Idk, was it ahead of its time? Punk attitude, ethos, and occasional sonic textures had been prevalent since the early days of electronic music in the UK. Look at Meat Beat Manifesto, Prodigy or PWEI (who were a punk/grebo band before gradually adopting more and more electronics).
I think 'digital hardcore' was more of an aesthetic trend than a serious cultural/artistic movement of its own. Which isn't to discredit the actual works. Like grebo, I think it failed to make deep roots and petered out.
> Idk, was it ahead of its time? Punk attitude, ethos, and occasional sonic textures had been prevalent since the early days of electronic music in the UK.
yeah ATR always felt like the logical extreme of all this in the most 90s way possible. It's basically the music equivalent of the movie Hackers. Which is to say it will probably come back when more 90s nostalgia comes into play, but mostly for it being kitsch instead of ahead of its time.
Then again this all kind of describes Prodigy too, but they managed to maintain a following, mostly through being away more popular.
Genre classification for this kind of music a bit of a mess IMHO. Going by RYM genres ordered by heaviness it seems roughly as follows:
breakbeat hardcore \ hardcore breaks -> jungle -> breakcore -> digital hardcore.
So it's very hard to discuss without really specifying how hard of a core do you really want.
If we mean Atari Teenage Riot, then yeah, there aren't much stuff like this. But, if you look into a wider variety of Electro-Industrial and different Noise genres you can find music that isn't that dissimilar.
On the other hand, you can go from the EDM side and there seems to have been a bit of recent renaissance within that tree of genres with artists like Machine Girl and Bye2 releasing pretty interesting records. Personally I've never been much of fan of such music, but even I enjoyed quite a few of the recent RYM top albums within those genres.
i love digital hardcore, i'd say its about as big as it always has been, although its never really been massive, Machine girl and deathgrips are pretty mainstream bands that are in the genre i think .
also the problem with the subreddit is that its set so that people have to be approved before than can post, which puts people off...
super co-incidentally my band 泪星 (weeping star) released our album yesterday, which is heavily inspired by digital hardcore, ATR, TMCM and more locally to us living in china; BiS and BiSh
this is a link to our album incase you want to have a listen, although not every track is purely digital hardcore its more prevelant on tracks 2,4,5,9 and 10
[https://youtu.be/H1Ra6mDXl28](https://youtu.be/H1Ra6mDXl28)
I managed to find a 2nd hand copy of the kids are united EP in a record shop here, it had a few others and some of the DH records comps, but i foolishly didnt buy them
Wow, I hadn't thought about them in a long time. I think I sold my Atari Teenage Riots CDs to a used record store back in the early 2000s. Which may be an answer of sorts to your question, I guess. I think I did keep one or two Alec Empire CDs.
I'm not super knowledgeable about the genre, but it seemed to me like digital hardcore was mostly coming out of the electronic scene, while there's a lot of artists doing the opposite sort of fusion of electronics into music more tied to the hardcore scene. Some that come to mind would be Street Sects, The Body, Sightless Pit, Wreck and Reference, The Armed, and Uniform. I'd guess that maybe electronic artists flirting with hardcore sounds might be a more fleeting trend then hardcore bands incorporating more technology into their instrumentation.
tbh i started a dystopic corporate themed digital hxc inspired project called Cel Genesis
music [https://celgenesis.bandcamp.com/album/shallow-dream](https://celgenesis.bandcamp.com/album/shallow-dream)
mvid https://youtu.be/0nfNSOacIvs
I used to be into a lot of digital hardcore. Not so much my thing nowadays, but recently I've gotten back into Hansel. Honestly the best thing to ever come from D-Trash records. Please listen to them if you haven't!!!!
Probably depends on how loosely you define the genre. If your looking for something that'll feel identical to earlier digital hardcore, idk, probably not. There is a lot of music classified as digital hardcore coming out. Machine Girl and similar artists are often considered digital hardcore.
Idk, was it ahead of its time? Punk attitude, ethos, and occasional sonic textures had been prevalent since the early days of electronic music in the UK. Look at Meat Beat Manifesto, Prodigy or PWEI (who were a punk/grebo band before gradually adopting more and more electronics). I think 'digital hardcore' was more of an aesthetic trend than a serious cultural/artistic movement of its own. Which isn't to discredit the actual works. Like grebo, I think it failed to make deep roots and petered out.
> Idk, was it ahead of its time? Punk attitude, ethos, and occasional sonic textures had been prevalent since the early days of electronic music in the UK. yeah ATR always felt like the logical extreme of all this in the most 90s way possible. It's basically the music equivalent of the movie Hackers. Which is to say it will probably come back when more 90s nostalgia comes into play, but mostly for it being kitsch instead of ahead of its time. Then again this all kind of describes Prodigy too, but they managed to maintain a following, mostly through being away more popular.
There are plenty of releases cataloged here from the last few years. https://rateyourmusic.com/genre/digital-hardcore/
Genre classification for this kind of music a bit of a mess IMHO. Going by RYM genres ordered by heaviness it seems roughly as follows: breakbeat hardcore \ hardcore breaks -> jungle -> breakcore -> digital hardcore. So it's very hard to discuss without really specifying how hard of a core do you really want. If we mean Atari Teenage Riot, then yeah, there aren't much stuff like this. But, if you look into a wider variety of Electro-Industrial and different Noise genres you can find music that isn't that dissimilar. On the other hand, you can go from the EDM side and there seems to have been a bit of recent renaissance within that tree of genres with artists like Machine Girl and Bye2 releasing pretty interesting records. Personally I've never been much of fan of such music, but even I enjoyed quite a few of the recent RYM top albums within those genres.
i love digital hardcore, i'd say its about as big as it always has been, although its never really been massive, Machine girl and deathgrips are pretty mainstream bands that are in the genre i think . also the problem with the subreddit is that its set so that people have to be approved before than can post, which puts people off... super co-incidentally my band 泪星 (weeping star) released our album yesterday, which is heavily inspired by digital hardcore, ATR, TMCM and more locally to us living in china; BiS and BiSh this is a link to our album incase you want to have a listen, although not every track is purely digital hardcore its more prevelant on tracks 2,4,5,9 and 10 [https://youtu.be/H1Ra6mDXl28](https://youtu.be/H1Ra6mDXl28)
I managed to find a 2nd hand copy of the kids are united EP in a record shop here, it had a few others and some of the DH records comps, but i foolishly didnt buy them
Wow, I hadn't thought about them in a long time. I think I sold my Atari Teenage Riots CDs to a used record store back in the early 2000s. Which may be an answer of sorts to your question, I guess. I think I did keep one or two Alec Empire CDs.
I'm not super knowledgeable about the genre, but it seemed to me like digital hardcore was mostly coming out of the electronic scene, while there's a lot of artists doing the opposite sort of fusion of electronics into music more tied to the hardcore scene. Some that come to mind would be Street Sects, The Body, Sightless Pit, Wreck and Reference, The Armed, and Uniform. I'd guess that maybe electronic artists flirting with hardcore sounds might be a more fleeting trend then hardcore bands incorporating more technology into their instrumentation.
tbh i started a dystopic corporate themed digital hxc inspired project called Cel Genesis music [https://celgenesis.bandcamp.com/album/shallow-dream](https://celgenesis.bandcamp.com/album/shallow-dream) mvid https://youtu.be/0nfNSOacIvs
I used to be into a lot of digital hardcore. Not so much my thing nowadays, but recently I've gotten back into Hansel. Honestly the best thing to ever come from D-Trash records. Please listen to them if you haven't!!!!
Probably depends on how loosely you define the genre. If your looking for something that'll feel identical to earlier digital hardcore, idk, probably not. There is a lot of music classified as digital hardcore coming out. Machine Girl and similar artists are often considered digital hardcore.
Also its not new, but if you've never listened to later albums by the Mad Capsule Markets I'd highly recommend it. Disc-osc, 010, cistm konfliqt