Low Entropy's Producer Diary: Producing the "Berghain Still Sucks" EP

That was the third track in my "anti-berghain" trilogy. first one was "**** berghain" (later released as "techno stomper" on vinyl) and also "p*** over berghain".
this track happened after not properly doing music over a longer period and usually, these projects end up being kind of crappy for me, as i need to have a bit of "warming up" before i can do "good" tracks again.
but, in my humble opinion, this one ended up being quite good.

so... let's talk about the production.
i tried to "keep it simple", as simple as possible, but in the end it got more complex again. (can't help!)
so, the framework, at its core (pun intended!) is the distorted 909 kick. it runs at 126 bpm, quite slow for (harder) techno actually.
i never ever got to get a bass drum sound like this again! ultra distorted, but also somewhat metallic or industrial. there is lots of reverb, but the reverb does not eat up the drum. which is a problem i had with other tracks.
not sure what or how i did it! but i think the drum "slams". (in my opinion)
so the next thing was the bassline. for years, i avoided using deep / low bass together with hardcore kicks. i always thought they would eat up each others frequency. and, if i listen to stuff like that at home, it feels like that indeed.
but hearing bass heavy hardcore and techno tracks at parties, on loud PAs, made me realize that stuff like that can "work". the bassline feels like it is happening in another range (or dimension?) on loud PAs.
i added some weird futuristic and metallic fx to the bass.

and then... i piled layers of noise, noise and noise on top.
there is a novelty with this track, as it is a techno track without any use of percussion! besides the drum.
no hi hats, no snares, no cymbals, claps, shakers, cowbells...

i ended up doing two mixes of the track, one is ultra distorted and the other is... very distorted, but maybe not ultra.

i recorded the edits as live jamming. i set up the loops, hit record, switched on channels, switched them off again, played with the fx, did some filter sweeps.
i recorded both tracks this way. and in one take each. take no quarters, never look back, when producing (which is my personal advice).

with a track name like this, it was of course no difficulty at all to find a label that wanted to release the track. it ended up being on kenny campbell's pitch dark records, who also did some other releases with me.

the track actually became a (very) minor hit, got some international club play. made some dj top 10s. the "crowning" moment for me was when it got played by Umwelt in a french radio show.

kenny had some promo agency, don't know how it exactly worked, but it meant famous djs got the promo and could leave a comment. which they did.
it was fun to see some people like CJ Bolland or Dr Motte drop comments like "too distorted for me" etc.

oh, and why did i dislike berghain?
i didn't like the whole mood and atmosphere of that "place". the elitism, the concept to exclude people from parties. that they thought they were super radical and different, while even major conservative politicians and journalists loved and supported that place.
but, most of all, i never was up for things that become overly hyped and popular.

i made a few re-edits of the track later, one faster one and an ultra-speedcore one.
the faster one got released in a collab EP with Brandon Spivey, who was one of my favorite producers in acid and techno. from the 90s. i felt very happy to be able to work with him!
he had a very strong dislike towards berghain culture too, so he was up for that collab.

either way, a producer acquaintance of mine, who was a super fan of the club, later told me that "it would be ironic" that i do an anti-berghain track, when in fact the DJs at berghain do play my music to the crowds on the dancefloor there.
so, i guess this very track happened to be dropped at that place. but yeah, i guess this was inevitable to happen.

https://pitch-dark-records.bandcamp.com/track/berghain-still-sucks-distortion-edit

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/low-entropy-berghain-mayhem

Low Entropy's Producer Diary - Open Your Mind to Slowcore

the whole idea of this track and project was, of course, to spread the slowcore sound, and the idea of slowcore.
this was at a time when a lot of people still said "you can't have a meaningful hardcore track at 90 bpm. it will sound crap, you cant dance to it...". so i tried to prove people wrong. did i succeed? it's up to you to decide.

I would say that this was one of the tracks that unfolded themselves during production, and not during the planning stage.
The root was actually quite simple, it was a sawtooth melody of 8 tones, and a steady hardcore beat, at 90 bpm.

But yeah, when i worked on it, i started to have more and more ideas on what to add. for example 2 more (different) drums, a middle part with an acid line...
then when i had it finished, i thought, okay, i could add some filter sweeps.
and then... after this... i had the idea to add a super long intro, and an outro.
which meant the track was now close to 13 minutes!

despite this "complexity" and piling up of things, i don't think it sounds too overloaded or non-danceable anymore. which can happen with other projects i do.
i guess this was because i started *small* and it turned big only at a later date.

and while it is a slowcore track, almost everything else about it is actually very, very doomcore! dark moods, the saw synth with lots of delay and reverb... stuff that is very common in the doomcore genre.

but i guess it did not hurt to use these elements in another style too.
(or did it? it's up to you to decide.)

oh, and i did make an edit of it later, that turned into a 100% doomcore track!

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/open-your-mind-to-slowcore-yuge-mix-70-bpm
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/techno-music-for-meditative-states (doomcore remix!)

Witchcraft Techno Circle

very exciting release by the Techno Witchcraft Circle.

But maybe they better explain it themselves, as they send us one of their texts with the demo.

And it reads as follows:

"When people hear magic, witchcraft, divination. They think old castles, haunted moors, wooden houses hidden in the dead of the forest. Where the witches, sorcerers, magician live. Or used to live, 1000 years ago.

But why should a modern witch or magician not get hooked on Technology, too? And not use candles and cinnamon to effect a spell. But sequencers and microchips?

If music has always been the sound of the spheres, of Pan, of Isis, of... Hecate.
Why should this not be true for our very modern times, and these times of very modern music?

The magic of beat programming and frequency transformation is as arcane, exalted and enigmatic as reciting a spell from parchment or chanting in a sacred hall".

So much for the sound of magic!
And the style? Doom, Techno, Hardcore, Industrial... Noize.
So much for the sound of chaos!

The music was done by 5 different artists and groups.
A few sacred texts from the tomes of the Techno Witchcraft Circle have been included in the download version of the release for your reading and study purposes.

Info+Tracklist:

Witchcraft Techno Circle - Flames of Hecate

1. per luxuria ad astra - Rituals of Ecstasy Inside the Forbidden Forest's Hidden Temple (Chapter One) 02:02
2. per luxuria ad astra - Rituals of Ecstasy Inside the Forbidden Forest's Hidden Temple (Chapter Two) 03:06
3. per luxuria ad astra - Rituals of Ecstasy Inside the Forbidden Forest's Hidden Temple (Chapter Three) 02:19
4. per luxuria ad astra - Rituals of Ecstasy Inside the Hidden Forest's Forbidden Temple (Final Chapter) 04:22
5. MetaLove - New Witch Techno (Part 1) 04:47
6. MetaLove - New Witch Techno (Part 3) 03:31
7. MetaLove - New Witch Techno (Part 2) 03:13
8. Ultramarine Messenger - ⅔ Moon (Rising) 05:27
9. Ultramarine Messenger - ⅔ Moon (Setting) 04:14
10. The Ancients of Pluto - Beholding the Infinite Green Glowing Grid of Astral Cyberspace (Sector 1) 05:05
11. The Ancients of Pluto - Beholding the Infinite Green Glowing Grid of Astral Cyberspace (Sector 2) 03:36
12. The Ancients of Pluto - Beholding the Infinite Green Glowing Grid of Astral Cyberspace (Sector 3) 05:16
13. The Ancients of Pluto - Beholding the Infinite Green Glowing Grid of Astral Cyberspace (Sector 4) 03:52
14. Scorpio Nox - Chaos in Order 15:37

Omnicore Records 80
Doomcore Records 235

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/flames-of-hecate

Producer's Diary: Funeral Doom Core (60 Bpm Hardcore Techno track)

Despite the lots and lots of producing I do, I feel only few of my tracks got real "hits", in the sense that they became widely known outside the usual circles, are still mentioned and played today... and that's one of them.

The title is actually tongue in check... a producer friend suggested the term "funeral doomcore" for tracks that are even slower than the usual Slowcore stuff. I never was a fan of the name.
But I made this track that fits the bpm range.
And at the same time it actually it *is* a funeral themed Doomcore Techno track. There's the literal meaning...

So the main thing is the Slowcore beat here, 60 bpm. Quite distorted, lots of reverb. But not as much as I did in other tracks.

And all other elements are sounds that I imagined to be associated with death, funeral, horror, the afterlife.
The percussion drums a march beat, like a funeral march.
The synths are like 60s b movie horror organs or theremins.
The bells are... well, no need to explain.
There is a weak, feeble weeping sound in the middle part. The idea here is that it's close to spirit tape stuff etc that was done in the earlier 20th century.

So yeah that's about it. Funeral hit creation finished.

When it was released, it was (one of) the only Hardcore tracks in existence, that were that slow.

I actually flipped the idea around later, and made a "Funeral Hardcore" track with more regular, but still slow beats.

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/funeral-doom-core-short-mix-60-bpm

https://viralconspiracyrecords.bandcamp.com/track/funeral-hardcore

The Gabber Elders Obscure Summer Mixmarathon

The Gabber Elders Obscure Summer Mixmarathon (Online Festival) - 11.7.2026

The sun is turning round and round each yeah, just like a record, baby, just like a record.
And when, finally, the sun is at its highest of the year, you know it's time for a new edition of The Gabber Elder's mixmarathon!
and this is what we are gonna do. we're gonna have a party. we're gonna have another mixmarathon.
for last year's summer mixmarathon, the theme was: all styles of the 90s, or 90s styled hardcore. beginning with slowcore and doomcore, then acidcore and gabber, and ending with the most frantic terror and speedcore.
now this year the apple did not fall that far off the tree. there is still a mix of styles, and a build up in energy...
yet there is also a special twist: the gabber elders only play rare and obscure records.
the stuff you never heard about! (hopefully)

so that the rare / underdog tracks of the 90s see the light of day for once, too.

like last time, there will be a special video / visual show that accompanies the music.
the whole thing is hosted on youtube, will be broadcasted live, and will run for several hours. so be there, or be square (wave).

When?

11.7.2026

5:00 PM CET - 9:30 BST (London Time)
18:00 - 22:30 CEST (German Time)
12:00 PM - 4:30 EDT (New York Time
3:00 - 7:30 JST (Tokyo Time) (on 12.7.2026)

Where?

Tune in at HCBX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvpuyJ3k8V8

A chat and banter room will be present during the room, make sure to join us, the DJs will be present, and maybe one or two legendary hardcore producers from the 90s era, too.

Who?

The Gabber Elders are:

Low Entropy (Hamburg, Germany. Age: 147 Years old)
GabberGirl (Minnesota, USA. Age: 83 Years old)
N.i.k.a.j. (The Netherlands) Age 158 Years
DJ Asylum (Bathgate, Scotland, Age 126)

The mixmarathon is presented by:
The Gabber Elders https://thegabberelders.com/
HCBX https://www.youtube.com/@hcbx666
The Hardcore Overdogs magazine https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/
Pure and Obscure records https://nikajs.bandcamp.com/

Order of time:

Low Entropy 5:00 - 6:20 PM CET
Techno 2 Extreme Hardcore

1. Kuadra - La Onda
2. Roughage - Internecine Noiz (Lenny Dee Remix)
3. No Mans Land - Termination ZX
4. Trashman - Cosmotrash (remix)
5. The Undertaker - Flatliner (Graveyard Shift)
6. Source Code - I'm Not A Number (Human Resource Remix)
7. The Speed Freak - We Shoot To Kill
8. Dr. Mueller - Nipples and Bass
9. Pascal - the future is ours
10. Gangsta Trax - Goodfellas
11. Phrenetic System - Fantasy
12. Wavelan - Over Phase
13. B.C. KID - Wild And Wonderful
14. Titanium Steel Screws - Dance The Night Away
15. Terror Arnold - Gabba Mission
16. Wasteland - First Time On This Planet
17. DJ Repete - Softy's Suck My
18. pHönk! - Angry
19. Temper Tantrum - Africa 4010
20. Lenny Dee - Hammer Head
21. Titanium Steel - Next
22. Source Code - I'm Not A Number (Ace The Space Remix)
23. Temper Tantrum - Industrial Strength
24. Delta 9 - Phreaked
25. Temper Tantrum - The Underground
26. Delta 9 - The Hate Tank (Buck Wild Remix)

Nikaj 6:20 PM - 7:25 CET
Oldschool and Gabber

27. Dj Rob-Caveman-Rave34.
28. *Technohead-Accelerator#4-Mok028.
29. *Scarface-Shock Intro-BR370.
30. *Evil Maniax-The Creators Of Hardcore(Rotterdam Mix)-Rot034.
31. *X Crash-Go Brooklyn-DDR008.
32. *Satanic Madness-Reality-JD1002.
33. *MPo-Untitled-SR001.
34. *Sauerkraut-They are back,Let me hear it again.
35. EAR2000653.
36. *Noisee Boys-Kokaine-HSR003.
37. *Nuts-Freedom-5th Gear3928-2
38. *Buzz Fuzz-Freedom.DTP.
39. *The Carpenter-Zaguhh
40. -Hardstuff0009.
41. *Krimson-Praise Jesus 2000651.
42. *The Jokers-Mietje-JD001.
43. *D.A.C-House Of Hell(Nightmare mix)-ENP002.
44. *Cycloton-Liquid Bass-RB1214.
45. *The Houseviking-Power Resistance(remix)015
46. *Demolition Team-Bust Da Bee-DSR7 101.
47. *Cellblock X-House Of Spoo-Lab028.
48. *Dj Houseviking-Power Resistance-HSR-002.
49. *R.Wagner-Beyond The Ultimate-Dom Rec 001.
50. *Johnny Violent-Happy Birthday-Mosh153.
51. *Hooihouse-Poen Aan De Eure-Mok2.

DJ Asylum 7:25 PM - 8:28 CET
Hardcore and Terror

52. Traffik - Bit Stream (190)
53. DJ Producer - Signal Confirmed (195)
54. Total Output - I'm Going To Eat My 303 (200)
55. David Lagon - Ho My Bitch (200)
56. Sarin Assault vs Al Core - Tralcore (200)
57. Somatic Responses - Old Evil (Part 1) (200)
58. LSA - Meltdown (200)
59. Ingler - Kohl (201)
60. Diplomat & Trouble - Praise The Acid (201)
61. Habitual Offenders - Cabbage (204)
62. Effecthunter - Freedom (205)
63. DJ Freak vs The Porridge Gun - Natural Born Killa (218)
64. Pressurehead - London (220)
65. Shrui-khan - Borderline (220)
66. Disciples Of Belial - Holosphere (222)
67. Hammer Damage - No More (224)
68. Biscanna - Splitting Atoms (226)
69. Pardonax - Parting Ways (230)

GabberGirl 8:28 PM - 9:30 CET
Speedcore!!

70. The Destroyer- My Brain is Sick Remix [Head Fuck Records- HDF008(D-Boy Black Label/So Real)] 2000
71. Cenobit- Beef Syndrome (STRIKE 024) 1999
72. DJ Tron- Doom (Deathcore Mix) [Head Fuck Records- HDF005(D-Boy Black Label/So Real)] 1998
73. Bruchkopf- Speedcore [Brain Distortion 01(United Speedcore Nation)] 1998
74. Berzerker- Inhale [WIDERSTAND 09] 2000
75. DJ Tron- Cannibal DJ [Blood n’ Guts Records- BNG002] 1997
76. Thanos- Death Penalty [Sacred Underground Productions 01- SUP01] 1999
77. Tyrant!- Frustrations [Skumkore Muzik 01/Apocalypse Recordings- APOC001] 2000
78. Terror Junkie- Die Bestrafung [BD01 (USN)] 1998
79. Christ of Noise & David Lagon- Loud Bastard MED (Provision Records 03)1997
80. Armaguet Nad- Apocalyptic Dream [Dead End Records- DER 05] 1997
81. Memetic- Track 2, Side A [Bloody Fist 020- Fist-20] 1999
82. Menace- Elements [STRIKE 026] 1999
83. Tense & Nevermind- Hate Cops [APOC001] 2000
84. Siege- Driven [STRIKE 026] 1999
85. Bruchkopf- Amokk [BD01 (USN)] 1998
86. The Destroyer- Mass of Shit Remix [HDF008 (D-Boy Black Label)] 2000
87. Bombardier- Chamber [Hangars Liquides 09- HL 009] 1998
88. Thanos- In Your Face [SUP 01] 1999

Maybe you are interested to check out the past mixmarathons, too:

2025 New Year 90s Madness - 6.5 Hour Mix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ys2zAwe2kM
90s Mixmarathon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_orVOnk4cME
New Year's Day 2026 - The Gabber Elders' Old Kuntz New Years Retirement Home Mixmarathon Hootenanny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvmuHEzOwHA

The Nucleus Project: Uulee

The Project Nucleus returns. 12 tracks for 12 months, and here is the entry for the month of Uulee.
What to expect? This one is less speedcore and noize... more like techno, slowcore, a hint of acid, ebm and gothtronics maybe.... hope you enjoy it nonetheless!

Info + Tracklisting:

Low Entropy - The Ultimate Level of Ecstasy (The Nucleus Project: Uulee)

1. prologue 00:40
2. module a 04:22
3. intermission 1 00:09
4. module b 02:34
5. intermission 2 00:04
6. module c 07:44
7. epilogue 00:14

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/the-ultimate-level-of-ecstasy-the-nucleus-project-uulee

Ashtarot's Confessions

White Cough from Romania already did a release on Doomcore Records' sub Omnicore Records 1 year and 1 month ago.

Now there is another release, but not just an EP anymore, but a full-size album! 11 tracks.
White Cough also improved the sound and style a lot in the time.
Hardcore, Speedcore and Gabber with beautiful melodies.
The right tracks to dance ecstatically to, or to see a city burn down while sipping a glass of water.

White Cough - Ashtarot's Confessions

1. Ashtarot's Confessions (Part 1) 03:15
2. Don't Look Back 03:01
3. Hey There 03:42
4. I Believe 02:07
5. Micul GiganT x White Cough - Divine Rhythm 04:03
6. Raising From the Darkness 02:04
7. I'm Broken 01:35
8. Ashtarot's Angel 06:06
9. So in Love With HARDCORE 01:58
10. Faster Than Your Fears 02:48
11. Return of the Beast (Vocals by White Cough and Lord of Sp33d) 02:35

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/ashtarots-confessions

Producer diary: Death waits in Samarra

All my tracks have an intention, but i guess this is one of the most intentional.
It references the infamous "death waits in samarra" tale which you can read about here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/117849-death-speaks-there-was-a-merchant-in-bagdad-who-sent

In this story, death is inevitable, no matter how fast you run. Scary!
Yet i never interpreted it as being about... actual death or dying.
It's more like: no one can escape their fate.

There is a point where you have reached "the end of the line" in your life, and you do not know what comes next in your life, and you might be scared, because everyone is scared of change. Especially if it is profound change, change coming from the depths.

I wrote this track in 2021, at a weird time in my life. I felt like I had reached the point that I mentioned above.
The lockdown had changed everything, old friends had disappeared, my old therapist decided to quit... well, at all points in my life, formerly solid structures in my life were falling apart, and i was suspended in midair...

I had no idea what would come next, or if i would lose m7ind, or if things get better, or worse, or maybe all three of these would happen.

But i decided to stop running, and accept it, whatever might crawl up from the depth, come through the door, smash through the window.

Producing the track was my way of saying "i am ready. I surrender. I am not in control. It's over, and it's okay".

Let the next chapter roll in.

And, to my own surprise, it worked. My old life fell apart and a new one begun, on every level of existence for me.
It was not always easy, far from it.

But it was also super ecstatic and exciting.
My life went to places i never knew before, metaphorically speaking.

And, who knows...
Maybe fate has one or two nice surprises in store ... for you, too?

New radical and electronic music

Festival Riot

Low Entropy · Festival Riot (Defcon One Edit) - #gabber #rave #wild

Low Entropy's producer diary: there are no rules for a producer

it's weirdly fascinating, when i go through the internet these days, there are countless of tutorials and instructions like: how to produce a techno bassdrum in the "right way", how to set EQ right, how loud the bass should be, how "mastering" should be done. what kind of workflow one definitely needs to use. how to get a synth sound in the "right" way. what kind of chord progressions one should use when doing melodies... well, i could go on forever with these examples.

When the truth is: there are no rules. there are no rules whatsoever for producing. you can do what you want. feel free to do whatever you like when it comes to art.
there is not one single "correct" way how a bassdrum should sound, or how vocals should sound, or whatever.

it all depends on the specific song or track, on the producer, on the occasion, maybe even on the time of day...
one could argue that "good" and "bad" music are entirely subjective terms...
but even beyond that:

a good track does not become "good" merely because a producer used the "right" mastering technique or harmonic progression.
and a track does not become bad because someone somewhere somehow used a technique that is completely different to what everyone else is doing.
even if a "master producer" would never ever use *your* technique, that does not mean your track would be bad because of this.

there are countless, millions, infinite ways to create, design, shape, invent, evolve, metamorph, good, killer, amazing, marvelous songs.
and there is not "one way only" to arrive at gold.

let me give a few practical examples:

do you know how rock music, metal, punk came around?
the method of "distortion" was known to sound engineers and technicians for decades before the advent of harder guitar music.
but it was seen as a technical error, a failure in production, abhorrent, annoying sound. they spent a huge amount of braincells and energy to make sure that distortion never crept up in any recording or production session.

but then some hippies in the 60s literally blew their amps (and some also their minds, i suppose), started to actually distort their guitars during production... and well, no sound engineer would still consider "distortion" to be a general failure in production.

or another example.
there is a massive amount of tutorials around, that try to tell others how to create a good, dance, techno bassdrum. with lots of focus on bass power, punch, sub bass frequencies.
the idea that is communicated there is that you "fail" if your dance track does not have a bass packing drum set.

but i mean, look at disco or new wave dance music, from the 70s, 80s. best try to get an actual record from that era, not a "remastered" re issue.
and you will see (or hear) that these disco beats often have very feeble sound, they are buried in the mix, lack bass, are unsteady... they run against modern standards of dance production, and most producers these days would never create a beat like this again.
yet... millions of people danced to the tracks. night after night, year after year.

so these tracks can't be that bad... right?

so, never let anyone tell you that your production methods, technique, skills, would be amateurish, lofi, diminished, false, wrong, absent.

feel free to produce the music (and art) that you want to do, in the way you want to do.

low entropy's non-daily producer diary

I'll continue my producer diary. I'll write a series of short entries, that do not go into very complex details over my whole productions, but give an overview of a specific track

this time it is about:

Hell Is Only A Word (Believe It Or Not)



https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/track/hell-is-only-a-word-believe-it-or-not

This one was released on the "Armageddon" compilation by United Gabba Alliance Records. Back in 2019.
I think the label is defunct by now.
I later re-released as a self-release on the "Just Another Speedcore Shock" compilation.

When I wrote this track, I was a bit at a creative slump. I had more or less abandoned the Slowcore sound I "started" in 2017, was back to doing Doomcore again... but it did not feel as energetic anymore.
Most of my tracks were quite melancholic, and meandered with long, complex, glockenspiel or chime-like melodies. A bit like "depressive doomcore" if you will.
Because I felt I hit a wall, I went back to speedcore. A style I only sparsely did after... 2003 actually!
So it was quite the return, if you want.

My "speedcore" had mutated in the meantime, though. No longer the "full on to your head" noizecore I did in the 90s.
Which can be seen in this track.
It's overloaded with samples and sounds, speeds and drums change many times.
Plus there are influences and throwbacks to many other genres. Notably hardtrance, gabber, even a bit of goth and... doomcore once more!

Techno music for Meditative States - Part 2

Why should music for meditation need to be ambient, "world" music, or the sound of raindrops falling?
Of course there is nothing wrong with that.
But here is something different. Dark Ambient, Techno, Doomcore, psychedelic, electronic, danceable sounds.

A follow-up to last year's release.
The album comes with a sonic meditation instruction manual.

And here it is:

1.

During meditation, the body becomes very still, all energy gets pulled inward, towards the mind, our mental images.
This can be very beneficial.

But what about the opposite effect?
With the help of music and sound, I began exploring a method that allows the body to flush energy out of its system and the mind.
This helps release an overload of energy, or even traumatic, harmful energy.

And beyond that, it helps to clear and restart the mind.
The focus gets pulled away from the mind, and the mind, not the body, becomes still and starts to rest, this time.

2.

The methods work by listening to music and sound, and moving the body in an intuitive, instinctive, maybe even "subconscious" way.
The mind takes a step back, shuts down for a while, and the body sets to "automatic pilot" - it starts to steer itself.

Certain forms of music are better suited than others for this. It should be hypnotic, repetitive, entrancing.

I have begun developing certain techniques and "rules" for a type of music that is specifically designed for this purpose.

And then, when the music is playing, the next step comes easily:

Just move your body in an emotional, intuitive response.

After a while, the abovementioned "body trance" will get into effect.

I think this concept and technique could be extremely beneficial and helpful.

Apart from the other benefits, it allows a person to deal with energies that might feel extreme, dangerous, hurting, devastating... and that might be dangerous if they were channeled from the body into the mind.

But this way, the energies get channeled out of the body, and the mind is outside of danger.

I will try to do further research on this subject, and refine the method even more

Doomcore Records 232

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/techno-music-for-meditative-states-part-2

The Nucleus Project: June

Time turns, the year turns, and so does project nucleus.
This is the entry for Juno.
While the entry for May was close to one hour, this one is close to 30 seconds.

And that's just the way the cookie crumbles, fellas!

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/fast-love-the-nucleus-project-june

live production jam

 

The Gabber Elders - Compilation

Even your gabber heroes from the 90s get old.
They become dads, moms, uncles, grandpas, inmates, wine&cheese enthusiasts, snake-oil vendors, crooks, or corrupted Fortune 500 CEOs.
Like everyone of us.
Eventually, they'll start to watch re-runs of Matlock, Eurovision, and Golden Girls on TV.

But this does not mean they could no longer drop them distorted 909 gabba kicks like it's hot (or cool) !

Or teach all the youngins of today how noisy a hoover, mentasm, or synth sound can get.

The Gabber Elders are four individual persons from all other the world (USA, Bathgate, Germany and the Netherlands).
They were DJs, producers, promoters, or the weirdo standing in the corner of the record shop.
They did legendary, or less legendary stuff during the hardcore techno hey days of the 90s and a few years later too.
Now each of them is 300-400 years old.

They may look more wrinkly and with less hair now, or look like something the cat dragged in.
Their i-sight might no longer be as good, and they might need to use hearing aids to tell a mokum record apart from a rave records one.

They mgiht start to miss the lettrs on the kbyoard while their typing a txet.

But this does not mean they could no longer drop them distorted 909 gabba kicks like it's hot (or cool) !

So here is a compilation with 7 tracks by all 4 of them.

Maybe these justified & elderly gabber merlins can still teach you a lesson or two!

The style of the compilation on here covers (almost) the whole hardcore spectrum, from slower doomcore and acidcore to gabber and all-out speedcore.
The Gabber Elders consist of:

GabberGirl
Nikaj
DJ Asylum
Low Entropy

Read more about them at http://thegabberelders.com

And now shut up and sit down while you are talking to a grown-up, you annoying kid. and get off my lawn!

Tracklisting:

The Gabber Elders - Compilation (Omnicore Records 77)

1. DJ Asylum - Maniac 02:42
2. GabberGirl - These Motherfokers 04:14
3. Nikaj - Honor Never Dies 04:47
4. Low Entropy - Acidcore 4 (Short Mix) 04:19
5. DJ Asylum - VPOWC 03:55
6. GabberGirl - Death by Stereo 05:01
7. Low Entropy - Acidcore of Doom 05:57

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-gabber-elders-compilation

Doomed Techno Mix

 

Doomcore Records Pod Cast #102 - The Ancients of Pluto - Doomed Techno Mix

The Ancients of Pluto just had their premiere release on the Doomcore Records sub-label Omnicore Records.
And now, they are here, on the Doomcore Record Pod Cast, with their doomed Techno mix.
And yeah, the name says it all. Very spooky and enigmatic vibes. For the dancefloor, or for home listening. Or for listening inside the underworld.

Judging by the tracklist, the focus is more on obscure and lesser known tracks.
Fitting the theme!

Tracklisting:

1. Alec Empire - Limited 07

2. Epoch 90 - Last Night Of The World (Last Zoop - Zoop)

3. X 101 - Rave New World

4. Hanin - Parfum

5. Radioactive Goldfish - Pink Potassium

6. Taciturne - Phenylephrin-Hydrochlorid
7. Cybermouse - My Dorectives
8. Hanin - There is no love in Tekkno
9. Pascal II - The Future is Ours
10. Sonic Subjunkies - Confusion
11. Polygon Window - UT1 - Dot
12. 100% Acidiferous - 303 State

https://hearthis.at/thehardcoreoverdogs/doomed-techno-mix/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1V02cvyPlc

Holmur

Holmur first appeared on Omnicore Records in 2023. The release was a spooky-scary audio tale. The story reminded me a bit of John Carpenter's The Thing - it took place in the northernmost cold, and via "logbog" entries we heard about some kind of alien or otherwise infestation.
This new "tale" does not take place underneath the northern lights. Instead it is ominously called "Grandview Family Insurance".
The story is a bit ambiguous this time.

Is there something sinister going on at the company? Maybe otherworldly forces at work?
Is it about some kind of dark / occult family?
The name "Grandview..." also reminds me of the "Overlook" hotel in King/Kubrick's The Shining... so maybe it is a bit left to the viewers to decide what is really happening... pardon, i mean, to *the listeners*!

oh, and what about the sound itself? dark ambient, horror drones, strange sounds... something for your hellbound heart!

Info + Tracklist:

Holmur - Grandview Family Insurance (Omnicore Records 76)

1 Holmur The Interview
2 Holmur First Day
3 Holmur After Hours Print Job
4 Holmur Breaching Security
5 Holmur Amber Alert
6 Holmur Cubicle Of Solitude
7 Holmur Already Promoted
8 Holmur Coffee, Black, No Sugar
9 Holmur Trust Issues
10 Holmur Caught By The Family

Mastering By GumGumKing (Emil Brix Kolstrup)

Coverart by:
- Rontobyte
- Torakk
- Per Mikkelsen

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/grandview-family-insurance

Looking back at 30 years of producing hardcore and techno music - my message to newcomers

So, this year it's been 30 years already that I became entangled in the "dangerous" electronic underground of gabba, speedcore, hard acid, and so on...
actually feels just like yesterday - weird!
I achieved some kind of "liminal fame" that way. I don't get invited to talk shows, my face is not the cover of life magazine... but I know that literally millions of people heard my music at one point in their life, and likely the same amount has spilled their sweat (or blood) on the undercover hardcore dancefloors at one point or the other...
it's weird, even when i go to a forum specifically dedicated to hardcore electronics, the reaction usually is *either* "low entropy, you are a legend!" *or* "who the fudge is that person? i never heard of them in my entire life! when did they start producing again?". it's never inbetween.

but that's not what i want to talk about. the question is: was it worth it? all the years of sweat and hardships, just to feed an addiction to hardcore beats and dark, disturbing electronic sounds?

a lot of artists (in other genres, too), when they look back, either feed their ego, like: "i wanted to proof i am the biggest musical genius ever!" (hello, john lennon!) or they underplay it: "who cares if i have achieved something or not, the important thing was, we all had a lot of funs".


but there is something i never heard getting mentioned by an artist, and it is something peculiar.
i think it has to do with motivation and inspiration...

when i was a kid, teen, young adult, the time before i got "known" as an artist, i loved to watch scifi and action movies on TV, i watched clips and music performances on music television, i watched strange & obscure programs, like a lot of us did.

and i always felt like there was a world *behind* the screen, that seemed to be so much more exciting than the "real world" i was living in. it is very hard to explain what i mean, but i think a lot of people feel the same thing.
you know, we got the regular world, with schools, and jobs, and fast food joints, and annoying neighbors, and stuff like that. maybe life is good, or it is bad, for those people that live in this world. but even if it's good, it's still hella boring, dry and dull. it lacks adventure, mystery, magic.

and the world i saw on tv, that i heard on music, that i read about in magazines, felt like it was *full* of magic and excitement and adventures.
like everything was possible there. while *nothing* seemed possible in my real life.

and i always wanted to get to that place, even if it felt like an illusion to others.
and by that i do not mean that i wanted to become a literal gangster like in the action movies i watched, or that i wanted to become a real rockstar like on the MTV.

i just wanted to feel that special sensation, that strange magic, that i felt in my favorite media, movies, records, tracks... in my own life, too.

and i think i managed to just do that, and get to that place. and this made it worth it.

and this is my "message" to the young, or rather, to the newcomers of all ages, or rather, to those that are still stuck in "boring-world".
because i do not think it is very hard to do this, to achieve this.


just gotta have faith and do the leap.
and when you deeply think reality is too dry, too boring, too depressive, and that something else should be possible.
then, please trust in your own judgment. go out on an adventure!

Orion Transfer Poster

The original orion transfer art in high resolution.

If you create a poster out of one of our releases, use this one.

I am a Techno producer, and I wanted to create a 1 hour long Hardcore track for ~30 years. This year, I finally managed to do it!

I started producing during the gabber hype of 1995 / 1996 (think thunderdome, mokum...). I was into the more experimental or underground stuff (like industrial strength or agent orange records).
I especially liked "oversize" tracks and productions (also in other genres like trance, where there were some 9+ minute stuff sometimes.(like jam and spoons' "age of love").

I liked to draft my tracks and production beforehand, so I came up with this concept: making a hardcore track that runs for 60 minutes or longer.

There were other producers (especially in acid / acidcore related styles) that created longer tracks by being "monotonous". Just letting the drums and basslines drone in for minutes. (like brixton or drop bass network did)
But I did not want to do it that way. I wanted a track with lots of changes and twists. Like a regular techno track. Just longer.

When I listened to some tracks from the dangerous "female french hardcore techno underground", I had an idea. (stuff like the michelson sisters, or anticore records).
These producers often used very long intros, and also had frequent changes in speed. And distortion!

I decided to segment my full size track.
So I made this draft:

60 minute, but the first quarter hour is almost calm, with a long ambient part.
Then there is slow, dark hardcore and techno stuff for the next quarter hour.
then a part with regular and faster gabber speed.
and finally, all-out speedcore and noise towards the end.

a steady build up, over 1 hour long.

Now the "twist": to not arrive with something that feels (or sounds) like i just connected 4 "single" tracks.
each segment should be interconnected to all others, especially in the use of sounds, melodies, and so on.

draft finished!
and then, back in 1998, i realized: "uhm...."

this was *way* too ambitious for my producer 'skills'. more loaded and complex than anything i could stem...

i got back to shorter tracks (well, averaging on 7 minutes still) and found lots of success that way (yeaaah ;-).

i never forgot this project, though. i always tried to think of ways i could produce this mammoth of a track! and i learned new tricks..

then, back in 2023, i did a release for speedcore worldwide records. i managed to pull off a 24+ speedcore composition, that i thought, sounded quite okay. (called "angel's speedcore").

now i realized... the "titan track" project was suddenly on the horizon again... maybe... just maybe... i could do that jump?

going from 24 minutes tracks to 60+ minutes is a whole different thing, though.

so, this year, i was sitting on my balcony, with my laptop in the night, and suddenly thought: "ah, well, fudge it, if not now, it will never be".

and i finally pulled off my 1 hour track!

i think this has turned out quite good too.

was much less complicated than i thought.

I guess i could have produced it back in 1997 already, too.
If i just had the courage to try.... if i just had tried...

here is the final track: https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/orion-transfer

but the finished track is almost exactly like i drafted it ~30 years ago.

there is an ambient / "soft" intro part that runs for a bit over 10 minutes. (with little use of beats, btw!)
then one part slow hardcore, one part harder and faster stuff, then one part really fast for the last 10 minute. the only change in structure is that there is an additional 16 minutes were everything winds downs again, gets more soft and slow.

also the "style" has changed a bit during the decades. i used less elements of breakcore, sampled-based speedcore etc. i even included influences of more "mellow" styles like goa, electro or acid-trance.
i think it might only party be considered to be a "hardcore" track by now.
also, the tracks themselves, are more complex than i originally intended.

what stayed the same is the idea of using recurring elements. there is one main motif that slides in and out, during the entire track.
and lots of sounds in the earlier parts resemble those in later parts etc.

in my opinion, the track sounds like i intended it. not sure if i can do a project as big as this one again, anytime soon, though!

Low Entropy - Strength Of Acidcore

Released today, on HCBX Recordings.
Going back to the acidcore style a bit.
I tried some new things, though: there are lots of speed, mood, track changes. no steady bpms. more like a live set.
but a strange, zany live jam.
from 120 to 1000 bpm.

https://hcbx.bandcamp.com/album/low-entropy-strength-of-acidcore

Tracklisting:

Low Entropy - Strength Of Acidcore

1. Low Entropy - Shoot Me 04:22
2. Low Entropy - Shoot Me Again 03:24
3. Low Entropy - Gruesome Death (Manic Mix) 01:50
4. Low Entropy - Gruesome Death (Even More Manic Mix) 02:24
5. Low Entropy - The Freedom to Fuck Off 04:24
6. Low Entropy - The Ancients of Pluto 03:01
7. Low Entropy - The Ancients of Pluto (Resprise) 04:37
8. Low Entropy - Connection to the Underworld (Short Cut) 03:11

50% of the Gabber Elders - The Famous tracks of the 90s mix

Nikaj and Low Entropy are true rats of the underground and crate diggers.
Always on the hunt for Pure & Obscure records to spin.
This time, they do the opposite.
They join forces to do a more mainstream set of 90s hardcore!

All time classic gabber hits from your favorite compilations like Thunderdome, Cyberdrome, Earthquake, or Burnedrome.
(The last one does not exist. We made this up).

By the gold award certified OG producers that swept the airwaves and TV streams in the 90s, and whose tunes blasted from every gas station and kindergarten rave.

So let us clap, and let us rejoice!

tracklisting:

1. cyanide - stringz
2. buzz fuzz - xtc love
3. the lawyer - yo dj!
4. tellurians - hardcore junkies
5. chosen few - the breaks
6. dj delirium - dance or die
7. party animals- sarin
8. electronic subforce - hard spirit (lenny dee remix)
9. dj dave & the chicago hardcore party force - yo mr. dj!
10. bruyaa & ozonic - evolution
11. dj bomber - motherfuk
12. waxweazle - brainscan (in for the kill)
13. source code - what's going on?
14. 248 Tracklist
15. Pino D'Ambini - Land Of Promises
16. Diss Reaction - Jiiieehaaaa
17. High Energy - The Box
18. Diss Reaction - DJ Lan
19. Bertocucci Feranzano - Class Axion Take 2
20. Juggernaut - Xtc Motherf...
21. Jeremy - The Flow
22. Masoko Solo - Pessa Pessa
23. Buzz Fuzz - Drop The Pressure (E-Rick & Tactic Mix)
24. Dj Isaac - Bad Dreams
25. DJ Skorp & DJ Pila - Mindcontroller
26. Lunalotic - Happy House...???
27. Warlock - Reality is a Nightmare
28. Smile - Set You Free
29. DJ Skorp & DJ Pila - Oohh God Damned I'm Great
30. Tellurian - Fucked-Up Motherfuckers
31. Search & Destroy - Don't Need Nobody
32. Pino D'Ambini - B2 } Do It Again
33. Tellurian - Don't Stop
34. DJ Arjuna - Get A Grip (Original Mix)
35. Cyanide - Dreamland
36. Chosen Few - Chosen Paradise
37. Public Domain - I Know It
38. Tony Salmonelli - Hey! (Pino D'Ambini's 1997 Remix)
39. Scarface - Halloween
40. The Scotchman - Self Destruct
41. Scarface - Turntable Junkie
42. Da Beatblower - Fuck Your S Off
43. Bertocucci Feranzano - Daddy Snow (Buzzy's Ragga Mix)
44. Chosen Few - Kold Dayz

https://youtu.be/tgGxFCJClDg

Incoming

New Release coming up!

This one's heavily influenced by stuff like 90s Industrial Strength or Brutal Chud.
Style is Acidcore / Hardcore (mostly), but there are some changes this time. The sounds are stripped to the bare minimun, raw + reduced.
And there are a lot of transformations and metamorphoses. Sudden change in speed, or volume, or noise level ;-)

So fasten your seatbelts and stay strapped!

Dogs

You read our magazine, you liked our features... and you asked us, "what about merch?" and now, merch is finally here!
carry your love for the hardcore techno overdogs magazine on your sleeve, or rather... on your shirt!

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-hardcore-overdogs-shirts-are-here.html

30 years on gabber

Omnicore Records is happy to present a new release. Here is what the author has to say:

oh my! i can't believe it has been 30 years already.
but back in the mid 90s, i discovered the sound of gabber.... hardcore... techno... the whole rave thing.
and was immediately hooked in the distorted beats, the low bass frequencies, the power & "friendly" aggression of the sound... the vibe.. the movement!

i jumped from the more "mellow" thunderdome stuff to more underground stuff like mokum or ruffneck... jumped from there to industrial strength, shockwave recordings... and finally get entangled in the whole spectrum... fischkopf... digital hardcore recordings... epiteth... drop bass network...

and fell in love with it! a love that lasts to this day, and will probably exist in 3,000 years too... because ya know what they say.. hardcore will never ever die!

i quickly decided that i needed to became a producr, dj, author, promoter etc, too, and the rest is history.

i don't really like bragging on ego stuff, but here are what some might consider to be laurels:

i produced over 3000 tracks in 30 years.
played all over the place... tresor, nordcore, the hague, the ****parade (hello, technoviking!)
my waves got picked up by most of the major music magazines and publications....

i ran a real radio show, started 3 labels, started a zine with articles that have been read 5 million times... ah well. i need to stop now!

but the thing that makes me happy the most is to see that - after so many "dry years" - the whole gabber thing has become a major part of worldwide music culture once more!

so, this is a little "look back in time", with some of the tunes i wrote in these years.
maybe someone out there... can still dig it?

because... ya know... what they say.. hardcore will never ever die!

30 Years On Gabber

Tracks from 1996-2026
Oldschool, Gabber, Midtempo, Fast Hardcore, Techno, Ravecore...
Rarities, Exclusives, and classics

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/30-years-on-gabber

Le Sign

 

the acid hour

hey hey,

Ya Dog L.E. dropped another acidcore set on the acid hour.
this time it's about teh faster acidcore stuff.
160-1000 bpm.
enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmhH-nA4ZB0

Demonic Records

Did you order my new Doomcore / Slowcore vinyl on Demonic Records yet?
https://demonicwavs.bandcamp.com/album/low-entropy-enter-dimension

Cyberspace Dreams from a Surreal Future (Visual short movie created by ChatGPT & Leonardo.Ai)

Hello friends,
This is a short movie I created using ChatGPT and Leonardo.ai.
My workflow was this:
I created still images with ChatGPT, Leonardo.Ai, and also modified a few of the Leonardo.Ai generated images with ChatGPT.
Then I animated all these images with the help of Leonardo.Ai's various motion and video features.
Put some electronic music to it.
And here is the result!

The concept behind the video is to have a kind of "feverish" dream, or vision, about cyberspace and future places in space.
So there is no real narrative or storyline, just the flow of images, that follows the logic and patterns of dreams.
My inspiration were old SciFi illustrations (for example in paper books by William Gibson and Asimov), oldschool anime, 16 bit era video games. And general sci fi stuff.

Hope this video is something that is enjoyable :-)

Credits:

Short Movie: "Cyberspace dreams of a surreal future"

Visuals created by: ChatGPT & Leonardo.Ai

With heavy use of Leonardo's motion features.

Track used:
Low Entropy - Spaceflight

11:01 AM 22.04.2026

Low Entropy Merch

Have we got news for you? Yes, we got news for you!
Finally, Low Entropy merch is available!
T-shirts, available in sizes ranging from XS to 3XL, and in most of the basic colors of the visible spectrum.

And only for 11.16 Euro, ain't that a bargain?

If you want to support our projects,
or you just want to show everyone that you listen to damn cool music (tee-hee), feel free to consider buying one!

https://www.seedshirt.de/025b322b-b6ac-4eaa-b034-ddb343cab610

55 nasty gabber and techno kicks (sample pack)

hello i'm sönke aka low entropy,
you might know some of my other sample packs.
and here i am back with a new one.

for the last packs, i tried to go very experimental, to create some wholly new, different, experimental kicks.
almost turning it into a challenge of science and maths... (the science of kickdrums? hah!)
but now i thought, hmm, maybe i lost track a bit.
why not do a pack with "plain" kicks.
that are instantly useful for new (or old) producers of hardcore, techno, and gabber music.

so that's what it is.
a bunch of kicks that just straight away try to be hard (or slick).
and that aim to fit production needs, and are varied in that regard.
so some are bass heavy, some are mid heavy, some very distorted, some not so much...
hopefully the right mixture for most tracks and needs.

but of course I lost track during that project.
and ended up doing a lot of experimental, heavy, and heady kicks once more.

all of that is included in this pack.

oh and one more frigging thing:
some producers "complained" that the other packs were often reverb-heavy, and therefore hard to use in their own productions.
so, this time, all kicks are dry, and without reverberation and echo effects.

enjoy!

credits:

all drums created by me, low entropy.

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.
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/55-royalty-free-drums

Doomcore Records listening party

Let's relive the first legit Doomcore Records compilation release with all new tracks by various artists.
There will also be a chat room where you can chat with other fans, and maybe even some of the Doomcore Records artists will be present.

When and where?

April 17, 2026

1:00 PM CEST (German Time)
11:00 AM BST (London Time)
7:AM EDT (New York Time)
8:00 PM JST (Tokyo Time)

You can tune in at:
https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/merch/doomcore-records-compilation-listening-party

The chat room will be open half an hour before the event already.

Info about the compilation:

"The first compilation of Doomcore Records with all new tracks, and it's all here. Pounding Industrial Hardcore, introspective Techno, class-sick Doomcore sounds, Noize Experiments... touches of Dark Ambient and Acidcore even...
This compilation shows the state of the Doomcore underground, and "Extreme Electronics" in general. Both DCR veterans and new artists are here, well-known names in the Hard scene as well as newcomers and pioneers.
So, without further ado: let's get on this trip!"

Gabba is not dead

 

Pod Cast

The Doomcore Records Pod Cast welcomes WHIT3CR0W-X to its series of mixes.
It's more than a mix, though: the first half is a classic DJ mix by WHIT3CR0W-X, and then we have the second half, which is a live set by SPEED_KILLER !

Style is... speedcore through and through! Splitercore, ultra fast hardcore, extratone... something for the headstrong!

A very interesting debut on the podcast.

Tracklisting:

Doomcore Records Pod Cast #101 - WHIT3CR0W-X vs. SPEED_KILLER

1 R4M - 9 Inched C**t Killer
2 Bumphead - F**kfresse
3 Noize Cunt - Leid und Schmerz
4 Bumphead - Total Annihilation
5 Sadist - Stacheldraht und Napalm
6 Qualkommando - Der Schneekönig
7 Noize Damage - Combat Shock
8 Terrorbunny - Angst
9 Komprex - Terror Worldwide
10 Claymore - Fight Club
11 BTC 107A - F**zensabber
12 V8 - Aggressionen
13 V8 - Psycho Terror
14 Terrorbunny - F**k The Mainstyle
15-End SPEED_KILLER live set

https://hearthis.at/thehardcoreoverdogs/doomcore-records-pod-cast-101-whit3cr0w-x-vs-speedkiller/

Original 90s Breakcore Breakbeats and Drums Sample Pack - Free Download

Original 90s Breakcore Drums Sample Pack

These are breakbeat sounds and drum patterns I used in my early Breakcore productions, 1996-1999.
These are not samples that try to "re-create" the sounds of the era, but bona fide sounds I used while producing Breakcore tracks in the mid 90s. I popped out the backups, and ripped them from my original MS-DOS Impulse Tracker modules, for this very sample pack.
These tracks later were released on vinyl, on Breakcore labels like Praxis, Widerstand, Suburban Trash, Blut...
I played them at tresor.berlin, at hardcore parades, in lots of squat and club parties...
So this is the real stuff, so to say.

Some of the beats are ultra-distorted, some not so distorted, some weird...
And as a bonus, I added some "Breakcore" type noise, FX, ambience sounds from my tracks to the pack, too!

Of course you don't need to use these sounds just for breakcore. They could also fit to gabba, industrial... pop, goth... whatever you want!

Enjoy!

Content:

109 samples

41 breakbeats
5 bass sounds
23 drum and percussion sounds
14 fx sounds
14 noise sounds
9 ambience sounds
3 synth sounds

License:

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.

Background info:

I helped to create and shape the Breakcore genre in the mid 90s, not just as a producer, but through various other activities (setting up parties, running zines, online forums, radio broadcasting to the citizens of hamburg... etc etc).
But left the scene ca 2001, when the Breakcore sound became pop/idm influenced. And later became a Techno / Doomcore producer.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/original-90s-breakcore-drums-sample-pack

Merch

Doomcore Records Merch now available
Various colors, sizes from S to 5XL
Only 15.41 Euro
Buying one directly supports the label

https://tinyurl.com/2brdkf96

Producer's Diary: When metal hits the drum

I am a Hardcore Techno producer for several decades, and when people ask me: "what is the most aggressive, brutal, and violent track you produced?" I would probably say: it is this one.

It's not super fast speedcore, it's slowcore. But I never got the bass drum as hard, as noisy, as distorted, like in this track.
It's almost painful to listen to it (to me).

I actually produced this one back in December 2013 already.

Apart from the drum, the track is quite simple: there are no other elements besides the bass drum.
The drum just gets put through various filters and effects... ...as the track moves on - which I did "live", jamming.

But this setup of effects and processing was quite complex and complicated, and "brainy", of course.

Low Entropy - When metal Hits the drum

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/when-metal-hits-the-drum

Producer's diary: writing the first Doomcore Records EP

I created the first EP for the new Doomcore Records label back in 2012.

When I conceived the EP, I already had posteriority in mind. Something that people - hopefully - could look back to after a few years (or longer).

The setting I came up with is a "classic" 2-tracker release. With a clearly distinct A and B side. Maybe even more like a single release!

The A track is doomcore-hardcore-techno in style.
The melody may sound jammed, improvised, or created by spontaneous creativity. But the truth is it was mathematically planned. The whole melodic system is one big formula. There is not one note that would be outside this mathematic equation.



The beat and percussion - these were improvised, though.

This track was later remixed by various artists for another release.

The A track was meant to be the main track.

The B side was the additional part.
It's a beatless "doom" ambient track.



Was this one mathematically planned, too?

Far from it!
What I did here was: I set up my soft synth. Created a synth sound that I liked.
Then I turned off my speakers, headphones, any sound.

And I started to jam. Just pressed notes, like it felt right to me.

I should add that I did not know how to "read" notes, i.e. I did not know how a D# or G would sound.
I also had the clear intention to neither change, edit, amend, or cut notes. Or to do another take.
I finished the track without listening to it once.

I just hoped it would turn out okay.

Opinions might differ - but i do think it sounds quite okay!

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/01

The Breakcore Breakfast Club Mix (Year 2000 edition)

Just had a random flashback. A journey down memory lane.

christoph fringeli, hecate, society suckers, gogo goddess, joel amaretto, me + / - a few other people, sitting in joel's living room, having breakfast, bread rolls with the salami that the society suckers "borrowed" out of the green room of the maria club the night before, on friday before the f**kparade party on saturday, in the year 2000.
we had also picked up nihil fist, frederik schikowski, dj scud, cdb, postcore and eiterherd the day and night before, but not sure if all of them stayed for breakfast.

hmm memories. i guess this moment was the "breakcore breakfast club" (okay bad pun).

(my adventures on that extended weekend were published in an issue of the datacide magazine - back then. i guess i posted it somewhere around here too, but i can also look it up - one day.)

but it is kinda weird to look back and realize, that, at one point in time, and inside one room, almost the entire early breakcore scene (this side of the atlantic) was having breakfast together.

Part 2

During that era, me and my friends felt like we would rule the world, and lived without a care in the world.
Just endless parties, fun, doing music, traveling to other cities, meeting friends... nights in cafés, fast food places, debating politics, setting up things, organizations... doing what we wanted, and enjoying it. To the fullest.
At the highest decibels.

We were so sure everyone would start to realize how great "our music" was, and surely we would change the world by this.

Those days in Berlin, and elsewhere seemed to never end.

But in truth we were just a small group, and this "community" disbanded soon enough, with some going for pop-breaks, others quitting altogether...

I moved on too, eventually. Into "doomy" acid, techno, and hardcore.

This "sound", this scene, late 90s, early 2000s, when breakcore was (undefined) and still tightly connected to avantgarde music, hardcore punk, gabber, industrial ambient, squat culture... disappeared, more or less.

It was a rude awakening.
But I guess others before us felt similar. Who put all hopes in a subcultural movement, and then "dreams" were hit by "reality".

Were we fools back then? Or could our music really take on the world - if things had run differently?

Well, to quote another song:

"It's not that you never believed... because you did.
Just not enough."


Here is a mix that tries to capture the sound of the era, with some of the artists mentioned above, and a few other things.

Low Entropy - The Breakcore Breakfast Club Mix (Year 2000 edition)

Tracklisting:

1. Society Suckers - Schizophrenic
2. DJ Scud - Mash the Place Up
3. Hecate - Caught Up
4. Eiterherd - Macht
5. Shitness & The Jackal - Fire is the Centre
6. Eiterherd - Chase Em
7. Rudeboy - Are you down with the underground
8. Salami Brothers - Gangsta Trax
9. Hecate - B1
10. Christoph de Babalon - Meet Fate
11. Multipara - Pocket Monster
12. Low Entropy - I am God
13. Robotnics Crossing - Kill the Funk
14. Postcore - Assault
15. Frederik Schikowski - Ring my Bell
16. Killout Trash - Stiring
17. Christoph de Babalon - Babylon 90219
18. Low Entropy - Sadstep
19. Robotnics Crossing - Untiled
20. Spiral Tribe feat. Gabba Nation - Berlin HC Nite
21. DJ Scud - Come with it
22. Society Suckers - It's enough

https://hearthis.at/omnicore-records/low-entropy-the-breakcore-breakfast-club-mix-year-2000-edition/

The Three Zeros

The Three Zeros (The Nucleus Project: April)
by Low Entropy
3 tracks, 12 minutes

1. Introduction 00:45
2. The Three Zeros 09:31
3. The Three Zeros (Reprise) 01:52

Information:

Here it is! My entry for the project nucleus. On the day of the fool.
Doomed acid hardcore techno. Designed for huge space cave raves.

Why the name - "The Three Zeros" ?
Well, when I was a kid, I realized: there must not be only one zero, in the world of numbers. There should be three different zero numbers: one positive zero, one "minus zero", and one neutral zero, that is neither positive nor negative. The three zeros.
So it must be the truth! Alright?

About project nucleus:

Hello,
Allow me to introduce my newest project for 2026: an album called "Nucleus".
It's not produced yet, and it won't be finished before 2027. In the most literal of senses!
Because I plan to produce one track for each month of 2026.
Then release it at the end of the year, or at the beginning of the next year.

Tracks could be in any style. Breakcore, Acid, VGM... eclectic?

But I will also try to produce it *for* the month, not *in* the month.
And absorb the... "vibe"... of each month and put it into la musica!

So January should be more wintry... March will be about the rites of spring... then Summertime, Fall, and the descend into the icy waters of winter again.

I also try to create a progression with the sequence of tracks... a sequential album... a staircase of sounds!

Hope it all works out as planned.
And see you in the year after 2026! (ahem)

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/the-three-zeros-the-nucleus-project-april

Doomcore Records Pod Cast #101

Doomcore Records Pod Cast #101 - DJ Pr8orian - Drum and Bass will never die

You know Pr8orian from his Industrial Hardcore mixes on the Doomcore Records Pod Cast.
So you might be surprised to hear that he now submitted a set made up entirely of Drum and Bass tracks!
It's good work the same. So consider giving it a try!

Tracklisting:

DJ Pr8orian - Drum and Bass will never die
(Vinyl Only Set)

1 : Kasra : Talk up
2 : Skeptical : Foiled
3 : kasra : City of Rain
4 : Enei : Falling
5 : Enei & Kasra : Rolling Walls
6 : Enei : Tide Guide
7 : Bou : Win Ya B
8 : Willem : Splinter in Your Mind (Break. Remix)
9 : Monty & Visages : Black Shield
10: DLR : Do I Know What I'm Doing?
11: Monty : No Place
12: Alix Perez : slink
13: Alibi : Black Piano
14: Devotion (feat. HLZ) : Phase
15: Monty : Praise
16: Alix Perez & Ivy Lab : Maiden
17: SpectraSoul & Tamara Blessa : Away
with me (Calibre remix)
18: Arpxp & HLZ : Radar
19: Enei : Dirty
20: Bou & Upgrade & Chimpo : Creeper
21: Chase & Status & Bou : Baddadan (feat. IRah, Flowdan, Trigga & Takura)

https://hearthis.at/omnicore-records/doomcore-records-pod-cast-101-dj-pr8orian-drum-and-bass-will-never-die-vinyl-set/

How I started Doomcore Records

It's a bit of a weird story, and it actually started way back, when I read the books by Douglas Adams, in my early teenage days.
I tell this out of memory, so it might not be entirely correct. But in one of the "Dirk Gently" novels, Douglas Adams mentions a fictional author, and I assumed it was a take on Stephen King.
In the book, the author is successful. But not because of his work, but because his name fits well on the cover of a book. The last name is shorter, so it can be printed in large letters, and the surname can be put in smaller letters on top of it.

When I read this, I felt like someone had jolted my nervous system. This idea felt so alien, so bizarre. Even though it was a parody, it stuck with me.

Fast forward 20 years. I never used drugs in my life, trust me on that.
I remember the following moment like it was yesterday.

I was walking along the parking lot, next to my flat.
When suddenly, in my mind, the two words, in big white letters appeared: "Doomcore Records". And I knew this was perfect. On a semiotic level, on the level of letters, the alphabet... to me, there was an aesthetic, a geometry to these two words... it really clicked.
In all honesty, I could not care less that this was about Doomcore Techno as a genre.
I felt addicted to the aesthetic of these letters, of these two words, as a kind of sentence... and I knew I needed to start a label about this...

If another genre name had appeared before my eyes, the label would have been about that.

This is my story, it might sound weird, but it is true.

Doomcore Records laurels

The label turned 13 years a while ago, so let's look at some of its laurels.

Over 350 releases so far, together with its two subs.
That makes it the biggest Doomcore Label ever.
It also makes it one of the biggest Hardcore-related labels ever.
One of the biggest labels in Hamburg, Germany.
And one of the biggest DIY labels.

The label and it's releases have been reviewed, praised, or mentioned in most of the major music press publications around the world.

It's releases have been played in clubs, festivals, squat parties, and other gatherings, in countless countries, on all continents, with the - possible - exception of antarctica.

"Doomcore" refers to Doomcore Techno, not Doom Metal.

The label kickstarted quite a few music careers, or underground trajectories.

On the other hand, plenty of established "star" producers of the electronic subculture have released on Doomcore Records.

Doomcore Records spawned a whole new subgenre of music - "Slowcore Techno".

More interesting stuff that happened:

Doomcore Records released the first Doomcore artist in the Dominican Republic.
Also the first Doomcore EP out of China.
A release by a soldier in the Ukraine conflict. Produced close to the frontline. Expressing the nihilism of war and life.

The first Doomcore Techno release in support of LGBTQIA+ rights.
The first release by an Industrial Black Metal artist out of chile.
Tracks produced during the chaos of the first years after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc.
The first entirely "Female Fronted" Doomcore and Dark Techno album.
An album made up of tracks with a runtime of 30-60 minutes each.

Despite the name of the label, a lot of the releases are not strctly Doomcore. There is spoken word, speedcore, chiptune, techno... industrial... 
The aim is at the entire range of electronic music.

The first releases had just the artist name and a number. Always the same artwork. No information, no promo, no pics, no marketing, nothing. Because obscurity is king.

Apart from the official vinyl releases, countless of dub-plates exist with the music of the label.

These were just a few of the facts attached to the label.
Stay tuned for more.

Overdog Anthem Remixes

We blew the whistle - and plenty of producers switched to dog-mode and responded.
The second part of the hardcore overdogs remix contest was upon us.
And the responses were more than just a boneful.

The producers were able to one-up the hardness, darkness, and the wolf qualities of the original tracks.

Techno, Speedcore, Doom, Drumnbass...
So... no matter if you are a fierce coyote or a poodle.
Something for everydog should be found on this new release.

Tracklist+Info:

Various Artists - The Hardcore Overdogs Remixes - Part II

1. Topp Dogg (King Cog Remix) 00:0004:56
2. Hakken with Wolves (Primitik Remix) 03:48
3. DogBoy (GabberGirl Remix) 05:04
4. Topp Dogg (James F Remix) 04:30
5. Hakken with Wolves (King Cog Remix) 04:11
6. Rodox Trading - Ma-Oh (Low Entropy Remix) (Bonus Track) 06:50

Omnicore Records 71

https://doomcorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-hardcore-overdogs-remixes-part-ii

Also check Part I: https://gabbaretrecords.bandcamp.com/album/gbbr110-we-are-the-hardcore-overdogs-the-remixes

And The Hardcore Techno Overdogs -
"E-Zine for great and / or underrated Hardcore Techno past and present!"

https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com

The zine that sparked these anthems.

Free Drum Sample Packs

Hey Hey,
I'm Low Entropy,

And here are a bunch of free sample packs.

Mostly drum centered, mostly around techno-hardcore-gabber. But can be used for pop, vgm, industrial, goth, electro - whatever - too! and a few other sounds are there as well, acid, fx, synths, noises....

And here they are:

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/low-entropy-sample-pack-2-doomcore-gabber-and-speedcore-bassdrums

Try that one first. Includes distorted drums that fit to most Hardcore and Techno tracks. An "all-rounder" pack.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/55-royalty-free-drums

Some very hard and rough drums, and also some more conventional ones for Hardcore productions.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/160-royalty-free-unusual-drum-samples-for-producing-techno-hardcore-and-more

This one has more experimental, and ultra rough drums (but also softer ones).

For those that want to dry "different" drum sounds.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/multi-genre-techno-hardcore-centered-free-sample-pack-drums-synths

This is a bit different. Contains drums, synths, percussion and the rest, for 9 different genres. You can create a whole track just using these patches!

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/101-royalty-free-909-related-drum-samples

Some fresh samples, for those that like the 909 sound.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/low-entropy-sample-pack

This is more loop centered. Also has synths and basslines (and percussion).

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/123-hardcore-techno-and-gabber-drums-that-were-used-in-the-90s-sample-pack-3

Drums I created in the 90s, used in my tracks. Not just plain 909s but also different sounds.

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/47-hardcore-techno-and-gabber-drums-that-were-played-in-club-and-squat-parties-sample-pack-4

Drums taken from various tracks I did. Some nasty ones inside!

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/121-royalty-free-909-related-drum-samples-for-producing-techno-hardcore-and-more

Experimental, and ultra distorted!

https://lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/original-90s-breakcore-drums-sample-pack

Breaks, noizes, drums, that I actually used in breakcore productions in the 90s.

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.

Background:

I'm a hardcore techno and electronic music producer since 1996.

Played at tresor.berlin and plenty of other places, in front of 1000s of people.

My music got mentioned in most major music magazines.

I ran a radio show here in Hamburg, Germany.

I run 3 labels.

I produced over 3000 tracks. These were released on vinyl, CD, cassette, digital, or elsewise.

I'm an author of several e-books on hardcore, culture and politics.

Etc etc

Like most Hardcore producers, I am addicted to bass drums!

And I hope to give something back to new or other producers with these sample packs.

A lot of these drums have been "party approved" and been played be me or other DJs at clubs or squat parties.

So:

Feel free to download these free sample packs, and create your own tracks.


Enjoy!