Wednesday, November 4, 2026
Low Entropy's Producer Diary: When The Kiss Of The Vampire becomes Your Only Friend
Almost by accident, I stumbled upon this "old" track by me again. Because I saw a clip of a DJ playing it in a club, a few days ago... but the track itself if from 2016.
Or rather, it is two tracks, but I made them "back 2 back". At least conceptually, the production itself was several days (or weeks?) apart.
This was not done at the best time in my life, I felt very depressed, isolated, doomed... in those days. And, Doomcore is of course the right music for that, and to express those emotions, too!
I think you can feel the sense of dread and "doom" in those tracks...
They were a bit unusual for me, in multiple senses.
First, there is a very straight forward structure to the track, at least at the root...
There is a "percussive" phase for several minutes, where the drums come in, and the other elements (snares, hats, and so on). Then, there is a sudden "pause", silence, until a sampled monologue plays out, that we can listen to.
Silence again, until the first synths come in... and slowly an entire melody builds into the track.
And finally, the "beats" drop again, while the synth fades in and out... and even additional notes are introduced.
Those different synth "lines" or melodies are part of a harmonic whole, and here is the catch: it's outside western tuning, or most of western music at all. The melody and harmony is based on a hexatonic scale, if i remember correctly. 6 notes per octave! So it lies inbetween the "normal", heptatonic scale with C D E F G A B (plus and minus a few flat squares...), and the pentatonic scale, which was common in ancient music I think (egypt?), or modern jazz maybe.
I was always mesmerized by the fact (or my impression?) that chord progressions in hexatonic harmony sound completely alien, otherworldly and unreal, suddenly (same could be said about pentatonic, btw).
After this, everything fades out, and fades to black again. Which is something I rarely do in other tracks. There is usually another big thing, a "big bang", after the climax(es) in the middle part, at the end of my tracks.
The themes of the tracks are linked, too, maybe like an inverted mirror to each other.
"Kiss of the Vampire" tells the tale of vampire seduction, but the roles are inverted, too. I think there is a very bittersweet feel to it, there is certainly euphoria, serenity in the promise of eternal life, even if it means life in eternal darkness... and then, in the end, the monologue is interrupted because the vampire itself seemed never interested in the deal (another unusual thing).
While "The Only Friend" has a monologue about deep, deep friendship, comradery, care and support, being "thick as thieves". This sounds very nice and moving again, but with the ominous sounds, and the whole "mood" to this monologue, we might assume that things are not quite as they seem... or are they?
So, both tracks are about a strange "conflict". There is hope, trust, but doom and gloom, too. And both seem somewhat linked, yet none of this feels... it does not feel *that bad*, more like a detached musing, on the strange and confusing circumstances of our lives, our very human lifes.
I mean, in essence, the "treacherous friend" in the second track means that things could be worse than it seems... but the "life saving vampire" of the first track also shows that things might indeed be much better than we imagine them to be...!
But for now, it seems we are stuck in the middle.
I remixed the tracks more than once, sometimes with "harder" drums, or different synth sounds.
These were released on Legs Akimbo Records (one of my fav UK labels!), Antropofagia Records from Brazil, HardSoundMusic (the label by the semi-eponymous online radio station), ENDE Records from Australia, and a few other labels.
Music:
Kiss of The Vampire ("Techno" version on a Russian label) https://doomcoreinitiative.bandcamp.com/track/kiss-of-the-vampire-special-2018-edit
The Only Friend (Techno remix) https://legsakimborecords.bandcamp.com/album/legs-net-138-resistance
The Vampire's Kiss (a more recent, Gabber / Speedcore version) https://rotjecore.bandcamp.com/track/horrortrax019-low-entropy-the-vampires-kiss-bleed-me-dry-mix
Saturday, October 31, 2026
111 Free Hardcore Techno Drums
Here is the story so far:
I'm a Hardcore and Techno producer since the 90s (with lots of gigs and release experience), I began creating sample packs out of my old tracks and uploaded them to the internet, then I began creating new drum samples in a similar way, I ended up using them in my own tracks, too.
Then I decided to do some dedicated samples where I "research" drum sounds that are unconventional, experimental, surreal... and not commonly used in Techno or electronic music.
But, after all this lofty and brainy research, I arrived at the point where I came to the motion of... "**ck it". Why not simply do some nasty, harsh, straight-forward kicks again?
*And* as a plus, I could use some of the techniques I learned during the "drum research", for this!
So these are some kicks again, they aim straight for the adrenaline and fun and party... should be easy to use, just load them into your sampler and daw, and you should have some good results right away... or, at least, very soon!
Not just Gabber and Hardcore kicks are here, of course, but also those that could be used for Electro, Industrial Techno, Gothtronics... you know the score!
But, let me add, that for the HC kicks, I tried to make them ultra-hard and aggressive... did I succeed? You be the judge, my friend!
I'll shut up now... enjoy the kicks!
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.
https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/111-free-hardcore-techno-drums
Friday, October 30, 2026
Antares (The Nucleus Project: Scorpii Nox)
Another entry in the nucleus project. Read more about the project here:
https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/nucleusproject-part-1-les-champs-m-talliquesThis one is rather frantic, and chaotic.
https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/antares-the-nucleus-project-scorpii-nox
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Low Entropy's Producer Diary: My long road to becoming an Acid-Core producer
Low Entropy's Producer Diary: My long road to becoming an Acid-Core producer
Acidcore was not a love at first sight for me (or, more precisely, "first sound"). While other electronic and "hardcore" styles like Gabber, Speedcore, Breakcore, Hardtrance, Electro... enamored me immediately (more or less)... when I heard my first Acidcore tracks, I went more like "meh".
These were tunes on Fischkopf records for example, or Industrial Strength, UK labels, or even some of the more acid-ic Mokum ones.
This stuff felt very monotone and repetitive too me... also quite "minimal". There just seemed to be a lack of action in these tracks, and not much going on...
In the 90s, I decided that Acidcore was the only subgenre of Hardcore, that I was not very fond of...
The only exception were some tracks by Lasse Steen, those that, in my opinion, had more variety, with lots of melodies and weird tempos, and so on. For example of the Senical and Skullblower variety. And a few tracks by other artists.
But actually, my path to Acidcore had begun, even before I got into "Hardcore proper". During vacation, a trip to a small, "90 souls" village at the border of the norther sea, on reclaimed land, that did not even exist and was the Atlantic ocean a few hundred years ago, before humans walked there, and created that land out of the ocean.
Where i swapped tapes with another teenager my age, which was hardcore punk on one side, acid techno (first time i heard that stuff!) on the other, and while i did not like the sound at that age either, i concluded that it had... potential, so to say.
Another big "woah" event was when i heard some acid tracks by PCP, especially of the 303 nation kind.
But yeah... let's say i was still not convinced.
Until the year 2000, when I went with some friends to a "hard trance rave revival party", here in hamburg, and the first hour was... very oldschool acid and techno.
And it really felt like an enlightenment!
Listening to the tunes, at night time, in a dark club, under ultra and violet light, on a loud sound system, dancing with the freaks, under the influence of caffeine... completely changed the sound to me.
I think that especially the "played out loud" thing changes acid... a lot! all those frequencies, no longer tame and distant, but buzzing around you, getting, getting to, and into your head and mind and soul... ready for liftoff!
also, that year, i had an early producer breakthrough, because a demo CD-R by me (hah!) became quite popular, within a secret community hidden behind the underground "circuit 8" website... which led to me exchanging CD-Rs, tapes, and demos, with quite a lot of people (like Somatic Responses, Christoph de Babalon, Praxis records) and also with Daria Blax from Drop Bass Networks, who sent me a kind of "bootleg mix" (hah!) with the acid classics, from berlin, london, cologne... and that sound blew my mind too!
after this, there was "no holds barred" anymore, i got deep into the acid...
and this led to my first "proper hits", hits in the underground sense, of course... my release on black monolith records, a new york adjacent label, my bookings at tresor, suddenly i played acidcore in front of 1000s of people... literally. was a wild (acid) ride!
and then, many, many (and many) years later, i finally got into more mellow acid too, which led to another wave of releases, that then were mentioned in the big magazines again and was a bit like a "return to fame" for me... "fame", in the underground sense of course, or let us rather call it popularity, or maybe "notoriety".
but all these years, my acid and acidcore tracks go back to the idea, that acid works best, and only "works", if it's made for the party situation in mind, for nights of endless dancing, for the combination of loud frequencies, a gathering of people, and black white flicker-flackering lights, powered by strobes.
and, paradoxically, that the tracks even sound (much) better during "home listening sessions", when they are made with that original thought in mind!
Music:
Urban Uprising https://doomcorerecords.
Farewell Old World https://lowentropy.bandcamp.
Really Into The Space Stuff https://zuur-nl.bandcamp.com/
Acidcore was not a love at first sight for me (or, more precisely, "first sound"). While other electronic and "hardcore" styles like Gabber, Speedcore, Breakcore, Hardtrance, Electro... enamored me immediately (more or less)... when I heard my first Acidcore tracks, I went more like "meh".
These were tunes on Fischkopf records for example, or Industrial Strength, UK labels, or even some of the more acid-ic Mokum ones.
This stuff felt very monotone and repetitive too me... also quite "minimal". There just seemed to be a lack of action in these tracks, and not much going on...
In the 90s, I decided that Acidcore was the only subgenre of Hardcore, that I was not very fond of...
The only exception were some tracks by Lasse Steen, those that, in my opinion, had more variety, with lots of melodies and weird tempos, and so on. For example of the Senical and Skullblower variety. And a few tracks by other artists.
But actually, my path to Acidcore had begun, even before I got into "Hardcore proper". During vacation, a trip to a small, "90 souls" village at the border of the norther sea, on reclaimed land, that did not even exist and was the Atlantic ocean a few hundred years ago, before humans walked there, and created that land out of the ocean.
Where i swapped tapes with another teenager my age, which was hardcore punk on one side, acid techno (first time i heard that stuff!) on the other, and while i did not like the sound at that age either, i concluded that it had... potential, so to say.
Another big "woah" event was when i heard some acid tracks by PCP, especially of the 303 nation kind.
But yeah... let's say i was still not convinced.
Until the year 2000, when I went with some friends to a "hard trance rave revival party", here in hamburg, and the first hour was... very oldschool acid and techno.
And it really felt like an enlightenment!
Listening to the tunes, at night time, in a dark club, under ultra and violet light, on a loud sound system, dancing with the freaks, under the influence of caffeine... completely changed the sound to me.
I think that especially the "played out loud" thing changes acid... a lot! all those frequencies, no longer tame and distant, but buzzing around you, getting, getting to, and into your head and mind and soul... ready for liftoff!
also, that year, i had an early producer breakthrough, because a demo CD-R by me (hah!) became quite popular, within a secret community hidden behind the underground "circuit 8" website... which led to me exchanging CD-Rs, tapes, and demos, with quite a lot of people (like Somatic Responses, Christoph de Babalon, Praxis records) and also with Daria Blax from Drop Bass Networks, who sent me a kind of "bootleg mix" (hah!) with the acid classics, from berlin, london, cologne... and that sound blew my mind too!
after this, there was "no holds barred" anymore, i got deep into the acid...
and this led to my first "proper hits", hits in the underground sense, of course... my release on black monolith records, a new york adjacent label, my bookings at tresor, suddenly i played acidcore in front of 1000s of people... literally. was a wild (acid) ride!
and then, many, many (and many) years later, i finally got into more mellow acid too, which led to another wave of releases, that then were mentioned in the big magazines again and was a bit like a "return to fame" for me... "fame", in the underground sense of course, or let us rather call it popularity, or maybe "notoriety".
but all these years, my acid and acidcore tracks go back to the idea, that acid works best, and only "works", if it's made for the party situation in mind, for nights of endless dancing, for the combination of loud frequencies, a gathering of people, and black white flicker-flackering lights, powered by strobes.
and, paradoxically, that the tracks even sound (much) better during "home listening sessions", when they are made with that original thought in mind!
Music:
Urban Uprising https://doomcorerecords.
Farewell Old World https://lowentropy.bandcamp.
Really Into The Space Stuff https://zuur-nl.bandcamp.com/
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Low Entropy + Sigma - 8 + รgoist - Queens of Light and of the Darkness
after the two debut single releases, here is the first full length album by the Industrial Speedcore Black Metal project.
The "Speedcore" part needs to be put in quotes, though, as the band opened up to a lot of other influences and genres... there are concepts out of doomtechno, oldschool rave, gabber, ambient, "industrial hardcore" to be found on the album... and on the metal side of things, it's not just black metal riffs anymore, but maybe also a bit of influence from death and different styles...there is even an electronic "black metal dub" instrumental at the end of the album!
the project is made up of low entropy, an "experienced" electronic music producer from hamburg, germany, who did lots of releases since decades (in other styles). Sigma 8, a black metal guitarist from chile, who also does oldschool rave and breakbeat music on the side (or is it the other way round?). and รgoist, a witch from germany, who provides the vocalisation for the whole thing.
the theme of the album is "Queens of Light and of the Darkness".
in honor of deities and goddesses that represent liminality, duality, the crossroads. knowledge, healing, compassion, transformation and metamorphosis.
Like Hecate, Lilith, Sophia, The Morrigan, and The Goddess herself.
credits
Omnicore Records 85
Slowcore 74
Doomcore Records 239
Credits:
Low Entropy - Producing, Programming, Synths, additional Vocals
Sigma 8 - Guitars, Producing
รgoist - Vocals
1. Hecate (Queen of Light) 05:39
2. Lilith (Queen of Knowledge) 03:15
3. The Morrigan (The Phantom Queen) 06:40
4. Sophia (Queen of Wisdom) 06:51
5. Hecate, our Healer 06:18
6. The Goddess 06:53
7. The Labyrinth 06:42
8. Hecate Ritual Core 03:48
9. Dark Entrance 12:58
10. Black Metal Dub 13:49
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/queens-of-light-and-of-the-darkness-2
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