The stuff that comes out on DJ Balli's Sonic Belligeranza label and various sub-labels is so far out in the extremes of electronic music that I'm not sure that any of this stuff is even close to being describable as "dance music", though I'm sure that the maniacs behind outfits like Zombieflesheater, Micropupazzo and Balli himself would be quick to disagree. I've sure found some insanely abrasive sounds from this crowd though, with one of the latest coming to us via Italian speedcore extremists DJ Balli and Ralph Brown's (also of HNW project Indch Libertine) latest collaboration Tweet It! (Extratone Mix) 12". This limited-edition 180 gram picture disc is probably the harshest thing to show up on this week's new arrivals list, a collection of Twitter-inspired extratone blasts that are limited to one minute, forty seconds in length (in reference to Twitter's 140 character limit). For those new to the term, extratone is a mutant derivative of the extreme hyper-fast techno of speedcore, where the beats are sped up to tempos of 1000 BPM or more abd become blurred into harsh waveforms, often cut up with shorter bursts of "slower" pounding tempos and aggressive samples. It's virtually harsh noise, just designed with a fairly strict aesthetic that keeps it still somewhat connected to the world of electronic dance music. On Tweet It!, Balli and Brown produce fourteen blasts of extreme extratone skull-drill, spitting out some seriously abrasive electronic violence that shifts between that buzzing, 1000+ bpm electro-pulse, brief breaks of pounding gabber rhythms, fragments of found music and Mariachi bands, anime samples and brain-damaged Casio melodies, and weird robotic voices that pop up through a couple of the tracks. This mix of harsh electronic noise with headache-inducing abstract rhythms is actually a lot closer to the extreme digital glitch-pain of Venta Protesix than the sort of speedcore I listen to on the Splatterkore and Atomic Annihilation labels, but there's still some sort of rabid rhythmic drive in this hideous blast of garbled electronics and fluttering hyper-speed rhythms infested with brief bursts of malignant gabber. I've heard people refer to this sort of stuff as the grindcore equivalent to hardcore techno, and that's pretty apt - you'll definitely have a hard time finding something more extreme in the realm of electronic music than the monotonous electro shock found on this record.