I love me a bit of Early Hardcore, especially from the albums you can see in the above picture. And it can give me goose bumps going up and down my spine. I am a sucker for the early stuff, and whenever I spot a mix on Soundcloud with a tracklist, it just makes my day even better. Todays mix already gets bonus points for a wicked image. Yes, it's just a bunch of CDs on top of each other, but to me that is just pure pornography. As I had all of them. Well, not the specific German editions I can see here? Don't even know why there were so many different versions of one CD?
The mix is a megamix with 55 records in a 2 hour long mix. Not true to the word megamix, if I'm being honest. If I were to think of a megamix, I would think of 100 records in 10 minutes. Not that they are any better, as some are just utter garbage and not worth of having the title megamix. But the person behind this mix (Diagno!ze) did his best to provide us with a 2 hour long Hardcore fest!
And yes, it does contain the forgotten anthems, the early early stuff. The records so unique, you couldn't even classify them as Hardcore, as Hardcore was still in the development stage. You could call them Acid Techno House or whatever floats your boat. It did have certain Hardcore music requirements, but yeah, not 100% Hardcore. Like, for example, Zekt's 'External'. When the beats and bass kicks in, yeah, it's rough, but the majority of the track is extremely Acid Techno like, it becomes this mixture of a track, suitable at any event.
But I'm getting too picky now. Let's focus on the tracks selected for this mix. And they are glorious! Looking at the tracklist will take you back immediately to the early years. Anyone feel like a teenager again? Because I do!
Gizmo, Buzz Fuzz, The Prophet & Dano - Thunderdome
Too Fast For Mellow - In My House
Dano - Something Big
Square Dimensione - A Brand New Dance
The Tekkno Claim - Ad. Nauseum
Buzz Fuzz - Destroyer
The Scotchman - Oblivion
Ku-Base - Hardcore Pumping
Adrenalin Rush - Wayward
Too Small - Cold Bustin
Brothers In Crime - 100% Crisis
Gizmo & Norman - Now U See Him, Now U Don't
The New York Terrorist - Short Fuse
Weirdo & Sim - Pump That Stupid Bass
Brainiac - No Shit For Me
Simtec - Just Getting Hot
Waxweazle & Guitar Rob - I'm Feeling Hot
Gizmo - Rescue
Masoko Solo - Pessa Pessa
Critical Mass - Shake Your Stuff
Jeremy - Go With The Flow
Genlog - Revolution
Hooligan - B.O.T.T.R.O.P. (Gizmo Remix)
Yves - The Main Man
Tutti Frutti EP. - Rotterdam Mix
Buzz Fuzz - Frequencies
Zelator - Check The Call
Traxcalibur - Poetica
Car & Drive - Help Germany
XTC - Rotterdam Mix
Undercover Anarchist - Kingdom
Strange Food - Junkfood
Zekt - External
Critical Mass - Severe Trauma
RMB Heaven & Hell E.P. - The Place To Be
Next Fashion - Error
Mind Candy - Mind Destroyer
Asylum - Mescalum
Nip Collective - Weekend
Ace Cosmic - Why
VCF - Hydrochloric
Dano - Marsh Mellow
Buzz Fuzz - D-Leria
Protectors Of Bass - Hicked Pitch (Remix)
Program 1 - World's Famous MF
Liberation - Final Carvings
OG's - The Kings Are Coming
Chosen Few - Freedom
High Energy, Hellraising - The Box
Dano - Best In The West
F. Salee - A Night In Boston
The Prophet - God
Dione - The Flipside
Lenny Dee & Ralphie Dee - I Control Your Body
Tschabos - Gib Mir Die Bass (Noch Korrekter)
The tracklist looks great. And it's a nice mixture of the really early stuff, to the mid 90s, to the late 90s. Credit where credit is due, Diagno!ze has created a very nice tracklist. Different, that's for sure.
Now comes the hard bit. The mix itself. It's OK. Not perfect, and full of little mixing errors. And even the build up of the set can be a tad off. Going from the early stuff to the later stuff and back. It would have been slightly better if it were to follow a pattern: from old to new? Here it's like whatever is on the decks is being played. And not always carefully mixed together. That's a shame though.
It's a breath of fresh air to see this tracklist. Not following the conformity, but doing whatever they like. And I appreciate it. It could have been better. It is highly enjoyable, but could have been so much better.
Best track? One you don't hear that often, but deserve all the love and credit it deserves: VCD - Hydrochloric. Epic early Hardcore track!
DJ: Diagno!ze
Genre/Style: Early Hardcore, Gabber, Rave, Acid Hardcore, Hard Techno, Happy Hardcore
Mix Info: The Early Hardcore Megamix .mp3
Length Mix: 02:03:38
Tracks: 55 (fifty-five)
Download/Listen (via Soundcloud): CLICK HERE
File Size: unknown
File Type: unknown
Audio: Stereo
Sample Rate: unknown
Release Year: 2021
More Information: Diagno!ze - Soundcloud Channel
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