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Ec8or – World Beaters

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Its better than Atari Teenage Riot anyway

Part 2 in my "Rare/unique things on eBay that I didn't win but am archiving photos here". Some fairly early Digital Hardcore Recordings coverage in a music zine, "Alien Underground" and I think it's the first issue (judging from version 0.0), some small details here. The photos have some interesting headlines and blurbs that are readable. I'd love to read the full DHR article...

I think most interestingly is the Discography section, which looks like at this point DHR only had 3 releases under their belt (DHR 1 - DHR 3), and "next" releases included some stuff that changed or never came out. Most interestingly is DJ Moonraker's "Negative Hatecore" EP which would've been DHR 7. In the late 90s and early 00s while getting into DHR, I only really knew Moonraker having worked with EC8OR and some early Patric Catani stuff. Curious what happened to that release.

There was a planned "Suburban Soundtrack, Vol 2" from Sonic Subjunkies, which I assume just became the "Turntable Terrorist" EP. And Hanin Elias' release had no name yet, presumably the "Show EP".

Miete Strom Gas ft. Patric Catani / Candie Hank & Gina D’Orio: “Die Turen” (Chanson) (2023)

Summer 1998 Mixtape: 

Wax Trax label Black Box: The First Thirteen Years

Aphex Twin Analogue Bubblebath

Meat Beat Manifesto “Acid Again”

Beastie Boys “Pass The Mic”

Coil “The Snow”

Phil Western The Escapist

Howie B Music For Babies

Cyberaktif “Nothing Stays The Same”

Moby “Into The Blue (Summer Night)”

Juno Reactor “God Is God”

Portishead self-titled

Pigface Gub / Spoon Breakfast

Crystal Method, The “Comin’ Back”

Whirled Records label The ABC’s Of Punk

Shizuo High On Emotion

Ministry “The Angel”

EC8OR World Beaters

Aphex Twin Classics

C-Tec Darker

Jungle Brothers “Jungle Brother (True Blue)” (Stereo MCs RMX)

Alec Empire Squeeze The Trigger

Autechre LP5

Future Sound Of London “Lifeforms”

Empirion Advanced Technology

16-17“Autogeddon”

Clock DVA “The Hacker”

Esthero “Heaven Sent”

Girls Against Boys “Park Avenue”

Omega Radio for July 11, 2016; #315.

Christoph Fringelli & Pure “Antichrist”

Heinrich At Hart “Breack”

Tech Level 2 “Hard Times” (dub)

Noisex “Mexiko”

Undacova “Bitter Sweet Bitter” (Din-S.T. RMX)

Temper Tantrum “Africa 4010″

EC8OR “I Don’t Wanna Be A Part Of This”

Napalm “X-E-Cute”

Paul Snowden “Payback M.F.”

Lasse Marhaug “Give Me A Call”Zonal “Defector”

Duran Duran Duran “Year Of The Monkey” (Xanopticon RMX)

Hypnoskull & Irka G. “We Never Sleep”

Krackhead “Rollercoaster”

Senical “Mental Correction”

Razor Edge “Lajk Dys”

Teknoist, The “32 Days”

JK Flesh “Low Alloy”, “Defector”

Curse Of The Golden Vampire “Kamikaze Space Programme”, “End Civilization”

DJ Freak “You Will Die 3″

Killout Trash “Wild Noys”

I have nothing but fond memories of DHR. I was one of two people on the entire campus who was serious about grabbing everything I could from the label. And because of DHR, I stood out from the vast majority with disposable attitudes who were too shallow to care about anything else other than Top 40 radio or their unoriginal club hits. And then there’s one Christopher Jion who came with his friends to see David Hammer / Shizuo perform in Los Angeles with label-mate Annika Trost (Cobra Killer) and Ghazi (Give Up, Stereo Total). That event was well-documented in the very first issue of Mean Magazine when Atari Teenage Riot, EC8OR, and Shizuo were featured. Jion said that one night made him an electronics artist and started Replicant Impulse who enjoyed an appearance on a DHR compilation and did release several albums from 2005 to 2011.

The turn of the millennium was the last we heard of David Hammer with Shizuo No. 1 and he had plans to follow it up with No. 2 as an artist compilation. That never happened...yet. Hammer died in 2011 and us fans assumed nothing else would surface. All this time Jion had close connections with DJ Scud and assumed that the submissions were lost forever. Not so. Scud still had the original DAT tapes in his possession (with unreleased Shizuo’s material) and Jion & Crash Spader still had their own track they tried submitting with no success. The result? Shizuo No. 2 has finally become a reality.