Founder of Berlin's Digital Hardcore Recordings, Alec Empire created some of the most musically diverse works of the 1990s, recording both as himself and with the trio Atari Teenage Riot. Empire was often identified with (and pigeonholed because of) his ATR productions -- lo-fi breakbeats played at the speed of thrash that simultaneously... [+] Read More

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Berlin hardcore dissenters Atari Teenage Riot were among a new generation of German techno artists (also including ATR's Alec Empire, EC80R, Speed Freak, DJ Bleed, etc.) who sought to reconnect music with political radicalism through ever more challenging, experimental hybrids, engaging everything from speed metal and acid to jungle and hardcore... [+] Read More

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The Digital Hardcore producer known as Bomb20 impressed the label so much with his criticism of their (comparatively) commercial slant that he gained a record contract of his own. Still just a teenager, he contacted DHR in 1996 to tell them they'd sold out by licensing videos by DHR act Atari Teenage Riot to air on MTV. After sending in a tape... [+] Read More

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One of the most respected (and idiosyncratic) techno DJs and producers in the '90s, Dave Clarke began his music career as a hip-hop DJ in the mid-'80s, shifting to acid-house and later rave near the end of the decade. He began recording for Stress (as Pig City) in the early '90s and also appeared on R&S, XL and his own Magnetic North Records. By... [+] Read More

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One of the hardest in the hardcore techno/industrial field, Delta 9 is the alias of Chicago's Dave Rodgers, a man influenced by thrash and industrial as well as dance styles like electro and gabba. Debuting with a series of singles for Drop Bass and Industrial Strength during 1995-96, Rodgers appeared on the Industrial Fucking Strength... [+] Read More

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Along with Delta 9, another of the American techno signees to the British grindcore label Earache, Disciples of Annihilation (D.O.A.) formed in New York City in 1993 around Sal Mineo, Nick Marchetti and Carl Carinci. One year later the trio began releasing material on Industrial Strength, including the "Industrial Power 9D4" single. After... [+] Read More

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Hardcore breakbeat dilettante Toby Reynolds is the most successful of the several producers who've recorded EPs (and occasionally, CDs) for South London's Ambush Records. His version of impossibly dense, chaotic Amen madness is within sighting distance of DHR (Digital Hardcore), home of Alec Empire and Atari Teenage Riot. Reynolds, a frequent... [+] Read More

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A more rabid onstage showman than most of his Digital Hardcore colleagues (quite a feat of itself), David Hammer's Shizuo project also reflects the machinations of a more diverse music-maker and a rather humorous personality. The light-speed breakbeats and punk attitude of DHR flagship act Atari Teenage Riot are in abundance on Shizuo tracks... [+] Read More

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The Earache label, renowned for its roster of harsh grindcore acts -- Godflesh, Carcass, Fudge Tunnel -- moved into the sympathetic world of hardcore gabber techno with the signing of Ultraviolence, masterminded by one Johnny Violent. His first, self-financed production was the "Shout" single, which appeared in 1991 on his own label. After the... [+] Read More

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