According to Alec Empire, all rules and politics of the scene were ignored for this release. If he liked it at all it got on the album, no matter how good or bad it was. It was a platform, a springboard for new artists to be heard.
This is the original digipak version, an 8-panel digipak with clear CD trays. Back cover has no tracklist, instead it's written behind the disc trays.
Later repressed in a 3-disc jewel case.
Tracks are numbered 1 to 66 on artwork.
This compilation actually came from the internet. Alec launched a submission call to various (US-american) online communities, and they sent in tracks a-plenty. Because of this, this comp is a good representation of the US Breakcore and underground scene at that date. Even includes some artists that did further mischief for years to come, and some veritable stars-to-be!
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.