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Monday, December 31, 2012

Clonepa - ANTISATELLITE EP

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Classic strings, organ bling, and whales singing. Thats what you get on this final day of 2012. Pure "classicore", neo-classical breakcore, or just damn fine music. Fine blending of digital textures and "organic" instrumentalism. Throw in a dash of amens going crazy at 200+ bpm. Well placed vocal samples of japanese girls and whale calls tie it all together beautifully, adding just the right amount of melancholic emotion. For free download on Anything Records.

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

When Woods Make Graves - "This Forest That Will Eclipse The Sky"


One man black metal from Liverpool which goes by the name of When Woods Make Graves. A lot of heavy ambient overtones and passages that bring more atmospheric and ambient bands to mind, but fierce and repulsive when the hell is unleashed. Self described as taking influence from Burzum, Wolves In The Throne Room, and Darkspace - that's a great starting point to describe the sound, but there is definitely some originality on this material. When Woods Make Graves isn't entirely unlike any other black metal band you can name but is thoroughly enjoyable and very much its own all the same.

When Woods Make Graves - "This Forest That Will Eclipse The Sky"

- DCKR

Amphetamine Virus - Gradual Shift

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Heavy hitting, down to the nitty gritty grime kind of release from the one and only Amphetamine Virus. Completely different from what I am used to hearing from A.V. I don't think there is a single point on this album that goes over 200 bpm. Five tracks, all over the five mark except for one clocking in at almost four minutes (though thats the one song closest to standard breakcore fare). Dark and dirty, mixing crossbreed hardcore electronics with the various popular step genres that are eating up dance floors around the world making a far more accessible product from the standard EDM head. Joints like "One Side" are very reminiscent of producers such as End.user, Rotator, Panacea.. the list goes on. Definitely a professional outing. I have a feeling the material contained within will be finding its way into many mixes over the year. Dont be left out.

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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Haut & Court - "La Vie"


French hardcore from Haut & Court on their "La Vie" release, packed full of short and sweet numbers that are filled to the brim with brutality and ingenuity. The guitar workouts on "Colision" are absolutely bananas especially, but definitely killer across the whole release. The drums are tuned awesomely and the vocals are just incredibly intense and heavy. Monstrous stuff right here.

Haut & Court - "La Vie"

- DCKR

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

[tlr] - Homunculus


From thee tortured extra-dimensional bowelz ov many an ill-fated [tlr] laptop gvrglez forth a seriez ov twiztid kreationz that warp and twizt thee mynd into a frenzy with ravehyper stabz 'n merciless fractured breakcore! Their new release 'Homunculus' representz thee surviving experimental portalz alchemically forged over thee yearz with thought crystals in thee digital wilds by this sonic mastermynd. Newly released on thee naboa net-label, take a demented carnival ride down thee rainbow nightmare slide and on into thee sub-molecular doom ov reality and then go ahead and tell us what you think in thee comments here afterwardz... ;]

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~ johan ess ~

Vander - The Shift

Vander (of dirtRAID) solo ep of juked out jams.

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V/A - Chiptunes Change Christmas

japanese chiptune comp from Otherman Records
feat beautiful art by Gigandect
tracks by Abortifacent + more

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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

[KOF025] Unicorn Hole - A Manditarily Merry UMas

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cool lil cybergrind x-mas ep from Unicorn Hole and Kitty On Fire Records, one of the last dedicated purveyors of cybergrind. perfect to cap off this years christmas festivites.

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Monday, December 24, 2012

Circle Of Vultures - S/T


Circle Of Vultures with a 3 track self-titled offering of some rockin' low budget black metal for that ass on the Enslaved By Propaganda label. Name your price download, so chuck 'em $6.66 if ya got it. This is like dive bar black'n'roll right here. Slick ass logo to boot.

Circle Of Vultures - "S/T"

- DCKR

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Zillah - "Substitute For A Catastrophe"


Crushing metallic goodness here from Zillah, who offers up their entire catalog for free on Bandcamp. "Substitute For Catastrophe", their most recent offering, is definitely my favorite. This shit is six years old now, but still sounds as devastating as the day it hit the streets. Equal parts death metal, hardcore, progressive metal, and math rock, this shit is just pulverizing  and essential listening for all metal aficionados out there. I love the sound of the drummers snare so much!

Zillah - "Substitute For A Catastrophe"

- DCKR

Yautja - "2011"


About only nine minutes of absolutely brutal dark hardcore metal music from Nashville courtesy of Yautja, originally available on cassette - but long since sold out - from the uber-rad Tapes Of A Neon God label. Short, sweet, and devastating. Grab the rest of the releases, too.

Yautja - "2011"

- DCKR 

tooth_eye - the nodcast (v50) mixed by Tooth_Eye

lolicore/dancecore mix by TOOTH_EYE!
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Saturday, December 22, 2012

Blood of the Ascended - Blood of the Ascended: Chapter 4

Videogame influenced magical rapper Adam Sapphire's epic work continues in this newest chapter.  This project might be considered one of the few examples of the genre Magicore.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Perturbator - I Am The Night

"This is the story of someone who has nothing left to lose, wandering in the hostile neon-soaked dirty streets of a city from the future, armed and dangerous. This is your story. 

No one really knows what kind of danger you will encounter during this journey into madness. You know you're not alone, but you are ready. You are the night. Now, lights off." 

- Perturbator

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b.i.n.t. - Problem One Remixes

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Remix album follow up to b.i.n.t.'s fantastic "Spider Webs and Magic" (released on Cock Rock Disco). This offering happens to be completely comprised of remixes of the song "Problem One". Includes re-workings from the mighty Ove-naxx, Paul Blackout, Sir.Vixx, Dysphemic, and even b.i.n.t. himself. This new offering is on the Gang Sign label out of Sydney, Australia.

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Monday, December 17, 2012

BIRDY Oo - Sea Songs

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BIRDY Oo is a band from Moscow. They sing in English and Korean. Fuzzed out guitar pop reminiscent of The Pillows (Japanese band that did the FLCL OST). Sing song melodies often full of melancholy. The recording quality isnt great. The singer isnt great. The feelings great through though, perhaps enhanced by its "short comings". Dramacore never ceases to amaze with the diversity of its releases. Once again helping prove that there is quality music on free net labels.

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Sunday, December 16, 2012

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Friday, December 14, 2012

Ventla - 020 Fansubbed Last Words

"ventla is in the process of releasing 100 digital albums for free over the coming months or years"

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Crystal Magic - CRITICAL HITS 2012

this compilation is what it is and it is it well.
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kessenchu – my kinda scene is crime scene

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Magicore and Robo! Robotica's long time musical friend Kessenchu finally drops another full length album! It is very difficult to work out the genre classification intricacies that make up "My Kinda Scene is a Crime Scene", besides the fact that it is definitely some sort of chip music. The songs contained within are reminiscent of the classical punk sound, the driving bass, simple melodies, and aggressive vocals. All of the songs are radio pop size tidbits, although the content is far from pop. While most of the albums sounds are limited to a chip "base" there are some welcome and surprising splashes of variety. A number of songs feature the classic amen breakbeat. These creep in towards the end of a couple songs, slowly fading in to, presumably, create a sense of urgency and/or add to the pump up the energy of the track as it reaches its end. Kessenchu's sound has evolved since he first dropped on Robo! Robotica. "My Kinda Scene is a Crime Scene" sees Kessenchu's sound grow up by leaps and bounds. No longer just another chip grind carbon copy. Kessenchu has begun to define his own personal sound. Its not bad either. "My Kinda Scene is a Crime Scene" is sure to be very popular in chip musics many cliques. Welcome to the new and improved, more mature, Kessenchu.

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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Various Artists - Irreverent Music V.A. Showcase

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Irreverent Music drops a 2 Disc release, their first official release cat. [IMU01]. Irreverent Music V.A. Showcase is a top notch collection of hardcore EDM. Ranging from 3 minute breakcore bangers to 8 minute hardcore jaunts reminiscent of the classic Bloody Fist style. This hardcore jaunt spoken of is The Kraker's "StupidDruggedCunt" track, it keeps your attention all the way through. Audiotist's "Friday Fever" possibly evokes the most sorrowful reaction from the word "fuck" from a breakcore track. With 2 full CDs worth of material, none of which leaves you wanting, makes a must download if not purchase the album when its released on CD. You can go to Irreverent Music Website for pre-order information as well as download links for album art and the music in FLAC audio format as well as a torrent download option. The below link is for the VBR mp3 zip, which does not contain the album art.

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heres Audiotist's "Friday Fever":

Monday, December 10, 2012

Groundbreaking 2012



Incredible 3 disc compilation with tons of variety yet a consistently futuristic upbeat Japanese sound. Check it out the website, pretty cool - http://gdbg.nekokan.dyndns.info/

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Graz and Booty Giuliani - Asses of Fury

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Graz and Booty Giuliani bring a professional platter of plunderphonic pelvis pumping party packers! Guaranteed to get the dance floor moving. An awesome blend of chart toppers with a breakcore spirit. You'll here music you hate and find a reason to love it. Graz has gone from an obscure net label ravecore privateer to a practicioner of a developed style of mash-up that potentially rivals any of those cats with 1,000,000 youtube views. Play this at your next booty shaking gathering.

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Nagaarum - "Oort"


Over the last year or so I've really noticed a lot of black metal and related sounds coming out of the peculiar land known as Hungary. It seems, at least from a distance, like an unlikely place for a thriving black metal scene. Nevertheless, there is quite a bit of it going on. Additionally, the black metal scene in Hungary seems to be largely dominated by artists working with their interpretation of the blueprint for this sound, often coloring well outside the lines and liberally cross pollinating black metal with other genres and sounds - often more experimental things.

Nagaarum is one such band from Hungary. Psychedelic and doom laden black metal, a one man outfit it seems, Nagaarum crafts a pretty complex and in depth imagining of the black metal sound. Sticking its fingers in sort of gothic and post rock pies at times, there is a lot of genuine musicality going on here while keeping true to the finer points of black metal. I guess you could call it a sort of psychedelic post space black metal, if you wanted to. There's a lot of progression and ebb & flow through out the album, and the songs on their own. A whole listening experience, "Oort" is definitely an album that will either speak to you very directly and intimately or leave you scratching your chin wondering what the hell you just heard.

Oldschool style website that's still cool to experience, go cop this one from the "releases" page.

Nagaarum - "Oort"

- DCKR

Sunday, December 9, 2012

Liveride - "Кокон"


Atmospheric and ambient black metal from Russia by Liveride. Short intro bit with lots of wind and nature atmosphere over sparse melody, title track is fuzzy and sort of shoegaze ambient black metal. It's pretty and haunting, all at once. Enjoy.

Liveride - "Кокон"

- DCKR

Dental Work & Iamdeadsmiles58 - Father

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Iamdeadsmiles58, Dental Work, Tooth_Eye, and Melted Cassettes bring you the follow up to last years "Mother", the aptly titled "Father". The album starts out with a 20 minute breakcore/noise/hip hop opus by Dental Work featuring Tooth_Eye's remix of Dental Work, along with a barrel full of other tracks. Dental Work does not disappoint. The rest of the album is comprised of Iamdeadsmiles58's brand of digital grindcore. His sound has gradually evolved into a far more enjoyable and easy to digest product. Melted Cassettes lends vocals on "Running Away" and Tooth_Eye provides amens and kicks for "Don't Die Kid". Digital Grindcore has come along way since the myspace days. Iamdeadsmiles58's material on "Father" is a good example of the direction the genre is going... and that direction is a positive one. "Father" is a joint release between Sirona-Records (France) and Placenta Recordings (USA).

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Saturday, December 8, 2012

DJ Deathray - Neus

haunting, experimental, yet danceable electronic music from DJ Deathray.

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TRASHFUCK Chanukomp 2012

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Chanukomp 2012! Its been 3 years since the last one, and some dark desolate years we all know those were. Ranging from the harshest holiday harsh noise to happy bcore xmas ditties to deep dark doom metal perfect for trimming the tree or lighting some sacred candles. With tracks from noise heavy weights like RedSK, if you dont download this its like saying you hate Judaism and Christianity!

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A Grindcore Christmas Volume 2

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A GRINDCORE CHRISTMAS VOLUME 2 IS FINALLY HERE! HEAR THE HARDEST, FASTEST FUCKING CHRISTMAS MUSIC THIS SIDE OF SANTAS WORST BOWEL MOVEMENT IMAGINABLE! SANTA SPLATTER! SLAP THIS ON FOR THE FAMILY THIS YEAR AND WATCH NANA HAVE A SEIZURE!

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Friday, December 7, 2012

Decktonic - Forgotten Machines

"All tracks were composed & recorded by Christian Montoya aka Decktonic using the KORG DS10+ software for Nintendo DSi. "

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Cut The End - "Dawn's Death To Dusk"


Post death metal? Is that a thing now? The dudes in the awesomely named band Cut The End would like you to believe there is, I guess. I dunno, though. To me, it just sounds like expertly crafted heavy offerings of the post metal / post rock sub genres with a more aggro vocal delivery than either usually employ or allow, let alone champion and herald, with sludge and death metal flavors. I hate throwing around the word "epic", but this shit really is a sort of sludge tinged death derived version of post heavy metal that is, absolutely, epic. Check it out.

Cut The End - "Dawn's Death To Dusk"

- DCKR

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TLR



A big happy birthday to our master tlr from all of us here at Magicore.


Sunday, December 2, 2012

Isosine - Mashup Manifesto II

some pretty interesting pop mashups


[tlr]

DJ Scratchin' - I Was A Teenage Weaboo EP + Interview

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DJ Scratchin' aka Mike DeBisco's new four track EP "I Was A Teenage Weaboo" does not disappoint. Including just about every form of EDM that is currently popular, he infuses a freshness that keeps the listener interested and breathes new life into stale and played out genres. I recently caught up with Mike DeBisco and shot some questions his way.

Interview with DJ Scratchin'

"Tooth_Eye (Magicore): When did you start making music of the electronic variety? When did you start making music of any kind?

DJ Scratchin': I started producing my own tunes in early 2005, I was 13 at the time so I'll admit to not understanding a single thing I was doing haha.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): Who or what first inspired you to make music?

DJ Scratchin': My first experience with music was actually after I discovered a DDRMAX machine at a local arcade. I'd never seen anything like it before and I became instantly fascinated with the arrow stomping game! It wasn't really until I played Roxxor's answer to DDR, "In The Groove" that I really became interesting in producing my own music. I came across an artist by the name of Kid Whatever and I was astounded by his work, just like my first experience with DDRMAX it was like nothing I had ever heard before. I'd say he was my main source of inspiration that got me where I am today and I still look up to him in some regards when it comes to making interesting and innovative art.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): What are you most listening to currently?

DJ Scratchin': I listen to a little bit of everything. You would most likely find me walking around with my phone on shuffle playing everything from K-Pop to speedcore.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): What other art forms/aspects of human culture influence your music most?(if applicable)

DJ Scratchin': The Internet is a big influence on my music, it's literally the gateway to everything. I find most of the samples I'm looking for online, I find new and interesting people to talk to all the time, it's just a great place for social networking and promoting your stuff. I'm also a big anime fan and I have been involved in the furry fandom as well. I'm a drifter, I go from scene to scene, fandom to fandom, I'm all over the place all the time!

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): What other alias' have you produced under?

DJ Scratchin': Although I had DJ Scratchin' as my main solo project I have also reserved particular aliases for particlar genres. PLASTIC was for happy hardcore/j-core/breakcore, Robotraxx was a lo-fi 8it influenced super eurobeat label (similar to that of Diskowarp), Bandmates on Bubble Tea was a collab between myself and my friend Alexa and Yaoikiller was a joke project exploiting the lolicore community. All of these projects are defunct however, I've decided that having so many aliases would be confusing for people and I don't mind producing everything under DJ Scratchin' since it's such a mixed-bag of a project anyway :P

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): Do you plan to continue any of your side projects?

DJ Scratchin': I don't think I will be reviving any of these projects, no.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): Why did you choose the name for your newest album?

DJ Scratchin': The title "I Was A Teenage Weaboo" is a reference to the 1957 horror movie "I Was A Teenage Werewolf". It was a initally a joke EP consiting of a few unreleased tracks I had lying around on SoundCloud but it actually turned out to be one of my most successful releases to date haha.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): What is a weeaboo?

DJ Scratchin': The term "weeaboo" (which is ironically spelled incorrectly on my release) is a deragatory word for a fan of Japanese culture which is usually referred to as "otaku" within the community.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): Are you into Japanese culture?

DJ Scratchin': Yes, absolutely! I love all things anime. I'm a huge nerd like that but society has come to accept people like us and gave us cool conventions to hang out in and babble nonsense to each other about our favorite spiky haired heroes and heroines! My favorite anime in particular is Neon Genesis Evangelion, you should watch if you haven't already it's an absolute masterpiece.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): Why did you choose your name DJ Scratchin' or any of your other alias?

DJ Scratchin': It's a funny story, really. One day I was just scratching on my binder, slamming on my desk and rapping over it into a cheap desktop mic. I burned my first "single" to a CD-R and handed out to 8 of my friends. I remember someone telling me "I wouldn't even pay a penny for this" and that's when I knew I just had to make more of this crap. The joke project later turned into a serious project as I became more and more interested in making music and now here I am today still at it!

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): What was the first net label you heard of/where exposed to/etc?

DJ Scratchin': The first net label I approached was Placenta Recordings in 2007, I don't exactly remember how I met Jay but someone showed me the Placenta Recordings Vol. 1 compilation and asked if I wanted to submit something toward it. I contacted him and sent some noisy breakcore track I did when I was 15. After that I sent a few more tracks to Placenta Recordings and later got in touch with RedSK from TRASHFUCK Records where I released a split entitled "Lolicore" with RedSK, Dental Work and teh_soup_rebellion and myself in 2008. I've been involved with many other net labels around the world since.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): What was the first label that released your material?

DJ Scratchin': My first official release on a label would have been the"Get Ready" EP on Breakbit Music in 2011.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): What are your plans for the future?

DJ Scratchin': Well, I'm transferring from community college into a four year university so that's definitely a big step. In terms of music I have another EP planned which may be released later this year and another full length album which I've been working on since August.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): Have you performed live before? (if not, do you plan to. if you dont plan to, why?)

DJ Scratchin': Yes, I've performed live. The first two shows were at a local music festival called SSAF or Summer Soul Arts Festival, that was in 2009 and 2010 respectively. I also DJ'd a set at CloverCon which is a small indepently ran anime convention in New Jersey, it was a ton of fun lemme tell ya!

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): Do you have any shows coming up?

DJ Scratchin': Nope, nothing is scheduled as of yet.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): Whats your favorite way to release your art?

DJ Scratchin': I used to release everything physically because there was really no need for a digital market before iTunes came into play. Since CDs are a dying format I've resorted to releasing everything online via sites like Bandcamp. I'd still like to release a few more physical albums in fact I've even considered starting a Kickstarter to fund a physical release of I Was A Teenage Weaboo. We'll see where that goes but for now it's just an idea I had.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): Are you afraid of the changing climate of the internet?

DJ Scratchin': Yes and no. Social networking is both a blessing and a curse. While it connects people with one another it's also turning into a free for all for attention. I see more and more people fishing for likes on their page or relying solely on tasteless memes as their advertising ploys. I mean, there's really no friendly contact with producers and their fans anymore. It's every man for himself out there and that's not what music is about. Music is about expression and having fun and if you're focusing more on the amount of money you're making off your Beatport exclusive single than being a dork and having fun in your bedroom listening to your own tunes then you are most definitely not an artist by my standards.

Tooth_Eye (Magicore): If there were no net labels do you think you would have come as far with your music without them?

DJ Scratchin': Labels are there to promote the artist. An artist can survive on their own without the promotion from others, sure but is it easier on the artist, no. Since I left Breakbit I've been primarily releasing music on my own and I've been doing fairly well for myself. I don't tend to shove my music into people's faces I just let them take what they want which is why the majority of my music is free, if not pay as you like. Sure, you may not be making a large sum of the profit but at least you're trying to make a name for yourself out there!"

Heres the link to the album:

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