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.

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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

50% of the Gabber Elders - The Famous tracks of the 90s mix

Nikaj and Low Entropy are true rats of the underground and crate diggers.
Always on the hunt for Pure & Obscure records to spin.
This time, they do the opposite.
They join forces to do a more mainstream set of 90s hardcore!

All time classic gabber hits from your favorite compilations like Thunderdome, Cyberdrome, Earthquake, or Burnedrome.
(The last one does not exist. We made this up).

By the gold award certified OG producers that swept the airwaves and TV streams in the 90s, and whose tunes blasted from every gas station and kindergarten rave.

So let us clap, and let us rejoice!

tracklisting:

1. cyanide - stringz
2. buzz fuzz - xtc love
3. the lawyer - yo dj!
4. tellurians - hardcore junkies
5. chosen few - the breaks
6. dj delirium - dance or die
7. party animals- sarin
8. electronic subforce - hard spirit (lenny dee remix)
9. dj dave & the chicago hardcore party force - yo mr. dj!
10. bruyaa & ozonic - evolution
11. dj bomber - motherfuk
12. waxweazle - brainscan (in for the kill)
13. source code - what's going on?
14. 248 Tracklist
15. Pino D'Ambini - Land Of Promises
16. Diss Reaction - Jiiieehaaaa
17. High Energy - The Box
18. Diss Reaction - DJ Lan
19. Bertocucci Feranzano - Class Axion Take 2
20. Juggernaut - Xtc Motherf...
21. Jeremy - The Flow
22. Masoko Solo - Pessa Pessa
23. Buzz Fuzz - Drop The Pressure (E-Rick & Tactic Mix)
24. Dj Isaac - Bad Dreams
25. DJ Skorp & DJ Pila - Mindcontroller
26. Lunalotic - Happy House...???
27. Warlock - Reality is a Nightmare
28. Smile - Set You Free
29. DJ Skorp & DJ Pila - Oohh God Damned I'm Great
30. Tellurian - Fucked-Up Motherfuckers
31. Search & Destroy - Don't Need Nobody
32. Pino D'Ambini - B2 } Do It Again
33. Tellurian - Don't Stop
34. DJ Arjuna - Get A Grip (Original Mix)
35. Cyanide - Dreamland
36. Chosen Few - Chosen Paradise
37. Public Domain - I Know It
38. Tony Salmonelli - Hey! (Pino D'Ambini's 1997 Remix)
39. Scarface - Halloween
40. The Scotchman - Self Destruct
41. Scarface - Turntable Junkie
42. Da Beatblower - Fuck Your S Off
43. Bertocucci Feranzano - Daddy Snow (Buzzy's Ragga Mix)
44. Chosen Few - Kold Dayz

https://youtu.be/tgGxFCJClDg

Incoming

New Release coming up!

This one's heavily influenced by stuff like 90s Industrial Strength or Brutal Chud.
Style is Acidcore / Hardcore (mostly), but there are some changes this time. The sounds are stripped to the bare minimun, raw + reduced.
And there are a lot of transformations and metamorphoses. Sudden change in speed, or volume, or noise level ;-)

So fasten your seatbelts and stay strapped!

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