The Compilation Compilation Part 2

A selection of tracks I did in the last years that were previously only released on compilations.
Everything from Techno, Hardcore and Doomcore to Speedcore and the recording of a washing machine.

Feedback And Mental Health

I've been talking about my mental health on here, but this time I don't want to "whine", but to say something positive.
I've been getting some feedback by people who listened to my music who told me that it helped them a lot with their own mental health struggles and problems; for example, that it cheered them up on a a bad and negative day, or even helped them during a depressive episode, or generally provided a relief when being confronted with dark and negative moods and emotions.
And this has always been a great pleasure to me, to know that my music did some good to some people.
But what I want to say: it also works the other way round; the feedback of fans has also helped me with my own mental health struggle, and did me a lot of good and had a very positive effect.
Because, let's face it, when you do music or art in general, you pour out something close to your very heart, you share your own moods and emotions, essentially your personality - on the deepest level. So when people appreciate your art, this is basically saying: your moods, your personality, *you* are okay, likable, and you don't need to change, at a very central level. And this is of course very good to know if you as an artist are struggling with mental health problems and self esteem issues etc.
To be more direct and give an example: I always had problems with being around and talking in group of strangers. But in the last years, I came to the conclusion: "Well, there are hundreds of people who are really into your music and like it a lot; they appreciate your art, and in the end, appreciate *you*. Shouldn't that give you enough confidence to be able to behave with self esteem around a group of strangers; and isn't this just a minor problem, and shouldn't you be able to overcome it." and it really helped, and this is a much lesser problem to me now. And I could give many more examples like that.
So I am very thankful to the people who gave me honest feedback and shared their opinion and really connected to my music, because this truly helped me a lot with my mental health and improved it a lot, and I just wanna say, you people rule. And if you're struggling with your own mental health problems, I sincerly hope you will improve by a big deal too.

Doomcore Records

Doomcore Records was started in December 2012 by artist and author Sönke Moehl aka Low Entropy in Hamburg, Germany. The idea behind the label was to have an outlet for sounds in the style of Doomcore, Darkcore, and more sombre and twisted Techno in general. But the label also always welcomed music that broke the Doomcore mold and brought in new and fresh ideas from such genres as EBM, Dark Wave, Video Game Music or even Black Metal - or just Avantgarde and sonic experimentalism in general.

In the years that Doomcore Records existed so far, especially three influences to the Doomcore sound proved to be fruitful:
That of music that has been traditionally called "Industrial" and that got closer to Doomcore in recent times; and genres that are associated with it, such as Dark Ambient.
That of Gabber music, especially "Oldschool" Gabber of the 90s.
And that of harder and darker forms of Techno, that grew in popularity in the last years.
So you're likely to find a sombre Dark Ambient track, a melancholic 200 BPM Hardcore affair, or even a frantic Industrial Black Metal song in between the more traditional Doomcore sounds on this label.

Doomcore Records always had the strict policy to just look at "the music" when choosing releases, so you'll find both newcomers and yet unknown talents together with big names and veterans of Hardcore and Doomcore on this label.
Some of the bigger artists that have released on Doomcore Records are AnTraxid, The Darkcreator, Taciturne and Nkisi - who had her debut release on DCR!

The label had plenty of output and hit it's 150th release in 2021 and is still going strong.
2021 also saw the release of the first Doomcore Records vinyl, "Doomland", a collaboration with Teknoland Production.
Doomcore Records so far was mentioned in magazines such as The Wire, Pitchfork, Fact Magazine, Crack Magazine, and plenty, plenty of others.
The Doomcore Records team consists of Low Entropy who selects the tracks and releases for the label, and Mattia Travaglini who creates the artworks for the releases which also set the mood for the sounds.

So this is the little description for that Doomcore centered label.

Any further inquiries, demos etc. should be directed at low.entropy.80@gmail.com

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/

Tribute Mix To Dance Ecstasy 2001 - Part 1

Tribute mix to one of PCP's greatest sublabels.

This is part 1 - the "early" output of DE 2001.
Sorry for imperfect mixing in some parts :)
Which tracks would you have used?

Tracklisting:

01. Cyborg Unknown - Year 2001 (Transcendental Mix)
02. T-Bone Castro - Hilltop Hustler (I'm The 1 & Only)
03. 303 Nation - Dos
04. Nasty Django - Ey Loco! (Kinky Muthaship)
05. Ace The Space - 9 Is A Classic
06. Insider - Destiny
07. Test - Overdub
08. Ramin - Brainticket
09. Headshop - Universe
10. T-Bone Castro - Return 2 Planet E
11. Nasty Django - 3 P Rules B1
12. Magnetic Two - Low Radiation
13. Nasty Django - King Of FFM (Godfather Mix)
14. 6-Pack - Drunken Piece Of Shit (Mix 1)
15. Headshop - Universe (Lunatic Mix)
16. Ace The Space - Go Voodoo (T-Bone Castro's Fiesta-Bass Rmx)
17. The Mover & Lunatic Asylum - Speed Surfer
18. Masters Of Rave - Are You With Me (Eintracht FFM-Stadion Mix)
19. DJ Jamo - Seastar
20. Rave Creator - A New Mind (B Mix)
21. Trip Commando - Eastern Origin (Chorus Mix)
22. Steve Shit - I Say Shit
23. Nasty Django & DJ Cirillo - Deal Wit'' Beats

The Lost Album

(ENDE275) Low Entropy - The Lost Album

Low Entropy's return to ENDE in 2021 kicks off with "The Lost Album" which is an album he made originally to release on Widerstand Records in 2001 which has remained unreleased for 20 years!!

He explains:

"I sent Daniel (Eiterherd) a demo tape in 1998, and he liked the tracks, and we talked about a release; later, he asked me to do a CD album (real CD run of 500 copies, not a CD-R release) for Widerstand. I finished the tracks, send him the master, and the release was scheduled to happen in early 2001. The thing was, Widerstand ran out of money at that point, so the CD never was released. The tracks stayed in limbo, but eventually Daniel came up with the idea to do a vinyl 2x12" instead, with a stripped tracklist, which was released in 2003"

ENDE had been asking LE if he had any more old tracks unreleased after the success of his best of compilation we released in January 2018. He told us about the "lost album" but that he wasn't sure where it was.

Well..in 2020 he found it! And now it's finally released in full and uncut after 20 years in limbo!!

So as you can expect it has the classic old school breakcore sound made famous by producers like Low Entropy.

OTHER LOW ENTROPY RELEASES ON ENDE RECORDS:

https://enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende226-low-entropy-best-of-20-years

https://enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende104-low-entropy-songs-from-the-sleeping-couch

https://enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende37-low-entropy-the-break-experiment

Roots Of Industrial Hardcore And Terror Mix

Industrial Hardcore has become a really big genre now, but its roots lie in the Hardcore Techno scene of the 90s, when artists moved away from the hoovers, synths and rave stabs - plus rap and pop samples - that defined the more "dance friendly" Gabber music which began dominating the Hardcore raves and music chain store CD compilations. They explored disturbing and surreal noize, metallic, shrill and industrial sounds with pounding, deep drums and generally full-on distortion.

While Industrial Hardcore is now usally associated with "slower" speeds in music, the Industrial Hardcore of the mid-90s was usually still quite fast and frantic.
This sound also had a huge influence on the Frenchcore, Speedcore and Breakcore genres that grew bigger and bigger after the 90s ended.

Tracklisting:

01. Collective Strength - Family Affair
02. Somatic Responses - Cyclotron
03. Gringo - Slayer
04. E-De Cologne - Raverbunnies Death
05. Mouse - Halloween
06. Test Tube Kid - Promars
07. Napalm 8 - Mic Contract
08. Auto-Psy - Go Out
09. Napalm 6 - Signal Zero
10. Napalm 8 - Fuck 08
11. Richard Devine - Refractor
12. Ingler - Erratum
13. Micropoint - Return Of The T-Rex
14. Napalm - Vouck
15. Gringo - Rules
16. Collective Strength - Chunk Blower (D9 Mix)
17. Auto Tropp - Otto Tropp
18. Napalm 8 - XWD
19. Napalm - Analstahl
20. Ingler - Rkor Machine

DJ Producer Mix

The DJ Producer dropping my track "Urban Uprising" in this very, very good set of PCP tracks and Doomcore. A big honor!
By the way: "Urban Uprising" is available digitally at my Bandcamp in the original master mixdown version.

Tribute To Narcotic Network Recordings

Narcotic Network Recordings was a sublabel of Planet Core Productions, focusing on Electro and strange Ambient experiments. With Miro's output on this label, I think one can hear a Lory D and generally "sound of rome" influence, but also of course the trademark Miro sounds with dark, haunting melodies and synths worthy of a Kotzaak record - but, of course, with an Electro twist this time. Marc's outing on this label are as excellent as one would expect, with a heavy dose of The Mover atmosphere, somewhere inbetween Techno, Acid and sonic experimentation.
This label also saw the release of the track "Destination - Nowhere", a bittersweet symphony composed by Miro, which would fit well as a soundtrack to the most depressive (or redeeming?) movie.
A label for some of the most extraordinary tracks by PCP.

Due to the complicated rhythms of the tracks, this set was tough to mix, so please excuse any minor errors :)

Tracklisting:

1. Frozen - Into The Light
2. The Mover - Track Three
3. Frozen - The Forest
4. The Mover - Track One
5. Frozen - Out Of The Light
6. The Mover - Track Two
7. Destination - The Trip
8. The Mover - Track Four
9. Frozen - Soul Saver
10. Destination - Nowhere

Rotterdam Hardcore Trax

Rotterdam themed compilation, including an Oldschool Gabber styled track by me.

Working Ambient Selection Part 2

Out now: Working Ambient Selection Part 2

More experimental Ambient and sonic exploration, this time from 1997-2013. Often very slow, calm, monotonous, to get you into the mood.
Inspired by movie scores, Video Game Music, Krautrock, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and the golden age of Dark Ambient.
Partly done on MS-DOS Impulse Tracker.
The perfect sound for a dark Friday night just before watching a Sci-Fi / Horror movie.

Tracklisting:

01. Scoore
02. Digital Ambient (Reverberated Version)
03. Burned Out
04. Beyond Reality 1
05. Beyond Reality 2
06. Architecture 4
07. Architecture 5
08. Abstrakt 1
09. Abstrakt 2
10. Abstrakt 3
11. Ambient 1
12. Ambient 2
13. Ambient 6
14. Ambient 7
15. Ambient 8
16. Symphony 8
17. Synth 4
18. Drone 8
19. Chorus 1
20. Yes