The Gabber Elders - Compilation

Even your gabber heroes from the 90s get old.
They become dads, moms, uncles, grandpas, inmates, wine&cheese enthusiasts, snake-oil vendors, crooks, or corrupted Fortune 500 CEOs.
Like everyone of us.
Eventually, they'll start to watch re-runs of Matlock, Eurovision, and Golden Girls on TV.

But this does not mean they could no longer drop them distorted 909 gabba kicks like it's hot (or cool) !

Or teach all the youngins of today how noisy a hoover, mentasm, or synth sound can get.

The Gabber Elders are four individual persons from all other the world (USA, Bathgate, Germany and the Netherlands).
They were DJs, producers, promoters, or the weirdo standing in the corner of the record shop.
They did legendary, or less legendary stuff during the hardcore techno hey days of the 90s and a few years later too.
Now each of them is 300-400 years old.

They may look more wrinkly and with less hair now, or look like something the cat dragged in.
Their i-sight might no longer be as good, and they might need to use hearing aids to tell a mokum record apart from a rave records one.

They mgiht start to miss the lettrs on the kbyoard while their typing a txet.

But this does not mean they could no longer drop them distorted 909 gabba kicks like it's hot (or cool) !

So here is a compilation with 7 tracks by all 4 of them.

Maybe these justified & elderly gabber merlins can still teach you a lesson or two!

The style of the compilation on here covers (almost) the whole hardcore spectrum, from slower doomcore and acidcore to gabber and all-out speedcore.
The Gabber Elders consist of:

GabberGirl
Nikaj
DJ Asylum
Low Entropy

Read more about them at http://thegabberelders.com

And now shut up and sit down while you are talking to a grown-up, you annoying kid. and get off my lawn!

Tracklisting:

The Gabber Elders - Compilation (Omnicore Records 77)

1. DJ Asylum - Maniac 02:42
2. GabberGirl - These Motherfokers 04:14
3. Nikaj - Honor Never Dies 04:47
4. Low Entropy - Acidcore 4 (Short Mix) 04:19
5. DJ Asylum - VPOWC 03:55
6. GabberGirl - Death by Stereo 05:01
7. Low Entropy - Acidcore of Doom 05:57

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-gabber-elders-compilation

Doomed Techno Mix

 

Doomcore Records Pod Cast #102 - The Ancients of Pluto - Doomed Techno Mix

The Ancients of Pluto just had their premiere release on the Doomcore Records sub-label Omnicore Records.
And now, they are here, on the Doomcore Record Pod Cast, with their doomed Techno mix.
And yeah, the name says it all. Very spooky and enigmatic vibes. For the dancefloor, or for home listening. Or for listening inside the underworld.

Judging by the tracklist, the focus is more on obscure and lesser known tracks.
Fitting the theme!

Tracklisting:

1. Alec Empire - Limited 07

2. Epoch 90 - Last Night Of The World (Last Zoop - Zoop)

3. X 101 - Rave New World

4. Hanin - Parfum

5. Radioactive Goldfish - Pink Potassium

6. Taciturne - Phenylephrin-Hydrochlorid
7. Cybermouse - My Dorectives
8. Hanin - There is no love in Tekkno
9. Pascal II - The Future is Ours
10. Sonic Subjunkies - Confusion
11. Polygon Window - UT1 - Dot
12. 100% Acidiferous - 303 State

https://hearthis.at/thehardcoreoverdogs/doomed-techno-mix/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1V02cvyPlc

Holmur

Holmur first appeared on Omnicore Records in 2023. The release was a spooky-scary audio tale. The story reminded me a bit of John Carpenter's The Thing - it took place in the northernmost cold, and via "logbog" entries we heard about some kind of alien or otherwise infestation.
This new "tale" does not take place underneath the northern lights. Instead it is ominously called "Grandview Family Insurance".
The story is a bit ambiguous this time.

Is there something sinister going on at the company? Maybe otherworldly forces at work?
Is it about some kind of dark / occult family?
The name "Grandview..." also reminds me of the "Overlook" hotel in King/Kubrick's The Shining... so maybe it is a bit left to the viewers to decide what is really happening... pardon, i mean, to *the listeners*!

oh, and what about the sound itself? dark ambient, horror drones, strange sounds... something for your hellbound heart!

Info + Tracklist:

Holmur - Grandview Family Insurance (Omnicore Records 76)

1 Holmur The Interview
2 Holmur First Day
3 Holmur After Hours Print Job
4 Holmur Breaching Security
5 Holmur Amber Alert
6 Holmur Cubicle Of Solitude
7 Holmur Already Promoted
8 Holmur Coffee, Black, No Sugar
9 Holmur Trust Issues
10 Holmur Caught By The Family

Mastering By GumGumKing (Emil Brix Kolstrup)

Coverart by:
- Rontobyte
- Torakk
- Per Mikkelsen

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/grandview-family-insurance

Looking back at 30 years of producing hardcore and techno music - my message to newcomers

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!

Orion Transfer Poster

The original orion transfer art in high resolution.

If you create a poster out of one of our releases, use this one.

I am a Techno producer, and I wanted to create a 1 hour long Hardcore track for ~30 years. This year, I finally managed to do it!

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!

Low Entropy - Strength Of Acidcore

Released today, on HCBX Recordings.
Going back to the acidcore style a bit.
I tried some new things, though: there are lots of speed, mood, track changes. no steady bpms. more like a live set.
but a strange, zany live jam.
from 120 to 1000 bpm.

https://hcbx.bandcamp.com/album/low-entropy-strength-of-acidcore

Tracklisting:

Low Entropy - Strength Of Acidcore

1. Low Entropy - Shoot Me 04:22
2. Low Entropy - Shoot Me Again 03:24
3. Low Entropy - Gruesome Death (Manic Mix) 01:50
4. Low Entropy - Gruesome Death (Even More Manic Mix) 02:24
5. Low Entropy - The Freedom to Fuck Off 04:24
6. Low Entropy - The Ancients of Pluto 03:01
7. Low Entropy - The Ancients of Pluto (Resprise) 04:37
8. Low Entropy - Connection to the Underworld (Short Cut) 03:11