Along with the new Atari Teenage Riot tribute-comp CD The Virus Has Been Spread, we've picked up some of the harder releases from the

diverse D-Trash back catalog, which at it's loudest features ferocious DIY digital hardcore and gabba violence that fans of brutal beat-driven

electronics and metal-infused industrial should definitely be checking out. One of these is Enter The Winter, an 11-track album from

Canada's Contra, whose brutal, breakcore-infected soundscapes layer eerie luminous drones, loops of orchestral strings, and caustic harsh noise

over deep bass tones and crushing heavily distorted breakbeats. The beats are very distinctive...instead of working samples of the classic

"Amen" break that serves as the cornerstone of so much breakcore stuff, Contra creates his own complex rhythmic patterns that veer many of

these tracks into a weird Aphex Twin/hip hop/industrial/gabba/blast realm. Fast paced attacks of electronic distress are chopped up and vomited

back up into a bloody cyberpunk hallucination...very cool.