Tag: hardcore

Freedom Club

Coming up early 2023 is a new division of Enfant Terrible called Freedom Club. The focus will be on dark beats and rough sounds… and the format could surprise people who have been following ET for some time… as it will be small editions of cd’s and a digital release on bandcamp for this label…

The cd’s will be packaged in fitting artwork and printed by me of course… as always…

First up will be an EP (5 tracks) by Nihilist Sounds entitled “Ritual EP”… expect some hardcore techno with acid and industrial sounds to spice things up… At the same time there well be the “Twilight EP” (6 tracks) by Auva Duhr (new project by Neugeborene Nachtmusik) packed with (post-) rave sounds with references to elektro, idm and techno…

A preview of the artwork is posted on the ET homepage…

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Dark rave – 1 February

On Friday the 1st of February we will host a dark rave at Attic 61 (see the posts on the event there last September. This is the first party we play at this year… we had a short break… which was needed…

But… expect a night of harsh and dark beats like we always play… we being Alacidus and myself back 2 back… vinyl only of course…

Also Utroid and Roberto Auser will do live sets with more pounding beats and dark sounds…

The Attic 61 people have curated art pieces… and the location is again the old morgue of the former decomposed physics laboratorium in Amsterdam…

ADEV 2018 after

ADEV 2018 was absolute great this weekend. Last year we already had a great time playing records there… possibly this year was maybe even  more intense. We played the closing set this year… so partly in the dark… and a longer set as last year…

After starting with a “relaxed” acid track we built it up and up and up to more and more extreme sounds and beats and tempos… The video above is almost at the end of our set… and shot from somewhere in the crowd.

A huge thank you to ADEV for having us again!

Ravage

For the Ravage crew (events and podcast series) me and Alacidus did a back2back mix… one take, only vinyl… as always… the mix includes elektro, techno, acid and tracks bordering industrial and hardcore… new stuff and old stuff… it is all in there… you can click play below…

ADEV

Yesterday me and Alacidus played back 2 back during the ADEV rally… it was an absolute great opportunity  for us the play music we cannot play at many places… the streetrave was all about attention for the subcultural roots of dance music culture and the more edgy and adventurous aspects of contemporary dance music for which there is almost no space at ADE… neither at many venues and festivals in general these days…

Next to that ADEV was this year about retaining and saving ADM, a cultural free haven in Amsterdam which is threatened by real estate agencies…

We selected some of our favourite classics and contemporary tracks in the field of techno music… meaning we played only hard and brutal tracks…  and had a lot of fun doing so…

Fight for your right to party!

Hardcore

When I was a teenager I was not into hardcore (gabber house)… not at all… the first hardcore music which found its way into my stereo was most like the dj Dano remix of a Fear Factory track… that was 1997… already quite late for the true Dutch hardcore scene… and dj Dano was from Amsterdam of course and not from Rotterdam… not a minor detail when it comes to hardcore music… also I heard some Ultraviolence some years earlier but was not impressed with that project back then… and still not…

And in some ways the Covenant track “Edge Of Dawn” features elements from hardcore… and this piece is from 1994… so from the same era as the first wave of hardcore…

Only more recently I got more interested in this music… because of its loudness, it roughness and simply because it is so extreme… even compared with some industrial techno from the today… still I prefer the truly dark and twisted stuff… not when it becomes “funny” with vocal samples and stuff…

Anyway… I saw a great documentary a few years ago about the scene… both musicwise as when it comes to the subculture this film is a true document… you can see this film “Gabbers” with subtitles below (as it is a Dutch production of course) … and below that is another documentary on the scene with a focus on the Energiehal in Rotterdam (now demolished and also with English subtitles)… which was a special place for the parties of thescene in the first part of the 1990’s… enjoy!