Digital Hardcore Recordings. 1997
I think the first No-Fi gig I went to was CDB. It was in the back of a bar in Newcastle, currently named Tokyo, previously PoNaNa, and was something else before that. Can't remember. The earlier management were a bit more open to interesting things. I think they ran the odd fetish night there. They certainly wouldn't entertain breakcore nowadays. There must have been around 20 people there. He had a few portable minidisc players and a mixer, and was banging out a right old noise. Most enjoyable.
This isn't as extreme as his live set, or indeed anywhere near as knuckle-whitening as the stuff being churned out by any old spotty geek with a ripped-off copy of Ableton Live and a hard drive full of pre-fucked-up beats. As an early example of pioneering breakcore it's mighty fine.
Andit ain't all breakcore. The first track is a 15 minute atmospheric, delay-laden, beat-free bonus.
Thumbs up for the slick-haired teutonic distortion monkey.
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