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