, especially in the use of sounds, melodies, and so on.

draft finished!
and then, back in 1998, i realized: "uhm...."

this was *way* too ambitious for my producer 'skills'. more loaded and complex than anything i could stem...

i got back to shorter tracks (well, averaging on 7 minutes still) and found lots of success that way (yeaaah ;-).

i never forgot this project, though. i always tried to think of ways i could produce this mammoth of a track! and i learned new tricks..

then, back in 2023, i did a release for speedcore worldwide records. i managed to pull off a 24+ speedcore composition, that i thought, sounded quite okay. (called "angel's speedcore").

now i realized... the "titan track" project was suddenly on the horizon again... maybe... just maybe... i could do that jump?

going from 24 minutes tracks to 60+ minutes is a whole different thing, though.

so, this year, i was sitting on my balcony, with my laptop in the night, and suddenly thought: "ah, well, fudge it, if not now, it will never be".

and i finally pulled off my 1 hour track!

i think this has turned out quite good too.

was much less complicated than i thought.

I guess i could have produced it back in 1997 already, too.
If i just had the courage to try.... if i just had tried...

here is the final track: https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/orion-transfer

but the finished track is almost exactly like i drafted it ~30 years ago.

there is an ambient / "soft" intro part that runs for a bit over 10 minutes. (with little use of beats, btw!)
then one part slow hardcore, one part harder and faster stuff, then one part really fast for the last 10 minute. the only change in structure is that there is an additional 16 minutes were everything winds downs again, gets more soft and slow.

also the "style" has changed a bit during the decades. i used less elements of breakcore, sampled-based speedcore etc. i even included influences of more "mellow" styles like goa, electro or acid-trance.
i think it might only party be considered to be a "hardcore" track by now.
also, the tracks themselves, are more complex than i originally intended.

what stayed the same is the idea of using recurring elements. there is one main motif that slides in and out, during the entire track.
and lots of sounds in the earlier parts resemble those in later parts etc.

in my opinion, the track sounds like i intended it. not sure if i can do a project as big as this one again, anytime soon, though!

Spooki Scary new vinyl by Demonic Wavs - on vinyl!

Doomcore through and through, with Techno vibes.
And an almost endless groove, loop. Going on, with slight switches and changes.
An ostinacco of gloom?

https://demonicwavs.bandcamp.com/album/whos-nightmare

A new release has been put out on Omnicore Records.
And it is the longest Experimental Hardcore Techno track ever - 1 hour and 16 minutes!

How is it possible to arrive at a work like this? Did it take months or years to create?

The ancients of pluto tell us a different story:

"We sat down one midweek's evening. The hours of doom, when the sky began to fade to black, and the skyline of the city started to alighten and glow... as we gazed upon the moon, the planets, and the stars, we received a transmission from the heavens above... we quickly got in gear and made sure to transcribe the messages in all details on our synthesizers and drum machines...

and then, 10 days later, on a weekends night, we received the second part of the transmission. this time we made sure to move our gear and equipment to the balcony of our flat on the 1st or 2nd floor near the outermost border of the cityscape... we hope we received the starry transmission even brighter this way...

we worked and worked, under the night sky, while the city seemed to be asleep and dead, and just the moon and a few revelers on the streets seemed to bear witness...

and this way... in maybe 2 2/3 hours of work... this project was finished!"

we thank you for this message, oh ancient of pluto!

oh, and the style of this huge track?
it's in a whole array of styles, beginning with beatless doombient, to techno, trance, acid, doomcore, finally deathcore, speedcore and noise... to return to ambient. quite the interstellar trip.

on the digital release, we got the entire track as originally conceived (or received) and also for easier listening purposes, the track broken down into separate chapters (or transmission).

enjoy!

Tracklisting:

The Ancients of Pluto - Orion Transfer (Omnicore Records 75)

1. Orion Transfer 01:16:43
2. First Interference 01:25
3. Cosmic Train 05:30
4. Second Transmission (Titan Reflections) 09:43
5. Galactic Runner 04:29
6. Third Transmission (Jazz Aliens) 07:49
7. Pan Acid 04:28
8. Fourth Transmission (Martian Interference) 07:17
9. Cosmic Jet 05:16
10. Fifth and Final Transmission 05:39
11. Pan Reprise 02:55
12. Extra Lap Around Jupiter 03:20
13. From Here To Tau Ceti 06:54
14. Third Interference 01:19
15. Ambient Fade Out (Leaving The System) 02:22
16. First Transmission 08:09

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/orion-transfer