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| # | RA | Artist | Song Title | Label |
| 1 |  | Pressurehead | Lungs Of Steel | Surgeon 16-3 |
| 2 | | Bold Bob | Dive Into Steel | Kotzaak 9 |
| 3 | | Noizecreator | Feeling Like DeNiro | Surgeon 16-4 |
| 4 | | GGM vs Extrement | I Can't Take This Shit | HOH 8 |
| 5 | | Heretik | Hammerhead | Genotype 2 |
INTRODUCTION: Welcome to this month's review page. It was planned that there would be real audio files to accompany this month's page, but due to problems with the ftp, these files have not been uploaded to my site. So instead of not having any reviews for the month of April, I have posted the page as it would have appeared but without the audio files. Hopefully I will have the problem sorted out for next month's reviews. So wherever it says "check out the sample" or something similar, you actually can't. I apologise once again and don't forget to check out last month's reviews aswell- DJ KARLOS.
I know this one has been knocking around now for a couple of months now, but I just got me hands on a copy of it a couple of days ago. This is it, this is the absolute bollox. If you haven't heard this yet listen to it and go out and buy a copy. If your an evil bastard like myself, you've just got to get your hands on a copy of this tune.
4 tracks in all with the title tune just edging it. Containing viscious beats and stabs this one just builds and builds until it reaches the breakdown. And what a breakdown, after having your aural senses completely annihlated, the breakdown is almost soothing, but at the same time completely warped underpinned by an ominous dark string.
Then slowly but surely the beats are brought back in and annihlation begins again. The other three tunez incorporate all different kinds of techniques, such as breakbeats layered over the most dark and evil strings. I've recorded the sample at 33, but some of the more insane DJ's have been known to play this at 45!!!!!
Just in case you couldn't tell, I think this is an amazing tune and should be in every good terror head's bag. Buy it and "Apply some Pressure to your Head"
Another one that's not exactly brand new, but still tears the place apart. Bold Bob is in fact the infamous "Stickhead"(Kotz7+8, PCP etc.) On this one he sticks to what he knows best,dark evil drawn out stabs. On "Dive Into Steel", he teases you by starting off with cymbols and a bell type noise that goes higher and higher in pitch until outta nowhere in kicks the dirty stab. This continues through until we reach the breakdown which takes the stab and filters it, throws in a few snares and a Kotzaak sample and it kicks off again with an even higher pitched version of the original stab, that blows ya away. Other tunez also on this are "bad bass" which is great for all sample headz who don't have their own drum machine as it goes through evrey possible(and a few impossibles aswell) drum pattern known to gabberheadz. "Kik Ya" and "Terminated" are also highly playable, taking the same sort of route as "Dive into Steel".
The Surgeon 16 boyz back in full effect once again, this time with the Noizcreator and UK Skullfuck. This one's by Noizecreator, who seems to be poping up everwhere theses days. Normally I'm not into his kind of extreme speedcore, but this one sees what might be a sort of musical side coming through. The first half of the tune adopts his normal style with crazy drum patterns and alot of white noize. Then it drops into the main breakdown with dark as fuck strings and some bloke rapping "feeling like DeNiro outta Taxi Driver" until it kicks off into serious mayhem again. On the flip you've got UK SKullfuck causing absolute carnage. The tune AVE EM is excellently produced being cut left right and center. One paricular point is when it cuts from a high pitch guitar stab to a drum roll to a low pitch guitar stab to another drum roll. Also worth checking for originality is "I ain't half Shark mate" starts off with unbeliveably hard breakbeats and progresses from there. This one is only for extreme terror headz so beware sub 250 bpm crew this one ain't for you.
DJ Freak presents GGM vs Extrement. Just from the names alone you can tell that this isn't going to be in the same league as Aqua's "Barbie Girl"!!!!!, terror crew this ones yours. The best and most effective track is "I can't take this shit". I reckon they probably got the idea from Deathchant's "The Ripper". That said it is a very good tune that puts a new slant on it and has some good interchanges between the scream and the guitar. The only bad point about it is it's length. From the sample above you get nearly the entire tune, it's only about 3 minutes in length. Other tracks worth a mention are "The Git Hour"(run it together to get guitar) which is a guitar infested number with loads of nice, harsh acid sounds thrown in for good measure. Cockrot and Nobrash are also worth a mention for being good terror workouts.
This one is out on a new English label. Produced by Simon the Underground(a.k.a Suicide Squad) this is a 6 tracker written by Heretik. The main reason I picked this tune is that I'm really into the tune in the background that kicks in at the breakdown stage. Also the gating effects that are used on the old skool style sample are done to full effect and are very effective. Other tune of note is "Desicration", which is a breakbeat fused gabber tune with a nice dark breakdown half way through. What really lets the record down is the sound quality, recorded low and in mono and some of the samples are very cheezy and blatant. However if you live in England it'll only cost you £5 and that's not bad for 2 good tunez.
I only got this one today and had I got it earlier it would have gone in as no. 5, but seeing as I had the sound file made up for the Heretik tune I left it in. This one is out on Nasenbluten's Bloody Fist label and is a six tracker so is value for money if nothing else. As the title of the EP suggests we are faced with six dark tunes. To fit in with what Nasenbluten are doing we are offered two breakbeat tunes for starters as first tune on either side. For me the best tune of the EP is "Crackhead". Using a similar kick to what Nasenbluten use it pounds along using gated screams and dark strings and half speed break beats during the breakdowns. None of these tunes are high on the originality scale but they are very effective and the fact that you are given six tunes of varying styles means if your running short of tunes you can use at least three of these in the one set, making it a worthy purchase.
This one out on an English label that I had never heard of before but one I'm going to look out for in the future. This is Lasse Steen( a.k.a Skullblower) behind the controls. If you know any of his tunez you'll know that he doesn't go the same route as everyone else, and this certainly is the case on this release. Having a sort of "pure
techno" feel to it and would fit in very nicely in a set besides the likes of Infarct's "The Anti-Christ" or Producer+ Manu Le Malin's "Enemy"(both reviewed last month). As the name suggests there ain't much of a happy vibe in any of these tunez. Of note "Inzerted Deune"(strange name) which takes one dark stab and warps and filters it for the
majority of the tune until he brings in a second stab and layers it over the first, with masses of dark strings thrown in. Weighing in at about 180 bpm it's not one that'll rip you apart, but it is a good starter tune and even better when you just put it on the deck and listen to it the whole way through. "Kondensimated" is also kicking it with
the same kind of ideas just different sounds, the only thing I didn't like was his use of white noise as a cymbol. Six tracks in all(producers seem to be getting very generous these days), so if you like a different kind of sound there's bound to be something on this EP that you'll like.
On this one we see Lasse Steen teaming up with HOH label owner and all round nutter from Leeds DJ Freak. Each take a side and come up with a tune that is quite different from normal HOH releases. Best tune is "Nasty As Ordered" by Skullblower, which continues on the same kind of vibe as his tunez on UFO but just on a much heavier
tip. Darkness is still key, as is the manipulation of the one stab over the entire track. Whats different is the tempo has been severly upped and harsher sounds have been incorporated to fit in with the HOH sound. On the flip you have Freak giving you his normal "play as hard as fuck with loads of noize so that no one leaves alive" style with "Walk
Away", but the better being "Psychosis". "Psychosis" sounds quite alot like his "Party Trance" tune that he did a few releases ago and adopts a similar approach to Skullblower just with more distorted sounds. One to buy if your terror set is looking like its got a load of heavy metal bands in it with demented gabber drummers, cause this release will turn
your set on its head.
Nasenbluten hitting back but not on their own label, this time around they've decided to guest on the East German label Strike. This is a bit of a strange one, I reckon that unless you are a real fan of the Nasenbluten sound you would give this one a listen in your shop and go nah not for me. The thing about is the more you listen to it the more it grows on you. The tune that made me buy this EP and the one that I still think is the best is "Check The Sound". This is a full on breakbeat track with a real dirty evil bassline. This pounds away nicely with alot of nice gated effects being applied to the breakbeats until it stops to nothing and they drop evil, evil strings and the whole thing takes off again. Also worth checking are "Holy Arse" which is a nice piece of Nasenbluten style speedcore and "Discrete Maths". A Nasenbluten release wouldn't be complete without a bit of messing thrown in for good measure. This can be found in "Worship Carl"(not a bad idea if you put an os at the end of it), the ridiculous "Farts"(I let you guess what that one's about) and "Popular Shag" whose main breakdown consists of 2 telephones bleeping at each other. Also in true Nasenbluten style there is a big fuck off message to all those who use hundreds of thousands of pounds to make tunez, as all of these were mastered using an Amiga 500!!!!!!!.
Finally for this month we have another English label with quite a strange name. This one is for all you Gabberheadz. A 4 tracker with 4 good gabber work outs but only really 2 playable ones. The best of the lot is the "Executioner" which is a dark 185 bpm workout with solid kicks and nice morbid synth arrangements that run throughout the entire tune. Also worth a mention is "" for it's savage acid line that runs throughout. The other 2 tunez are actually very good tunez but are let down by the way they are recorded. They have good acid lines running through them that sound paricularly well in the breakdown sections, but once the drums and snares kick back in the acid is completly lost. It seems as if someone got their levels rightly fucked up when they were recording these 2, that said the other 2 are definitly worth a play especially if the less savage techno is what you're into.
