Various - Thunderdome III - The Nightmare Is Back!

In my opinion this is one of the best "Thunderdome" compilations.
It contains some all-time classics like Moby's "Thousand", Dream Your Dream's "Soushkin", Ilsa gold's "Up", Ramirez' "El Gallinero" or Hooligan's "Bottrop". These tracks are basic tracks in the collection of every techno-fan. Furthermore this CD features other very good tracks, like "Speedy Gonzalez", "Mutha Fucka House", "External", "Fuckin Hostile" or "Here's Johnny". Of course the whole "Thunderdome"-series is a must-have for all Gabbaheads and Hardcore-fans - but I can also recommend this one to the mainstream techno listener.
Cheap nowadays - so buy it!

I'll tell you a little story about this record. I heard of it in 2004, when a person in the forum of my site told me he had a Thunderdome LP with the Dog. I did not believe at first, but after another sighting of a similar talk, I got the impression this could be true. Only after the first copy ever showed up on ebay I got really convinced. There was no picture, so I asked the guy to send it to me. Proof: it does exist and it's a Spanish edition! I put the picture in my site, which was the first site ever to show this record. The auction was weird, apparently the seller wanted to sell each of the 2 LP separatly (duh!!). I did not bid because of that. The whole record was sold to the person who put this record on discogs afterwards. Meanwhile, I could get my hands on one copy of this amazing 2LP.
The music is "almost" the same as in Thunderdome III 2CD, except for the bonus tracks, specially Thousand from Moby which I miss so much here. Riot Squad, Lenny Dee, Tumor, Zekt, you name it... this is a record filled with classics from other records hard to find. A real treat!
Anyway, the music is indeed very good, and despite the mediocre cover (also a classic by the way!) it manages to give this album a special feeling... both very hard industrial hardcore and almost mellow hardcore co-exist, just like they did in these oldskool days.
A great record!

One of my favourite volumes from this legendary series. Contains lots of early favourite Hardcore tracks of mine and of most certainly. Some tracks are described below:

Nonshelen Tustokken - with its crazy Rob Gee’s vocals, that distorted deafening guitar and a smashing bassdrum it surely was one of the hardest tracks when released. Certainly a track your parents and your neighbours never liked :)

At War - with its screaming “low spirit s**k my c*ck” and that distorted bassdrum this tune became an anthem which is still liked today.

Moby’s “Thousand”. This track features that famous “oooohhhyeeaah…” sample over a beat which starts very slowly and then increases tempo to one thousand BPM (hence the name), then slows down and again accelerates to one thousand. Early hardcore producers seemed to like the trick of pitching up and down the tempo. Today this trick seems no longer used in productions, but in those days it certainly worked and drove people crazy! Hardcore Divine and Block Mig (also on this CD) use this trick too.

Block Mig Ud. This track has some unintelligible words and a speeding tempo as described previously. When you think it’s over it starts again faster than before, making this my favourite on this release.

Here’s Johnny – that famous “Bow Chi Bow” vocal made this one of the hardcore classics of all time. This track was remixed in 1996 and found a place on Thunderdome 12.

Ilsa Gold’s “Up” – this hard trance/hardcore crossover was hugely popular, both as a club track and as a gabber track. It starts with a trance beat, in the middle then comes a hardcore beat, but after a while it switches again to the trance beat.

El Gallinero – I consider Ramirez as one of the greatest pioneers of dance music. They made from Eurohouse to Techno to Trance and Hardcore. El Gallinero needs no introduction. That funny cock (rooster) sample was found in no other track, and the remix here has 2 different drum patterns.

Another track which was very successful back then is Bonzai Channel One. Never actually fancied this track, somehow don't like its sound. Doh!

Fuckin’ Hostile – this fuckin' hard record certainly put Lenny D on the map of gabber music. One of the first Terror records ?

Soushkin – again this is a Hardcore/Trance crossover which was also very popular. Famous for the sample "yeeeeehaah".

The 303 sound is certainly not missing on this release. Most evident probably on Hydrochloric – very thick and fast acid sound throughout.

Enough said – go get and listen ;-)