Thehard DATA Spring 2015 A.D

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Hardstyle, Breakcore, Shamancore, Speedcore, & other HARD EDM Info inside! http://theharddata.com EDITORIAL Contents Editorial...page 2 Welcome to the fi rst issue of Th e Hard Data! Why did we decided to print something Watch Out EDM, this day and age? Well… because it’s hard! You can hold it in your freaking hand for kick drum’s L.A. Hardcore is Back!... page 4 sake! Th ere’s just something about a ‘zine that I always liked, and always will. It captures a point DigiTrack Reviews... page 6 in time. Th is little ‘zine you hold in your hands is a map to our future, and one day will be a record Photo Credits... page 14 of our past. Also, it calls attention to an important question of our age: Should we adapt to tech- Event Calendar... page 15 nology or should technology adapt to us? Here, we’re using technology to achieve a fun little THD Distributors... page 15 ‘zine you can fold back the page, kick back and chill with. Th e Hard Data Volume 1, issue 1 For a myriad of reasons, periodicals about Publisher, Editor, Layout: Joel Bevacqua hardcore techno have been sporadic at best, a.ka. DJ Deadly Buda despite their success (go fi gure that!) Th is has led Copy Editing: Colby X. Newton to a real dearth of info for fans and the loss of a Writers: Joel Bevacqua, Colby X. Newton, DJ much needed communication node. So, we hope Chiroptera, DJ Mindcontroller to make THD a regular publication coming out Event Calendar: DJ Arcid at least six times a year—hopefully more. If YOU Cover Art: Chris Burnham want to write, have photos or art to submit, or have suggestions about future topics, letters or concerns—please contact us through our website, theharddata.com. Submit to THE You must have noticed our snazzy cover HARD DATA! drawn by Chris Burnham. Yes, that’s THE Chris Burnham of Batman Inc., Offi cer Downe, and We are on the lookout for: Nameless comic book fame. A little-known fact Digital, vinyl, CD, and gear reviews, scene reports, is Chris’s fi rst cover art was for a little rave ‘zine features, and interviews. We also always need cool out of Sewickley, PA called NOW?! It was made art and photographs. In all cases, contact THD on back in the ‘90s, by Colby X. Newton and his pal our website, Stickman. We needed a rocking cover, so I pulled on the ol’ “back-in-the-day” heartstrings and theharddata.com fortunately good ol’ Chris just couldn’t say no. Return the love and make sure to get his latest Promoters! Make sure your event is listed in Th e work—Nameless, with Grant Morrison—at your Hard Data’s event directory, also on local comic shop! theharddata.com Ok… now kick back and enjoy this fi rst of hopefully many issues of Th e Hard Data! And Advertisers! If you would like your ad to run in Th e remember: Th e rhythm is life and death! Hard Data, contact us as well at -Joel Bevacqua a.k.a. DJ Deadly Buda theharddata.com 2 American Gabberfest 2015 June 20th & 21st Las Vegas, NV Indoor and Outdoor - 11Am - 7pm - Free daytime event! Hardcore - Industrial - Early Rave - Terror - Raw Hardstyle - Happy Hardcore Pools, vendors and fun-zones! Swimwear and squirt-guns encouraged. Featuring: Acid Enema (Live!) - Archon & Nutype - Assassin - Bass Breakers - Beatson - Cap - Cik & K.O.R.E. - Dark Shinobi - Deadly Buda - Dist Order - DJ Delusion - DJLD - DM - Energy - Eradicate vs. Qlarity - Fiend - Gabber Twinz - Greenheart - Human trafﬁ c (Live!) - Idiom - Kinekt - Levenkhan - Lostboy & M.C. Nugget - Mindcontroller - Nightstalker - P.D.K. - Phox - RPM B2B Arcid -Soundsquatch - Symtek - System Mal- function - Terry Dux - The Counter Terrorist - The Utah Hardcore Syndicate Takeover - Vigor - More TBA!

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Jackhammer Noizecore at 250 BPM 4 to the Floor by DJ Freak

Devastating Techno at 170 BPM Hellbound by Somatic Responses

Slow Crushing Hardcore at 120 BPM Speaker Creature by DJ Deadly Buda

All this and more available on the: DEADLY SYSTEMS SAMPLER Available on iTunes and Amazon the established dance music industry. In America, the WATCH OUT older “establishment” found it diffi cult to make music the rave DJs liked or would play. Th ey wanted House music showcased at more of the parties, and had the EDM, L.A. coff ers to promote their product. Soon there were complaints of “too much Techno” at raves, “too much HARDCORE IS Jungle”, “too much Trance”, but, most notably, “too much Hardcore.” Hardcore became marginalized in many parts BACK! of the U.S. But perhaps due to Southern California’s By DJ Deadly Buda & cultural diversity, the Hardcore “ideal” refused to die, Colby X. Newton grew stronger, and morphed into something never seen before. Hundreds of thousands of mix cas- settes—distributed mainly by Dr. Freecloud’s Mixing Lab and Pure Acid Mix Tapes—spread the hardcore gospel all over Southern California. Friends and family members turned each other on to the new sounds. Th e music got even faster and harder. Huge mosh pits erupted. Stage divers fl ailed themselves onto the melee as other ravers clung to the bassbins. Break- dance circles sprung up like mushrooms. Ecstatic and cathartic dancing reached new heights—all at the same party. Hardcore DJs from around the world played Los Angeles on a regular basis. Dr. Freecloud’s Atomic Hardcore label released DJ Deadly Buda’s trib- EDM, or “Electronic Dance Music” has a ute to L.A.’s Hardcore scene “Esto Es Los Angeles” and secret history it doesn’t want you to know. Some claim it would become an end-of-the-millennium anthem. it was 1988 when “electronic dance music” events fi rst Inspired by the strong scene, major out-of-town DJs happened in California. People from all walks of life such as Demigod, Deadly Buda, and Omar Santana came together and danced to electronic music in des- relocated to Los Angeles. erts, warehouses, lodges, even old shopping malls. Th e Th e 21st century beckoned bright. But like the events were called “raves”, and their music was diverse plot of a bad science fi ction movie, Hardcore’s power as those attending: house, techno, industrial, hip-hop, inspired a disastrous urge to control it. Legendary punk, disco, rock, world, spoken word—even gim- DJ Ron D. Core explains, “When the Hardcore scene micky nostalgia records. Soon “ravers” around the reached its peak in the late 1990’s to early 2000’s a world (especially in the U.K.) made their own music by mashing their varied sounds and ideas together. Th is music became known as “Hardcore” because it represented the eclectic “core” ideals of the ravers. Th e sound quickly became faster, harder, and more ab- stract. Th is Hardcore period of raves was in full force until around 1993, when a great splintering began. Early rave pioneers worldwide argued rave’s origin, and what raves were all about—generally in an eff ort to control and profi t from the awesome power of the phenomenon. Th en, specifi c subgenres of rave music branched off to claim spaces and crowds of their own. * Th e fi rst three photos are from Rave ‘Til Dawn’s With the scene divided, it became an easy target for 4 Technostate parties in the early 1990’s. lot of fracturing happened—just like in 1992 when Happy Hardcore pioneer Danny Baldwin, aka DJ rave music was only called House or Techno. In 1993, Lostboy, said, “Basically, the Gabber kids scared the several new sub-genres spawned from those styles. Candy Kids away.” Hardcore had a similar progression, but with negative To make matters worse, in 2002 then-Senator eff ects. Egos and infi ghting almost singlehandedly ru- Joe Biden proposed the “Reducing Americans’ Vul- ined Hardcore. Promoter crews and DJs aligned with nerability to Ecstasy (RAVE) Act.” Th e bill punished the many sub-genres started to pick one and stuck event promoters if suspected of facilitating drug sales. with it: Hardcore, Speedcore, Hard Acid, Industrial, Th e bill’s language was so broad that simply having Breakcore, Terror, New Style… With all these fac- glow sticks at a party could be enough cause to shut tions trying to push their brand, you would rarely see down an event. Th e bill failed to pass the House of everyone perform together as a united front. Instead, Representatives when initially debated. A year later, it was renamed the “Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act” and attached as a rider to a more popular bill and was passed without debate. It was a devastating blow to the rave scene nationwide. Many independent promoters shut down overnight; but it wasn’t the end of raves, clubs, or even the music. Independent promoters felt jeopardized, but corporate events and venues drew crowds as if nothing happened. Commercial music now ruled the night. How was Hardcore—supposedly too fast, noisy, distorted, raw, and amateur—to survive? In the new corporate landscape of EDM, hardcore would not be mentioned—even as a sub-genre. Do-it-yourself these groups would fi ght over the Hardcore rooms at ethos, freedom, and liberation were no longer needed the massives and start throwing parties against each as EDM corporations would satisfy every need of other. Th is put a bad taste in everyone’s mouth, and the potential raver. It seemed that Hardcore and all it singlehandedly dismantled the Hardcore scene.” represented would be no more—and had never been. Th ere were other complications too. Accord- (Continued on page 8...) ing to DJ Mindcontroller, “Th e (L.A.) crowd became too aggressive and scared off your average raver— most importantly, the women. Girls were getting knocked down or even punched due to spontaneous mosh pits. Sadly, a lot of that crowd transferred to the more friendly Happy Hardcore, Jungle, and Trance scenes.” DJ Savior of Audiophile Family added, “Mosh- ing, division of sub-genres, egos, and attitudes like, ‘We only listen to the hard shit’ or ‘Fuck candy kids’ drained the scene of its energy.” Th e harshest division split actual emotional states into defi nitive sub-genres. Happy Hardcore— a kick drum heavy, sped-up version of early 90’s rave music—would distinguish itself from “regular” Hardcore. Hardcore kids now wore black t-shirts at the parties as Happy Hardcore fans became known at “Candy Kids” due to their brightly-colored jewelry fashioned from candy (or plastic candy-like pieces.) 5 DJ Mindcontroller DigiTrack Reviews Th rough Noise teamed up to create a new project called Twin Braids. Th is is one of their fi rst tracks. by DJ Deadly Buda Innovative, melodic 200 BPM Hardcore Techno made Contact: facebook.com/deadlybuda with all outboard analog instruments. Th is is one of soundcloud.com/deadly-buda those tracks you just sort of let play because there is so much cool stuff going on. You just let the crowd get Skandal (aka slave maker) “Kill Him” into it. Th e ending really picks up so be ready to mix Skaldal (aka slave maker) delivers ripping in something high energy to follow it up. Th is track Crossbreed from Belgium. For those of you struggling appears on the PHOTON COLLISIONS compilation, to keep up with the dizzying new array of hardcore which was curated by Somatic Responses. Th ere are sub-genres, “Crossbreed” is like a combination of plenty of other great tracks on this compilation so you 4-to-the-fl oor hardcore techno, and drum and bass might as well download the whole thing. rhythms. Th is track has a nice lead and really gets the somaticresponses.bandcamp.com/track/baseck-feat- crowd pumped when you play it. It’s about 175 BPM. joy-through-noise-twin-braids facebook.com/Geoff rey.Raes DJ Freak - “4 to the Floor 4” - Deadly Systems Sampler - (Deadly Systems) I ended my set at Jason Takes Los Angeles with this old classic from DJ Freak. Th ough released almost two decades ago, this track devastated the crowd. Mass distortion and super TechDiff - “Eat Drink Fuck” - Brothers in Blood 02 hard kicks. If you - (Peace Off ) think tracks now Classic, tight, ripping breakcore from the are mastered loud, legendary Peace Off Label. Clocking in at about 233 you ain’t heard BPM, the beats are hyper chopped up but still dance- this. 250 BPM, able and fun. A real crowd-pleaser. soundcloud.com/ super-classic peace-off /techdiff -eat-drink-fuck Hardcore that rocks to this day, and probably will Pink Abduction Ray - “Roguelike” (Darkmatter) forever. You’ll fi nd Periodically slicing through the Darkmatter it on the Deadly Sound System is a shocking pink ray beam. Why? We Systems Sampler, which is available on Amazon and don’t know. But this traction beam has a dope sound iTunes. itunes.apple.com/album/id218474426 as evidenced by this track. 160 BPM of quirky, in your face… hmmm, Techno? It’s honestly hard to classify Deadly Buda & Seppuku - “Wolf Love” a track like this nowadays, as there are elements of I know it’s cheesy to review your own track, Breakcore, Hardcore, Tekno, Techno, and Acid. Th e but no one else has it. It’s currently still unreleased classicist in me wants to label this Techno or “Tekno” while we fi nish mastering the track, but when it’s done as I could hear P.A.R.’s tracks going over big at tekni- y’all are gonna like it. Super hard 4-to-the-fl oor kicks vals. Check it out for yourself and see what you think. and synths with a touch of breaks and cool samples darkmattersoundsystem.bandcamp.com/album/ to jazz it up. It answers the question, “Where am I roguelike-dmdigi003 going?” Stay tuned for more info—I’ll post it on my Soundcloud page when it’s ready. Baseck (featuring Joy Th rough Noise) - “Twin soundcloud.com/deadly-buda Braids” - Photon Collisions Dread Mechanic - “Rise of the Machine” - Baseck of Darkmatter Sound System and Joy 6 Dread Flesh Animation the sounds of classic Overdrive records, C-Tank, and Atmospheric Hardcore that basically sounds the Bullet Proofed Split EP on PCP’s Super Special like you were on that battlefi eld in Terminator where Corp. sublabel, it feels like what would happen if PCP the robots are just blasting the heck out of the hu- made some broken beats. Get this! soundcloud.com/ mans. Th ere are blown up robots everywhere, ones meanstreak1la/mdr003-02-meanstreak-dirty-biz fl ying around, raining death. Th e humans have to band together to survive. You get the picture, right? Clocking in at 120 or 240 BPM, depending how you are counting. Its tight rhythms and original back- ground sounds make for a good addition to any Hard- core set. dreadmechanic.bandcamp.com

Johnny Sideways - “Systema” - (Mechanical Brain) Th is is one of my favorite tracks right now. It Fiend - “Collide” - Tools for Tomorrow EP has all the elements of a classic Morph Beat Hardcore Th is one from Fiend of the Darkmatter track—cool samples, atmosphere, rocking half beats, Soundsystem is another fi ne Los Angeles Hardcore hardcore kicks… it’s all there and then some! Th is guy production. A nice, danceable, Hardcore “Morph- has torn it up at Q-Dance and on Ill-FM, check him Beat” style track. Basically, it switches from a funky out! soundcloud.com/johnnysideways industrial half-beat clocking in at 125 BPM, morphs into a pounding 250 BPM hardcore jackhammer, then Arcid - “Hardcore Pride (Resurrector Remix)” switches back. Find it on the Tools for Tomorrow Kicking, super-fast, banging Los Angeles EP—another great release from Darkmatter. Hardcore Techno. A huge distorted kick drum jack- darkmattersoundsystem.bandcamp.com/album/ hammers the speakers at roughly 270 BPM. Th at’s tools-for-tomorrow-ep-dmdigi004 about four times the nor- Ruff neck - “Wraith (Nutype Remix)” - Wraith (Th e mal human Underground Community Remixes) heart rate, I Patrick van Kerckhoven is DJ Ruff neck, and think. Not he has a long history in hardcore. Th is driving Gab- to namedrop ber track begins with a mellow voice telling you to too much, but “breathe…breathe…breathe”, before that distorted if you were 909 kick we all know and love comes thundering in. I ever a fan think technically this track is considered in the genre of DJ Freak “Art Core” and the Nutype mix is my favorite of them (the hardcore all. soundcloud.com/djruff neck/ruff neck-wraith- techno DJ nutype-remix Freak that is), this is Th e CyberDemon - “Hypnotic” (Cenobite Records) right up your alley—and if you aren’t careful, right Th is fi ne example of LA Hardcore Techno up something else! soundcloud.com/speedkoremili- with all the classic elements are here. Do I dare call it tia667/arcid-hardcore-pride “Art Core” or “Dark Core?” I’m not sure. Whatever you call it, “Hypnotic” hits heavy on the sound sys- Meanstreak - “Dirty Biz” tem. beatport.com/release/hypnotic/1356254 You would swear this guy was from Frankfurt FFM, but no, he’s from LA. A heavy pounding track Beat Rapist - “Coming up Cold” - Th e Fift h Album that fi lls the speakers with bass and breaks. Th is thing I love all the tracks by this guy. Basically, he just grinds through the speakers, off ering only a brief takes old classic jungle samples, then makes new break to listen to someone spray painting. Combining 7 (Continued on page 10...) (...Continued from page 5...) Outside of events, a few fanzines such as Steve THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD from Glendale’s “HardTimes,” Riverside’s KUCR-FM Music for Riots and streaming internet radio shows “Th roughout the 2000’s a few crews kept going like KNK’s Hardcore Heads and Deadly Buda Radio but eventually stopped. Most were reaching their 30’s also helped keep the scene alive. and had responsibilities to take care of. Sadly, there was As the 2000’s wore on, attendance and no one to pass the torch to.” events dwindled to an absolute low around 2009. DJ -DJ Arcid Meanstreak began his Audio Science parties, with A young generation of Hardcore kids saw usually one room combining hardcore, old school a scene divided, embittered, and aging. Th e early techno and drum ‘n’ bass. Aft er a long hiatus, M.C. 2000’s would see an almost complete changing of Lu-Cifer rekindled his Hardcore Day Gatherings and Hardcore’s main catalysts amid dwindling and spo- Sequence parties. In 2010, Fiend and Broken Rules radic attendance. Core groups kept the creative fl ame (now known as Truncate) launched the hardcore burning, such as the aptly named Candlelight, a crew podcast revolution with Signal Flow, and Red Lab that quickly morphed into Darkmatter Soundsys- Radio, GabberTwinz, and Techno Belligerent began tem. Inspired to a large degree by the politics-fueled streaming online shows as well. Hardcore’s faint pulse media subversion of Christoph Fringeli’s Praxis label, continued for a few more years. Darkmatter forged a space for itself in the L.A. scene by concentrating on particularly extreme versions THE CORE REGENERATES of breakcore and industrial noise. Live acts such as Minion were juxtaposed with the turntablism of DJ “I took my daughter trick or treating, and men- Baseck and Diskore. tioned to one of the parents in our group that I DJed hardcore “back in the day.” Dude jumped in my face and said the hard sound was busting out and I better start producing again! I turned on the car radio that night (aft er years of not listening to almost any music) and even the pop songs were using sounds we played and made 20 years ago. It was gnawing on me for some time that I hadn’t completed my original mission, so I knew right then and there what I had to do.” -DJ Deadly Buda

“I came back because I love it, and I missed it. Th ere are a lot of aspects that I love about the current way of things: the music, the people, the gathering. To DJ Arcid me now it’s all about the fun factor and perspective has Meanwhile, DJ Slyten and Arcid spearheaded made that so.” the Speedkore Militia 667 crew. Santa Barbara got -DJ Lostboy full slates of experimental music and hardcore via Deadculture. Th ere were the Gabber-fueled parties of “I couldn’t quite put my fi nger on it, but I just the Hardcore Junkies, Nothing But Respect, P2P, and had a feeling it was time to get back. Th at it was now or Headstrong crews, as well as the experimental hard- never.” core of Mashup Soundsystem’s Klang Klang parties. -DJ Demigod Th ere was DJ Majestee’s ever-present Audio Asylum— a jungle and hardcore Friday night monthly in Bell- Ironically, the commercial interests that fl ower. Happy Hardcore bounced along as well. Kids seemed to spell Hardcore’s demise brought it back of the Core, Addicted, and L.A. Hardcore United kept from its near-death experience. sounds pumping through the lean years. 8 (Continued on page 12...)

(...Continued from page 7...) Special Section: Shamancore! tracks that sound like…. you know how raves sound more reverby or echoey than a nice pristine mix tape? Strangely, aft er all these years no one had re- Th at’s what his tracks sound like: your tape, but played ally ever zeroed in on “Shamancore” as a name for a inside a big, fat warehouse. Th ey defi nitely sound hardcore sub-genre. Th is is surprising because many more hardcore too. Th e closest thing to these tracks rave DJs I’ve met over the years have considered were Planet Core Productions’ White Breaks Interna- themselves shamans of some sort. Much dance mu- tional sublabel releases in the mid 90’s. Th ose records sic—especially the Trance and Teknival scenes—as- were great, but the Beat Rapist’s tracks sound just as pire to create altered states through rhythms. I have good—and in many cases, better. soundcloud.com/ always been interested in this, too. Some of you may peterbisseker/sets/the-fi lth-album-fun-free-album remember how I sometimes played recordings of Native American pow-wows during my DJ sets. Th e interesting thing about Finnish Shamancore is that it seems to stick very close to the ancient concepts I am somewhat familiar with. Th e style is typically fast— usually in the range of 220 BPM. Believe it or not, this is drum speed typical of ancient music designed for trance induction. Th e general structure and instru- mentation used sounds quite authentic as well—obvi- ously they’ve been doing their homework. Also, the lengthy nature of the tracks helps induce a trance. Here are a couple of my favorite Shamancore tracks:

Hiiden Virren Vinguttajat - “Suohonvingutus 1” Th is is a long, 14 minute track that if you listen to it long enough, it can defi nitely take you to the outer regions of your mind. Lots of techno sounds, but all organized in a classical shamanistic manner. soundcloud.com/hiidenvirrenvinguttajat

Teknoaidi - “Siskkáldas Ohcan” (Chase Records) Th is track clocks in around fi ve minutes and features a nice interplay between shamanic ceremony Ambassador21 - “Sniff Your Leader” - (Industrial samples and Hardcore Techno kicks. Highly recom- Strength) mended. zutsuu.kovaydin.net/v2/?page_id=20 Another hard-hitting Hardcore release from the Industrial Strength label containing three solid If you want to get your tracks to me, get in touch via tracks. “Sniff Your Leader” is a straight ahead pound- my Facebook page: facebook.com/deadlybuda ing industrial grinder with some cool fl ourishes. “Disobedience” is my favorite of the pack. It has a lot Th e rhythm is life and death! of quirky sounds mixed up with some long fl anges. I DJ Deadly Buda always like the fl anges, what can I say? Th e end of this track gets nice and mental too. Last up is “Keep Fight- ing”, a crowd favorite. Sort of an updated Ministry sound with guitar stabs and kicking drums. Highly recommended. soundcloud.com/industrialstrength/disobedience

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Juanma - “Loco” - (Hardcore Blasters) TommY RuleZ - “Bankai! (Knifeman Remix)” - Awesome track… defi nitely on the slower (Splitterkor Rekords Dziwko!!!) side of Hardcore. Th e track tastefully samples Dual- Although the original version is a very unique ity from Slipnot. Loco is fi lled with hard hitting kicks combination of Speedcore madness alongside musi- and distorted screetches. My favorite part is the build cal scores found on many of RuleZ’ other tracks. Th e up aft er the second verse… it has a speedcore feel to Knifeman remix is particularly brutal. Picture throw- it reaching upwards of 200 bpm but then drops back ing the original in a blender with some distortion, into some 165 bpm goodness. Th is track will do dam- then maybe destroy the blender in the process. Worth age on the dance fl oor! a listen if you’re a fan of Speedcore. archive.org/download/SplitterkorRekordsDziwko/ Art of Fighters - “Words of War” (Traxtorm 069.zip Records) Th e mighty Art of Fighters are back with their Animal Tag - “Go” - (Canadian Speedcore latest EP. Words of War clocks in at 162 bpm and has Resistance) many Rawstyle and Hardstyle infl uences. Th e main Since its return aft er a small hiatus, CSR has melody sounds similar to something you’d get from been putting out releases with more producers who Gunz for Hire but still has that AOF feel. Th e entire haven’t contributed to their EP is sure to get the party crackin’!! previous EPs. Th is new lineup of established artists Th e Melodyst - “Raveolusion” - (Next Cyclone) include Drokz, Bazooka, and Great track from Th e Melodyst. Solid kick, up-and-comers Animal Tag. good synths, and makes good use of the vocal samples “Go” is a nice Crossbreed from Elliphants track entitled Revolusion. Th is track track with a kick that is sure is getting support by all the major players in scene and to punch those speakers and is sure to get the crowd rockin’. a snare that spikes up those highs in contrast. Even though the vocal sample feels like it’s sitting atop the Noize Suppressor – Rob Gee - “Noizgee” (Noize track at times, it’s a nice addition to any Crossbreed Records) mix. soundcloud.com/dj_plague/03-animal-tag-go Bouncy track featuring New York’s very own Rob Gee. Th is track clocks in at 175 bpm and you get what’s expected from these two veterans. Over powering screemo/punk type vocals from Rob Gee and menacing bouncy playful Hardcore from Noize Suppressor. Defi nitely a track you want to add to your collection.

Dj Mad Dog - “Back to the Old School (Dj tool)” - I:Gor - “Rage” - (Motormouth Recordz) Free Soundcloud download Sampling Euromasters’ “Alles Naar de Klote” Banging track featuring samples from the in the beginning before the beat kicks in, I:gor returns drum ‘n’ bass anthem “No Problem” by Chase & Sta- with the Rage EP, a two-track Crossbreed assault of tus and “Back to Your Roots” by Jonny L. Mix in Mad Industrial Hardcore. Th e title track serves as a re- Dog’s signature kick and his ability to manipulate the minder how stellar his production has improved in hell out of a sample and the result is this great Dj tool. short time between this and his previous release. You need to download this!! 11 (Continued on page 14...) (...Continued from page 8...) and an older generation returned to drop knowledge For most, the epochal changes that were to occur in bombs on a new generation producing music in their 2012 never materialized—unless you were a raver. bedrooms. Th at year saw SFX Entertainment acquire and pump On May 17, 2014, Rave ‘Til Dawn celebrated hundreds of millions of dollars into record labels, the 20-year anniversary of their Technostate parties event promoters, and websites. SFX vigorously pro- by fl ying in Rob Gee, Lenny Dee, Neophyte, Adam moted “EDM” or “Electronic Dance Music” as a X, Frankie Bones, Tieum, Delirium, and Paul Elstak, catch-all term. One of their acquisitions was ID&T, along with old local favorites such as DJ Demigod a Dutch music label who since the early 1990’s was a and Th ee-o. It was a night that reintroduced the old main driver of Gabber-style hardcore, New Style and torchbearers of hardcore to a new generation of rav- Hard Style. Soon enough, the massive distorted kick ers. Since then, Rave ‘Til Dawn has put on numerous drum was ringing in the ears of ravers again—a little free warehouse parties asking only for canned food slower with a shiny commercial sheen, mind you, but donations for needy families. ringing nonetheless. Th e old-school lovefest continued through Not to be outdone, Live Nation, America’s 2014 when Dr. Freecloud’s Mixing Lab celebrated its largest concert conglomerate, would soon purchase 20-year anniversary as Southern California’s oldest and invest over 50 million dollars into Insomniac standing rave record store. Dr. Freecloud’s was South- Events, a Los Angeles production company that had ern California’s rave headquarters since the early 90’s, featured Hardcore at their events for years. Live Na- so luminaries from rave’s earliest days such as R.A.W., tion would then acquire L.A.’s Hard Events as well. Kool-Aid, and DJ Dan rocked the turntables in an Th ese larger production companies’ events feature all-day history lesson for the kids, and a trip down “Hard Dance” or “Hardstyle”, which might be de- memory lane for those who joined Ron and Helen scribed as Hardcore’s slower, more accessible, more Dedmon at various points on their now 20-year jour- popular little brother. Nonetheless, the new interest in ney. “hard” dance styles provided a perhaps well-needed electric shock to the pulse of a struggling underground. Consequently, a new generation of rave promoters such as Noyz ‘r’ Us, Existence Events, Audio- phile Family, Rave Hard, and Hardcore Hooligans are integrating hardcore into their event lineups much the same as when Hardcore was integrated into the glory days of raves. Th e transitional period’s consistent promoters like Darkmatter Soundsystem, Deadculture, and DJ Arcid continued unabated and stronger than ever,

Frankie Bones and Ron D. Core at Dr. Freecloud’s 20th Anniversary party. THE FUTURE OF HARDCORE

“Th e future of Hardcore is the bedroom producers, selfl ess promoters, and the people who keep a positive and clear mind within the scene. As they say, Hardcore will never die. “ -Nutype and Archon

“Th e response for hardcore at EDC and Technostate’s 20th Anniversary Party 12 Hardcore again looks bright. But will it learn from its past mistakes? Will a new generation of promoters, DJs, and ravers heed the wisdom of the old school? Will bitter resentments lingering in the old school not suff ocate a new generation’s growth? A multi-genera- tional experiment in music culture is now underway in Los Angeles, with ramifi cations for the rest of the country. So, download the podcasts, tune in to the internet radio streams, call the info lines, and get your dancing sneakers on, because you don’t want to miss what happens next.

Nutype and Archon at Electric Aft erlife’s Nuclear Winter “...in the end, Hardcore in L.A. made a strong return. I think everyone just really missed it—ha ha.” Q-Dance has been crazy. If people do the right thing, - Steve Vasquez a.k.a. Fiend Hardcore has the potential to become something spec- tacular. Everyone needs to keep supporting shows and PHOTO CREDITS doing them. People keep telling me, ‘your old school Page 1, Cover Art by Chris Burnham, colors by mentality won’t work,’ but all my parties have been suc- DJ Deadly Buda cessful. Keep the old school soul in it, and it will keep Page 4, 5 photos 1, 2 & 3: Herminio Morales working.” Page 5, photo 2: Odd Byrd -M.C. Lu-Cifer Page 8, 12, photo 1: Lillian Lemus a.k.a. Reesses Page 12, photo 2: Dr. Freecloud As the summer of 2015 beckons, the future for Page 13, photo 1: Joel Bevacqua 13 (...Continued from page 11...) to make insanely memorizing 303 patterns accompa- nied with distorted mayhem. Starting with the lengthy Goetia & Venom - “Underground Warriors” - and pounding industrial like track “Twinkle”, this is (Superbad MIDI Breaks) a very nice track to kick off a set. As the album pro- French producers Goetia & Venom team up gresses, it goes back and forth from blistering gabber once more for a three tracker on Superbad MIDI kicks along with the screeching acid bass, to no holds Breaks—their fi rst collaboration since 2011’s “Core barred speedcore, intense enough to send the dance- Dumped”. Some of Goetia’s tracks since 2013 feature fl oor into a frenzy. viralconspiracyrecords.bandcamp. her vocals—in vein of the com/album/freethinker-the-supreme-corrosion- likes of Atari Teenage Riot, compiled-by-o-youthna and arguably even early New York Hardcore. “1234Tokyo” Hellcreator - “Der Letzte Sarg” - Explorers Of Th e sort of lacks in the vocal Mainframe - (Urban Vandalism Records) department, but still is a nice Ambience and Hardcore aren’t usually two way to give the track character. Th e more vocally-sub- things anyone would have in mind going together duded “Survival Warrior” favors samples with the ag- well, that is until someone like Hellcreator comes gressive kick she’s known for. Venom’s “Like a Ninja” around and conjures up this great track. Starting off has a retrospective 2001 Frenchcore feel, which makes with a simple yet entrancing melody, the kicks start to this stand out in comparison. Curious to see how an pound away at 240BPM, packing a punch with an old album with these two would be like! school vibe. Not really much left to say other than it’s soundcloud.com/goetia/sets/underground-warriors quite a gem amongst the other net releases! It war- rants a listen, along with other tracks from this dude. Coakira - Suicidegirls.jp - (Fugimi Industry soundcloud.com/urbanvandalismrecords/ Records) hellcreator-der-letzte-sarg Exceeding 1000 BPM, Extratone is one of those more boundary pushing genres to come out of Noisekick VS Hellseeker & Doctor Terror - the hardcore scene in the past few years. So you can “Nederlandse Terreur” - De Nederlandsche Terreur imagine how one could be skeptical about a 10-track BV - (Noisekick Records) album from Akira Death member Akira Sato’s solo Ever since Noisekick has resurrected his old project Coakira (so many Akira’s in hardcore!) on his label from the mid 2000’s, it’s gotten an immensely new label. Th ankfully, Suicidegirls.jp is not a long- longer life then it’s initial run, which only put out winded showcase of kicks so close together to gener- two vinyl’s total. Now with the power of the internet, ate mindfuck tones (like on “Octopus Fight”). Fun distribution is far easier than it was before. On their Breakcore tracks such as “Terrestrial Isopod” and ninth digital release, eleventh total, Noisekick teams “Breakcore Hawaiian” help ease the intensity of the al- up with Hellseeker and Doctor Terror to produce very bum’s fi rst few cuts. Th roughout, synths and enjoyable Dutch-infl uenced terror. Th e track clocks in at 230 samples lend to the wonderful vibe that comes with BPM, coupled with the all familiar alternating kicks Japanese Hardcore. Concluding with “Suicidegirls. and a well sounding track to rip those speakers apart jp”—the over-the-top title track—it’s an impressive internally. Not far from what the other label’s tracks album, but defi nitely not for everyone. sound like, but for a genre like hardcore, and electronic music in general, consistency is by no means a bad Freethinker - Th e Supreme Corrosion (Compiled thing! By O Youthna) - (Viral Conspiracy Records) soundcloud.com/noisekick_real/nkr011-1-noisekick- Th ere really isn’t much acidcore being made vs-hellseeker-doctor-terror-nederlandse-terreur- these days, however there are still a good number of 230bpm producers carrying that torch. 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