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Burial - Untrue - 01-Mar-08 06:06 PM
I'd heard ALOT of amazing things about this album for months, then I actually got it and listened to it. Totally over-rated.
I was genuinely bored out of my mind with 85% of this album. There were a few tracks here and there that made my ears perk up for a few seconds. It didn't bore me as if I have ADHD or anything like that (I'm quite the ambient/downtempo/musique-concrete fan), but this just seemed kind of un-inspired and formulaic.

I can appreciate the production skills here. It's put together well. But it just bored me, what can I say?

Alec Empire - Bass Terror EP - 17-May-07 05:28 PM
I can't say enough good things about this record!
This is absolutely essential! In my mind, Bass Terror EP is probably the best breakcore/hard ragga jungle 12" ever made. It really set the tone for the era and what would happen later with DHR, Ambush Records, etc. and just breakcore overall.
I still don't think anyone has topped, or ever will top this.

There's nothing about this record that doesn't feel right to me.
Amazing sub-bass lines, great acid synths, and the best chopped & compressed breaks around.

The beats on each track are made from much of the same sources I'm pretty sure, so it flows perfectly from beginning to end. Fast, chopped up, compressed amens.

Also, years later in ATR's "We've Got The Fucking Power" on Sick To Death EP, Alec used the same sub-bass line he used here in "Fuck You Up".

Various - DIY-Fest - 10-May-07 01:26 PM
This is the worst thing DHR ever released.
I know their point was to kind of do something with this "community" of artists, which is kind of honorable, but this just came out awful. Everytime I look at this CD, I cringe.

Even just from my first impression, the cover art, I knew this was going to be bad. Looks totally thrown together in about 5 minutes, which it probably was.

Then you put the CD in and it sounds like it looks.
There's only about 2 decent tracks on the whole thing.
Nic Endo's "Bells" is a nice ambient, spacey, sci-fi sounding piece. Really nice.
Also, The Dillinger Escape Plan & Nic Endo "43% Burnt Remix" is alright, but not amazing. It's just basically hardcore & noise.

You can tell the DHR guys didn't want to put any effort into this thing. Which is why you see almost none of them on here.
Even the Alec Empire & Matt Pizzolo track "Alleged Accused Repeated Reused" is just Alec's 22:24 with political samples over it, that I'm guessing were Matt Pizzolo's contribution. Lame. I doubt Alec was even in the country, let alone the room for that one. Either way, the track totally fails. "22:24" is amazing on it's own, don't throw crap all over it!

The rest is either weak crappy punky things, overly political soundbytes, or some fairly forgettable hip-hop.
Nothing on here stands out.

Various - Don't F**k With Us - 04-May-07 08:22 PM
The good side was that this 3xCD compilation was priced like a regular single CD album, the bad side was that there's a ton of absolutely crappy tracks on it.
It really could've been chopped down to one CD full of really good tracks. Don't get me wrong, there's some gems on here, and it's totally worth it just for those, but there's way too much filler inbetween them.

Edgey's tracks on here are great, not anything really new-sounding, he's pretty much the Bomb 20 of this compilation. But overall it's good, hard, danceable breakcore/gabber. Which I appreciate alot.

One of my favorites is definately Dummy Plug Conspiracy's "The New Monsters". It's a very downtempo dubby ambient piece. It's hard to describe because I haven't really heard anything else like it. But it stands out in a very good way on this compilation.

And it may sound a little cocky, but Replicant Impulse's (my old band) tracks are also pretty good and stand out among the others. Very much in that DHR Limited style. In fact 2 of these Replicant Impulse tracks were actually solo works of mine ("When You Grow Up (Your Heart Dies)" & "...Shall We Continue?"), but I didn't want to complicate things by using a different name.

Sonic Subjunkies - Sounds From The City Of Quartz - 04-May-07 04:47 AM
To me, this is the very best thing Sonic Subjunkies ever did, and it's a horrible shame that it was only released on super-limited edition cassette. This is true Digital Hardcore. If you want to know that era of this music, listen to this tape.
It's doesn't have that perfectionist/clean feeling of their 2 12"s on DHR, nothing against those records, I love them too, but this is much more raw and brutal.

My favorite track on this is "Nuclear Holocaust" without a doubt!
It's beautiful but very hard & powerful at the same time.
I guess the best way to describe it's sound is to say that it's in-between techno/acid & breakcore/hard breakbeat.
You can clearly hear Alec's influence on Sonic Subjunkies in this track, the acid patterns & beats are very Alec-style, but the synth melody is more dancey than anything Alec would've probably done, or if he had, it would've be butchered and shredded to bits.

Also, the Alec Empire remix of "Harold" stands out nicely in this album with it's evil, dirty, thick synthline.
Though there never was a release with the original version of "Harold" on it. So this is all we're probaly ever going to hear of it.

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