Friday, February 27, 2026

Cold Rush Mix

Hello Folks,
I am happy to announce that Pixeldada added very vivid visuals to a mix of mine.
The mix is actually an oldie already. It's a tribute set to Cold Rush Records and - can you guess it - I did it in 2017.
Nice to see some visuals on there, almost 9 years later :-)

Cold Rush always was one of my favorite labels, and... well, who does not love it?

According to Pixeldada, the video "Features American 1950s 1960s nuclear bomb test movies."
So what could possibly go wrong?


Check it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Bmp-r-uyE

There are also two extra clips:


The Mover and Rave Creator - Astral Demons 94 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu9-nutSZbc


Pilldriver - Pitch-hiker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOnsWoTjzmA

All rights and respect for the music belong to the one and only Marc Acardipane!

1. Tanochinjaii - Fallen Angel
2. 8 A.M. - The Fog Track
3. Cypher - Marchin' Into Madness
4. Rave Creator - Thru Eternal Fog
5. Pilldriver - Impossible X-T-C
6. Cypher - H-Flash
7. Rave Creator - Bleep Blaster
8. Freez-E-Style - Doom dancer
9. Reign - Show 'em
10. Cypher - Skyhigh (Rave Creator's Black Gold Mix)
11. Pilldriver - Pitch-Hiker
12. The Mover & Rave Creator - O.K. Bassquake
13. Freez-E-Style - Awake In Neo Tokyo
14. Freez-E-Style - Enter The Gates Of Darkness (Stay Strong, Raise The Flag And Spread The Spheres Of Light)
15. The Mover & Rave Creator - Atmos-fear
16. Pilldriver - Apocalypse Never
17. The Mover & Rave Creator - Astral Demons 94 (Cold Planet Remix)
18. Marshall Masters - Stereo Murder
19. Marshall Masters - Stereo Murder (Reign's Olymp Remix)
20. Tilt! - Hell-e-Copter

"Cold Rush is the name of the PCP sister-label through which the Mover has released some of his most inspired music. Beginning in 1993, Acardipane and his comrades started making "music for huge space arenas", tracks whose cavernous reverb transforms even the most cramped club into a giant industrial hangar. At home, on headphones, you feel like you're inside a vast cathedral space carved out beneath the frozen methane crust of Pluto. Like dub and psychedelia, Cold Rush style "gloomcore" plugs into the history of sacred echo, from Gothic churches deliberately designed to swathe the listener in non-localisible mid-and-low frequency reverberance, all the way back to the prehistoric audio-technics of pagan rites conducted in caves and grottoes." (Simon Reynolds, The Wire, 1998)

Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Unusual Drum Sample Pack


Hi folks,
Here is a new sample pack by me.
You might know my earlier drum packs.
But this time I decided to go for something new.

My earlier packs were very much inspired by the techno and hardcore drum sounds that exist already.
Which was "rational", as I played them on so many hardcore and techno gigs.

But I wanted to change this a bit. We can't all use the same drums for all eternity - am I right?

So I tried to create *new* sounds. And experiment a bit!
And some of the results are really strange and bizarre. Drums that sound more like a laser gun fight, a bass-heavy gong, or huge objects going boom!

But it's still inspired by the well-known gabber and techno sounds. So there are more plain drums in here, two.

Something for everyone, I reckon? Or I hope!

There are also soft drums, hard drums... very noizy drums.

And all designed with the dancefloor and dance-crazy crowds in mind!

Of course you don't need to just use them for "techno" genres... fit them in your goth tracks, vgm, folk rock, neo prog... whatever!

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.

Background:

I'm a Hardcore / Techno producer for 30 years.
Played at tresor.berlin and plenty of other places.
Etc etc

Like most Hardcore producers, I am addicted to bass drums!
And I hope to give something back to new or other producers with these sample packs.

List of drums:

1. 27 plain / techno kicks
Soft kicks that can be used right away... or boosted, eq-d, distorted

2. 56 hardcore kicks
Drums for the hardcore heads and gabber fiends!

3. 9 experimental kicks
more experimental type stuff... maybe for electro or indie pop?

4. 43 titan kicks
now we are talking... tried to create very unusual drums here, with a deep, low-punching sound. also very metallic
like coming straight from the depths below.

5. 25 noisy kicks
this is just pure noize, drums are barely recognizable... for extreme genres like industrial or speedcore.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/160-royalty-free-unusual-drum-samples-for-producing-techno-hardcore-and-more

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Welcome to Rotterdam


Hi-dee-ho!
Rotjecore just released a new compilation. The theme is, once more, tracks that talk about Rotterdam.
I have two tracks on it, too:

"Welcome To Rotterdam (Rotterdam The Hague Airport)"

and

"Rotterdam Yodelcore"

Style is oldschool hardcore - terror!

https://rotjecore.bandcamp.com/album/rotje094-v-a-welcome-to-rotterdam

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Monster of love mix



Out now! The new collaboration mix set between GabberGirl & Low Entropy!

And after last year's Monster Mash, we return to our love for monsters, with our monster's of love mix.

So all you were-gremlins, shifter-shapes, ling-wulves, haunt dogs, count duckulas, stein-frankens, and zombie poodles.

This one's for you!

We tried to do something new with this mix. It's not just hardcore or techno.
But we tried to fuse these distorted sounds with other genres. like pop, goth, rock, rap, metal... hope you can dig it!

Tracklist:

Part 1: Low Entropy

zodiac mindwarp & the love reaction - wolfchild speech | words
matrix - feuervogel | oldschool hardcore
lords of acid - out comes the evil | prodigy style
faith no more - digging the grave | alt rock
concrete blonde - the bloodletting (the vampire song) | alt rock
dead astronauts - b side | synthwave
aqua contact - la sirena | oldschool hardcore
lords of the underworld - making moves | gabber
lola payola - i got married to a man from space | new wave
bass d & king matthew - heartbeat | gabber
biochip c - hells bells | breakbeat
apoptygma berzerk - cambodia | goth pop
kim wilde - cambodia (reprise) | new wave disco
sam quealy - queen of the night (watch me now) | indie pop / disco
biochip c - bad wolf | gabber / hardcore
no name - y droid | speedcore
manu le malin - vitalic (ghost train rmx) | industrial hardcore / techno
the bates - love is dead | goth punk
hecate - caught up | breakcore
damiano david - zombie lady | pop
gunz For hire - sorrow (wardogg trap bootleg) | trap
minimum syndicat - phantasm | techno
elvira - monsta rap | rap
frozen - soul saver | electro / experimental
the screaming tribesmen - date with a vampire | alt rock
the klf - what time is love (pure trance mix) | acid / trance

Part 2: GabberGirl

Tales of Darkside (TV series theme)
W7RD—TheBoneless
The Cure—A Forest (Night Edition Remix)
Librarium & Bohemian—Destiny
Apashe (ft. Alina Push)—Witch
Flo Milli—Conceited (Instrumental)
The Love Boat (TV series theme)
Eprom—The Cat
Gokage—Sunshine
Icona Pop—Then We Kiss
Rave Rascal—Love is More Powerful Than Anything Else
Björk—Army of Me (Sucker Punch Remix)
Hex Carceri & Mofs—En Me Funeral
Violent Femmes—Add It Up
Alabama—Dixieland Delight
Sons of Aliens—In Love with You
Chosen Few—Ghosts
Kids See Ghosts—Kids See Ghosts
Micron—Box Jellyfish
Kurwastyle Project ft. Terrorclown—Do Wanna Balloon (SRB Remix)
The Mother Fucker—Do You Want Some Extratone (SD Rayden Remix)
Somniac One—Love
Siouxie Sioux & the Banshees—Skin
E-Noid—Nightmares from Which You Never Awake
Negimiso—Phantasma
Tones on Tail—Real Life
Ghostemane—Mercury: Retrograde
Lanterns on the Lake—Don’t Have Nightmares

Friday, February 13, 2026

Sonic Itinerancy Diary - 11.02.2026 - Scottish Tea, Dog Tags, And Working on an Omnicore Release

I jumped on my bike to work on another underground culture project. And to fulfill my duty to the sonic itinerancy project. ( https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2025/05/1-12-years-of-sonic-itinerancy-project.html )
I did not want to go. It was cold, it was dark, it was rainy. But I felt I had to.

As I rode down the Hamburg streets, and cars zoomed by me, I felt tired and exhausted. I thought about heading to a restaurant. But I had eaten well at lunch. And I started to freeze to the bone. Restaurants were far away.


I passed by a supermarket. I made a quick decision. I jumped off my bike to get inside. A few minutes of warmth and light. Then I could continue the journey.
The bike parking spot had attachments and signs, for pet "owners" to chain their dogs onto, while shopping.
Fitting to me, the small scale "hardcore techno overdog" that I am.

When I went inside, I saw they had a café attached to the market. I went inside, couldn't decipher the list of coffee drinks on the wall several metres away, and decided I need to upgrade my glasses in the near future.
As I asked the service person, I was told they had "scottish tea" as well, so I went for that one a piece of cake. Cheesecake.


I began working, and finished the work related to a release on Omnicore Records.

My spirits restored, I traveled on.

This journey is a good example on how even a slight detour - or blatantly giving up halfways - still leads us to our destination.

The release was put out later that day.
And here is the finished work!

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/catch-you-by-your-js
 

Thursday, February 12, 2026

King Cog & Friends - Catch You By Your Js


Omnicore Records is proud to present a remix EP by King Cog.
Several famous and / or infamous names in the hc underground set themselves to the task of remixing his track "Catch you by the Js".

The general vibe is "early hardcore / 90s gabba", but there is something out of the ordinary here.
While most releases these days focus on the same style over and over again (big kick + juno sweeps + horror samples), this one sweeps through the whole range of retro and newschool styles.
Gabber, Speedcore, Doomcore, Bouncy, Slowcore.
It is all going down here!

Plus one additional track by the King.

Info+Download:

King Cog & Friends - Catch You By Your Js (Omnicore Records 70)

1. King Cog - Catch You By Your Js 03:27
2. King Cog - Too Much Hype 03:36
3. Catch You By Your Js (Low Entropy - DoomSpeed Remix) 04:50
4. Catch You By Your Js (JD NoiZe Re-tro-Mix) 03:49
5. Catch You By Your Js (Disrrr Remix) 06:48
6. Catch You By Your Js (DJ Asylum Remix) 04:00
7. Catch You By Your Js (Impotenticles Remix) 02:24
8. Catch You By Your Js (Network 22 Remix) 03:27
9. Catch You By Your Js (Godfather Death Remix) 05:29

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/catch-you-by-your-js