I've been getting more and more into Robert Inhuman, his hardcore gabba/digigrind/anarcho outfit Realicide and the whole tiny cottage industry that this guy has created around his music and art. I was first turned on to him through the guys from the label Outfall Channel, who also play with Robert in the band Hentai Lacerator, and from there I discovered his tiny label Realicide Youth which produces handmade, ultra DIY cdrs and tapes from his projects as well as from those artists that are a part of the western Ohio electronic/punk scene that cross Inhuman's trajectory. I picked up a selection of some of Realicide Youth's titles that are still in print, and all of this stuff comes highly recommended to fans of passionately created DIY gabba, speedcore, and industrial whatzit with a fierce punk rock attitude.

OK, this isn't for everyone, but I personally love this disc of 'ravesploitation' from Cincinatti gabber/hardcore techno artist DJ Thumper. It's another one of the killer handmade CDRs that we just got in from Realicide, the DIY breakcore/gabba/grind label run by Robert Inhuman from Realicide and Hentai Lacerator. All of this stuff reeks of old school handmade DIY energy and takes me back to the pre-internet days of do it yourself hardcore and punk...which is sort of ironic, seeing as DJ Thumper's music is constructed largely of pilfered top 40 dance pop hits. DJ Thumber is another project from Realicide member Mavis Concave and it's the most overtly "techno" release in the entire Realicide catalog, but this is hardcore, distorted, super aggressive techno that bleeds over into full on gabba at times. The whole premise of this project is the pilfering and butchering of video game theme songs and top 40 pop hits and creating these clandestine remixes that turn the originals into high speed blasting hardcore/breakcore mashups; Andrew WK's 'I Get Wet', Kelly Clarkson's 'Since You Been Gone', Drowning Pool's 'Bodies' are all plundered and mutated into thumping, pounding gabba jams with brutally distorted synth lines, screaming distorted vocals, distorted metal guitars, and speedy breakbeats. Obviously, this isn't for the techno haters out there, but I think it's a blast. Oh, and the last track 'Pound Puppies Suck It' is a remix from porno-noisecore squad Hentai Lacerator. Comes in a xeroxed paper sleeve with screenprinted disc and a vinyl DJ Thumper sticker, in a limited edition of 150 copies.