I maxed out my creativity and improved my health by working on 3 devices at once and getting out my chair

Hello,
I am a producer in the electronic / "techno" / hardcore circuit of sounds.
I'm a bit notorious for producing *a lot* of stuff. I created something like 3.000+ tracks in 15 years.
Which might seem much, but, if you think of it, it's just ~3 tracks every week. I guess paid journalists need to turn in more pieces of text! (Maybe one can't really compare these two... but you guess what I mean).
I also need to work on doing videos, running a label... ah well, this is not supposed to become a kind of ego-boost text.
I just mention this to explain that I'm behind the screen and working on the computer for long, long times, daily, at night, on weekends... like a lot of other people do, too, of course.

And I ran into health problems because of this. I used to sit on my bed, laptop on my... lap, hunched, looking downwards, having the posture of a question mark... or sitting on a wooden chair, crunched together like a fried shrimp, in front of my desktop PC...

I got back problems, gained weight, and other issues.

I searched through all the internet for a better posture and a more comfortable way to work on projects. And it turned out there was no real solution - according to experts.
There were definite "no-nos". Like not using a laptop on your bed, or putting it on your... lap. Not using a smartphone when lying on your bed. And so on.

But there was no posture, no way to work on a computer that was 100% healthy. Each has its hazards and downsides. The consensus was the only solution would be to take breaks, even breaks where you do short physical workouts, and change posture now and then. And to frequently *change* posture.
One user summed it this way: [when working with computers] "the best posture is always the next posture".
I.e. to not use the pc / sit in one way for too long, but to frequently change it.

Yet, in my opinion, there are only limited ways, or "postures", you can turn to when sitting in front of a desktop pc (or laptop).

This ain't "Computer Kamasutra", after all!

I eventually came up with the following fix. I'm sure I'm not the only, or first one, who did it, but I never heard of it before.
And, more importantly, I never thought it would work, and was really surprised that it does work, and even enhanced everything around me!

I now use 3 devices for almost every project I work on.
No matter if it's music, texts, videos, label-stuff, everything.
I work on each project on all 3 devices at the same time - most of the time. Only sometimes I use only 2 devices for a project, and very rarely, only 1 device.

These devices are:

A kind of "Three Dimensional standing desk" (don't ask, too hard to explain. Let's just say it's less horizontal than usual) with my laptop on top of it. Here I can work on texts, label-stuff, "communication / transfer" type stuff like uploading tracks for a demo, or writing a promo text. I also have some music apps installed. This is the best allrounder, I can use it for almost everything (if it's not too heavy, like long rendering of videos). I can also carry the laptop around, and can use it in other rooms.

My desktop PC. Here are most of my music apps, video production stuff, the whole she-bang so to say. Here I can do the most and in-depth music work, and video editing. The PC is not on a standing desk, so I need to sit down to use it.

My smartphone. Here I can write texts, do a bit of cheap'n'easy vid-editing/uploads for social media (which I try to avoid), send e-mails...


Now you might say: "This is nice, but not fairly unusual? I'm sure many producers or journalists etc have dedicated devices for their type of work".

Well, what was the problem again? Health & posture & fatigue.

And... if I sit down in front of my desktop for hours to work on a track. And then use my laptop for writing a text the next day.

Then nothing is solved at all! It would still strain my mind, health, and creativity.

So the fix I came up with: I work on each project on all devices at once. (I already said that above, by the way).

In the most simple way this could mean: writing an essay on my desktop, and after 30 minutes I get out of my chair, and keep writing on it at my standing desk. And after 30 minutes I go to the living room, pick up my phone, and continue writing. And I circle all the time, do the spell checking, and all the other tasks, until it is finished. While "walking" around the home and "racing" from device to device, so to say.

Writing a text is straight-forward. A more complex task, for example, would be the creation of a video.
Then I use my laptop to write a quick draft and schedule of my project. Pick up my phone and search free clip sites for good footage (yes, these are quality enough for some minor projects). Do editing on my desktop. Select one of my tracks for the background music on my laptop again. Walk to the living room and write an info text on my phone. Upload the finished video via my desktop to the video site. Walk to my laptop and add the description to the video, on the video site, that I originally had written on my phone.

There are often even more complicated projects that I need to work on.
But regardless of what it is, all the time I need to walk around, get out of my chair / couch (or sit down again)...
And most importantly, I am constantly changing posture! Just like the user advised.

This not only worked out quite well, but I noted a significant health improvement, too.

I lost weight again, my skin is not as pale, my eyes look less like zombie now...
And most nicely, 90% of my work-related back pain / problems are gone now.
No longer fried shrimp mode!

On top of this, it seems to have been a big boost to my creativity too, and I find it much easier to work on new projects now. (I don't know why - maybe all the physical health improvement had its mental boons, too)

To summarize it again: the task is to find a way to spread the work of a single project onto 3 different devices, and then to use all 3 devices "at the same time" to work on it.

(Yes, this often involves the use of clouds or portable memory sticks).

So, I can only advise everyone to give this a try, especially if you are having problems with posture, back pain, or creativity blocks, too.

Get out of your chair, get up, and keep circling!

Note: No AI has been used in writing this text.

101 Royalty Free 909 Related Drum Samples (for producing Techno, Hardcore, and More)

Here's a brand new offering of Electronic, Techno, and Hardcore drum samples.
They are free to use, you don't have to pay royalties, you don't have to credit me (see below).

All of these are related to or inspired by the 909 drum machine (the box that made the 90s go bang.)

There is a variety of drums included...

Vanilla kicks that could be used for techno, dance, or any type of electronic music (goth? synth pop?)...
More heavy kicks that might be useful for Hard Techno, Industrial, Acid...
Then some really grim and over-distorted kicks that would fit to Gabber, Speedcore, Breakcore...
And some more strange / experimental kicks that could... well, maybe you find a purpose for them!

Of course, all these drum samples can be put through further fx and distortion by yourself...
So you could take a vanilla kick and turn it into a Gabber monster.

There was some "complaints" by some people that, within my last sample packs, a lot of the drums had "heavy reverberation" which made it difficult to utilize them in some tracks...
This time, almost all drums are "plain", free of reverb and similar shenanigans, and should fit easily into a production session.

And there is a special focus on being bass-heavy.

Some background info:

I've been a hardcore and techno producer for nearly 30 years now and i did countless releases on countless labels (and gigs).
So these are drums that get played out loud and approved at club or squat party sound systems (and their crowds).

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/101-royalty-free-909-related-drum-samples

Wholesale

If you want to support Doomcore Records / Slowcore Records / Omnicore Records - or if you just want to have a huge amount of frigging good tracks - you can now purchase *all* releases of the three above mentioned labels for the meagre sum of 3 euro 15 cent.
Of course you can tip us a larger sum if you are inclined to support us some more... or just to have a huge pile of exciting releases!

How to do it?

Just go to any releases on the Doomcore Records bandcamp using a web or desktop browser - for example this one:

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-definition-of-doomcore

Scroll down a bit, click on "Buy Digital Discography" and... off you go, up up to the sky!

New Live producing vids

Screen recordings of me doing tracks.

Looking back at 28 years of producing Extreme Techno and Speedcore

Hi ya,
It's me, Low Entropy.

I wrote a lot about other labels and artists, for different zines or self-published e-books.
But I rarely talk about myself!

So I will talk a bit about my own music this time.

I was part of the "original speedcore" scene in the 90s. "I was there" when bpms were raised above 400, 500, or even 1000 bpm, and I even helped to raise them!
One of my first "underground hits" was a straight 800 bpm track, released in 1998 on a lux nigra vinyl, alongside other artists like Christoph de Babalon or Paul Snowden.

It sometimes took time until my tracks reached vinyl, so a lot of the tracks that labels released in the year 2000 or on were actually productions I did in the 90s already. But even before the EPs and albums, my music circulated on the internet, on dub plates - and at parties, of course!

My speedcore activism got me booked at places like Tresor in Berlin, or the F**kparade party (yup, the one where the "Technoviking" video was made - I don't think my music is in that vid, though).

But then I moved on and dived into acid, doomcore, more "danceable" techno...

And scored some hits again, but this is another story!

I always stayed attached to the Speedcore scene and produced in that style now and then.
And to my surprise, while it was very hard at first to push my doomcore or techno sound "to the crowds", whenever I do speedcore stuff, it seems the sound almost spreads by itself and reaches the fans... (and I would like to thank them this way!).

I started producing at age 16, in 1997.
The early tracks were still done on an MS-DOS program called Impulse Tracker. It played back samples at various speeds and in various sequences (that's what trackers do!), but there were no built-in FX like reverb, delay, chorus, EQ... I had to use other apps like Soundforge, Reaktor, or Cool Edit Pro for that.

The project files had to be less than 1.44 MB in size because I saved them on floppydisk. When I wanted to create a demo-tape to send to a label (in an international parcel - because the hardcore scene was worldwide), i needed to ride the train across the city to "record" the projects from the diskettes via my brothers cassette tape deck. Before I finally could afford my own.

Later I leveled up to different programs and tech, of course.

Sooo... this is kind of a look back at all the Speedcore noise I produced in nearly 3 decades.

1997 flatline
1998 adrenaline junkie
1999 society (has no further use for you)
2000 FM 4
2001 Anything is possible
2002 die mächte des wahnsinns
2003 start the panic
2004 angels and devils
[intermission] Chorus 2
2007 moonlight
2008 Another orphan of a bankrupt culture
2009 Full-On
2010 46
2011 Getting Faster 2
2012 bleep 2
2013 das ende der welt
2014 métal hurlant
2015 One Two Three Four
2016 Alucard Speedcore (English Version)
2017 Explode like a reactor
2018 the dreamer
2019 redeemded by hatred (vocals null entropy)
2020 i am the storm
2021 struggle for power
2022 nihilism
2023 fuck the government
2024 against afd
2025 all your nightmares

Low Entropy - Enter Dimension

Hi folks & hellspawn,
I was invited by Demonic Records to produce some tracks for a new dub plate / lathe cut 10". And I did.

Pre-views and pre-orders are online now...
And you better hurry, because it will be strictly limited.
Of course, there is a digital version available too!

Check here (Previews included)
https://demonicwavs.bandcamp.com/album/low-entropy-enter-dimension

So let's talk a bit about the tracks and production.

As the title signifies, this time the general theme is the connections of dimensions and times.

The title track, "Enter Dimension" is a classic Oldschool Doomcore affair. But it goes beyond that. The main hook is not a sawtooth-pad, but a synth that is closer to scifi soundtracks, or earlier ambient bands (think 70s "Berlin School")... maybe even with a bit of inspiration by EBM, John Foxx, and Detroit.

"Dawn of Time" pounds at a Slowcore rhythm. But there are plenty of extra elements. Manipulated opera voices... old style UK rave bleeps... doomed chanting... and a bit of animal-like howls.

So I tried to keep it classic with both tracks, but there is also something new... and dark!

Can you dig it?

Doomcore Records Pod Cast 098 - GabberGirl & Low Entropy - Monster Mash

The Doomcore Records Pod Cast is proud to present a new Monster of a Mix, or, actually: a Monster Mash!
The theme fits to Halloween like a glove (and maybe it's the knifeful glove of Freddy Krüger).
Music about Monters, Ghouls, Ghost and Goblins... so don't doze off in a pet semetary (because you don't know *what* you will be *whenever* you wake up...) but put on your dancing shoes and get gabbering to these hardcore tunes!

The mash was mixed (or the mix was mashed) by GabberGirl who is already a veteran on the Pod Cast.
While these sick beats were cured... pardon, "curated" - by our in-house witchdoctor Low Entropy.

So enjoy this Pod, and one final word of warning: if you find a different kind of pod laying around, in your garden, during Halloween... don't pick it up and hold it to your ears, for you don't know if it comes from Planet X, the 8th dimension, or the IRS!

Tracklisting:

MONSTER MASH

By GabberGirl & Low Entropy
Halloween 2025
(Curated by Low Entropy, Mixed by GabberGirl)
DJ Set Tracklist

Deadly Buda—My Theory (mad scientist & Godzilla)
C-Tank—Nightmares are Reality (Freddy Kruger)
Leviathon—We'll Tear Your Soul Apart
Headshop—Xenomorph (from movie “Alien”)
Eradicator—Enter Three Witches
Steve Shit—Cobra vs Werewolf
Dr. Macabre—Poltergeist (performed live)
Hyper-Act—Monster Sound
E.T.—King Kong Never Existed
Zekt—Phantom in the Hall
Trickster & Undercover Anarchist—The Phuckin Dead (zombies)
Headware—Nightbreed Vs Cenobites (Speed Freak Edit)
(from movie “Hellraiser”)
Stickhead & Don Demon—Demonhead
Eradicator—Titan
Psyche Out—Hydra Blast
The Speed Freak—Murder the World (Nix from “Lord of Illusions”)
Syndicate—Grim Reaper
Jack Lucifer—95 Knights (Don’t Fear The Darkness)
Reign—Skeletons March
The Mover—Impaler II (vampire)
Mindviper—The Necromancy
Lory D—Lochnar (entity from movie “Heavy Metal”

https://hearthis.at/omnicore-records/doomcore-records-pod-cast-098-gabbergirl-low-entropy-monster-mash/

Explorer of the Doomed Forest of Hamburg

 

New vinyl release

Hi folks & hellspawn,
I was invited by Demonic Records to produce some tracks for a new dub plate / lathe cut 10". And I did.

Pre-views and pre-orders are online now...
And you better hurry, because it will be strictly limited.
Of course, there is a digital version available too!

Check here (Previews included)
https://demonicwavs.bandcamp.com/album/low-entropy-enter-dimension

So let's talk a bit about the tracks and production.

As the title signifies, this time the general theme is the connections of dimensions and times.

The title track, "Enter Dimension" is a classic Oldschool Doomcore affair. But it goes beyond that. The main hook is not a sawtooth-pad, but a synth that is closer to scifi soundtracks, or earlier ambient bands (think 70s "Berlin School")... maybe even with a bit of inspiration by EBM, John Foxx, and Detroit.

"Dawn of Time" pounds at a Slowcore rhythm. But there are plenty of extra elements. Manipulated opera voices... old style UK rave bleeps... doomed chanting... and a bit of animal-like howls.

So I tried to keep it classic with both tracks, but there is also something new... and dark!

Can you dig it?

My Halloween playlist: Death's knocking on your door

My Halloween playlist: Death's knocking on your door
Here is a playlist I made, and I think it's very fitting for Halloween and Spooky season.

It deals with death, ghosts, the afterlife... but (most of the time) not in a gory or violent way. There are some "funny" / macabre tracks... for example Steven Kilbey's "Like a ghost", in which he tells the story of a man who slowly realizes he might be... a ghost. "
But also some deep, soulful ones like John Foxx' "The Garden".

Most of the time, the songs allude to death in a metaphoric way or one that is open to interpretation. Like in Bowie's "Man Who Sold The World".

So, "enjoy" this playlist!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYhv-kMAryAmpJ4IGzyogseepNlun-mW3

Demonic

Hi folks & hellspawn,
I was invited by Demonic Records to produce some track for a new dub plate / lathe cut 10". And I did.

Pre-views and pre-orders should be online soon.
And you better hurry, because it will be strictly limited.

Expect Oldschool Doomcore!

Astrid Gnosis - Sin Armadura (Low Entropy Remix) (AI Visualizer Video)

AI generated music video for the Techno track "Astrid Gnosis - Sin Armadura (Low Entropy Remix)"

The video muses on the concept of different dimensions, journeys between worlds, artificial realities. The vision of liquid Cyberspace and its connection to the very real, solid, earthly, physical world.
The viewer of this video - the spectator, the passenger - is moving freely between time and space; yet also being stuck in a dark reality. Shifting between painful isolation and vivid communication.
And, in the end, rising above this.

These strange but comforting images try to create a new layer on top of the underlying Techno bass, beats, and sounds.

The "butterfly" is a traditional symbol that connects all these threads.

The visuals were generated using the Leonardo.Ai image and motion generator(s). https://leonardo.ai/

The original track by Astrid Gnosis appeared on her new album "Programmed Obsolescence". You can listen to it here: https://astridgnosis.bandcamp.com/album/programmed-obsolescence or https://open.spotify.com/album/2M54Ji9qXUWr8Bq69eW1I3
And you can get the remix of the track here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3cDri5neZLdKAj7IYUJORz (and at other other streaming platforms).

There is also a producer's diary entry attached to the remix: https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2025/05/my-producers-diary-producing-slowcore.html

Note: No Ai was used in writing this text.

A fan-written "guidebook" about Digital Hardcore Recordings

Books or E-books about Electronic Music, Hardcore, or Experimental stuff are still very hard to come by. So we are happy to announce a new one, this time dedicated to DHR out of Berlin!


All the infos about the book:

It was due time that Digital Hardcore Recordings aka DHR got its own, unofficial guidebook. It was an important part of music history, of 90s culture, and of history.

This book lists and reviews all Digital Hardcore releases; all albums, EPs, and single releases, CDs, Vinyls, including those that got put out on sublabels.

It's not just a dry, music-centered look at the tracks alone. But also mentions the cultural context, the philosophical context, the political context. And goes way off on various ways sometimes - by looking for connections to other media, movies, movements...

The book is for the dreamers, the restless minds, that were looking for a true alternative in the 90s, or are (still) looking for it in today's times.

We put it on Blogspot for the time being, but working to get it into a real .pdf etc.
Note: No AI has been used in any of these texts.

Chapters:

About Digital Hardcore Recordings
All Digital Hardcore Recordings Albums listed, rated, and reviewed
All Digital Hardcore Recordings single and EP releases reviewed and rated
All DHR Limited releases listed, rated, and short-reviewed
A look at DHR Video releases
All Geist releases reviewed
Credits

https://dhrfanbook.blogspot.com/

Free Drum Sample Packs

It's Bandcamp Friday,
And a lot of artists and labels will message you and tell you to download their tracks and releases for you to listen to.
But isn't that a bit boring?
So I will instead let you know about my sample packs. Which help you produce your *own* tracks instead of merely listen to that of others! And they are all free.

Here are the links:

1. https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/low-entropy-sample-pack
2. https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/low-entropy-sample-pack-2-doomcore-gabber-and-speedcore-bassdrums <- try that one first
3. https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/123-hardcore-techno-and-gabber-drums-that-were-used-in-the-90s-sample-pack-3
4. https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/47-hardcore-techno-and-gabber-drums-that-were-played-in-club-and-squat-parties-sample-pack-4
5. https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/121-royalty-free-909-related-drum-samples-for-producing-techno-hardcore-and-more

They might be useful for producing Techno, Hardcore, and other genres.

And here are some example tracks that were made with the sample packs and have been released on actual labels (so you can see this is some legit stuff, and not just some baseless claims (pun intended)).

1. Rotterdam Is Everywhere https://rotjecore.bandcamp.com/track/low-entropy-rotterdam-is-everywhere
2. Acid Chant https://teknolandproduction.bandcamp.com/track/acid-chant
3. Hakken With Wolves https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/hakken-with-wolves-short-mix
4. Gabber *** https://gabbaretrecords.bandcamp.com/track/gabber-sex-extended-edit
5. You Can't Stop Rotterdam https://rotjecore.bandcamp.com/track/low-entropy-you-cant-stop-rotterdam

My Producer's Diary: Sonic Boom Production

Recently, people commented on a claim I made: that I produced the audio material for an album with a runtime of over 60 minutes in only around 30 minutes. Is that really possible, because that means the production time is less than the length of the tracks?

And I think it's an interesting music production topic to explore.

There is a thing I call "sonic boom production", and to me, it is one of the holy grails of the music producer profession, an outstanding achievement. At least if the result is meant to be somewhat audible and meaningful.

But first, we must cross and denounce two popular myths and assumptions.

The first:
Production length is related to the length of the track or the song. But it is not defined or limited by it.
Yes, most of the time, a longer track means "more work".

But if an artist does an album, and it has the tracks:

A 3 minutes
B 4 minutes
C 5 minutes
D 8 minutes
(and so on)

This does not mean the artist *really* spent double the time on the 8 minute track, compared to the 4 minute one
It could even be that the shortest track - A
3 minute - was the most work-intense one.

The second is that music production would be hard work, or takes time, or is complicated, etc.
Yes, it is, but it also is not.
It's like any other activity, being a chef, athlete, tightrope walker, writer, whatever. It might be impossible to some people. But for those for whom it comes natural, it comes natural. And if they're initiated and they're used to it, it's more a rather simplified task, like slicing bread or dicing onions.
Yeah I know, musicians like to wear the halo of being a hard-working martyr, but the truth is that a lot of the famous hit songs you hear on the radio or the tube were conceived, created and completed in bare minutes.

So, if you consider the above facts, it's indeed possible to beat up the clock, and outrun the speed of sound by producing a track in a shorter amount of time then it takes the listener to fully appreciate it from start to finish.

Sonic Boom!