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c64 mixes the entire Low Res discography into one solid long earbeating. You thought it couldn't be done? Preposterous! World class top shelf numero uno international playboy extraordinaire, mister dj c64 lays down the industrial funk long and strong. Dross:tik and Low Res Records presents a joint worth smokin', that's right you heard it right. Click on the link and we'll give you the tracklisting, so close to being done it isn't funny.

Slamming Dutch Breakcore for the Teddy Riley on crack in all of us. So-called intelligent dance music is for old ladies and paperboys, improve your groove and get this shit in your earhole QUICK. Chilly willy melodies and ice cold beats to shiver your spine armored axe, while you hack at the triggidy trolls and pillage the land with your guild of stank armored pig-grilled saxon hammers and pigtailed maiden coochie, YOU WILL NEED THIS. Phantom fresh programming and a sense of severity like no other, defile your mommas speakers the right way, DO IT WITH MEANDER ON LOW RES. Designed to play at volume levels of "11" or greater, this is what the real shit sounds like son, take a lesson, yes, yes, y'all.

Available exclusively through PRAXIS.

On this turnover of electronic hardcore music, ÜBERGANG are transcending the past and giving new directions. ÜBERGANG are working without conditioned, cheap references to create a new style of digital electronic music - fresh, contemporary and without compromises. Their debut EP 'fear leader' on detroit's electronic hardcore techno label lowres (http://lowres.com) will be out in october 2006. Four smashing tracks of the freshest breakbeat manipulation and annihilation, delivered with an innovation we've come to expect these days from the hotbed that is Berlin. Featuring members GG + JC (aka Christoph de Babalon), this is all-out audio warfare with exquisite production and superior engineering. Assume greatness, and ready your listening sensibility for seduction.

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What Himawari has presented as their second full length offering on Rematter Music (Sub-Label of Low Res Records), is 11 songs of beauty, precision and electronic dreams. A vast journey to the peaks of technological display and valleys of emotional depth.

With almost four years having elapsed between "Pomposo" and Himawari's debut, "Mineral," the progress and evolution is so apparent on their latest effort that it makes one realize that time and essence are the greatest curators of all. All good things come to those who wait, indeed. A recording so rich with majestic production and intense subtleties, it absolutely qualifies as a beginning to end epic listening journey.

review by MARK TEPPO taken from IGLOO MAGAZINE. 

"There's a lot of people making noise out there, but none, in my estimation, makes it with quite the same cinematic verve as Jonas Johansson... ...Johansson is still experimenting with the collision between organic synthesizer melodies and cataclysmic noise explosions, still punishing boundaries in an effort to break everything down into a single orgiastic implosion of melody and chaos... ...Tarmvred will scare your neighbors. Tarmvred makes squirrels fall out of trees. Tarmvred raises blisters. Johansson makes noise like no one else and he's just getting better with every record." 

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FROM THE WORD OF PRAXIS:  "Low Res 017 : Bombardier : Syn Remixes : 12" Vinyl Bombardiers track Syn is remixed to great effect and with wide variety by Eye-D, CDatakill, Christoph de Babalon, Adjust! Eye-D presents us with the hardest and heaviest drum'n'bass cut he has put out so far; CDatakill takes a more anarchic approach, de Babalon makes a welcome return to vinyl with a breakbeat track with hints of rave, while label maestro Adjust slows down the speed to a grinding burner, and completes this strong return for Detroit's Low Res label."

AON' by DELIEN aka Theme songs for the army of the illuminati. The long awaited, much anticipated debut release for Detroit's own industrial gltichcore duo. Beats and bass collide in a conspiracy of noise that makes Throbbing Gristle shudder and Front 242 leave the dancefloor. Absolutely at the top of their game, Delien twist sound around your inner ear leaving you breathless and exhilarated. Precedents? Not a one. Delien are the original experiment driven industrial badasses. Three tracks of original outboard mayhem by DELIEN from the electro freakish on side A to screaming distortion and bionic buildups on side B. Also features funky roboto 'AON' B-side remix by ADJUST. 4-tracks total, Trust. A digital manifestation of Hieronymous Bosch. 

Detroit's Gr3yman, (Michael Madill of NPFC/19.5 Collective fame) along with pseudonymous vocalist Valerye Boybender, produced this long overdue 12" with two original vocal techno tracks and a remix apiece from Not Robo Boy (Himawari) and Kero (Shitkatapult, B.Pitch Control).

easily the best record yet on low res.yup,better than the venetian snares seven's.med ep.there,i said it.4 super crispy tracks that plunder and crush idm,jungle,and breakcore into one relentlessly good 12 inch.from the opening seconds of death's sadistic design,you know its sure to turn heads.pay attention as the track eerily morphs its way into a drunken game of quarters on a saturday night.wizjalkompromis starts of nice and glitchy and progresses to mash up the place with its constant change ups.don't mix out too early,the second break is sure to get the walls rattlin,and the asses shaking.flip for happy mechanical unit...a heavy roller complete with melodic synths and some super ill bass.finally,u r my survival closes the record out in proper style.tight drum and bass thats hard enough to make it into the bags of the breakcore ranks,but don't be surprised to find this one killin floors at drum and bass nights across the globe." 

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adjust, aka J$, aka the low res labelhead delivers four bangers from detroit.still carrying along in the techno vein as the kero 12 inch,this record sees low res once again return to its detroit techno roots.hard industrial techno is the only to describe it.while it may venture into electro or hardcore territory,maybe even idm, leaving some confused,this is just proper music done detroit style.ass.we like ass.this record has ass shake to it..shake your ass! why aren't you shaking your ass? 

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it was just a matter of time before detroit got the picture. LOW RES has known about KERO for years, and it seems absurd that its taken this long to release his work. KERO, a notorious figure in the windsor/detroit metro, has been redefining the rules of the game for a while now, most recently of which dropping the flurry in germany with releases on SHITKATAPULT and B-PITCH CONTROL. a twisted production style that allows KERO to chameleon from the direct to the indirect, forging a layer of detail both academically unprecedented and fiendishly unpredictable. anyway you slice it, its dark, its complex, its the furious funk from the next level. a bold, yet calculated thrill seeking release for the lucky number 013.

- LOW RES HQ

Cdatakill joins the Low Res roster with a four track EP of his trademark symphonic breakcore plus a few surprises. "Nothing Can Damn My Soul" opens with a spoken word intro through 4x4 rhythms and settles into a dark acid drill'n'bass groove. "Imperial Passage" and "Surveillance Tape" mix shimmering ambient backdrops with midtempo funk and faster hammering jungle breaks. "Strange Fruit" is the change-up, as jazz piano and smoky echoes disintegrate into deep, bass-heavy ambience over which a super-slow dubbed out beat emerges. A clanking drill'n'bass loop startles the listener before the Billie Holliday sample reveals this as, indeed, a cover of Holliday's downer blues classic. It's an awkward track, very daring and admirable but the fast beats never really mesh with the mood of the dirge-like original. 

words by carlos pozo / ANGBASE

The "Playing With Knives" EP matches Cdatakill with fellow midwesterner Abelcain for a set of remixes. This duo was previously seen together on the "Stiz Stigmata" split 12" on Zhark. Abelcain takes on two cuts from "Severity of Gravity" and speeds up the tempo with dirty bass and even dirtier cut-up beats. Cdatakill tackles tracks from Abelcain's "Faust" EP (Low Res) mixing dense claustrophobic dub on one piece and angelic choir dread on the Popol Vuh / Aguirre tribute "Der Zorn Gottes". 

words by carlos pozo / ANGBASE

I didn't count the BPM, but this material is fast. Using a distorted sound that is to compare with typical rhythmic noise's acts and setting up strong but linear patterns, this guy goes on to fit this harsh hardcore techno shade of noise and if there ever is a third volume of the "Biomechanik" sampler, he has good chance to be on it. Still, the tracks aren't just buzzing speedcore or braindead gabber, and feature the unionized minimum of breaks and changes in rhythms, while never loosing the dance appeal in sight and keeping the digital overdrive cranked on maximum. In the end, you get something that has a definitive hardcore edge and works pretty well, making me think that DJ Tense is everything Hypnoskull dreams of being. Definitely hard stuff for DJ more than something for home listening, "Kadaver" hits hard and fast, and you'll probably get a glimpse of this next time you go to your favorite hardcore party. 

words by: nicolas chevreaux / RECYCLE YOUR EARS

the equinauts unofficial return. the sophomoric sludgery from a dysfunctional process results in three tracks of electro distorto attempting to pass as dance music. the motor city takes its toll on these monkey experiments, pushing the backwash filter of contemporary culture into overdrive. also features super pimp special guest and midwest ambassador DJ EYE-D, who kicks a 313 remix of 'A15E' (LOW 001), guaranteed to soil your shorts and makes the original version sound like poop-trance. rare as hell, and yes it does actually exist. only as white label/test pressing, estimated somewhere between 50-75 of them out there. 

'The Very Model of Modern...' Spacemen, beat-eaters and international pop music conspiracy theorists - lend Himawari your ears. Promise: You will find in the Japanese techno-performance duo atmosphere, humor, hidden blips and not-so-hidden sights and sounds to vex the expectations and beguile utterly even the coldest hearts. You may have caught them at LifeFest this summer. If you did, yer lucky. If not, tune in to the frequencies on which Takeshi (sound and video editing / mixmaestro) and Lena (singer, singer, singer) cast their sound.

"...Concept albums have almost always had a bad rap. Accused of pretentiousness, overwrought instrumentals, over-ponderous lyrics, and topographic oceans, the genre has almost died a nearly silent death. "Almost" because Davros has brought the concept album back, and made it relevant..."

with each new release inadvertently reshaping and redefining the next level of LOW RES, LOW 008 - 'the lithium project' is no exception. yet another 4 tracks of menacing darkness and subversive sophistication recorded by jason snell as the incarnate 13TH HOUR. 

"Sir Snares must be saving his mellow moods for some other release, because all 4 of these raging drug n' bass tracks in some godforsaken time signature will capsize your boat - immersing you in an ocean of the most fucked breaks one can experience at this moment in time..." 

""...a compilation double 12" of midwest all star hardcore. This pretty much touches base with all the midwest hardcore/breakcore scene, and the great shit coming out. Kamphetamine (a bombardier side project) drops a punk sampling straight hardcore jam you may have heard from his self-released tapes. doormouse's cut six is a breakcore stomper. Interrupt Vector's cut is a funky electro-industrial hardcore jam, that reminds you of Meat Beat as much as old Mokum. Theeq morphs a funk drum break into a hardcore noise beatdown "get it together". Vsnares builds off a bizare matter-transmuting sample, his characteristic spastic hardcore jungle breaks coming at you from every angle. Bombardier drops one of his most energetic live tracks, showing his hardcore punk infuences, and just tears it up with yelling distorted guitar riffs and double kicks. Abelcain conjures a mind-blowing, atmospheric, hissing, evil slow breakcore number entitled "nameless grave," that will make you want everything else he does (its all good!). The Gabbist Monks scoop out whatever's left in your skull with a screaching, spidery noisecore disturbance. Get this shite quickly..." " 

"...'faust' packs a wallop and a whole lotta samples. machine gun beats vibrate against industrial noise and intimidating bass - definitely runnin'. the "forsaken remix" is a mash up of styles set against a backdrop of heavy crashes and metallic noise - more on the breakcore / hardcore / experimental noise tip. The flip offers up two more gems with "illuminatus!" and "aguirre: der zorn gottes". the first offers up a crushing array of drums and more rapid fire mayhem. the second, by far my fav, is a nightmarish breakcore number with a jungle riff on steroids. half time breaks add yet another dimension." 

Four track outta San Francisco, by way of Detroit's Low Res posse. A-side opens up with a thoroughly damaged tech-step sounding beast that sounds like the kinda shit that would get Ed Rush clutching a teddy bear and cryin' to momma. It kicks off with a nice bassline intro which means you can slip into the mix with minimal crowding. Bleed from the phenomenal Cris D'Agonie cassette follows... fuckin' rights! B-side takes things in a different direction, Machine is softer, but still down with the devil... tortured choirs suffer over beats that sound snapped rather than broken... closing things out is a slice of beatless hell called Exorcism... see you in the flames... 

good luck finding a copy of this masterpiece. we've seen this listed in some distributors databases, we're betting theyre full of shit. the master plates are toast, which makes it pretty hard to re-press more vinyl, but this is the record that put the avalanche in motion... dalek-stomping good! EXTERMINATE THE DOCTOR! 

the debut release on LOW RES. released summer of 1998, mastered at national sound by ron murphy - pressed at archer record pressing. ron thought we would get arrested for this release for sure, glad we didnt. these tracks were actually recorded as far back as 1996 as leftover tracks from the original ADJUST vs. THEEQ demo... later to resurface as a sum of the parts on the ADJUST vs. THEEQ ver.II mixtape. the more time and distance we put between ourselves and this release, the better. - LOW RES HQ