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