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Hardcore Underground presents: 2010

Phenex — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:00:07 +0000

Following hot on the heels of the critically acclaimed ‘Hardcore Underground 4′ album comes the first in a new line of projects: ‘Hardcore Underground Presents: 2010′. This compilation sees us team up with three of Hardcore’s most exciting and active brands to bring you a triple CD packed full of cutting edge music and stylistic variety.

Hardcore heavyweights Brisk & Ham (Next Generation Records), Sharkey & Kevin Energy (Bonkers, Freeformation, Nu Energy) and Notorious Vinyl innovator DJ Marc Smith have all signed up alongside HU’s own Fracus and Darwin to deliver to you an unmatchable collection of upfront music. It’s 2010 and the future starts now…

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Crush On Hardcore: TATWCV — OUT NOW!

Phenex — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:50:39 +0000

Download your free copy of the new album today!

After several weeks of delays, forced artwork alterations and various technical issues, our most exciting project to date is finally out — which, in Crush On Hardcore terms, means free to download. Go get it.

Over the course of the last 3 years, Crush On Hardcore has been receiving massive amounts of praise and support from the hardcore community all over the planet. COH has given DJs a platform to properly showcase not just their own work, but also a wide range of sounds from both established and up-and-coming artists, consistently raising the bar and ultimately combining two seemingly distant worlds of professional and free of charge into one fascinating series.

The Album That Was Called V is more creative then the name would suggest. It balances musical art and a fresh approach to the concept of a hardcore album. TATWCV is filled with a pleasant variety of music styles, masterfully mixed by Cube::Hard, Shanty, Jnks + Swoosh & DJ RX + Carbon Based. Download the album here — the package consists of 3 full-CD high-quality mixes, cue files for easy splitting or burning and high quality printable PDF artwork. Totally and completely free.

CD1 mixed by Cube::Hard
01. Ponder — Shutdown
02. Hattrixx Mertype — The Robot (Cube::Hard Remix)
03. Click — Not Invented Here
04. 75 Numbers — Let The Feeling Grow (Paul Bassrock & CLSM Remix)
05. CLSM — Takes Me Higher (Click Remix)
06. Wizbit — Tales From The Flipside Revisited
07. Alex Sash — Stimulate
08. Deeper Territory — The Answer
09. Entity — When We Find Akanoyo (CLSM & Entity Remix)
10. Supernova — Cheesy DJs (Cube::Hard Remix)
11. StrifeII — Soul On Fire
12. Karl Future & Simon Perry — Free
13. Entity, CLSM & Niki Mak — You Are Mine (Hugo D Remix)
14. False Economy — Certain Love
15. Entity — Plan B
16. CLSM & Entity — Rudloe Cold War City (Breaks Remix)
17. Ponder — Monolith
18. Stargazer — Released 2010

CD2 mixed by Shanty
01. Audio X — Incommensurate
02. Click — Alpha Dog
03. AC Slater — New Rave
04. Amalgamation Station & Ephexis — With Full Spiral
05. Dodgee — Phukkt
06. Kevin Energy vs A.B. — Fucking Rocking It
07. Firefly — Centrifuge (Shanty & Invader Remix)
08. Joey Riot & Kevin Energy — The Number Of The Beast
09. Helikaon & Ephexis — Iliad
10. Full Circle DJs — Things Past (Shanty vs Epyx & Cyrez Remix)
11. Oli G & Shanty — Reign Of Terror
12. Eryk Orpheus — Really Nasty
13. Lee UHF — Kickdrum Trip (Shanty Remix)
14. Nightforce — The Second Redemption 09
15. Freestyle — Party Crashin’ (Shanty Remix)
16. Invader & Shanty — Danse Macabre
17. Helikaon, Erik de Grijze & Ephexis — Exploder
18. Robbie Long & Devastate — 50,000 Watts (Shanty Remix)
19. 3star — Forgotten Trip
20. Karl Future vs Indigo & Pearl Blue — A Living Evil
21. Penguin Conspiracy — The Lazarus Phenomenon
22. 3star & Invader — Get This Place (Shanty Remix)
23. Penguin Conspiracy — Mechanical Fables
24. Hyperterminal — Stranger In Paradise (Lost Soul feat. Chwhynny Remix)
25. Darwin — Peak 1.1
26. Penguin Conspiracy — Escape

CD3 mixed by Jnks + Swoosh & DJ RX + Carbon Based
01. Sam One & Substanced — Memoria
02. Cube::Hard — Hold The Beat (Rob O.T.T Bootleg)
03. Carbon Based & Swoosh — Future vs Past
04. Anon — Screwball
05. Altitude — Altitude (Substanced Bootleg)
06. Substanced — Aquarius
07. Devastate — Mood Music (Oli G Remix)
08. Nomic — Aurinkoon
09. Alek Száhala — Sunray
10. Firefarm — Volatile (DJ RX, Big Mistake & Drumhead Remix)
11. Carbon Based, DJ RX & Proteus — Fleshfest (TATWCV Exclusive Mix)
12. Alek Száhala — Voices of Babylon
13. Kevin Energy & DJ RX — Translate Replicate
14. Substanced — Freeform Mercury
15. Oli G — Jasmine (Helikaon vs Ephexis Camelrape Remix)
16. Carbon Based & DJ RX — Titor Quantum Theory
17. DJ RX feat. Jolea — My Serenity (Synthwulf Remix)

Download the album here and please help us spread the word! IM, Facebook, word of mouth — anything to let people know what’s in store for them.

Keep your eyes peeled for the Sequel Of The V, a free CD featuring 13 full length tracks, coming very soon!

We’d like to thank everyone who helped us make this project come to fruition. It’s been a great time and the end result has surpassed our expectations. Honestly, we don’t think it gets much better than this.

Useful and/or interesting COH-related links:
http://www.crushonhardcore.com
http://www.betterthanclay.co.uk
http://www.electronicaexposed.co.uk
http://www.finrg.com
http://www.clsm.net
http://www.hardcoreplanet.pl

COH design & visual identity: Joris van Meegen

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Donkumentary

Phenex — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:13:20 +0000

So, today I saw this link over at HardcoreProducer.org that basically was a half-hour rundown of what the northern Donk-scene is like. Thought you guys might find this entertaining/funny/educational/interesting. If you don’t know what Donk is, it’s basically a UK-based genre made famous for its offbeat bass sound. The kids up north love this stuff, whereas the southerners have never heard of it.

Since I’m living in Sweden, I don’t get the privilege of experiencing the scene like they do over there. Say what you will about the music from a technical point-of-view, but what this scene doesn’t deliver in musical complexity, it makes up for in community.

Here’s a quick summary of the documentary:

VBS correspondent Jamie Hedgeson goes to the desolate factory town of Bolton in the UK (think Detroit) to report on the music phenomenon called Donk.

Since the advent of acid house in the late 80s, British techno music has been in a long, baffling search for some sort of universal lowest common denominator. Breakbeat, digital hardcore, and gabber all made strong efforts in the race for the bottom, but none of them holds a candle to Donk.

Combining the 150bpm madness of happy hardcore with indecipherable North English rap and then overlaying the whole mess with a single, infuriating “donk” sound, Donk may well be the apotheosis of all ridiculous dance music to date. It is also the only local thing going for an entire population of working-class kids with dwindling outside prospects.

We meet up with Black Out Crew, commonly referred to as the Beatles of the Donk scene. Their video “Put a Donk On It!” has almost 4 million views on YouTube. So come along for ecstasy fueled all nighters into the bizarre scene that is Donk.

Here’s the link: http://www.vbs.tv/watch/music-world/donk.

Hope you guys enjoy

Let me know what you thought of it!

VBS correspondent Jamie Hedgeson goes to the desolate factory town of Bolton in the UK (think Detroit) to report on the music phenomenon called Donk.

Since the advent of acid house in the late 80s, British techno music has been in a long, baffling search for some sort of universal lowest common denominator. Breakbeat, digital hardcore, and gabber all made strong efforts in the race for the bottom, but none of them holds a candle to Donk.

Combining the 150bpm madness of happy hardcore with indecipherable North English rap and then overlaying the whole mess with a single, infuriating “donk” sound, Donk may well be the apotheosis of all ridiculous dance music to date. It is also the only local thing going for an entire population of working-class kids with dwindling outside prospects.

We meet up with Black Out Crew, commonly referred to as the Beatles of the Donk scene. Their video “Put a Donk On It!” has almost 4 million views on YouTube. So come along for ecstasy fueled all nighters into the bizarre scene that is Donk.

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Finished Video Game Remix Competition Submission Entry

Phenex — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:51:01 +0000

Today I completed a new song that I submitted to a fun little 8-bit competition. Sort of like OC Remix, except Hardcore only! My submission will be disclosed once the competition has ended and I’ll upload the track here for free for you to download, so keep checking back!

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Happy New Hardcore Year 2010!

Phenex — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 23:00:03 +0000

While I’m sitting here writing this in a cold night, I start to think of the past year and how much it has meant for me and for our scene. We’ve experienced a series of setbacks during the year, but have only come out stronger and better than ever before. Hardcore Underground 4 received rave reviews and was praised by many as THE hardcore album of 2009 and rightly so! On various message boards people were going nuts over the quality of the album. We thought we had already outdone ourselves with Hardcore Underground 3, but Hardcore Underground 4 really pushed the scene forward into the next level.

Thinking about it, it was pretty easy to see why we succeeded and met our goals. We simply gave the people what they were asking for: Hardcore with passion. We featured talents such as Darwin, Fracus, Nu Foundation, Brisk. Even producers that had publicly announced their retirement from the hardcore scene couldn’t resist the urge to flex their creative muscles and showcase them! They could finally see the light at the end of the tunnel which they had almost forgotten about, since it was so long they even saw a glimpse of it. But even more importantly than the familiar quality provided by our passionate veteran producers has been the advent of so much new talent. Talent that hadn’t even been given a chance before the arrival of the Hardcore Underground series. It’s been clear to us that the torch needs to be passed on to the new generation of producers as the old generation simply doesn’t seem to be on top of their game anymore.

The new year will provide a new revelation to the hardcore scene, as we’ll be pushing the envelope even further with new releases, gigs, events, tracks and artists. I can’t say too much at the moment, because everything is still very secret, but suffice to say, when the year has passed, you will look back at this post and understand what I was on about!

I’ll see you again in 2010, stronger than before.

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Phenex Homepage Updated

Phenex — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:10:15 +0000

Testing, 1, 2, 1, 2?

I’ve now updated the homepage in order to connect better with my fans. You can now catch me on Facebook, Twitter, RSS or by subscribing! Soon, I will be uploading some MP3s for you all to download. In the mean time, why don’t you head over to my YouTube–page and leave a comment?

I hope this change will give me a new opportunity in reaching out to all of you.

In the meantime, stay hardcore!

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