Le interview

thanks to HCBX, there's a new interview with yours truly in relation to the upcoming show! https://hcbxcast.blogspot.com/2024/11/interview-low-entropy.html

Method to my Madness

The week starts with a bang, as we are very happy to present to you the premiere music release by none other than Undercurrent (aka Li-Z)

She has been around in the Hardcore circuit for many years, is one of the best DJs (both technical, and in track selections), and has quite the accolades to show.

So how did Li-Z, whose job as a DJ is to spin tracks by other people to other people, happen to have a release out, with her own productions?

Well, she explains it better in her own words:

"A very experimental, one-off release that doesn’t quite fit into any genre. There are influences from Industrial, Hip-Hop, and IDM, but the result doesn’t quite fit into any of them.

These tracks were made around 10 years ago, at a time when I was still exploring music production but already realizing it wasn’t for me. I never really considered myself a producer, and after this I stopped making music altogether. Still, there’s something about these strange tunes, I think it's the 'no rules' and 'in-between-genres' energy that I like and that made me want to share them now. Maybe someone out there will connect with them in their own way."

Word!

Tracklisting:

Undercurrent (aka Li-Z) - Method to my Madness (Omnicore Records 64)

1. Method to my Madness 06:25
2. The Undercurrent 04:25
3. Bill Woodblocks 06:52
4. Neo 04:52
5. The Undercurrent (Instrumental) 04:25

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/method-to-my-madness

Tribute Mix to Dance Ecstasy 2001 Part 2 - The Endless Summer Mix

Quite a while ago I did a tribute to Dance Ecstasy Records - Part 1.
And now, a long time later, I finally got around to do - Part 2.
The subtitle is "The Endless Summer Mix". Because, even if that might feel like sacrilege to some Die-Hard PCP Doomcore fans - the releases on DE 2001, most of the time, represented the rave, party, dance, enjoy-life-to-your-fullest side of PCP. Fitting to the end-of-summer days we are in.

And, lastly, it *is* actually an endless mix! I don't know how many DJs did pull this of before. The mix does not end. You can listen to it for days. It is a loop. Just set your player to "repeat". Because the end is already the start of the mix again (huh?... no really, just try it!)

So enjoy these dog days, check the mix, respect to Acardipane and DE 2001. And here's the tracklisting:

Tracklisting:

1. Masters of Rave - Pump It

2. The Great Bellinis - The World is Yours

3. Ace The Space - 9 is a Classic (Remix)

4. Lunatic Asylum - People Want Paradise

5. Rave Creator - A new Mind (Rave Remix)

6. Nasty Django - Let it roar

7. Planet Phuture - Suburban Survival

8. Nasty Django - Cmon

9. SexDrive Entertainment - Untitled

10. Headshop - Paranoid

11. Inferno Bros - Slave to the Rave (Remix)

12. Reign - Light & Dark

13. DJ Jamo & Jack Knives - Seastar II

14. Negative Burn - Gates of Heaven

15. Renegade Legion - Dark Forces

16. Stereo Murder - Don't touch

17. Masters of Rave - Pump It (Remix)

https://hearthis.at/omnicore-records/low-entropy-tribute-to-dance-ecstasy-2001-mix-part-2/

Terror Tribe

Out now on Speedcore Worldwide!

Terror Tribe - The Ascent

For the occasion of this compilation, I decided to do an Extratone track again - which is a rare thing for me. And it combines "traditional" Hardcore and Doomcore elements with Extratone.

https://speedcoreworldwideaudionetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/terror-tribe-the-ascent

The Tortured Shadows Department

Low Entropy - The Tortured Shadows Department - LOTR Mix or Live 08

Yours truly was invited by Les Ombres Torturées Records to stitch together a live mix for their podcast.
And, going by the name of the label, I present to you The Tortured Shadows Department.
It's less a mix, more an audio narrative, telling a complete and dark story... and each track is a chapter in this imaginary book.
(check the track names to learn more)

Plenty of howling, laments, wailing, agony, and teeth-gnashing, transformed into synths, drums, and noise.
From Dark Ambient and Drone to Doomcore and Speedore.
Until the shadows get set free again...

Tracklisting:

I Drone 1
II Sternenklang 2
III Doomicide
IV Death Dance (of Slowcore)
V Help Me Master
VI Burst Into Fire (and the angels wouldn't help you)
VII Witches
VIII Temple of Divine (Hardcore)
IX Substellar (Slowcore)
X The Self
XI Comprehension of Sweet Sounds (Remix - shadows of shadows are passing)
XII (Fast Dive) Into Nothingness
XIII Killing Zoo (Remix)
XIV The rest of the world (is in a bubble of glass)
XV Death Waits In Samarra
XVI Lucifer
XVII Female Revenge
XVIII Métal Hurlant
XIX There Is No Future
XX Everlasting Silence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDACZpmTBA8

Drum Sample Pack

121 Royalty Free 909 Related Drum Samples (for Producing Techno, Hardcore, and More)

Here's a brand new serving of kicking hardcore and techno drum samples.
They are free to use, you don't have to pay royalties, you don't have to credit me (see below).
All of these are related to the 909 (the drum machine that made the 90s roar). But are tweaked, distorted, run through fx... so these are not your standard gabber and techno kicks for sure.

There is a huge variety of samples: bass heavy ones, more light weight drums, weird ones, and hyper-distorted sounds.
(The focus is on the heavy ones, of course.)

Because of this, I'd say they are suitable for all electronic genres... hardcore, techno, industrial, indietronics, speedcore... you name it!

I've been a hardcore and techno producer for nearly 30 years now and i did countless releases on countless labels. For this sample pack, I isolated the drum-stems of some of these tracks, and cut them into short samples
So it's really drums that have been played loud and approved at club or squat party sound systems (and their crowds).

License: Feel free to use the bassdrums for any public, private, intimate, or commercial purpose.
Would be *very* cool if you credit me, but it's not strictly necessary.

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

Note: in some cases, you might need to cut off the "clicking" sound at the end of the sample in an audio editor.

Horrortrax Re-Launch

Good news: Rotjecore re-launched their Horrortrax label!
And the first release is already out, a compilation with yours truly on it as well.

https://rotjecore.bandcamp.com/album/horrortrax094-v-a-black-as-midnight-ep