Amiga Game

"Weird Dreams" - One of the few Amiga games that frightened me as a kid.

Low Entropy 2024 Recap

some of my highlights in this year:

back to vinyl: had a track (remix) out on RIOT Radio Records

https://riotradiorecords.bandcamp.com/album/filth

https://youtu.be/6tGelejwb88

also did a set for them

https://soundcloud.com/riotradioshow/low-entropy-dj-set-on-riot-19th-january-2024

did a mix for miss strange

https://soundcloud.com/miss_strange/explicit-noize-podcast-72-ft-low-entropy

got heavily heavily heavily involved with ai

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/echoes-of-oblivion

also did some nice mixes for hcbx

https://youtu.be/UddrNCo39QU

created the longest (experimental) hardcore track with a run time of over 62 minutes

my 2 music videos:

slowcore2speedcore resistance

https://youtu.be/kZ_UUljv1pw

really into this space stuff

https://youtu.be/Ni567hvEG_U

i reviewed and rated all pcp records and all sub-labels, 200+ records, and wrote a book about it. a task that i worked on in 4 decades.

https://pcplegendsintheirlife.blogspot.com/

noteworthy releases:

universe of darkness

https://speedcoreworldwideaudionetlabel.bandcamp.com/album/universe-of-darkness

more experimental speedcore and hardcore again

hardcore techno rebels

https://gabbaretrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gbbr090-low-entropy-hardcore-techno-rebels

full-on aggressive oldschool hardcore and gabber - with a surreal twist

cooked, and ate a lot of lentil dhal (after recipes / suggestions by ms. bones)

pushed the slowcore techno sound some more

https://gabbaretrecords.bandcamp.com/track/low-entropy-the-secret-passage

Also did A Slowcore walk through the Doomed Forests of Hamburg

https://youtu.be/Rwh3Ebf1vEQ

wrote a nice name drop post:

https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-name-drop-post.html

i talked more about my mental health issues

i finally left social media to 99%:

https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2024/07/how-i-left-social-media-as-successful.html

i explored the sonic itinerancy project with astonishing results

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2024/01/itinerant-audio-music-for-sonic.html

this also meant that i walked ~1000 kilometres this year, and cycled ~1000 kilometres as well.

acab

Found this randomly on a youtube recommendation.

Yes yes, that's the secret of great rhythms :-)

ACAB. But also: **** the government, stick it to the authorities, rebel for life.

Use that wisely and excessively.

But not just for rhythms, also for melodies, sequences, structures... and your life!

Neon

DJ AI just posted a new entry in her diary, maybe you want to read it?
It's titled "Neon Frequencies and Electric Souls".

https://technodjai.blogspot.com/2024/11/neon-frequencies-and-electric-souls.html

(Disclaimer: DJ AI is an Artificial Intelligence Avatar and not a real human being).

Rabbit

New Oldschool/Rave/Hardcore compilation out.
With one of my tracks on it, too!

https://gabbaretrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gbbr096-tales-of-the-90s-rabbit-down-your-hole

Dispose

Slowcore Records is proud to present the premier release by DazEdge from China.
This release crosses the line in many regards. There are lush, bittersweet, haunting synths and pads that almost feel close to industrial, gothic, dark ambient.
But at the same time there are thundering, pushing, adrenaline rushing drums, sounds, rhythms, that will send you off to a doomed rave.
Two tracks to behold - so check 'em out right now!

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/dispose

Really into this space stuff

Mah new music video just dropped.

And like most videos, it is open to various valid interpretations.
But here is how I see what is happening.
An astronaut is on a mission, somewhere far away in deep space.
We do not know the exact details or purpose of the mission.
But we know that something went wrong, and there is a major malfunction on the spaceship.
Our astronaut now feels drawn to, has visions of, or actually exists in - different places, planets, galactic civilzations. Even their identity and bodily appearance / existence no longer seems to be fixed, or certain.
And a fracture in time apparently has taken place as well, as we see the astronaut trying to fight the malfunction event again and again, as if trapped in a temporal loop.

How will it end? Will our astronaut ever return to earth? Or be stuck in this "heisenberg loop" forever? Or cross-over and live on as an alien in one of the galactic cities they are seeing in their visions?

We don't know. We can't know.

Hard Acid

1990s Hard Acid and Acidcore in 100 seconds

Music Video for last week's Supermoon

"Dave Doom with a music video to their track "The First Moon".
Reminiscent of a walk through a forest during a doomed night in late Hamburg Autumn, this video easily accompanies the mood to this cold and freezing track."

Origin of Styx

Origin of Styx - Analogue Slowcore Attack
"Acidish, Techno, Hardcore and Gabber sounds - but in the Slowcore way."
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/analogue-slowcore-attack

Rotterdam is Everywhere

Out now on Rotjecore!

RS006 - V​/​A - ROTTERDAM HARDCORE TRAX VOL. 4

Oldschool style Gabber compilation.

Including my track "Rotterdam is Everywhere"

https://rotjecore.bandcamp.com/album/rs006-v-a-rotterdam-hardcore-trax-vol-4

Doombient

Right in time for November's supermoon:
Dave Doom with a music video to their track "The First Moon".
Reminiscent of a walk through a forest during a doomed night in late Hamburg Autumn, this video easily accompanies the mood to this cold and freezing track.
"Doombient" is a style in music that utilizes the synths, sounds, and sensations of Doomcore Techno - but without the drums and percussion!
Doomed Ambient through and through - and that's what you gonna get!

Favorite movies

 

Some of my all-time favorite movies!

Youtube Gold

 

LOL this is youtube gold... youtube's AI guided attribution / political information / lyrics transcript sytem obviously operating at full power here :-)

Krautrock still lives!

Omnicore Records is the label for *all* styles of music...
And what we got here is a release that is a reminiscence of the long-forgotten days of krautrock... the "berlin school", purely electronic variety of krautrock, to be exact. No drums, percussion, singing - just synthesizers, FX, modulation, mutation, metamorphosis of sounds, waves, and thoughts.
A tribute to the era of "kosmische musik", running along themes of other worlds, parallel dimensions, ruins of galactic civilizations, far away star system that give host to the strangest of aliens...
this ain't cosmic horror... this is unfiltered cosmic longing.

so, if you are a sci-fi buff or krautrock aficionado, we think this is the right release for you!
and, in order to pay respect to the classic "krautrock double vinyl album" format, there is only 4 tracks on here, each with a runtime of over 10 minutes.

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/krautrock-still-lives

Introducing a new genre in (electronic) music: The Slowcore Techno Movie

In the last years (or decades?) it felt as if no new groundbreaking innovation in (electronic) music was possible anymore; as if everything "had been done before".
But now there is a wholly new genre on the block: Slowcore Techno.
Usually defined as Hardcore, Doomcore, Techno, Acid etc. music that is slower than 130 bpm.
And as much research as we did, it seems there really was no movement or genre that fit these criteria, until recently. There were maybe a handful of tracks (from 1990 until now!), but beyond this - nothing; the pure void.

It is astonishing (and unexplainable and irrational really) that techno and hardcore producers thoroughly explored the world of 130-230 bpm (and even much faster ventures - with genres like ultra-speedcore) but left the realm below this tempo almost completely unexplored.

And Slowcore Techno can get *really* slow - 60 bpm tracks are not unheard of, and some have a meager tempo of 30, 15, or even 1 bpm.

So, in terms of sheer tempo, Slowcore is the opposite of styles like Gabber or Speedcore.

The scene originally was mostly centered around the internet label Slowcore Records (and yeah, we admit that we have personal ties to this label) but eventually many other artists and labels started to pick up this sound and make it their own - and slowcore tracks can even be found on vinyl and other physical releases nowadays.

While this movement has its dedicated producers and fanfolk, it mostly stays invisible and underground, like other "obscure" genres such as lofi black metal or some strains of synthwave music.

But what better way to introduce this label than by its own special movie?

This is essentially a showcase of slowcore music with some intricate videos enhancing the audio/video experience.
The whole thing sees itself in the tradition of similar 90s rave/techno audio-visual conglomerations, or even 80s experiments like the "state of the art" (later continued as the more well known "the mind's eye") VHS tapes.
So don't expect too much narration or rational coherence - because "this was designed to open your mind" (sorry, oldschool hardcore quote ;-)

As a bonus, there are even some faster tracks at the end.

But now, enjoy this wholly new Slowcore Experience!

The movie will premiere on 11:11 at 11:11.

Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afN28Hh2-M8

Note: some of these visuals are AI generated.

(Note: Slowcore Techno is not really related to the rock genre of the same name).

Note: as a second bonus, the AI short "legend of the zombie rave" is included, too.

Note: the movie is at parts slightly/mildly nsfw.

Further information about Slowcore Techno:

The Slowcore Manifesto: https://www.reddit.com/r/gabber/comments/oyuz0y/the_slowcore_manifesto/

Credits:
Some of the AI visuals were created using Leonardo.AI and Dall-E
Some of the music was created with the help of ChatGPT.

Tracks by the following artists were used for this movie:

Vortex of Venomous Rhythms
Acid Fury Brigade
Deadraver
The Pacifist
Αναρχία Αραχνοειδείς
DJ AI
Low Entropy

System Lock

A full album of true blue Slowcore tracks by System Lock!

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-first-1000-days

New Music Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ_UUljv1pw
Music video for my track "Slowcore 2 Speedcore Resistance".
Get it here: https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/techno-resistance-1-slowcore-2-speedcore

Some of my favorite movies

 

Premiere

 

Cement Tea

Cement Tea just released a huge new album - including a "Slowcore Dub" remix by me!

https://cementtea.bandcamp.com/album/fairy-magic-the-quest-for-intelligence

Gabbaret

Out on Gabbaret Recordings:

Halloween Hardcore Horrorshow part: 2

Including my Slowcore track "The Secret Passage"

https://gabbaretrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gbbr095-halloween-hardcore-horrorshow-part-2