V/A - Brokecore Forever

A fun romp through the extended Brokecore family. A Family that has been split up and gone through rough times, but has finally come back together in a tender embrace. The last Brokecore compilation was nigh on 7 years ago. The label has been pretty much on indefinite hiatus since. Now its back with a vengeance! 38 tracks of br00t41 nast'. Relative newcomer Mherdad kicks things off with a pretty straight forward breakcore banger, filled to the brim with breaks, edits, and gabber kicks. The following track by another newcomer, Freebase Frenzy, sounds as though Stuntrock himself (circa '00) took possession and kicked out the jams with his track "Mr Austin Tends To Get A Little Cranky If He Doesn't Get A Beer By Noon". The intensity never lets up. Whether its top notch noise blasts from the likes of Michigan's RedSK or evil chiptune anthems from Pittsburgh's very own Bit Mummy, you will not be disappointed. Evil Robot Ted, Brokecore's owner, known for his harsh digi noise pieces and broken breakbeat montages brings the finest, cleanest piece of Jungle/Drum n Bass I've ever heard from him. Ditching the standard noise pads for phasing melodies reminiscent of the raving early 90s and backing it up with varied, well edited amens provides a quite enjoyable listening experience. The track order is superb, songs often mixing very well into the following track. Evil Robot Ted's track runs perfectly into the mellow I DO NOT LOVE.'s "Come Back", subdued vocals harkening back to Joy Divisions haunting vocalist Ian Curtis coupled with a pretty electronic melody that slowly washes away in a sea of reverb and echo along with the rest of the song, a deep dark well of doomed synth pop. While there are many new names to the Brokecore roster introduced on this compilation, that doesn't mean there aren't a few old favorites in the mix either. Kindergarten Hazing Ritual, DJ Scratchin', and Helium Ointment all lend their talents. A joy to listen to, an honor to have had the opportunity to participate. Brokecore FOREVER!

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Jankenpopp - Reve et Amour

"After several acclaimed appearances on compilations, a few autoproduced releases and hundreds of concerts, here is the long awaited first Jankenpopp album. Rêve & Amour (Dream and Love), is a rich and coherent album that synthesises Jankenpopp’s musical universe, a blend of synth pop, chiptune and breakcore. The album is released on BRK in limited edition cdr (200 copies) and free download. The music will speak better than words..." - from the BRK website

The albums starts off with a jaunt through 1940's popular music with a contemporary flair which soon morphs into aggressive fist pumpin electronica quickly followed by acoustic folk glitch punk. Track 4 "Spend the World" was previously a compilation appearance (which I believe showed up here on magicore). "Spend the World" is about as close to Magicore genre as you can get without some epic story line woven in. A very fun romp through contemporary electronic trends, while managing to claim their own style.

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Marnost - "Die Hamletmaschine"

Killer long form black metal from Marnost, a band hailing from the Czech Republic who use poetry written by authors now dead and dating back many years as their lyrics. This particular release is inspired by a play/dance, apparently. It's fucking remarkable music, no matter. Deep and enveloping, diverse and evolving.

Marnost - "Die Hamletmaschine"

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Haapoja - "Haapoja"

Some pretty well executed Finnish hardcore with an air of progressive and black metal to it. Great riffs and chords, awesome shifts in time signatures, drums are on point, vocals are just the right amount of screaming and growling and sit well in the mix of everything else. Check it.

Haapoja - "Haapoja"

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Pornography - "Heaven"

Blasphemous one man noisy doom project from Tennessee. Long winding roads of feedback and pained shrieks through trance inducing and water torture-esque drums.

Pornography - "Heaven"

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Light Bearer - "Silver Tongue"

If you're a fan of post-metal and post-hardcore, even if not a fan of those genre terms, then Light Bearer's new one entitled "Silver Tongue" should absolutely not be slept upon. Plain and simple. Huge walls of guitar and coarse vocals with a nice and varied backbone of drums, bass, and atmosphere. All executed superbly. From front to back, beginning to end, "Silver Tongue" tells a story successfully and expertly, as you would expect from this description of the band:

all encompassing DIY art, music and narrative project, based around a story written by their vocalist Alex, who drew influence from the writings of Philip Pullman’s "His Dark Materials" trilogy, John Milton’s "Paradise Lost", and the Book of Genesis.

With defined intros, segue ways, and outros, "Silver Tongue" is a heavy soundtrack to some more refined
creative outlets among the metal masses. Truly something to be experience from front to back in one sitting.

Light Bearer - "Silver Tongue"

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Heartless - "Certain Death"

I was fortunate enough to win a prize pack of this release on clear, black, and test press 7" and am thrilled to let you all know you can have at least a digital version for free for yourself. You should throw them some dollars if you can, but throw some horns up to for nothing at bare minimum. Heartless on Halo Of Flies with some gnarly grindy hardcore shit that is angry and relentless. Fucking pummeling and brutal. Incredible.

Heartless - "Certain Death"

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Outre - "Tranquility"

Awesome and fairly technical thrashy black metal from Russia courtesy of Outre. Kick ass riffs and chords, vocals are a nice breed of thrashy blackened death, and the drums are full of double kickdrum assaults under really rad fills, rolls, and cymbal workouts. Get it.

Outre - "Tranquility"

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HIMIKO - DethNoizzz

HIMIKO brings it hard and dirty with "DethNoizzz". Filthy gabber kicks support guttural death metal vocals and shredding, mixed well with HIMIKO's higher pitched shrieks. Most of the tracks have a sludgy slow pace, like plodding through a sewer where Carl Crack's spirit drowns any interlopers with discordant ectoplasmic slime. While the album is mostly made up of a well balanced mixture of various incarnations of extreme metal and digital hardcore stylings, there are smatterings of dubstep, electronic hardcore, breakcore, and crossbreed. D-TRASH proves its worth and relentless dedication to the music with another fine free release. Be sure to check out HIMIKO's last release "Fuck Off", a digital hardcore re-workings of classic American thrash metal tunes. Mochipet was close, but GIRLS LOVE DIGITAL HARDCORE!

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[SOFTWARE POST] Integra Live

"Integra Live is an application that makes it easy to use interactive audio processing to create new music. The software was originally supported through the EU funded Integra Project, and is now developed by Integra Lab at Birmingham Conservatoire. The software has applications in education as well as professional artistic practice and opens up new possibilities for those seeking an entry point into interactive ‘live electronics’.

With the Integra Live routing panel, anything can be connected everything else. External MIDI controllers can be routed to module parameters, or parameters can be routed to each other.

This allows complex one-to-many mappings and advanced operations such as automatic event triggering through a single simple interface. Parameters have non-linear ranges where you’d expect, allowing for more musical control over details such as filter cutoff and delay times. Scaling is of course fully adjustable.

For those who like to express themselves through text, all module parameters in Integra Live can be scripted through Integra script a lightweight superset of the Lua language. In just a few lines of simple code a parameter can be set to change randomly or conditionally based on the values of other parameters." - From the Integra website

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Toxic Chicken - Flastic Fantastique

Toxic Chicken comes through silly and strong with this fine release on the DIY Warrior net/limited run label Flaccid Plastic Records. 6 tracks. Almost 20 minutes of material. Despite the short run time, you are transported away to an alien planet... a twisted dreamscape where mutant women whisper backwards computer chatter with a feminine flair seeping into your ears through digital backwash. Twitchy minimal mechanical electro is absorbed by gelatinous IDM frog beings, now pulsating with a light blue inner glow inducing synesthesia..... Groovy, happy ditties exhibiting IDM playfulness in a way reminiscent of Mouse on Mars' more playful moments. Weirdo melodies mesh nicely with well chosen vocal samples, the main perpetrators behind the cheerfully odd atmosphere. Toxic Chicken comes through once again with another swell release. I am proud to be label mates with this guy. Don't miss this one.

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Anorak - Breakbeat Overdose

Superb breakcore EP from Anorak. Well produced energetic edits get you pumped while samples with sweet timing assail you, pulling you completely in. The edits at times remind me of personal favorites dev/null or Venetian Snares ("Bolt Thrower" and "Higgins" eras respectively), spastic and engaging. Gets the adrenaline flowing. The track that stood out the most to me was "Up Your Inuendo", which also happens to be the opening song. Ravey synth stabs jump between sporadic nasty breaks, though fairly standard kits, are in no way boring due to the sweet cuts perpetrated by Anorak. Anorak lives up to the reputation of Bristol, UK being a hot spot for tasty breakcore happenings. While still a fairly hard release, gabber kicks are relatively absent (although the track "Leave a LiTTle Piece" gets head bangy with a crossbreed groove). Instead you find acid licks, ravey stabs, and a capella shout outs. Altogether an enjoyable four track EP experience. A happy addition to any breakcore fanatics collection.

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1234 - How To Get To 1234

"How to get to 1234" is third in a series of albums, each a separate alias of the artist known as Iamdeadsmiles58. With "How to get to 1234" Tito (as Iamdeadsmiles58 is known) shows a softer side and that he has influences that are far more eclectic than simply grindcore and harsh electronics. Iamdeadsmiles58 cites Trip-Hop as a big influence on this record, which is exhibited well with the slower paced break beats and synth noodlings like in "femmes jeux vidéo" which contains chip bleeps and bloops swimming in and out of existence within the french chatter and consistant low bpm mechanical drum break. . While more mellow than other Iamdeadsmiles58 efforts, it is no less dark. Low octave synth growls abounds. For those that aren't fans of high pitch screams, which happens to be an Iamdeadsmiles58 trademark, are absent. 'Its a good thing' as a certain home maker felon would say. High pitched grind vocals would only detract from the well established vibe of "How to get to 1234". Well chosen samples mesh well with what appears to be Iamdeadsmiles58's blossoming talent with psychedelic downtempo hip hop flavored message tracks as shown with the track "Corruption". I've watched this artist mature over the past few years, feeling out and developing his own brand of harsh grindy electronics, well made with a minimal set up. "How to get to 1234" shows a more seasoned artist, willing to explore far different sounds from his previously established style. Everything isn't perfect. "Another Joy Killer" has an enjoyable, slow breakcore vibe, which is later elaborated on in the next track "I Created a Monster In You", though goes on too long. "I Created A Monster In You" has well done high auto tune vocals and some sweet gabber kicks and supporting drum kit, but again it drags on a tad too long. With each track clocking in at on average five minutes, it makes each song a slight endeavor. Although, despite the longer song times, there isn't blaring repetition to be found. Only in the piece "Alone" do you find any kind of irritation. It takes until nearly four minutes through for any real development to happen, but the majority of the track is the same few notes on the piano pounded out over and over again. The piece would be much better suited to a phasing minute interlude. The album picks up some with the next track, a veritable cemetery drum and bass joint brimming with warbling organs and wailing females. The real beauty in this track is the supporting sound fx flourishes and samples. The light break that phases comes in and out does the same diddle through out. Still, much promise is to be found. If honed, a more refined version of this style is very much of the breakcore great, Ablecain. Though Iamdead was inspired by trip hop, little is to be found here. Instead there are promising buds of Breakcore, Stoner Hip Hop, and Jungle/Drum n' Bass. My hopes are for this artist to move in those directions even more with the next effort. Until then, enjoy "How to get to 1234".

Released on the superb french net label, Sirona Records.

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Mr. Kitty - D E ∆ T H

kind of riot grrl - witch house? 

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fxbip - 50 tracks

"oh hey i'm fxbip i'll just make 50 tracks of acid whatever no problem."

wtf this is cool.

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Friends of Friends Music - Show Me the Future

An eclectic group of tracks compiled by Friends of Friends Music.

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Ennnn - Kyoto Go!

Some crazy breakcore/noise/lolicore freaking intense shit.

Released by Tsundere Violence

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Dropping Gems - Gem Drops Three

third installation of a compilation series by dropping gems.

" gritty forest beat, maximalist shuttle launch, underground lake narrative, late-night loner keyboard, futuristic hip hop, and emo-juke."

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Dorcelsius - Climax Air Climax

Dorcelsius create strange mindbending sounds with a hypnotic tribal quality and a bittersweet beauty.  Released by Aural Sects.

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[A​+​H013] v/a - Architects + Heroes Sampler Vol. 2

"Two years since the 12 new, archived, and stylistically varied tracks from a then modest roster of artists were collected for their inaugural release, Los Angeles' own Architects + Heroes returns this month with part two in their ongoing "Sampler" compilation series. This time around, they present fresh work from both longtime affiliates Kemek and Demon Slayer, Ninja Tune-affiliated multimedia artist Neotropic, and recent signees, QBLA and The Koreatown Oddity. Moving across ambient textures, experimental hip-hop, and even tender, beat-based love songs is all in a day's work for these voracious Miracle Mile mainstays, keen to exhibit the full splendors of their musical surroundings."

Featuring a dope track from Demon Slayer.

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