Various – Harder Than The Rest

"Harder Than The Rest?". Yes, at that point of time and in history (1995), this was likely true.
For many people a "first ever" introduction to the variety of the hardcore underground and styles like gabber, breakcore, digital hardcore...
And this compilation is very varied indeed!

Stand-Out tracks include:
"Ec8or - We Need A Change" - almost military style gabber that goes into overdrive at the end.
"Atari Teenage Riot - Into The Death" blood-freezing digital hardcore punk attack - has music ever been so vicious?
"Sonic Subjunkies - Central Industrial" a melancholic, acerbic-saccharine doomed breakbeat track feels a lot slower and softer than the rest (not in a bad way!)
"Hanin - Nizza" - still one of the roughest breakcore tracks ever
"Christoph de Babalon Seventh Rest" a demonic track with industrial dub beats that feels like walking out in the snow, and then dying
"Ec8or & Moonraker - Smash Him To The Ground" digitalized amiga breakcore at its best!

A must-listen for anyone who is interested in 90s hard electronic subculture.

I like yesterday getting this comp and how did it blew my mind away and caused a major impact in my life my neighbours really did hate me

a total bomb of a comp! brought much needed dirt and snottiness to music at the time, great many tracks including ec8or We Need A Change!, shizuo Sweat, Alec Empire Suicide but the real shrapnel is Christophe de Babalon's seventh rest - genuinely dark, genuine thrills on the spine

A spectacular display of early Digital Hardcore! It's gritty it's loud it's everything you could want!

Great variety of sounds and styles packed into one supercharged package.

I still have the CD I picked up in Arizona after a road trip.

Whoa Whoa Whoa, nothing too spectacular?? Please take a step back rewind (or backspin) and listen again. I would say there is an amazing variety of early Digital Hardcore here that is quite unique. From Shizuo, Christoph De Babalon, Alec Empire etc. Dark and beautiful at times as well as hard and dirty. Recommended!!

Abuncha early breakbeat tracks on this little sampler, nothing too spectacular -you can find most of the tracks on subsequent DHR releases, but the real banger on here is Ec8or's "We Need A Change!" Absolute madness with the amigacore beats on this one. Starts off with a steady 180bmp but then mutates into a raging 230 bpm carcrash complete with death metal riffs and hiphop samples which goes something like: "Boy you better shit and get your ass up off the clot" and "I hate hicks, ten-muthafucken dope rhymes."