It should be about 6900
bytes, so it shouldn;t be that big. I won;t be renaming it or
moving it, so feel free to simply link to it, or right-click on
it and save it, or hold shift & click on it to save it....Notes and musings.
31.May.98 - O.K. Some of you might have noticed that I haven't been updating much at all. Well, to tell the truth, I've begun to lose interest in DHR. I'm not saying that I don't like the music, quite the contrary. I just don't have the time or money to put into it what I used to. I cash flow is almost zero, and thus I can't buy the new releases. And since I'm only reading about the music... well, it's just not the same...
I'm not quitting the page, though... I'm going to keep it up - I've put too much work into it... I'm just not guaranteeing how much I'll update it... just so you know... later... jt.
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Why do this page? Because as a digital hardcore fan I have found it extremely hard to find information on the net. The official DHR page is updated rarely, the Grand Royal/DHR page even more rarely, and fan-based sites are non-existent for anything except for ATR and Alec. I simply took things into my own hands. Hope no one minds...
I;ve recently was asked if I had a button or image that one could use for a link. At the time, I didn;t. But, after a quick trip to Photoshop, the simple title image was created. There are three versions - the one on the title page (main.jpg), a full version that is 17.5 inches long (title.jpg - this is for me to work from) and a small (about as small as it gets still readable) version called button.jpg. This is probably what most people would want... so, here it is:
It should be about 6900
bytes, so it shouldn;t be that big. I won;t be renaming it or
moving it, so feel free to simply link to it, or right-click on
it and save it, or hold shift & click on it to save it....
Speaking of images, I again want to say that my page is image-less (or almost, at least) on perpose. I know what it's like to not be able to load graphics. I;ve had sites crash my browsers before, so since this page really doesn;t need graphics (it;s more information based), there aren;t many. I am thinking about doing a _very_ graphics intensive Shizuo page, though... if I do, just watch out....
Sources and Thanks.
My main thanks go out to the ATR mailing list. This includes thanks to DJEntox for correcting me when need be and to Liz, whose email address escapes me at the moment, for posting the DHR CD/LP 10 press release to the ATR mailing list (which is how it got here). Also thanks to Ansgar, who runs the ATR mailing list, for the tour cancellation news. Thanks to Joe, whose page provided the track listing for Hanin's Show EP, as well as info on the Holland Destroy 2000... EP. And thanks in general to the ATR mailing list, for any other info which it, and the list's readers, have provided, and I have forgotten to quote. Eventually I'll have email addresses and links to go along with the names that I've written here... Also, a nod of the head goes to Beggar Banquet (in Putney, London, UK) and Dragon Discs (in Camden, London, UK), both of which didn't kick me out as I stood there and copied down track lists for GEIST 001, and DHR 17 & DHR CD/LP 11, respectively... Also to Joe, who runs the ATR page 'Delete Yourself', for being an all-around good guy... Also, thanks to The Dance Music Resource Page for providing DHR release dates.
The DHR homepage provided quite a bit of the initial information.
Grand Royal also provided misc. information.
And many thanks to Alec Empire, Carl Crack, and Hanin Elias for standing up to the system and starting the riot, and to Joel Amaretto, Pete Lawton, Rob Marvin, Holger Phrack, Thaddi, Roland Braun, DJ Bleed, D. Hammer, Patric C., Gina, Christoph deBabalon, DJ Moonraker, Killout Trash, DJ Mowgly, Bomb2o, Deathfunk, Joystick Wankerz, Sex-X-Groupies, Captain Spacesex, Batterie On/Off, and everyone else that kept the riot going...
Quotes and DHR-related sayings.
warning! this alBum is Rough And Fast!!! ... bang your head! ... music TV is killing music... fuck the nazi punks up their asses ... destroy yourSElf before thE sYstem destroys you! ... *95%puNKtechnoTRASHdigitalhaRdcore* ... nothing happens in the absence of noise. ... i hate people who romanticise death ... anarchy ... disriminate the next fashion sucker you sEe... IT's A RaVER! ... Have you ever been kissed by a girl like this? ... IF YoU don'T lOok RIGHT for the fashion-parade YOUr days are numbered...# ... TURN IT UP! ... nobody gEt's out alIve! ... when you reach the peak it's time to die! ... Diese platte vergibt euch eure schuld! I absolve you of your sins in the name of...SHIZUO ... Everywhere you go... I will be your shadow... DIGITAL HARDCORE! ...
------------ NME 12/9/98 -------
The Digital Underground
An instant guide to Alec's empire
Atari Teenage Riot - Cyberpunk gonks turned best-selling anarcho-junglists. All four members - Alec Empire, Hanin Elias, Carl Crack and Nic Endo - also release solo records on DHR. Recommended listening: ATR - Destroy 2000 Years of Culture EP. Alec Empire - Squeeze the Trigger album Carl Crack - Black Ark album.
EC8OR - Turbo squealing purveyors of arse ripping gabba and speedcore Stooges covers. Patric Catani releases solo records on DHR and his own label. Gina D'Orio is also in Cobra Killer. Recommended listening 'World Beaters' album.
Bomb 20 - Teenage revolutionary and hard left headbanger David Skiba. Signed to DHR after accusing them of selling out. Recommended listening 'Field Manual' album.
Shizuo - Aka David Hammer who calls his acid fried breakbeat style 'fuckstep' and harbours ambitions "to lead the mainstream into destruction". Recommended listening 'Fuckstep 1-16' album.
Christoph De Babalon - Hamburg based author of broodingly atmospheric techno symphonies. The dark horse of DHR. Recommended listening 'If Your into it, I'm out of it' album.
Cobra Killer - Gina D'Orio and former Schizuo vocalist Anneke Trost. Trashed beats and '60s samples. No releases yet.
Nitro - At 15, the youngest signing to DHR. Still at school. Alec : "The first band he like was Atari Teenage Riot, He's done this six track album and its the sickest record I've heard, hahaha!". No releases yet.
------------ NME 12/9/98 -------
Taken from NME 12 September 1998
THIS REALLY IS HARDCORE !
Good news, everyone. Anarchy lives on in the guise of Digital Hardcore - a techno-punk riot of noise that makes the Prodigy sound like grandads. What's more, its got its own Berlin-based label and the undivided support of Bjork and the Beastie Boys. Gone underground: Stephen Dalton (words) Eva Vermandel (photos)
Alec Empire doesn't take drugs. He believes Ectasy is just Prozac for conformist clubland zombies. High on life and clad in classic rock'n'roll leather, the boy emperor of brain melting anarcho punk techno offers NME a purifying glass of tap water as we settle into his cavernous new penthouse pad-cum-studio-cum-headquarters high above Berlin's bohemian Kreuzberg district.
The anarchy buisness has been good to Empire. He recently moved himself and his Digital Hardcore Recordings label into this palatial loft. Bjork and the Beasties have his number. His face adorns Japanese magazine covers, while his trademark riot-beat sound is storming America. Only Britain and Alec's native Germany have been slow to warm to this most skin-flayingly extreme of post-rave noises, but even they are slowly succumbing. Empire's core posse of boy-girl revolutionaries are also in attendence, all dark uniforms and angular fringes. They resemble a younger, cooler version of those black clad Germanic techno terrorists from 'The Big Lebowski'. Or a sinister religious cult. Aged between 18 and 26, they all talk impeccable English with studied Teutonic intensity.
And they mean it, man.
Recorded on ferociously fucked up digital equipment, the mould-breaking DHR sound combines elementsof punk,techno, metal, jungle, hip hop, hardcore and industrial noise. Some find it unlistenable, others appallingly beautiful. But it is undeniably fresher, louder and nastier then anything since prime-time Public Enemy. It makes the Prodigy sound positively prehistoric.
It also disproves the lazy notion that the post rave generation has abandoned protest music. The DHR family range from weekend Nazi bashers to full on, bomb throwing anarchists, but all are united in their burning desire to smash current musical and political trends. This is par for the course with most marginal underground bands, but Alec Empire is a media-savvy child of the Internet age. He wants to sabotage the mainstream and is already well on the way.
The revolution is about to be remixed. It's time to take sides.
AMERICA: YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
ATR's ALEC EMPIRE has opened a U.S. office for his groundbreaking label, DIGITAL HARDCORE RECORDINGS. DHR was started in 1994 with cash left over from an advance for an unreleased Atari Teenage Riot album. The major in question saw no future for the band (they subsequently went on to sell over 200,000 copies worldwide).
The label was initially set up as an outlet for a small group of young Berlin-based sonic terrorists. 12"'s from Alec Empire, DJ Bleed and Sonic Subjunkies were the early blasts from the new Berlin underground resistance.
In 1995 DHR released "Delete Yourself", Atari Teenage Riot's first full length album, which caught the ear of Grand Royal Records Co-CEO, Mike Diamond. Grand Royal released 7"'s from DHR artists Atari Teenage Riot, Shizuo, EC80R and Alec Empire followed by the Atari Teenage Riot album "Burn, Berlin, Burn!" during '96/'97.
America seemed to like what it was hearing and full-length albums by EC80R (All Of Us Can Be Rich) and Shizuo (Shizuo VS. Shizor) were unleashed in the summer of '97.
For 1998 EMPIRE decided to take personal control of Digital Hardcore Recordings in America while DHR's world headquarters remain in London.
19 year-old wunderkind, BOMB 20's album "FIELD MANUAL" will be the FIRST DHR U.S. release in early AUGUST followed by "WORLD BEATERS," a new full-length from EC80R in late August. An updated version featuring 3 tracks not available on the import and a new cover art of Alec Empire's legendary "DESTROYER" LP is due in September and Christoph De Babalon's "If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It" arrives in October. New records from Atari Teenage Riot and Shizuo are being scheduled.
To launch the release in the U.S. and introduce the new artists, DHR will put out a $1.98 sampler of 8 tracks to record stores to coincide with the new releases. This sampler will feature tracks from ATR, Christoph De Babalon, Shizuo, EC80R, Patric C., The Curse of the Golden Vampire, Bomb 20, Alec Empire. A free DHR newspaper featuring 32 pages of interviews, reviews, articles, and pictures of the DHR family will also be distributed at these stores.
If you don't find the $1.98 sampler and or fanzine at your local record store OR you live somewhere where the only place you can buy records also sell home appliances, than send us an SASE (legal size) to the following address:
DIGITAL HARDCORE RECORDINGS:
225 LAFAYETTE ST. #608 NEW YORK, NY 10012.
Hi there,
This message is to let you know about the new DHR compilation
album which will be released next Monday. This will be our tenth
album release and so celebrates that fact with our recent
highlights and rarities. Following is our press release which I
thought you should see as a DHR fan. If you can't find this
release at your local DHR stockist then get them to order it for
you. They should know by now that we won't stay quiet!
DHR CD/LP10
Various - Riot Zone
Release Date 03/11/97
Tracklisting
No. Artist - Title
Side A
1 Atari Teenage Riot - Sick To Death
2 Shizuo - New Kick
3 Ec8or - I Don't Want To Be Part Of This
4 Alec Empire - We All Die
Side B
5 Patric C. - You're A Hero
6 Atari Teenage Riot - Destroy 2000 Years Of Culture
7 Bomb 20 - Lory Vs. Bomb 20
8 Ec8or - Cocaine Ducks
9 Shizuo - Sweat
Side C
10 Patric C. - Sex With Annemone
11 Hanin Elias - Show
12 Alec Empire - The Peak
13 Bomb 20 - Donutz And Blood
14 Atari Teenage Riot - Atari Teenage Riot
Side D
15 DJ Mowgly - Cook Cook
16 Chistoph De Babalon - My Confession
17 Chistoph De Babalon - Residuum
Digital Hardcore is beats / rhythms so complicated and unpredictable that you can never know them and never be bored with them. We flirt with noise. Noise cannot be faulted. The beats mean you can dance to it. Their complexity means you can listen till you're old. Never plan ahead. "Perfectionism" is a counsel of despair, so don't even try. Keep the scuzziness and the humanity there.
In our perpetual impetus to create new music we delete singles as soon as we get bored with them and move on to the next. Many a long unobtainable gem resurfaces on Riot Zone especially for those who are just catching up.
Digital Hardcore, the music, the artists, treat contemporary musical styles the same way the punks had treated "rock'n'roll". They laughed at it and lost patience with it and just dragged it straight to its logical conclusion... and then they went further still. Intelligence and impatience are the two things which've made this music so far ahead of the game.
There's politics inside Digital Hardcore music. Not of a kind that any politician could understand. It's the politics of BE YOURSELF - leave me alone and I'll leave you alone. It's so natural that maybe no one realises it is politics. Fuck fashion. Fuck the rock stars. Fuck the trend-slaves. Fuck the people who tell you how to behave, and fuck the people who follow the instructions. Here is an unforced / unposed love and tolerance. Three years of a hard/true/extreme music. It leaves the easy-lis (note - i'm not sure what happened to the rest of this sentence. I'll try to find it. jt.)
All the great names are here. EC8OR's ground breaking sledgehammercore is here and there's Shizuo's Joy of Sex too. DJ Mowgly's ultra rare Cook Cook and Hanin Elias' post apocalyptic feminism. There are all the names and all the stages in between - and that's a lot of stages. It's music for all moods. It's music that can sound unfriendly at first. But it's not unfriendly. These are the good guys. They're on our side.
Legal Stuff.
Side thought, aka. legal stuff. All of the pages contained within 'Music for People Who Know More... the DHR news page...' are not affiliated in any way with Digital Hardcore Recordings, or any other label mentioned within or any of the label's employees. This is a page put up purely to relay information about the bands signed to DHR and their goings-on, and is not meant to infringe on any copyrights held by the above bands and label. All copyrights are property of their respectful holders. This page is copyright 1997 by J.T.Kauffman, who is the webmaster. He can be reached at the email address digitalhrdcore@oocities.com. You are free to use any of the rumours, facts, code, or images provided on this page, but please quote the source. All of this code is original and was typed in by above webmaster, and any images, save ads and the ATR Web Ring logo, have been digitally altered from their original states by above webmaster, making them (slightly more) original (than others). Yeah... now that that's over with...
Hits info.
Up to 1110 as of 01.Feb.98 at 22.56 GMT. 110 hits in a week - I can deal...
And today's number is.... 1000! As of Monday 26 January 1998 00.16.29 -0500 (aka 05.16.29 GMT) Liz Alexander informed me that she was visitor numero 1000 to my little old site... took four months and three days... not bad... thanks to all who have visited and will visit... misc related info - in case you're wondering, about half of my visitors are from the US, with the following percentages for other countries - UK 5%, Germany 5%, Canada 3%, Netherlands 2%, Japan 1%, France .5%, Australia .5%, Spain .5%, Denmark .25%, and the rest of the world %15. I;ve even gotten 2 hits from a .gov server... once again, thanks to all...
Number 905 as of 20.Jan.98 at 23.41 GMT. Closing in on 1000...
A single hit away from 800! I can handle it... 12.Jan.98 21.30 GMT.
Well, I passed 750 (actually 752) as of 09.Jan.98 at 22.58 GMT. Thanks all!
After not really doing anything with my page for about two weeks, I logged on, updated, and found the count to be 612 on 29.Dec.97 at 01.00 GMT. Hey - that works...
Just hit number 400 exactly. 03.Dec.97 at 02.19 GMT. Took forever to get the first hundred, but now I'm closing in on 100 a week. Groovy...
Hit number 300 (actually 329) as of 25.Nov.97, which means that the actual 300 was on 23.Nov or 24.Nov. average hits per day is about 20. Thanks for reading...
Hit number 200 as of 20.44 GMT on 10.Nov.97 (203, actually...). Would have hit it about two days ago, but Geocities counter messed up and was reading 1852851 three days after reading 191... oh well... The new counter seems to be working better...
Just hit number 100 on the counter (as of 23.55 GMT on 27.Oct.97)! Rejoice, rejoice... I'm just hoping that people are actually reading the page, as the numbers are probably because of the ATR ring. Oh well, c'est la vie.
