A column originally written for cybergrind.me , wherein I examine both the music and the culture of the golden age of rave music as well as the music and communities that sprang from it, with a particular focus on hardcore and breakcore.
Reexamining the legacy of acid house's influence on early breakbeat hardcore and the diversity of sound that it brought to a genre that drew from anything and everything.
Diving back into the record bin for a piece of historical hardcore and ending up in 2019 Japan, looking at a slab of pure hardtek party music.
Getting angry at the late 1990s record industry. Like usual.
We get nostalgic about the mixtape: part rave-era cultural artifact, part long-last artform, part format curiosity. Also: Georgia goes on a long rant about her favorite still-operational rave era label.
The Breakdown finally returns with a giant-size deep dive into the complicated history of breakcore and try to make sense of it in an era where the term means less than ever.
Diving into the record store discount bin and taking a look at two forgotten "full-length" albums from legendary artists of the early 90s British hardcore scene.
Taking a deeper look at Lolita Storm, one of the stranger and more fondly remembered acts of the first era of digital hardcore, and attempting to disentangle their strange existence as as a group thrust into the vanguard of feminist punk despite having no desire to be a part of it.
Waxing nostalgic about simpler times and the janky DIY brilliance of early breakcore.