Bembelterror:
Hardcore, Speedcore and Gabber from Frankfurt (Germany). On this site are online mixes, flyer archives, t-shirts and mixtapes.
I’m DJ since 1993, but had to buy records and mix tapes some years back. I got influenced mostly by Tanith (when he was still hard and bald) and Cut-X (Gabba Nation) from East Berlin’s underground locations Tresor and Bunker later, and since Frankfurt was home of PCP but otherwise ruled by trance and house I started mixing on my own.
I always searched for the fastest tracks with the hardest bases, and when "alles naar de klote" (250 bpm remix) was released, I sticked to that landmark even while all other gabbers around me prefered the cheesy Rotterdam style or stuff from PCP that was from 1990, and I hadn’t much chances to play at their mellow gabber parties.
So I organized my own events and picked the hardest clubs I learned about, where people just loved my music without complaining the tracks were too fast or too evil...
So I played at Berlin’s Bunker, The Box in Hamburg, at Dead by Dawn, and nearly half of Europe and got to know many people personally while before I only knew their records.
In 1997 we decided that enough is enough and did the Hateparade in Berlin as a counter demonstration against the Love Parade. The Hateparade continued under the name "Fuckparade" and will continue for a while every second weekend in July as long as the Love Parade sucks so much ...
My average speed is about 250-300 bpm, sometimes faster, sometimes just 150 to slow down a bit. Labels I like are B.E.A.S.T., Brutal Chud, épitèth, Hardline, Crapshoot, +8, Deathchant, K-AKA, Widerstand, Surgeon 16, H.I.V., Dead End, Rage Reset, UHF, Bloody Fist, Napalm, Industrial Strength, Bass2, Killing Rate, Anticore, Gabba Nation, Strike, Speedcore, and a few others (in no particular order). Anything that is hard, fast and produced with some fair amount of imagination ...
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