- midwest hardcorps...
- milwaukee wisconsin, with it's blue collar industry, roots in agriculture, and taste for beer is one of the least places that one would ever imagine that can be credited to shaping the electronic music scene. 1992 was the start of it all, where friends Kurt Eckes and Patrick Spencer started throwing raves, incorporating elements from the city's residual punk-rock scene laced with heavy-metal sensibilities and a comforting tone of house music that it absorbed from neighboring Chicago. Milwaukee's scene firmly planted and fortified itself with withstanding the mainstream media indifference, police harassment, and quickly changing musical tastes that had stalled the movement throughout the rest of North America. They liked it hard. REAL HARD. 170 to 240bpm music was not uncommon to be heard in rooms of 2 to 3 thousand people going off in a frenzied panic. Kurt and Patrick decided it was time to start letting the world know some of the talent that was in the the farthest reaches of the midwest - and spawned the DROP BASS NETWORK. truly impossible to attach a specific "style" or "genre" to this label, each release showcased the immense talent of their residents and close neighbours - acting as the springboard sending them into long winding careers, like acid lover Woody McBride, also known as DJ ESP, Dave Rogers, now known as DELTA 9, and old school techno veteran Freddy Fresh. Furthermore, they brought in heavyweights like the welsh brothers known as Somatic Responses, Denmark's Lasse Steen, and Germany's Martin Damn aka the SPEEDFREAK to round out the diversity of the label. Soothing 303 acid laced pieces faced off with distorted hi speed compositions changed the way that these mid western kids thought about music forever. (see the evolution of breakcore, idm, glitch, booty house, and countless other genres that have firm roots in surrounding areas). The scene in Milwaukee continued to grow and spread out to other areas, including neighboring Canada influencing many prairie dj's. Annual outdoor festivals known as Further and Even Further - regarded by some to be similar to a woodstock like gathering attracted thousands of people across the world and continued to showcase the amazing amounts of talent available from the neighboring cities. DBN branched out and spawned other labels - Six Sixty Six - started in 1995, focusing on only the most abrasive of experimental noise and hardcore, and a hard breakbeat label in 1997 known as GHETTO SAFARI. DBN stuck to their roots producing music that impacted people, never selling out and putting out releases for money. sadly, drop bass network went silent in 1999 , yet flames have rekindled recently with them issuing newer releases. each release under 1000 copies, 90% of them went to other countries and sold out immediately. thanks to scratch records in vancouver acting as one of their distributors, i was able to collect these seminal releases (80+) and would like for you this Friday to TUNE IN, TURN ON, and DROP BASS while we showcase the entire catalog. If you were listening to techno in the early 90s, this will be a refresher for you - and for those who weren't - an awakening!
Artist Title Release delta 9 b side intro problem child defender remix CAMO 03 flow smoking section CAMO 02 david skiba fame and glory CAMO 05 delta 9 necron99 DBN 66.6 joey jupiter xx DBN 48 goio basic needs DBN 32 lausen acid inhaler DBN 33 lausen dry ray DBN 33 valyom theme for 80s trauma DBN 65 woody mcbride beautiful DBN 03 formalities condensation DBN 42 fanon the big kid bum rush DBN 34 dj hyperactive dbn 017 a DBN 17 woody mcbride oh really DBN 64 woody mcbride vs jon frank the beat down DBN 63 michael wenz agony of the winter garbage ma DBN 61 michael wenz nobody listens to techno DBN 64 adam X afterlife dweller DBN 16 beverly hills 808303 analogue soup DBN 53 dieter koeltzsch unbekannte aufnahme 1 DBN 69 fresh c DBN 40 sleizure sleizure-robot david skiba fame and glory 2 - execution CAMO 05 christoph de babalon vulvic CAMO 04 christoph de babalon the last ride with you CAMO 04 bombardier schizophrenia CAMO 07 dj qbert scratch 1 the speedfreak rave signal DBN 38 mooses on acid mc 202 bpm DBN 15 d.d.t. no karaokeism 666 06 collective strength mutha fuck! (freak remix) 666 04 delta 9 atomizer delta 9 hcmf delta 9 hard core chicago delta 9 hard core chicago (remix) delta 9 the hate tank delta 9 this is a test delta 9 speaker worship delta 9 the hate tank (buck wild) pure breakfast session - part 2 DBN 22 fanon the big kid groove expansion DBN 34 goio wave DBN 32 frank freek pteridachtile DBN 12 stunt rock I don't think I'm the right pe DBN 64 pure analogue terror DBN 22 ed turbin conspiring against reality CAMO 07 d.d.t. ggg 666 06 christ of noize r@nd brain 666 04 transparent 303 reverberation DBN 19 formalities condensation DBN 42 astrocut g factor DBN 18 woody mcbride humpback DBN 01 natural born suckers specific DBN 54 choose slowgain DBN 21 nasenbluten workship carl STRIKE 20 a.c.a.b. ls-12 DBN 30 somatic responses pattern 2.6 DBN 43 laura grabb rubble ep - sorry DBN 52 total output spoken to DBN 46 a.c.a.b. no one owns house DBN 30 eye-d eye design CAMO 06 3d & snuggles the rock CAMO 01 zekt the last dawn DBN 20 adam X demonic machinery DBN 62 zekt exp. part 2 DBN 20 natural born suckers under DBN 54 mooses on acid red point DBN 15 lausen toilscope DBN 33 beverly hills 808303 no marriage until sex DBN 47 fanon the big kid even further DBN 34 drew young white light DBN 26 formalities specialized DBN 42 paul birken cyclic DBN 56 joey jupiter X DBN 48 brixton untitled DBN 25 nick east flatcracker DBN 27 paul birken tunnel 7 DBN 56 paul birken mucho macho DBN 56 beverly hills 808303 pain in the south pacific DBN 53 fresh slapped by timmy's sounds DBN 14 woody mcbride lawrence DBN 13 fresh quadrapulex DBN 14 valyom techno rmt DBN 65 valyom riders DBN 65 valyom tap dans DBN 65
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