Fiend
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Fiend once again pushing the harder boundaries of your techno tolerance but this might hit the mark with the raving massif on here (and for what it's worth, over half the tracks are 145bpm, which is actually less than a typical release by Perc these days). DJ Mad Dog straddling the boundaries of techno and hardcore with a great album of euphoric rave hard techno:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1km5fzccg
https://www.junodownload.com/products/mad-dog-downtempo/5962574-02/
A bit about the title: in recent years one of the main offshoots of mainstream hardcore (which is the general nucleus of gabber) has been "uptempo", initially merely faster and harder but settling as a particular style involving lots of cheesy sampled breakdowns and drops into the notorious high pitched squeaky "piep kicks". This has become a very polarising offshoot with many gabbers disliking it's blatant cheesiness, crassness, and lack of craft (for example, search Youtube for GPF - or better still, don't).
On the other side of the mainstream hardcore, "industrial hardcore" has stayed as credible as ever, with a much slower tempo, more refined, darker, and less blatant tracks. And there's been a notable crossover with harder techno, with DJs like Somniac One, Perc, Tymon, SPFDJ, Tripped, Rebekah etc mixing the genres and blurring the boundaries.
Mad Dog has most notably been a mainstream hardcore producer and DJ in the past, but seems to have been taking a stand against the prevalence of uptempo, having previously released a track called "Not My Tempo". This album seems to be putting his beats where his mouth is, dropping down to a "just above techno" BPM whilst maintaining mainstream hardcore's crowd-pleasing raveyness, and it seems to work bloody well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx1km5fzccg
https://www.junodownload.com/products/mad-dog-downtempo/5962574-02/
A bit about the title: in recent years one of the main offshoots of mainstream hardcore (which is the general nucleus of gabber) has been "uptempo", initially merely faster and harder but settling as a particular style involving lots of cheesy sampled breakdowns and drops into the notorious high pitched squeaky "piep kicks". This has become a very polarising offshoot with many gabbers disliking it's blatant cheesiness, crassness, and lack of craft (for example, search Youtube for GPF - or better still, don't).
On the other side of the mainstream hardcore, "industrial hardcore" has stayed as credible as ever, with a much slower tempo, more refined, darker, and less blatant tracks. And there's been a notable crossover with harder techno, with DJs like Somniac One, Perc, Tymon, SPFDJ, Tripped, Rebekah etc mixing the genres and blurring the boundaries.
Mad Dog has most notably been a mainstream hardcore producer and DJ in the past, but seems to have been taking a stand against the prevalence of uptempo, having previously released a track called "Not My Tempo". This album seems to be putting his beats where his mouth is, dropping down to a "just above techno" BPM whilst maintaining mainstream hardcore's crowd-pleasing raveyness, and it seems to work bloody well!
