Abest - "Demo MMXII"

Abest from Northern Germany are blurring the lines between atmospheric Post-Metal and bleak Hardcore to create a dark and pounding emotional atmosphere.

Abest - "Demo MMXII"

-DCKR

Matheus - Work The Math

Copious amounts of splatter breaks, rave leads, and bubbling bass lines. Super cracked out jungle. 90s rave puked from a breakcore sound system. Everything sounds crisp and clear. Well chosen samples provide extra energy compelling you to bang your head and simultaneously fluid. Even the more subdued parts are nearly bursting with barely contained energy. More on the jungle side compared to alot of breakcore releases these days. Track four "News Please" starts off with some clever faux-news samples of the raunchy variety which lead nicely into a heavy hitting ravecore banger. While everything is well produced and edited, there is an over use of certain rave-y synths/leads and jungle bass. The usage of said sounds does provide a continuing theme, though a little variation would have stepped things up a notch. The title track "Work The Math" begins with a melancholy string section seemingly promising a path different from the first five tracks, but it quickly falls back in with the vibe of the rest of the album. It would have been awesome to have the initial strings come back in to create a more energized emotionally compelling track. "Yesterday" provides an answer to these problems. Finally breaking away from the themes of the majority of the record, you're reminded of greats like Squarepusher and Wisp. Emotionally stirring arrangements and spot on vocal sampling backed with nicely edited breaks which are a tad more toned down. THis blends into a beautiful entity. "Serious" also breaks away from the standard sound of the release. It begins with a playful IDM ditty that eventually evolves into a pretty hard and dark breakcore jam. "Unknown Vibes" is wonderfully jazzy, another instance where we are reminded of Squarepusher's apparent influence on Matheus. That said, this is no rip off. The rhodes get trippy in delay land having fun playing with all their panning partners in crime. Hi-hats and rides dance between your ears swinging back and forth while snares set the pace and the rhodes piano continues to soothe and make things rather stoney. "Work The Math" ends with "The End of the Beginning", a distinctly Matheus breakcore banger clocking in at just over ten minutes long. The real stand-out tracks have to be "Yesterday" and "Unknown Vibes". Despite the fact you may be reminded of other talented artists, they are unique to Matheus and reveal sounds and potential that will keep you wondering how Matheus will grow in future releases. "Work The Math" is a solid full length of breakcore tinged jungle with the odd IDM flourishes that will keep you coming back to the Matheus trough for more. Co-released by Sociopath Recordings and Core Collective Records. Core Collective Records is co-owned by Matheus and another great UK producer, MATT:Scratch.

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[MNF007] HITORI TORI: Beyond the Wake [EP]

Hitori Tori's "Beyond the Wake" EP dropped last November, so I apologize to those who are already familiar with this fine release. Those of you who are not, you are in for a treat. Released by Meganeural Records, a net and hard release label specializing in (as Meganueral puts it) "Intelligent Rave Music".

"Beyond the Wake" lives in the realm of quick acid licks and splattered breaks. Nothing new or ground breaking. That said every track is masterfully produced. Clever composition with top tier edits combine for a very energetic listening experience. These tracks tear up the dance floor. The fast attack acid licks are quite reminiscent of the works of Wisp and Squarepusher.

Hitori Tori does a great job of joining the sounds of Bogdan Raczynski/Aphex Twin brand "IDM" with splashes of raggacore and jungle oriented breakcore. While there are similarities between Hitori and the aforementioned greats, there lacks a certain emotional fire to the melodies. They definitely stir the body. Unfortunately they do not stir the heart in the same way that others making this variety of music do.

One of my favorite moments lies in "Mana Pool featuring Helicobacter" which is pretty much standard fare until towards the end, where it breaks down into an awesomely groovy glitch hop ender. There are quite a few vocal samples peppered through out. A few are hip hop a capellas. Others are from movies/TV. Much like with the melodies, there is little emotion provoked. The exception would be the last minute or so of "Remian V2" where the synth lead combines with hip hop vocals and break edits bringing the song to an exceptional finish.

Hitori Tori's "Beyond the Wake" is perfect for the dance floor. Every track holds non stop energy. The music is pretty top notch for the genres contained within. With all this energy bursting from each track, it often lacks direction. Things often seem purely mechanical. A well oiled machine made from the pinnacle of break science, yet it lacks a heart.

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[Metafiziq] V/A - Damaged N Broken

Fantastic hard music mostly originating from Eastern Europe and supporting that scene. Tracks from artists most of us know such as Stazma the Junglechrist, Goretech, Ruby My Dear, and a whole batch of talented musicians you probably haven't heard of but will be glad of the lifted ignorance once you digest these tasty bits of nasty pretty dirty sometimes awe inspiring electronica.

Personal Rant: Jad Atoui - Leaf Sequence is probably my favorite track on here (besides Gore Tech's dark dirty jungle/breakcore pure awesome offering) and its not just because of the minimally beautiful 'IDM' flavors...... its the sample at the end. Jad Atoui samples Cex. Cex's early 2000's releases "Role Model" and "Oops I Did It Again" are all time favorites of mine. I forget which of these albums Jad Atoui pulls the sample from, but the sample consists of Cex speaking on his perception of music and how he releases it. He essentially says that accessibility is important. That statement is important in this day and age when people are willing to release any old inaccessible garbage they pooped out in their bedroom. I've done it myself. Artistic Quality control is important, you shouldn't be content with releasing anything but your best work. As far as it be accessible to reach the masses as he implies, I would much rather have 1,000 people hear my music than 10, exactly as Cex says. But that is a more personal decision on the part of the artist, whether they care if anyone hears it or not. To elaborate on my previous statement, if you're going to release music and put it in front of people, give them the best you can.

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cOmaWrek Presentz tha nOdcast (v65) mixed by The Artbreaker (January 9, 2014)

New nOdcast by our man Decker. In case you aren't familiar, the Nodcast is a series of mixes by various artists for the net label cOmaRecOrdz. The track list is pretty damn awesome. Classics like Unibomber and Davros along with newcomers like b.i.n.t and Ars Dada. Bringing Magicore back with a healthy dose of BREAKCORE (and a lil midwest hardcore mixed in).

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V/A - Themeless 6

MAGICORE IS BACK BAY-BAY! BEEN TOO LONG! To start things back off on the right foot, hes a slammin' compilation from our friends over at Breakcore.NL Music. They've been doing this awesome series called "Themeless" for awhile now and have gotten all the way up to the sixth volume. It kicks off with a crossbreed hardcore ass banger from Rott In Pieces. So much tasty kicks und bass. The pace never really slows save a few moments of reprieve allowing the avid listener to come up for a breath of air and give their head-bang abused necks a rest. These moments are few and far between and are always tension building lead ups to more destruction. Great break edits all around, top notch atmospheres, melodies, and composition. This is a fantastic starting point for anyone who wants to hear what the Hardcore electronic family of genres is about. As Tex-nd (track 3) would say.... "Barbra Streisand!"

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Napalm Christ - "2013 Demo"

It's been a bit since I've posted here at Magicore, and this time around I bring you the first coming of Napalm Christ. Goatprayer is going to make this and some additional songs available for purchase on cassette, but being the good folks that they are - you can have these for free! Crusty deathy blacky metallic goodness that you need to bash your face off with.

Napalm Christ - "2013 Demo"

- DCKR

Daggra - "Daggra"

Magicore homie Phil from A Beautiful Lotus does vocals for this new project entitled Daggra. Relentless and agressive grindy goodness from front to back, some powerful riffs and tightly played drums paint the picture for Phil's vocals and together it's a masterpiece of heaviness. Check it.

Daggra - "Daggra"

- DCKR

Haapoja - "Haapoja"

Some pretty well executed Finnish hardcore with an air of progressive and black metal to it. Great riffs and chords, awesome shifts in time signatures, drums are on point, vocals are just the right amount of screaming and growling and sit well in the mix of everything else. Check it.

Haapoja - "Haapoja"

- DCKR

Heartless - "Certain Death"

I was fortunate enough to win a prize pack of this release on clear, black, and test press 7" and am thrilled to let you all know you can have at least a digital version for free for yourself. You should throw them some dollars if you can, but throw some horns up to for nothing at bare minimum. Heartless on Halo Of Flies with some gnarly grindy hardcore shit that is angry and relentless. Fucking pummeling and brutal. Incredible.

Heartless - "Certain Death"

- DCKR

HIMIKO - DethNoizzz

HIMIKO brings it hard and dirty with "DethNoizzz". Filthy gabber kicks support guttural death metal vocals and shredding, mixed well with HIMIKO's higher pitched shrieks. Most of the tracks have a sludgy slow pace, like plodding through a sewer where Carl Crack's spirit drowns any interlopers with discordant ectoplasmic slime. While the album is mostly made up of a well balanced mixture of various incarnations of extreme metal and digital hardcore stylings, there are smatterings of dubstep, electronic hardcore, breakcore, and crossbreed. D-TRASH proves its worth and relentless dedication to the music with another fine free release. Be sure to check out HIMIKO's last release "Fuck Off", a digital hardcore re-workings of classic American thrash metal tunes. Mochipet was close, but GIRLS LOVE DIGITAL HARDCORE!

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Le Kraken - "Self Titled / Exalt"

Get you a couple of free releases from sludge / post-hardcore / etc powerhouse Le Kraken. Both their "Self-titled" and "Exalt" efforts are powerful and emotion filled varieties of crusty sludgy doom tinged post-hardcore that are sure to please.

Le Kraken - "Self-titled"
Le Kraken - "Exalt"

- DCKR

REKOMBINACJA - Domestic Props

69 tracks. 69 minutes. Pure breakcore fuckery. This shit is all over the place.... IN A GOOD WAY. This guy must have a very big sample library. Put out by the fabulous NKS International. Rekombinacja is from Poland! AWESOME!***this tooth_eye guy is kinda polish too***<3<3

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The New Noise - "Volume 1 / Volume 2"

The New Noise is an Italian web zine focusing on experimental and noisy music, usually of the metal and extreme/experimental electronic variety. They have two volumes of a compilation available which they compiled, one is more psychedelic and electronic focused and one is more metal/punk/etc focused. Both are really great and serve as a sonic connect the dots of leftfield underground music, mostly rooted in Italy or via the Italian entity that is The New Noise. If you have a few hours to kill, get both compilations and cue them em up back to back and beginning to end. It's a great fucking experience.

The New Noise, Volume1
The New Noise, Volume2

- DCKR

Speak Onion - Swallower

drum n noise, noise n bass... whatever. this is breakcore to me. had the wonderful opportunity to play with Speak Onion at the second Mobcore show in Chicago ; and boy was it a treat. His music is even more abrasive and enveloping in person. This new joint, "Swallower", does not disappoint in the slightest. Speak Onion has a very unique style. You'll be hard pressed to find the average amen making an appearance. Reminiscent of Xanopticon in all the right ways. You'd expect him to be playing with the "big boys" on labels like Hymen, Ad Noiseam, and Ant-zen. Released on New York's very own Immigrant Breast Nest.

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Kosmograd - "Self Titled"

Sludgy post hardcore with some psychedelic and black metal tendencies here and there. Sick ass cover art, to boot. It's a couple years old now, but age ain't nothing but a number when speaking of good music and the first time hearing it. Check it out.

Kosmograd - "Self-titled"

- DCKR

[ELF-NET020]Speaks&Spells

Tracks from Iconochasm (who had an awesome track on last years United States of Americore compilation), Umio, Kyuo1110, and DJ Kurara. Another helping of world wide core from a fine japanese net label. dig in.

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Japan National Day Compilation

a fresh helping of hardcore, breakcore, and dancecore jams. Though titled 'Japan National Day Compilation', it contains artists from all around the world. Ainox from Mexico to European cats like Reizoko CJ and Drunk Optimus.

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Jungbluth - "S/T Tape"

It's not in my nature to lie to the people about the music, so I'm not gonna start now. How I happened upon this release, I have no clue. What happens is, I spend about one night a week just downloading a shit ton of music from numerous and various sources, then I spend the following week (attempting to) going through it when I've time. This has left me with a HUGE (and ever increasing) folder of new music and an impossible way to discern where I got what from. So, when I cue something up, I give it a few minutes and either continue listening because I dig it or shitcan it because I don't. If I dig it, I go looking for more info to see if I can buy it, if I can post it, and in both cases I look for as much information about the artist and release as possible. Fun life, eh? And that's just what I do with my free time.

Anyhow, Jungbluth's self titled tape was something I happened upon and from about 3 seconds in knew that I was gonna love. I was right. When I went looking for info on these guys, I read a lot of reference to "screamo" as a genre - a genre that I 99.9% of the time cannot stand. Give it up for Jungbluth being part of the .01%! But, as you might expect from myself and Magicore, it's never that black and white. Jungbluth craft a ridiculous blend of, as mentioned, "screamo", but it is far beyond that. Oldschool punk rock, screamo, post/progressive metal tendencies, hardcore, and much more are all swirling in this sonic maelstrom - and this self title tape is hugely enjoyable and recommended if even a small fraction of anything mentioned thusfar is something you're even remotely into, guaranteed.

So. Go get a tape if you can. If not, definitely get a download.

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Vuyvr - "Eiskalt"

Why is Throatruiner one of the coolest labels around right now? Well, aside from releasing some of the most uncompromising varieties of metal music, it is their general ethics regarding music in general - as evidenced by the document entitled FUCK LARS ULRICH that you get when downloading any of their releases for free, which reads:

Thanks for your download, we hope you'll enjoy this record as much as we did! Most of our records are on free download because music should live without boundaries. But don't forget that we'll always need your help to continue releasing records we love on vinyl!
Thanks for caring, and sorry for your ears!

One of their handful of new releases is this incredible effort from Vuyvr. Featuring members of Rorcal, poised to unleash their own album of unholy metal awesomeness the end of February, Knut, and other respectable bands, Vuyvr hail from Switzerland and deliver a variety of hardcore and black metal that could not be more perfectly married. Borrowing heavily from all the finer points of each genre and then amping up the concoction 666 times, "Eiskalt" is a powerhouse of aggressive metallic wonder that you would be foolish to pass over.

You can get this and most the other Throatruiner releases for free in digital format here.