Early Hardcore 017 digs straight back into the 1992 underground — breakbeats, rave stabs, dark basslines, chopped samples and that point where hardcore was mutating rapidly into jungle.
This one moves between the euphoric and the downright nasty. Urban Shakedown, DJ Edge, Thunderhead, N.R.G., The House Crew, Tango, 4Hero and Rhythm Section set the foundations before things get progressively darker and more frantic. LTJ Bukem, Noise Factory, Multicore, The Darkraver, Yolk and DJ Distroi & Boykz push it deeper into the emerging jungle and hardcore sound.
Twenty tracks capturing a period when there were few rules — just increasingly heavy breakbeats, faster tempos and producers seeing how far they could push the machinery.
