It was due time that Digital Hardcore Recordings aka DHR got its own, unofficial guidebook. It was an important part of music history, of 90s culture, and of history. This book lists and reviews all Digital Hardcore releases; all albums, EPs, and single releases, CDs, Vinyls, including those that got put out on sublabels. It's not just a dry, music-centered look at the tracks alone. But also mentions the cultural context, the philosophical context, the political context. And goes way off on various ways sometimes - by looking for connections to other media, movies, movements... The book is for the dreamers, the restless minds, that were looking for a true alternative in the 90s, or are (still) looking for it in today's times. Chapters: About Digital Hardcore Recordings All Digital Hardcore Recordings Albums listed, rated, and reviewed All Digital Hardcore Recordings single and EP releases reviewed and rated All DHR Limited releases listed, rated, and short-reviewed A look at DH...
Before the "Genre Mainstream" set in, Hardcore, and also Techno, were not styles or categories that are as fixed as they are now. Many labels (and artists) existed on a kind of liminal location, that sat in-between the various movements, styles, sub-cultures, and political claims... One of these was Digital Hardcore Recordings, which enchanted Hardcore Heads, Punks, Indie Rockers, Hip Hop fans and lots of additional contingents in youth and other (older) movements. And, paradoxically, while DHR was probably one of the most underground efforts, as these releases literally did not give a fuck about genre conventions, image, likability... they were also *the most known* hardcore-adjacent and extreme electronic label in the 90s. every global music, culture, fashion magazine tried to get an interview or story with one of its artists... they toured all over the world and in the major cities... they were on big rotation on MTV and other music television. It was a common thing to com...