Monday, April 12, 2021

Tribute Mix To Dance Ecstasy 2001 - Part 1


Tribute mix to one of PCP's greatest sublabels.
This is part 1 - the "early" output of DE 2001.
Sorry for imperfect mixing in some parts :)
Which tracks would you have used?

Tracklisting:

01. Cyborg Unknown - Year 2001 (Transcendental Mix)
02. T-Bone Castro - Hilltop Hustler (I'm The 1 & Only)
03. 303 Nation - Dos
04. Nasty Django - Ey Loco! (Kinky Muthaship)
05. Ace The Space - 9 Is A Classic
06. Insider - Destiny
07. Test - Overdub
08. Ramin - Brainticket
09. Headshop - Universe
10. T-Bone Castro - Return 2 Planet E
11. Nasty Django - 3 P Rules B1
12. Magnetic Two - Low Radiation
13. Nasty Django - King Of FFM (Godfather Mix)
14. 6-Pack - Drunken Piece Of Shit (Mix 1)
15. Headshop - Universe (Lunatic Mix)
16. Ace The Space - Go Voodoo (T-Bone Castro's Fiesta-Bass Rmx)
17. The Mover & Lunatic Asylum - Speed Surfer
18. Masters Of Rave - Are You With Me (Eintracht FFM-Stadion Mix)
19. DJ Jamo - Seastar
20. Rave Creator - A New Mind (B Mix)
21. Trip Commando - Eastern Origin (Chorus Mix)
22. Steve Shit - I Say Shit
23. Nasty Django & DJ Cirillo - Deal Wit'' Beats

The Lost Album



(ENDE275) Low Entropy - The Lost Album

Low Entropy's return to ENDE in 2021 kicks off with "The Lost Album" which is an album he made originally to release on Widerstand Records in 2001 which has remained unreleased for 20 years!!

He explains:

"I sent Daniel (Eiterherd) a demo tape in 1998, and he liked the tracks, and we talked about a release; later, he asked me to do a CD album (real CD run of 500 copies, not a CD-R release) for Widerstand. I finished the tracks, send him the master, and the release was scheduled to happen in early 2001. The thing was, Widerstand ran out of money at that point, so the CD never was released. The tracks stayed in limbo, but eventually Daniel came up with the idea to do a vinyl 2x12" instead, with a stripped tracklist, which was released in 2003"

ENDE had been asking LE if he had any more old tracks unreleased after the success of his best of compilation we released in January 2018. He told us about the "lost album" but that he wasn't sure where it was.

Well..in 2020 he found it! And now it's finally released in full and uncut after 20 years in limbo!!

So as you can expect it has the classic old school breakcore sound made famous by producers like Low Entropy.

OTHER LOW ENTROPY RELEASES ON ENDE RECORDS:

Roots Of Industrial Hardcore And Terror Mix


Industrial Hardcore has become a really big genre now, but its roots lie in the Hardcore Techno scene of the 90s, when artists moved away from the hoovers, synths and rave stabs - plus rap and pop samples - that defined the more "dance friendly" Gabber music which began dominating the Hardcore raves and music chain store CD compilations. They explored disturbing and surreal noize, metallic, shrill and industrial sounds with pounding, deep drums and generally full-on distortion.
While Industrial Hardcore is now usally associated with "slower" speeds in music, the Industrial Hardcore of the mid-90s was usually still quite fast and frantic.
This sound also had a huge influence on the Frenchcore, Speedcore and Breakcore genres that grew bigger and bigger after the 90s ended.

Tracklisting:

01. Collective Strength - Family Affair
02. Somatic Responses - Cyclotron
03. Gringo - Slayer
04. E-De Cologne - Raverbunnies Death
05. Mouse - Halloween
06. Test Tube Kid - Promars
07. Napalm 8 - Mic Contract
08. Auto-Psy - Go Out
09. Napalm 6 - Signal Zero
10. Napalm 8 - Fuck 08
11. Richard Devine - Refractor
12. Ingler - Erratum
13. Micropoint - Return Of The T-Rex
14. Napalm - Vouck
15. Gringo - Rules
16. Collective Strength - Chunk Blower (D9 Mix)
17. Auto Tropp - Otto Tropp
18. Napalm 8 - XWD
19. Napalm - Analstahl
20. Ingler - Rkor Machine

DJ Producer Mix



The DJ Producer dropping my track "Urban Uprising" in this very, very good set of PCP tracks and Doomcore. A big honor!
By the way: "Urban Uprising" is available digitally at my Bandcamp in the original master mixdown version.

Tribute To Narcotic Network Recordings


Narcotic Network Recordings was a sublabel of Planet Core Productions, focusing on Electro and strange Ambient experiments. With Miro's output on this label, I think one can hear a Lory D and generally "sound of rome" influence, but also of course the trademark Miro sounds with dark, haunting melodies and synths worthy of a Kotzaak record - but, of course, with an Electro twist this time. Marc's outing on this label are as excellent as one would expect, with a heavy dose of The Mover atmosphere, somewhere inbetween Techno, Acid and sonic experimentation.
This label also saw the release of the track "Destination - Nowhere", a bittersweet symphony composed by Miro, which would fit well as a soundtrack to the most depressive (or redeeming?) movie.
A label for some of the most extraordinary tracks by PCP.

Due to the complicated rhythms of the tracks, this set was tough to mix, so please excuse any minor errors :)

Tracklisting:

1. Frozen - Into The Light
2. The Mover - Track Three
3. Frozen - The Forest
4. The Mover - Track One
5. Frozen - Out Of The Light
6. The Mover - Track Two
7. Destination - The Trip
8. The Mover - Track Four
9. Frozen - Soul Saver
10. Destination - Nowhere

Rotterdam Hardcore Trax


Rotterdam themed compilation, including an Oldschool Gabber styled track by me.

Working Ambient Selection Part 2


Out now: Working Ambient Selection Part 2
More experimental Ambient and sonic exploration, this time from 1997-2013. Often very slow, calm, monotonous, to get you into the mood.
Inspired by movie scores, Video Game Music, Krautrock, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and the golden age of Dark Ambient.
Partly done on MS-DOS Impulse Tracker.
The perfect sound for a dark Friday night just before watching a Sci-Fi / Horror movie.

Tracklisting:

01. Scoore
02. Digital Ambient (Reverberated Version)
03. Burned Out
04. Beyond Reality 1
05. Beyond Reality 2
06. Architecture 4
07. Architecture 5
08. Abstrakt 1
09. Abstrakt 2
10. Abstrakt 3
11. Ambient 1
12. Ambient 2
13. Ambient 6
14. Ambient 7
15. Ambient 8
16. Symphony 8
17. Synth 4
18. Drone 8
19. Chorus 1
20. Yes