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!

Threefold Low Entropy interviews

Hi there!
Do you want to get to know me & my music better?
In the last months, there has been three more or less extensive interviews with me about my music production and other things.

First one was for HCBX, on the occasion of a mix by me that was broadcasted on HCBX.

https://hcbxcast.blogspot.com/2024/11/interview-low-entropy.html

I guess it has been the most extensive and "serious" one.

The next one was by Origin of Styx, on the occasion of my appearance of his radio show:

https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2026/01/le-on-oos-stygian-show.html

This is a bit more fun and weird ;-)

https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2026/08/low-entropy-busy-bio.html

This one happened because the Busy Action show asked me to write a longer bio or info blurb about what I do.
I guess it is a kind of "interview with myself" in some way (how about that, Billy Idol ? :-)

I'll also let you in on some production secrets in these interviews, and some cring-y or weird stories of my past.

Cheers!
-LE

Low Entropy's Producer Diary: The Yellow Dog Lights Up At Night, or: Hamburg Thrift

I like to haunt at thrift stores and 1-euro stores, because you never know what you can find there, and despite the items being usually cheap, they are sometimes, if you are lucky, not of lesser quality; and actually quite useful.
So, some years ago, I was at some Hamburg euro type thing, and noticed a dog light, or rather... uhm... a dog-themed light source. I guess it was supposed to be some kind of (novelty) lamp, but it was a light source for a regular home, yet shaped like one of these typical neon signs... you know, neon glowing scissor signs for hair (or other?) stylists, glowing hammers for mechanics (okay maybe i made this one up). but this one was shaped like a dog.
and even though it looked and was stylized like a neon sign, it was regular led or whatever they do these days.

and, you might guess why i bought it, because i thought it was a fun item to have, in relation to the hardcore techno overdogs magazine.
but, i am lazy, and i buy a lot of stuff, and am busy with a lot of things, and with projects. so i put it somewhere in some room, and did not pay attention to it.
fast forward some time, i think about two years... and a light bulb blew up in another room, i moved a light from the producer room as a temporary substitute. which meant my producing room was now short of one light.
i remembered the dog, unpacked the box, the thing looked really cool and cute, after all!
turned out it was usb powered, so i plugged it into the desktop computer i use for producing, and, voila, the faux neon dog lit up in glorious yellow light! which was a surprise, i thought the light would be more white-ish.

because it is connected to the usb plug, this means that everytime i do producing beyond daytime, the yellow dog lights up at night!

part 2

why i do i write this? well, to me, it's not a quirk, or a novelty, or some silly thing. when i do producing at night, this means that i can see the blue-ish grey-ish darkened night sky of Hamburg. Hamburg has been called "the city where the rain never ends", but i also like to call it "The Moonless City". Because of the rainy or semi-rainy weather, the sky is often overcast at night. so: you can't see the moon, even when it's up. it appears as if hamburg lacked a moon!

so it means i am sitting in my production room, i see through the window, there is darkness outside, i can see the lights of the high rises, the blinking lights of the planes, the electricity pylons, or, to be more precise, i can't actually see the pylons, but only the bright red air traffic warning lights that are attached to them, as if they were reddened eyes suspended in the sky. i can even see the stars, on a lucky day.
i can see some trees slowly swinging in the currents of the wind. i can see the occasional reveler on the street, or the occasional car drive by; as if it was not steered by humans to very human destinations, but as if they would lift up any moment, turn into a spacecraft, disappear into the night sky as another bright dot, before heading straight to alpha centauri.

i hear the urban hum in the background, the jet engines from time to time, the traffic noise, sometimes a fight or dispute on the street, sometimes the sirens of police cars, the distant sound of trains. and for some reason, there also seems to be construction noise in some way, even at night.

and now, to this whole mood, now the production room is filled with warm glowing, neither too bright neither too dark, orange-yellow light. out of a led thing shaped like a faux dog.

and yeah, i think you know what i want to express here. this generates a certain mood, a setting, ambience, a certain environment. it's a home studio, but the environment is not just the room or the sound characteristics.
it is also how the room feels, even when the room is expanded to the outside world. or mixed up with it.

and the yellow light adds to it, in this case.

part 3

and i don't think that's crazy, because i know many producers who, at one point, made the decision to create a kind of home studio. and they always had quirks like that. like, someone wanted to have only white colored things in their production room. another has vintage scifi movie poster on their walls. or producers keep all kind of totems and strange items in their production room, such as stuff from their childhood, or stuff that reminds them of a cool party, and much more.
some might even keep a piece of semi-defunct gear they never did part with. as some kind of technological good luck charm.

and if you ask these producers, they all will swear to you that *this is important*: that how the room they are making music in looks like, feels like, appears like, *has* an effect on production. including the choice or lack of lighting. which brings us back to the yellow dog light, woof woof!

and, the message of all this is, that if you are gonna sit down and produce music, keep in mind, that the environment, how you set up your production environment, might actually be important, too!

note: no AI has been used when writing this text.

related tracks:

topp dogg - the hardcore techno overdogs anthem part II https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/track/topp-dogg-black-dog-edit
low entropy - future city skyline https://encountersrecords.bandcamp.com/album/future-city-skyline
low entropy - golden galaxy https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/track/2019-golden-galaxy

Hardcore against AFD (Techno Remix)

Low Entropy · Hardcore Against AFD (Techno Remix)

Low Entropy - Hardcore against AFD (Techno Remix)

In light of the upcoming election... I created a new remix of this track by me.
It's weird when I think about this track, and realize it is a track I made in 2017 already.
A year when the AFD was dangerously close to gaining power, too. One would have thought that this problem would have been finished by now, right?
But, alas, it seems to be a never ending struggle.
So, 9 years later, 2017 to 2026, here is an updated version of the track.

Many brilliant and courageous people held a lot of speeches about this issue, campaigns, events... and as an add-on, now here is also a very aggressive techno track, to feed your anger.

Against fascism, against Racism, against misogyny, against queerphobia, against classism, against oppression.
And against anything that even remotely feels or looks to be "right-wing".

Let's put fascism back into the trashcan of history, once more.

https://soundcloud.com/low-entropy/hardcore-against-afd-techno

Æon Quest

The year turns, and so does the project nucleus.
The September entry is an epic quest, an Æon Quest.
Follow the hard techno kickdrum and outer space acid line and voice of the choir, as we pass from aeon to aeon, from the aeon of love to the aeon of redemption. Will Sophia finally find her way, as she navigates the labyrinth of space and time?

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/on-quest-the-nucleus-project-september

Find more info about the project nucleus here: https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2026/08/updates-on-nucleus-project.html



Full Release Info:

Æon Quest (The Nucleus Project: September)

1. 1st Æon (Love) 04:47
2. 2nd Æon (Seed) 06:19
3. 3rd Æon (Rise) 03:47
4. 4th Æon (Zenith) 06:14
5. 5th Æon (Temporarily Lost) 03:06
6. 6th Æon (Redemption) 03:13

Music by Low Entropy
Original artwork by Pierre Lunaire

Low Entropy Busy Bio

A few weeks (months) ago, Busy Action reached out to me, to write a short blurb about me & my music, as a (belated) add-on to a mix set release I did for Busy Action back in the first month of 2025.
Well, as you know me, the text got a bit longer, and I now feel it is almost like a complete short bio of my own music, or maybe, a "busy bio"

TOXIC SICKNESS RADIO OFFICIAL · LOW ENTROPY / BUSY ACTION SHOW ON TOXIC SICKNESS / JANUARY / 2025

https://soundcloud.com/toxic-sickness/lowentropy-busy-action-show-january-2025

If you want to learn more about me & my music, feel free to also read this interview I did with DJ Asylum and HCBX a year ago: https://hcbxcast.blogspot.com/2024/11/interview-low-entropy.html

or this one I did with OOS earlier this year (2026)
https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2026/01/le-on-oos-stygian-show.html

And here it goes:

I was born 16.11.1980 in Hamburg, Germany.
Got into the whole techno madness thing during the 90s.
Apart from Hardcore & Gabber, I was always interested in, and producing other styles of music too, like dark ambient, krautrock, breakcore, chip sounds, contemporary classical....

some of the stuff i did:

-I had my first vinyl releases in the late 90s and early 2000s, on labels like Blut, Praxis, Black Monolith, or Widerstand.
-i ran a hamburg-wide radio show (real radio, not online) called "hamburg hardcore radio". plenty of guest DJs showed up and label specials were aired.
-played countless of gigs, all over germany, in the netherlands, at tresor, at parades...

-produced over 300 releases for free and commercial labels. from drone and minimal techno, industrial doomcore and hard acid, to speedcore and noise.
-running a magazine called "the hardcore overdogs" that focuses on weird hardcore releases and the electronic music scene in general. with DJ interviews, video features, and much more.

-running three digital labels: doomcore records, slowcore records, and omnicore records

doomcore records is for dark hardcore and techno, slowcore records is for music below 130 bpm, and omnicore records is for everything.
the labels have more than 300 releases in total, too.

-being part of The Gabber Elders, a global team made up of a few hardcore DJs and producers of the 90s

apart from music, i am also a "diy-taught music journalist", and have been writing for paper and online magazines since the 90s.
i also wrote several e-books about hardcore techno, the culture, strange / obscure labels.
or about other topics. like anarchism, philosophy, or poetry.

i believe that music and art has the power to change the entire world.

-i also like to do video art or visuals, or find ways to shoot movies on a soapbox budget.

some things that others might consider to be merits:

i, my labels, or my music have been featured in most of the major music magazines around the world.
the stuff i write for the hardcore overdogs and other features have been read by several million people.
also my music has been listened to by a million people or more.
and it keeps getting played by djs around the world at huge or small parties.

you might also want to check my blog: https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/