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C-Tank - Nightmares Are Reality - 02-Jan-09 04:48 AM
Another one of my favorite records. The title 'Nightmares Are Reality' really does itself honour. Dark, growling, creaking, pounding tekkno, acid core. I think you can describe this record as being one of the first, of what we call now, industrial hardcore records. Back in 1993 you didn't have anything like this and it was really ground breaking. The use of the different layering of sounds is outstanding. A lot of factory noises are used as are a lot of effect sounds. But it keeps on hammering.
Let me take you through the record.
We start out with the title track, Nightmares Are Reality
which starts with some kind of anvil sound with dark growling in the back. A compressed 808 beat kicks in followed by the sample: We're Gonna Get You, from the movies with Freddie, Nightmare On Elmstreet. The beats pro minute are floating around a 160 in this track which keeps on building. A lot of the PCP stuff is copied from this track by the way.
The second track is Air Bounce. It starts out with a real nervous sound that evens makes the air want to disappear. Dark motor sounds with a crazy delay follow. Some grinding knives sounds think they are hihats.
Fog horns in the back call you back out of the mist but than the beat goes crazy again with the delayed motor sounds which are really nicely build.
The B-side also contains two tracks.
House Hallucination makes use of a truly oldskool sound. Housy but again pounding hard beats to accomplish this. Not your ordinary house track.
This track is real groovy for a hard tekkno track. All the elements are used. Good compression, good use of effects, another outstanding track.
Holomania is straight out of a the grave track. Imaging dark forsaken factories where not human like creatures are pounding on metal, making Holomania, scary stuff. A trippy synthlead takes over hypnotizing you to dance, not to worry about these creatures. In the back the sound of the anvil is still heard, it continues throughout the record on a funky delay. In this record there is a kickdrum that is they kickdrum. So compact hard compressed, just when you think the track is over it suprises you yet again, toink, toink, toink.
The C side is the only side that contains three tracks.
The Rave Zone is what it says it is rave, but rave on the C-Tank way offcourse. Not your happy smiling hands in the air Scooter rave. I think that guys hair would go black and immediatly fall off if he heard this.
Rave Zone is real fast tekkno core, the guys at C-Tank are really in love with that 808. They makes use of a hollow tom sound accomplished with a nervous razor machine sound that shaves of the hair of your component. This track makes use of a gentle bassdrum because the tom sound makes up for the bass part. A real nice tekkno rhythm, razor sharp.
Tank Trip is dark blowing trance tekkno core. Absolutly great. The trippy sythlead goes back and forth climbing than diving again making the track really wide. Suddenly another kick comes in with some crazy reverbed delayed pounding sound. Some fog horns are calling out again. Than the synthleads comes back in with whistling maniacs in the back. Than the master fog horn comes and takes over.
This track has so much variation truly brilliant. One of my favorites from this LP.
Monotonic is the only more acidic track from this LP but almost immediatly it goes in a direction that you wouldn't expect. The take the acidline and make it a goaline? But tekkno goa? Nice. And that for 1993. These guys where ahead of there time, way ahead.
Biolunch is a track that also appears on Thunderdome II. I don't know why they choose that track. It's not the strongest one, maybe C-Tank wanted to remain underground?
Then comes Drug Trash. One of the best tekkno, hardcore tracks i know. It just goes and doesn't stop. A trippy sound goes throughout the record. The beat they are using is one of my favorites bassdrums, so much sub bass in this compressed bassdrum.
Finally the beat flips over in pounding mayhem building and building untill it falls back in the original pattern. Really great stuff, kills every dance floor and makes the whimps go home. I'm in love with this track.
Hans Märkle, Dirk Löwenhaupt & Alexander Troitzsch (aka Mark N-R-G) are C-Tank. After Part I there is also a Part II & III of Nightmares Are Reality but those never outclassed Part I. C-Tank also never released anywhere else but on Overdrive btw, except for one release that was licensed to Downtown back in 1992.

French Connection - French Connection II - 14-Jan-08 04:42 PM
"French Connection" the second edition is now a hardcore/darkcore classic. But in some kind of way the A track, which is an outstanding track, is outclassed by the B track. But is this true? I don't think so. On the A side we find "Biohazard" a superb example of real dark ahtmospheric hardcore. The track starts out with a creaking whistling sound, supported by a dry, pounding 909 bassdrum, off course. Dark high acking sounds create a scary feeling.In the brake that follows, a dark growling, squeeking bass lead. I never thought sound could grind some stones. This track does. Now and then a broken beat to vary the track and a pfiaum sound continues while the 909 keeps hammering. The layering of the basslead and the high scary sound make it a biohazard. You want to run and hide. Brutal.
The B side is the famous one. "Bullshit". Put all your equipment in a blender add some samples from "Full Metal Jacket" and: "Bullshit". This hardcore maddness in its purest form. First a grinder sound supported by ,yes again, 909 claps (you gotta love those) and a 909. The first brake is the famous sample: "I'll give you three seconds, exactly three fucking seconds, to wipe that stupid looking grin of your face, or I'll tear out your eyeballs and skull fuck you". 1,2,3, Bullshit and then it goes. Completly 909 with a Juno bass pounding maddness. After a second brake a sound that reminds me of there first record "French Connection I". Also the same use off filtering. At the end a complete bullshit story, the bullshit samples continuesly goes varied with a bullshit sample. This record is nice to play at a party, especially the beginning is really strong but I think the A track is strongerly build. But everybody remembers the bullshit sample so this track got famous and not the stronger "Biohazard" which in my opinion has more feel to it. You don't agree. Bullshit!

Inferno Bros. - Slaves To The Rave (The PCP & DE 2001 Mixes) - 09-Sep-07 05:21 PM
Absolutly one of my all time favorite hardcore records. When I heard this record on a "Hellraiser" party in Amsterdam I had to have it. I only knew the PCP remix because that was the one they played that evening. But when I heard the DE 2001 mix it even out classed the PCP mix. The track starts out with a pounding 3/4 909 bassdrum and a 3/4 basslead, filled in with the sample from Human Resource's 'Dominator'. The layering of bassleads is outstanding in this part of the track. The track is continuely building untill the break. Dark synth strings create a creepy atmosphere and a hypnotic synthlead that keeps you locked in the song arises. A underlying pad makes it very dark and distant as is a howling sirene sound. The layering of the hypnotic synthlead gives me chills down my spine everytime I hear them. A second brake solo's the hypnolead which climbs and builds escorted by snares and breaks down in a scarry beautiful screaming orgasm. Such a massive drive this track has. Marc Trauner and Thorsten Lambert combined a hardcore 909 with a psychadelic synthlead into the DE 2001 Mix and made one of my favorite records.

Dr. Macabre - Dr. Macabre's Ghost Stories Chapter 1 - 21-Aug-07 12:46 AM
All hardcore lovers know this record. "Poltergeist" was in its day when it came out an instant classic. Multipal plays on one hardcore party where normal. And the crowd loved it. I've seen a dance floor on a "Thunderdome" in Antwerp, Belgium go wild. 20.000 Ravers broke loose after the "There Here" sample from the Poltergeist movie. Then a heavy 909 bassdrum kicks in escorted by 909 claps. Then one of the most scariest synthleads comes in. Afterwards many times sampled, rebuild, used...like Rave Creator's "New Mind".
On the B side however we find "Voodoo Nightmare" a strange track compared to the A side. It starts out with a drumband riff accomplished by a break beat. A nervous Juno sound accents the beat when a deep basslead goes,hard and growling, testing your woofers. A man's voice shouts "What are you looking at buddy, you one a piece of me, come on, come on". Drum and bass acid tekkno of the finest hour is what your getting. I think this is the better track of the two, but you can't deny a large audience. "Poltergeist" put Dr. Macabre on the hardcore map, and listining to "Voodoo Nightmare" there is intelligent hardcore.

Static Tremor - Black Annis EP - 19-Aug-07 01:12 PM
"The Black Annis E.P." by Static Tremor is a storming six tracker from down-under Australia. Otto Heutling and Peter Heutling (Static Tremor) created a must have record for every hardcore dj. This E.P. starts off with the track where this record is famous for, "Resistance". Opening with a dark synth lead and a sample from Star Trek's enemy "The Borg". Then it really gets started. 192 BPM right in your face with a hard kickdrum and a nervous synthlead which later flips over in a steady driven bassline. Some short breaks gives enough variaty, which also counts for the use of the Borg sample "Resistance Is Futile". This track has never been released on any other format. "Hymix" begins with a N.W.A. like breakbeat which confirms with the use of the sample out "Straight Outta Compton". After the breakbeat intro some scratch samples and the 226 BPM track goes. A compressed bassdrum continues for quiet a while, when its filled in with a high synth pad. A voice sample takes over on the beat. Dark growling gives this song something freaky. Sounds a lot like C-Tank's "Nightmares Are Reality Part 1".
"Underground Terror" is what it is. 240 BPM terror which starts with a hard bassdrum captured in a continues scream.
The break (480 BPM) is also the climax. After the break died out, a dry 909 bassdrum with a dark atmospheric pad. Nice. On the B side things start out differently. "Strobe" is the slowest track (167 BPM) on this E.P. and has a lot of elements from PCP tracks. A sound what looks like Rave Creator's "A New Mind" is accomplished by a dark bass sound which reminds me off Program 1's "Betrayer". Nicely done but not the strongest track.
The fifth track "UHF" is a 226 BPM agressive trancecore track with a real compressed bassdrum, like your in a tunnel or something. The sample 'Don't You Get The Feeling That Everything Is Completly Fucked Up' doesn't provide any happy feelings. The same counts for the samples 'Trip Is An LSD Experience' and 'The Angel Of Death'. A swirling 303 arppegiator sound makes it very trancefull but dark and real fast. This one of my favorites tracks together with "Resistance" from this record.
Finally, to top things off, we end with "Feel This". 300 BPM madness with some MF's samples. Which suddenly breaks down in Cenobite like sounds and again 300 BPM.
All by all a great record with a great variaty of styles but his record is hard to get and well sought after.

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