Low Entropy Stuff

I love your stuff, cheri, well, you could also add your nice English texts, f.e. "Why I left the Breakcore scene in 2003", think that could also interest some of the nice ppl. here

i have always been intrigued by the music of stella and poka michelsen. to me, it is some of the most complex,
complicated, intelligent music ever made. levels and levels of beats; noize; ambiance; abstraction; is built on
top of each other. they're so far away from the "dumb gabber" and "speedcore" most people think of when the word'hardcore' is mentioned. is this hardcore? is that even techno? it is more of art - real art, abstract, maybe it would belong more to gallery, a museum, than to a party were people dance - if museums wouldn't be so boring!
i can't find many artists that could compare to this. the sheer level of complexity is overwhelming. some of the best somatic responses productions could compare - in complexity and experimentation of sounds. or the most intricate construction of underground PCP via acardipane. yet, maybe it is not right to compare this music - as it plays in its own universe. frantic noise, shrill, alien screams - often driven home by a powerful bassdrum, and killer punctured beats and hits. for some reason, i never compared this so much with other music, but to other forms of art, movies, pictures. this would fit well to dystopian cyberpunk picture, an onslaught of screeching robots pacing through a destroyed, wrecked industrial wasteland.
there are so many things i am missing in most hardcore that are in michelsen's productions; changes of beats, tempo, complex trackstructures with many twists, beginnings, endings, turn-arounds. lengthy intros of weird noises, laughter, ambient drones. some michelsen records fetch high sums at collectors at this time, and rightfully so.
while many other of their contempary artists around their decades became quite "famous" by now, known also to the dreaded "gabber" and "breakcore" crowd, the michelsen sisters still seem to be kind of a secret hint, with a cult following. yet, they are already legends, in their regard, in their own way.

Low Entropy - Tribute To Mouse And No Name Mix

www.mixcloud.com/low_entropy/low-entropy...use-and-no-name-mix/

i'm looking for a label that might be interested to put out these tunes... it's 4 of a collection of 7 tracks...
let me know if you are interested.

Tribute To Fischkopf Hamburg Mix Part 2

Experimental, Hardcore, Noizecore, Industrial, Speedcore

Tracklisting:

01. taciturne - haemotopan
02. amiga shock force - violent geisha
03. amiga shock force - sex, mord & kunst
04. p.server - ratings
05. burning lazy persons - poisened radio wave
06. cybermouse - live at repalsion 8. 1995
07. burning lazy persons - if the truth be known
08. burning lazy persons - t.c.h.c.
09. burning lazy persons - nakano shit
10. amiga shock force - psycore
11. amiga shock force - 24 hour connection
12. fields of defacement - found and lost
13. eradicator - used against us (remix)
14. burning lazy persons - hyper bitch
15. taciturne - boys dont cry (remix)
16. eradicator - titan
17. eradicator - worringen
18. eradicator - mcp
19. cybermouse - datenvernichtung
20. p.server - pulley
21. epc - where do you go
22. eradicator - thou shall kill

Tribute To Fischkopf Hamburg Mix Part 2

Experimental, Hardcore, Noizecore, Industrial, Speedcore

Tracklisting:

01. taciturne - haemotopan
02. amiga shock force - violent geisha
03. amiga shock force - sex, mord & kunst
04. p.server - ratings
05. burning lazy persons - poisened radio wave
06. cybermouse - live at repalsion 8. 1995
07. burning lazy persons - if the truth be known
08. burning lazy persons - t.c.h.c.
09. burning lazy persons - nakano shit
10. amiga shock force - psycore
11. amiga shock force - 24 hour connection
12. fields of defacement - found and lost
13. eradicator - used against us (remix)
14. burning lazy persons - hyper bitch
15. taciturne - boys dont cry (remix)
16. eradicator - titan
17. eradicator - worringen
18. eradicator - mcp
19. cybermouse - datenvernichtung
20. p.server - pulley
21. epc - where do you go
22. eradicator - thou shall kill



www.mixcloud.com/low_entropy/low-entropy...-hamburg-mix-part-2/

Low Entropy - Tribute To 303 Nation Mix

303 nation... what can one say about them... one of pcp's most mysterious project... only a few releases,
but more powerful nonetheless... sweet acid, psychedelic, wonderful... true techno... they got their place in history.... and are deserving of it. minimal structures and equipment, with the most complex output. awe inspiring. it would be about time, that more people discover their gems. techno at its best.

tracklisting:

1.damnation
2.seis
3.worldnoire
4.dos
5.futurist
6.barcelona
7.quatro
8.lightning
9.uno
10.detonation
11.sky crack
12.attacker
13.untitled
14.voodoo machine
15.double speed mayhem

"in 1999 i sent a demo CD-R to stevvi of c8.com. back then, this website was the central point not only for the internet side of the experimental hardcore scene, but also the physical. a focal point for the emerging hardcore, breakcore, experimental scenes - that led later to such offshoots as industrial hardcore, frenchcore or crossbreed.
i hoped that stevvi might feature 1 or 2 tracks of the CD-R on his site; instead he put all of it online.
word of mouth spread, and i got some more requests by labels to send them the same CD-R, aswell as sending out more on my own initiative. in the end, this led to the releases on praxis records, widerstand records, kougai, aswell as several compilation entries.
stylistically, this CD-R was more or less the endpoint of my first phase of doing music, the experimental period.
it is by far the most complex and "thought out" stuff i did back then. maybe even more so than my current music. afterwards if focused on much simpler and basic music - as i deemed it more "effective" back then.
okay, so this was this demo; lost in time, only leftover in the releases that spawned it. so i thought. but in the late 2000s i noticed this demo was still copied and shared anew by a lot of people; and even now so.
i think i never had a concept which of music is good or bad or good produced or not and such. but if there is still a demand, maybe it has its merits? so i decided to put it online again. here we go. enjoy!"

lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/the-c8-com-demo-cd-r

new e-book! The Hardcore Condition - Experimental Hardcore of the 90s

Content:

Introduction
What was Experimental Hardcore?
Some Experimental Hardcore Labels
Reading Material
Review Somatic Responses - Passages EP
Review Atari Teenage Riot - 1995
Review Auto-Psy - Necrophage
Review Senical - Dark Domestic Temper
Photon Collisions - A Review And A Story
The Story Of Fischkopf
About Fischkopf
On Mouse And No Name
The Senical Label Family
The Horrorist
Taking Techno Seriously
The 70s 80s 90s Continuum - Music

read it at hardcorecondition.blogspot.com/

Harmonies

"a conceptual album. beatless ambient based on harmonic structures. chilled out, soothing, relaxing.
the right music for a spring morning or a summer evening. i called this type of sound "bright ambient"; the opposite to dark ambient. choirs, trance sounds, bleeps and bouncing sounds with the occasional vocal sample. listen to this of you are in the mood for lying down, or getting a positive extra for your day.
plus 2 extra rave tracks."

Tracklisting:

1.
There Is Love 04:11
2.
Ecstasy 03:10
3.
Harmonic 05:50
4.
I Feel You 08:38
5.
It's Time For You To Love 05:00
6.
Lost And Found 05:12
7.
Love 05:12
8.
Rave High 09:18
9.
Chipcore Remix 3 04:09

lowentropy.bandcamp.com/album/harmonies

Tribute To Early Breakcore Mix

breakcore has grown into a large and wide field now. these tracks are from it's earliest days, when everything was just beginning. never forget the roots!

Tracklisting:

Patric Catani - Destroy All Infected Minds
Ec8or & Moonraker - Smash Him To The Ground
Alec Empire - The Peak
Alec Empire - Bass Terror
Alec Empire - We All Die
Ec8or - Overload
Patric Catani - Operape
Patric Catani - Still Wanna Win (I Can't Lose)
Alec Empire - Follow Me
Christoph De Babalon - Residuum
E-De Cologne - Excalibur
Christoph Fringeli & DJ Scud - Bodysnatcher
DJ Scud - Mash The Place Eup
Society Of Unknowns - Transversal

pdf version of the ebook "the hardcore condition - experimental hardcore of the 90s"

www.dropbox.com/s/y022m9f2xlth21y/The%20...20Condition.pdf?dl=0

"it's been nearly 11 years since i did my first published acidcore set, taken from a gig at the "death to our enemies" party. in the meantime, i of course encountered many other great records and tracks. so i thought it is about time to do another set again. nailstough acid. enjoy!"

Tracklisting:

1. agro - undisputed truth
2. agro - bullen raus
3. richie anderson & brandon spivey - aftermath
4. somatic responses - incoherent sound source
5. somatic responses - cyclotron
6. zekt - sound & vision
7. zekt - dreamstate
8. zekt - explorers
9. somatic responses - source of disturbance
10. zekt - nuclear indicator
11. zekt - phantom in the hall
12. doc gringo - gringo-theme c.i.a.
13. gringo - kerosene in my vene
14. disintegrator - in the sun

www.mixcloud.com/low_entropy/acidcore-mix-4/