V.A. - Gabbaret Records 100

Out Now - V.A. Gabbaret Records 100
The 100th release of this fine Dutch label!

Style: Oldschool, Newschool, Dance, Gabber, Jumpstyle, Speedcore, and everything else.

Includes my new track "Gabber Sex".

https://gabbaretrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gbbr100a-gabbaret-records-100-part-1
https://gabbaretrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gbbr100b-gabbaret-records-100-part-2

Submission call for new Doomcore Records compilation

Doomed greetings! All producers are invited to submit tracks for a new compilation on the very Doomcore Records.

Rules:

1. Tracks must be submitted before 23.6.2025 23:59 (that's June the 23th for you US citizens :-)

2. Tracks should be in darker / doomed styles of electronic music like Doomcore, Doomtechno, Oldschool, Industrial Hardcore, EBM, Dark Ambient...

3. It's a free release on Bandcamp. Bandcamp gives fans the option to "donate" to such releases; all money that comes in this way will be given to charity.

4. We don't do mastering; and your track doesn't need to be mastered.
But if you *want* to have mastering, you need to do it yourself.

5. Both newcomers and well-known artists are welcome.

6. Tracks can be any length and each artist can submit up to three tracks.

7. Tracks should be uploaded to a filehost and the link then be sent to: low.entropy.80@gmail.com topic "Doomcore 2025"

8. Any other question, comment, inquiry can be sent to the same address.

9. And now, have fun producing!

Sincerely,
The Skeleton Crew

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/
https://www.discogs.com/label/477961-Doomcore-Records
https://soundcloud.com/doomcore-records
https://youtube.com/@doomcorerecordscentral
https://hearthis.at/doomcorerecords/

From Techno to Doomcore

 

Rotterdam-themed Hardcore Mix

Rotterdam-themed Hardcore Mix

Here is a new edition in my series of mixes. And this time it's Rotterdam all the way - because "Rotterdam is Everywhere" (again)!

Hoovers, T99, Claps, Chants, Signals... and fat distorted 909 beats!

It's not the classics, though - there will be time for that in a future edition - but contemporary tracks in Rotterdam style.

So get your Gabber on, and enjoy the show!

https://youtu.be/drVUw44pjVE

My Producer's Diary: Producing a "Slowcore Remix" of the track "Sin Armadura" by Astrid Gnosis

Pre-context (and cortex)

Haunted Techno mastermind Nkisi introduced Astrid Gnosis to my music "way back", and I learned about her music... well, she was just there, kind of non-local and ubiquitous in a quantum way, Instagram, YouTube, magazines, you know it...
so the idea to collab in some way arrived; but, as they say, it takes time!

she sent me stems for a track called "sin armadura", and it's a wonderful piece.
i instantly had a vision of what to do with it. but i had no idea how to get there.

also, i can't explain the thought or vision. adding slowcore beats. turning it into an oldschool hardtrance outlet. speedcore mayhem.
but not fractional. not even as a collage or eclectic.
somehow entangled... a whole that is not a whole. a track that isn't there... Einstein's spooky distance in action, while Heisenberg remains uncertain about the principles.

staring into a Mandelbroot seed.

either way, i slowly glimpsed a plan forming in my head to put this into reality.
i cut up parts of her stems, looped them, and saved these selected loops.
then i tried to memorize them, loaded up my daw.
created some drums, percussion, distortion...

then did a jam with all the elements, modulating and kicking them back and forth, filters opening and closing and disappearing... in a very audible and *loud* way... while all the time, the "other" loop, from the stems, was not loud, it was silent, because i tried to picture it in my brain only...

once done, i added the drums to the loops.

this means there were half a dozen channels for the bassdrums only in the final master. one for each loop.

i added other elements. basslines. fx. "melodies".
i noticed some things went off-beat, off-sync.

i tried to fix it but i couldn't. because i did not understand my own remix track anymore. the beats did not add up. the math did not add up.
i created a "click" track with the same daw, tried to run it over the beats. still felt kinda warped. but it worked. some elements remained off-sync. partly deliberately.

by now, the click track sounded like an additional percussive element, so i kept it in the final mixdown.

after some back and forth exchange of suggestions and fixes with Astrid.
the remix was finished.

when i listen back to it. i still don't get the math or rhythm behind it. some elements do not fit.
yeah, in the past i did jams and tracks were not clinging to standard beats, too.
these felt chaotic and like a mess (deliberately!).

but, it might be subjective, with the remix, things feel organic and in the right track (maybe deliberately).

okay, now let's get to the motifs.
there are various parts, and the central piece is with "staccato violins" (or violence), and "marching" drum beats plus 909 percussion.
a nod to the rave days, to the trance days, to the gabber days.
but also a nod to music and artists who sometimes did similar stuff (tom waits? velvet underground? alan vega?)

there's a sample about "love" in the track. it's there because this was a topic i was researching at that time. also because it fit to the techno, ambient, euphoria vibe. and a nod to trance-gabber, once more!

you might also notice i tried to do mastering in a bit different way to "hard-tech" in general. here the inspiration was Martin Hannet or Conny Plank. but i would not dare to say that i came even somewhat close to these maestros!

sooo... that's the way this remix was done.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3cDri5neZLdKAj7IYUJORz
https://music.apple.com/us/album/sin-armadura-low-entropy-remix-single/1800742968
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DZPF9M8F/
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=B8PqYP6mJ7s
https://www.deezer.com/en/album/723917271

I'm a successful producer in the Techno underground for 30 years. When it comes to creating art, the most important lesson was also one of the hardest to learn

Hello,
I don't write this to boost my ego or to try to shine. But to share this "lesson" that I learned, and hopefully it can be helpful to others, especially younger or beginner producers / artists.

Even though it's a simple truth at its root, it can be quite hard to get through to it, and it often feels as if the whole world is trying to pull you away from it, including your friends and foes.

When people start doing music, or art in general, there are two main motivations.
The first one is: to become famous, rich, a rockstar, popstar, star DJ. Fame and fortune and everything that goes with it.

The others have more pure, idealistic, lofty ambitions. To become a *real* artist, to defy rules and expectations and the crowd. To follow one's vision and path without straying from these.

Yeah, some try to find a middle ground, but essentially, it comes down to these two camps.

Let's look at camp two, first.
After an utopian start, as time advances, most artists will realize that "living on a dream" ain't as easy as it seems.
There are bills to pay and fridges to fill. People might shrug you off because of your weirdo art. You spiral towards being lonely and penniless.
Your vision starts to sport visible cracks. Maybe you *should* give in, stop doing the music that you want, and defect to making commercial music - for the crowds, for the man?

Back to camp one.
After a start full of longing for money and fame, the folk in camp one will realize that this ain't easy either.
People buy less albums than expected, less people turn up to gigs... or to put it bluntly, the world doesn't care about another "rags-to-riches" wannabe.
Because if you want to enchant the world - what spark, what secret ingredient could you add to your art - so that people start to yearn for it?

*The truth is* that the type of art that people are interested in, that people desire, that makes them come to your gigs is - *your* art. *Your* vision. Your unique path that no one else could ever walk on.

There is no difference between *your* strange, utopian, weirdo ideas for art, music, dance beats, and the one thing that appeals to the masses, that appeals to the dancefloor, that would make you rich and successful.

People do not want to see another fake clone artist who copies music and ideas that others already did and walks on an old path.
They want to see people who do that which is wholly new, bold, exceptional, and people who have the courage to forge their own paths.

There is no difference between a "realistic" and an "idealistic" vision of art. Be as out-there, experimental, lunatic as you want to be. As you desire to be. As you need to be.
And the world will love you for that.

You do not have to decide between these two camps. You can have it all.

Back to the friends or foes. Often these will insist that you *need* to compromise. To be less radical.
Well, no. You don't.

"Everybody loves a rebel". That statement is true in the world of art and music, too.

Just be yourself, do the art you want to do, believe in your vision.
And everything else will happen as it should, and fall into place.

If you don't believe this. Just look at the history of art and music.
The most famous, the most revered, and most successful musicians were those that did something that the majority and mainstream of artists did not do in their era. That was far away from the assumed taste of the masses, the markets, the crowd. (Think about: Kraftwerk, The Beatles, Depeche Mode, Nirvana).
But they proved it all wrong, and followed their vision.

And you could do this, too.

Live producing an Acid Techno track

 

Leaving Social Media

I talked about my "struggle" with quitting social media in the past.
In the end, one of the most important lessons I learned seems fairly obvious when looking back, yet it wasn't to me.
This lesson likely decides whether you fail or succeed with breaking free of social media.

And this lesson is:

#1. Get a new set of friends

Like the majority of people, I stayed in contact with most of my friends through social media. This was especially true for my online friends.

Of course I did not want to break with all my friends. Some of them were people I've known for many years, we went through a lot together.
So in my "naivety" I thought I could leave social media and keep my good friends at the same time.
I told them about ways to contact me through e-mail, messengers, etc.

And at first it worked fine - it worked even better than during the social media days.
But then, one after another, they stopped talking to me. Until literally no-one talked to me anymore.

This was quite the hard fact to accept. I thought, maybe I pissed them off in some way. Or I misjudged our friendships, and we were more like loose acquaintances.

But then the weird stuff began to happen. I got notifications that they tried to contact me or send me messages on social media. When I inquired, I got replies like: "Couldn't you login to social media again? It's much easier for me to send you a message there."

So, the good news was, my friends had not forgotten about me. But the weird news was, it didn't make sense. Changing from a social media app to another messenger and sending a message is a matter of a few seconds, or a few minutes at most.
Surely they had a few seconds of time to spare?

Well, over time I realized: they probably don't. A social media user is glued to their endless and everlasting flow of input and images between horror and quick gratification so that they really were not able to draw their eyes away from social media, not even for mere seconds.
After all, I was like that too, when I was still on there.


I don't want to put anyone down. But if you intend to leave social media, you should be aware that most of your friends, who are on social media, will not talk to you anymore, outside of social media - for whatever reason they might have.

Out of 100s of "social media friends" I had, only 4-5 still talk to me on a regular basis.

I think it's not unlike other "bad habits" that can be tied to a social group; booze, drugs, maybe even "over-eating"; you will have a hard time quitting if you stay in that milieu.

Now some might say: "Who cares? Everything comes with a price. Just accept it. It is like it is".

Well, my advice isn't to mourn or grieve about this; but that you need to take care that you *gain* a new social life, meet friendly people, stay in touch with the human race.

Because otherwise, you might end up becoming a total hermit; and this might be too stressful to endure, so you re-join the social media services that you used to frequent.
It was the case for me. Several times.

Simply quitting social media apps, and then becoming a loner is neither a stable or healthy foundation.

So better take care!

Melancholy

Now online!

Music video by DJ White Cough for the track "Melancholy Hardcore"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LktYfGmdCM

Taken from White Cough's new EP "Innercore" - available here https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/innercore

More info:

Omnicore Records proudly presents the debut release by White Cough.
An eclectic mix of tracks, a mash-up, magic, hardcore, doom, breaks, sheer terror.
Atmospheric but also bound to kick your ass.

And we hope there is more to come!

5 tracks, 13 minutes, pure hardcore power.

Innercore

Omnicore Records proudly presents the debut release by White Cough.

An eclectic mix of tracks, a mash-up, magic, hardcore, doom, breaks, sheer terror.
Atmospheric but also bound to kick your ass.

And we hope there is more to come!

5 tracks, 13 minutes, pure hardcore power.

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

instrumentals and oversized tracks

it is what it says it is.
unreleased instrumental edits, extended mixes, obscurities...
ranging from slowcore and doomcore to gabber and speedcore.

tracklisting:

Low Entropy - instrumentals and oversized tracks

1. Androgyny (Android Whisper Edit) 02:55
2. Instruments of Death 05:52
3. Wish Extended (Clean Edit) 06:40
4. The Sky Is Darkening 07:45
5. Klosex (Long Size) 08:50
6. Pornstrumental 10:37
7. Stellar Instrumental 12:10
8. Chaos Star 15:46
9. Another Speedcore Excess (part 1+2) 17:45
10. Pinko 18:13
11. Zero Entropy 18:30

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/instrumentals-and-oversized-tracks

Slowcore 4 Speedcore

We are proud to present the fourth installment in the 'Slowcore 2 Speedcore' concept already; which means that all styles are allowed on these compilations, and all tempo ranges are present.
Both veteran and newcomer artists joined forces and sent us tracks of Ferocious Slowcore, Oldschool Gabber, Extreme Techno, Zany Acid, Freak Speedcore... and more!

The compilation is done in support of The Hardcore Overdogs magazine - an "E-Zine for great and / or underrated Hardcore Techno past and present!"

Tracklisting:

Various Artists - Slowcore 4 Speedcore (In support of The Hardcore Overdogs)

1.Out-Null - Doomscrolling 01:23
2.DJ Asylum - The Sinner's End 05:15
3.Crabby303 - Dragon 04:45
4.Necron99 - Big Smile 03:21
5.James F- Forces of Hell 04:18
6.Ben J Evilson - Death and Destruction 08:23
7.saraunh0ly - 3indamorning 02:24
8.Necron99 - Coming With The Bass 04:14
9.T.LenC.Phal.X - Décharge & Apaisement 06:41
10.Out-Null - No Life 03:48
11.Kolium - Time Slips Through The Fingers 06:12
12.Crabby303 - Dread Exile 05:38
13.Primitik - Dark Aura (120 Bpm) 06:30
14.The Morbius & Milo - Metal Fist 05:57
15.The Unknow - 0001 Project 04:08
16.Persephony - Embracing our Madness 04:52
17.DJ Asylum - Sin 1 Greed 05:00
18.Necron99 - YeahYeahYeah 03:16
19.Crabby303 - Planet X5 05:27
20.Low Entropy - Brain Tuning (Speed Dial Mix) 04:01
21.Primitik - Eerie (86 Bpm) 08:05
22.Primitik - Liquid Recall (95 Bpm) 07:01
23.Topp Dogg - Drum Run 06:02

Doomcore Records 216
Omnicore Records 62
Slowcore Records 61

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/slowcore-4-speedcore-in-support-of-the-hardcore-overdogs

Progressive Speedcore / Industrial Black Metal Mix

Ever since I started producing music at age 15, I had an idea for a specific genre, or rather, concept:
"Progressive Speedcore".
I didn't choose the name until much later, though, and it probably isn't the right term.

As a Hardcore and Speedcore fan, I noticed that a lot of tracks had a similar structure.
What I yearned to listen to instead were tracks that had speed changes, ambient passages, atonal and arrhythmic sequences, experimentation, bleeding into other genres, even from different or ancient cultures.
A bit like the most experimental of prog- or krautrock.
Hence the name.

I tried to do this for several decades. And here are parts of these results.

Note: I also aimed at industrial black metal / blackened speedcore in most tracks.
They often lack guitar sounds, though.
Yet, "guitar-less" black metal projects do exist.
So I consider this to be a form of industrial black metal in which the synths play a prominent role.

Considering what I wrote above, it might be best to term this as a kind of "progressive black metal speedcore" mix.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85wbrbFeN_c

"Slowcore 4 Speedcore" listening party

Heya,
We just released the "Slowcore 4 Speedcore" compilation. 23 tracks and nearly 2 hours of hardcore, doomcore, noizecore...
And now: there's a bandcamp listening party today!
So let's have fun listening to this release together.

Go here:

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/slowcore-4-speedcore-in-support-of-the-hardcore-overdogs

Time:

2.5.2025

6:00 - 8:00 PM CET ("German Time")
5:00 - 7:00 PM BST (London)
12:00 PM - 2 PM ET (New York)

3.5.2025

1:00 - 3:00 AM in Tokyo
2:00 - 4:00 AM in Sydney
4:00 - 6:00 AM in Zealandia

Chatroom will open when the show begins
Some of the compilation's artists will also be present in the chat.

See you there!

Credible

Is it credible?

Hello,
Low Entropy here.
I'm one of the authors for The Hardcore Overdogs e-zine.

People often question the "credibility" of the zine's features. "How do you know this? Is this true?" How did you get that information?".

Well, I hate ego-stuff. But if it helps to prove a point, maybe I should go into ego mode, just a little bit.

I'm a major player in the Hardcore Techno underground for close to 3 decades. I did over 300 releases, played gigs in front of 1000s of people, promoted parties, ran various radio shows ("physical" radio, i.e. the one where you sit on your couch, turn on the radio, and kick back), started and wrote various fanzines, ran forums and lists on the internet, and and and...
This means I got to know a lot of the people in these scenes in real life. I met or hung out with Tanith, Panacea, Miro, Hanin Elias, Noize Creator, Amiga Shock Force, Venetian Snares, The Speed Freak, and many more... others I got into contact with through online means.

So I got a lot of information because people told me about it *first hand*.
Or because labels did get in contact with me as they wanted me to play their promo 12"s on a radio show, and we also exchanged information.
Or I interviewed an artist directly for a zine, and also gained insight.

A lot of the stuff I write is essentially info that I gathered over all these years.

I've also been a kind of "trainspotting" collector for all kinds of information about the Hardcore scene - old interviews, articles or record interviews in paper magazines, online stuff, TV or radio shows with underground hardcore DJs...
This was / is also a great source of information.
Sadly a lot of this has disappeared by now, but sometimes an old magazine gets digitized or an old resource is put back online.

And then there is the 'general information exchange' between other DJs, collectors, fans... which also leads to a lot of insight.

So... these are some of my sources... decide on your own if you consider them to be credible.

Ego-mode off again.

Post Scriptum:
Because it is "underground fame", it's also seemingly ambiguous which can lead to funny situations.

Often, when I do something online, I either get the reaction "omg, low entropy, you are a legend" or "low entropy? never heard that name before. who the fuck are you?"

But I guess that's life :-)