Low Entropy's production diary: My totally insane year of the triple snake goddess hardcore techno titan drum

Right after the end of 2025, after christmas and during new year, i began to feel sick, the condition got worse, in the weeks that followed.
Eventually i needed to go to the hospital in march, had surgery, doctors said i was on the door to death already, yet they released me after 3 days again, so maybe it was not *that* bad, i don't know.
i still need to live with the implications of this, am not back to normal, but i am mostly recovered and the doctors say i am, more or less, "fine", by now.

This is all very disturbing and bad, but I don't want to trouble you with my health tales. Instead i want to talk about music production, and there is a story related to this story, that is even more insane, and even *i* have trouble understanding it.

So, as you see, I went ill after christmas, into the new year... and even in january i already had minor fits of hallucinating... nothing too bad, nothing out of control. for example, little white people from another dimension, having a chat with me about me and my life.
This is not too unusual for me when i am seriously ill. and i think its something that happens to a lot of people, when they have a fever or are in bed, with bad health.

an example, when i had corona, i had visions of the end of the world, of death as a female personification walking toward me in the snow, and touching me, and worse, for days on.

let's get back to january. one of the weirdest visions was that i repeatedly saw three snakes, in the room i was in.
large snakes, maybe 2-3 meters each, or longer, they twirled and flew around the room, sometimes towards me, touching me, and breathing fire on me.

i don't know, this "hallucination" appeared 6-7 times, or maybe even more often.

out of curiosity, i began to ask the "snake thing" about its name. at first, the snakes seemed to utter complete silence, as the answer, even though they opened their mouths.
but i kept asking, and i heard something that sounded like a strange, hoarse whisper.

i felt i was making progress, so i kept asking, and the snake answer got louder each time.
eventually, i could hear what the sound was.

it sounded very much like a techno bassdrum, but epic, mindblowing... colossal, almost infernal.
there was a strange metallic sound to it, and reverberation, and it was very noisy (that's why i first thought it sounded like hissing when it was more silent, i guess).

i felt enchanted and overpowered by it, i never heard something so powerful before! it was titanic, maybe that's the right word for it. like it came from the depths of the earth, or the depths of the cosmos.

after that, i made a vow to attempt to recreate the sound i heard, that was given to me, by this triple snake vision.

i immediately went into production, and created a 27:27 minute piece with a drum sound, that felt similar.
and then a few weeks later, i created 160 drum samples, and tried to fit them to the vision of that sound.

i later did more productions, and i also used my own samples in my own tracks, and essentially, there are countless of tracks and albums now, based on these weird "titan drums".

my entire year of music and production, was changed, and ruled by this weird event!

i still don't know what was going on here, or if it's even a sensible and rational thing to do, to create something that is somehow tied to sickness, too.

but on the other hand, other artists did great novels, movies, and music, out of "dark" things like misery, war, death and, yes, sickness, too, so i guess it's alright. and these drums are really kicking! in my opinion.

and maybe this production progress would have happened without illness too, and it's just a strange coincidence.

also, i dont feel my drum samples really did 100% justice to the sound i heard, as it felt even more powerful and otherwordly. but they do go in that direction!

Sounds:

NucleusProject Part 1 - Les Champs Métalliques https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/nucleusproject-part-1-les-champs-m-talliques (the first production)
160 royalty free unusual drum samples https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/160-royalty-free-unusual-drum-samples (the sample pack)
Orion Transfer https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/orion-transfer one of the albums i created with the drum

77 genuine speedcore drum samples from the 1990s

hi there,
here is a new sample pack with drums and other sounds. these samples are free to download, and royalty free.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/77-genuine-speedcore-drum-samples-from-the-1990s

background:

i've been an electronic musician since ages... and since the 90s, at least.
back then my main style was gabber, speedcore, breakcore... the "harder edge" of techno if you want... and especially the faster one!
my music got very popular, i played my tunes in fronts of 1000s of people, at countless clubs, in the open, under railway bridges, at squats, i dropped 800 bpm tunes at places like tresor in berlin...

and my music was put on vinyl, 1000s of copies per release...

i am telling this not to boost my ego, but to show that these were drums that were actually used in the 90s and the years later, too, that got played out. are "club tested and crowd approved", so to say. not some faux reconstruction of an era that has gone by!

these drums are taken from my actual tracks from "back in the day". some of these tracks (and drums) were created using software like impulse tracker, buzz tracker, cool edit pro, soundforge, native instrument's generator... the real deal! MS-DOS, win 3.11, then windows 98 (yeah i skipped 95).

the style of the drums is hardcore, of course, but i am sure they can be used for everything, when done right.

apart from the drums, there is synths, pads, percussion, noise, fx, and other weird stuff.
credits

77 genuine hardcore, techno, and speedcore drum samples and sounds from the 1990s

credits:

all drums and sounds created by me, low entropy.

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.

also check my other packs:

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

Low Entropy's Producer Diary: The trick

The secret trick to being a good producer is the following:

Try to make every track like it's a throwaway session on a bored monday that you will discard in the garbage afterwards, *and* as if it's a production where you need to come up with the correct sequences of tones and beats to prevent the planetary apocalypse and the end of all things, there is noone else left or around to do this job, time is running out, and you only have 5 minutes left, and if you fail, it's... "la fin", like the French say.



if you can combine both of these opposite, polar mindsets or fantasies, at the same time, and channel that in your music... well, then i think the result will be exceedingly good!

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/track/post-acid
https://rotjecore.bandcamp.com/track/horrortrax060-low-entropy-thy-will-be-done-apocalyptic-mix

Low Entropy's Producer Diary: Creating a remix of Filth for a Riot Radio

One day, in 2023, I had a most nice surprise. RIOT Radio Records reached out to me. They said they loved me (he he) and wanted me to do a DJ set for their show, and also a remix for their label.
It happened to be a remix of Matthias Koch's track "scream for me" which ended up on the "Filth" EP.

They asked it to be in "Doomcore" style, and as riot radio was more of a techno thang, I reined in my hardcore a bit and refrained from too much of speedcore or other strange influences.

so... where was I? Ah yes, the set was more "technoid" than usual for me too.
and when i checked the track that i was due to remix i was in for a shock: this was not the mellow techno anymore i knew from the past. in fact it sounded more hardcore and screaming than a lot of gabber stuff i knew!

So what could i do to it?
Plus it had a lot of sounds and channels, which made remixing it a quite complex task.
So I conceived this idea: i load some of the stems into my daw, add my own beats and noise and ruckus, and, yeah, hope that something interesting comes out from that.

And I still live jammed it! So there was this production curiosity:
I built my own, multi channel track as a remix of the original. But while live recording it, the entirety of the original track was always playing in the background of it! yet I only switched on and off some of the channels. So sometimes this or that channel was playing, some of my own channels were playing, and some original ones, then everything changed... yeah,quite the chaos.

And I think the output sounds like chaos too, which was what I had intended.

I liked to hear the full on noize of the track, but my label guy demanded "Doomcore".
So I had the following idea: i followed the tradition of doomcore tracks like "gates of heaven" by dr macabre, "in the midnight hour" my superpower. the doomcore pads and sounds and melodies come in over the length of a track, one at a time. so there is a build up until everything is swallowed by the - doom.

I thought this was very clever, but the label said: "the doomcore is really only in the last 1/3 of the track"
so much for that!

we tried ways to fix this, but as my track was live jammed, one take, i could not do much about it anymore.
In the end we more or less put it out this way.

Went on a nice picture vinyl, with other tracks by Matthias, and a few other remixes. there is also a digital version, and a shopping bag (!) with the picture from the vinyl.
the picture shows "a woman grabbing onto her chest", to describe it in modest words, which, i guess, should symbolize the "filth" of the tracks.
it does not look too dirty, but it's good to turn some people heads when i walk around with my filth shopping bag.

got some good feedback on the track, and it ended up being playing out by some DJs.

Digital and Vinyl version:
https://riotradiorecords.bandcamp.com/album/filth

HCBXCast Vol 86 - Low Entropy - 19th September 2026

Dogs and itches! I have some grrreat news!
I will return to HCBX once more.

With a 1 hour set on the 19th of september, or 19.09... because the 909 is a classic, it seems!

What to expect? Well, here is the official promo text.
Just let me tell you, it's gonna be rrrrough!

"HCBXCast 86 sees the return of one of the channel's longest-standing collaborators and an absolute hardcore techno legend, Low Entropy. LE has been a part of the HCBX channel for years now, so it was only right to get him back on the show. This time we're getting stuck into the darker, harder and more fucking mental side of the Low Entropy sound. Terror, hardcore, techno and all manner of twisted electronic madness, brought together in one proper Low Entropy session. HCBXCast 86. Low Entropy. No messing about."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSsporrw-G0

Low Entropy's Producer Diary: What's in a name?

Low Entropy Diary: What's in a name?

Some info and the background story how I ended up with my name... why I chose "low entropy" as the producer alias.

When I started, there was this weird attitude in the German hardcore (speedcore) scene, and probably elsewhere, too.
Trying to appear ultra evil, aggressive, "edge-y"... so artist names were usually horror / violence related too, i guess dj skull crunch or dj rip-your-guts-out would have fit there...

After reading a feature in the german Spex magazine, I got inspired to do the opposite, to pick a name with the least "street cred" or hardness possible (as I saw it).
i was (or still am) also a science nerd at that time. so i chose a concept from science and physics, entropy. the word was really unknown in germany, and i think it's only recently that there is a hype about entropy on the internet (even UK pop band muse had an entropy-themed album by now)

there are very few totally strict laws in the world of physics (even nuclear particles can be transmuted, and most other "laws" can be circumvented in some way), and one of these laws happen to be the idea that the universe favors entropy, and it is impossible to go against that.

so I chose the opposite of entropy, which is "low entropy". as an act of rebellion, and to go against the cosmic laws, metaphorically speaking.

and then, a few years later, nerd-y names suddenly became commonplace in the breakcore scene, and were everywhere. this made me wish to go back in time, and change my name to "dj skull crunch" after all! but i guess hindsight is 20/20, and the breakcore hype is mellowed down again.

i also thought about calling myself "phuture kid" at first, because i liked pcp and their whole "phuture" concept.
but nowadays i am glad that i did not do that! because i think that name might not have aged so well...

and another thing that was very (or ver-Y) important to me was to have an "Y" in my name. I always liked that letter, and I am super interested in strange names or odd letter concepts... like Zang Tumb Tuum (the record label of Frankie goes to Hollywood), Zoth Omnog (Talla 2XLC's industrial EBM label), zyx music (music supercompany, that also released a lot of gabber and speedcore stuff, apart from their industrial disco, goth, or polka compilations), ziggy stardust (david bowie supposedly "took" the first name of his berlin room mate iggy pop, then slapped an extra "z" on top of it to make it appear more cool), zaxxon (really cool early arcade game), exxos (french game company, did purple saturn day and the chamber of the sci-mutant priestess).
seems there are a lot of "z"s and "x"s in these surreal names. so maybe it was the right time to choose an "Y", too :-)

New Doomcore vinyl

You might have checked and listened to the new Darklords 2 compilation by Demonic Wavs already.
But did you know it is also a triple vinyl release?
I guess that makes it the biggest Doomcore Techno vinyl album ever!

Go check it here:

https://elasticstage.com/doomsday/releases/darklords-2-pt1-album
https://elasticstage.com/doomsday/releases/darklords-2-pt2-album
https://elasticstage.com/doomsday/releases/darklords-2-pt3-album

and the digital version

https://demonicwavs.bandcamp.com/album/darklords-2

aaand.. you can also buy it on usb drive!