Years later, a kick comes through the speakers and you are back there: the floor under your feet, the people beside you, the tune you never quite caught the name of.
Dig through records with strange backstories, pull a set from the tape rack, and find three free tracks in the old Songhub crate. Somewhere along the way, a subwoofer may try to recruit you.
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909 / LOST IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION / 303 / UNDERGROUND CONNECTION /
THE HARD CORE OF THE DETOUR
Hardcore without borders.
A crackle of old vinyl. A melody through the concrete. Somebody’s impossible kick. Follow the connections between early hardcore, Frenchcore, psycore and industrial. The interesting bit is often in between.
SH / 909ENJOY THE MADNESSHERE FOR THE MADNESS
Pick your scenes. Build a listening route
DIG YOUR OWN WAY / SH–909
Build your own listening route.
0 / 6
Mix the scenes you feel like exploring. Your picks bring their listening destinations together below.
Your bag is empty. Pick a scene or take an unexpected turn.
Hoovers, raw kicks, a record bag full of discoveries. Follow Multigroove’s warehouse history and Ouwe Stijl is Botergeil’s enthusiast-run world. For the Dream Team rabbit hole: revisit the Thunderdome archives, then dig by artist and catalogue number.
Warehouse Elementenstraat describes its former life as a peanut factory and counts 61 Multigroove raves between April 1992 and May 1993. The building had a life before the dancefloor.
One word, many doors. Try The Sickest Squad’s SickCore Records for label-direct digging, Chrono’s own catalogue for another route, and Sefa’s official channels for a melodic detour. Follow what catches your ear rather than somebody else’s pecking order.
06 / SIDE BThe Sickest Squad: read the old tape label.↳
New name. Experiment still running.
The Sickest Squad’s own history traces Sick Dj Team to 2000 and Brutale to 2014, a label intended to make room for varied underground sounds. Follow the people and experiments behind the genre names.
03SICK DJ TEAMThe Sickest SquadA Micropoint tape in 2002.
In a 2010 interview, The Sickest Squad recalled buying a Radium/Micropoint tape in 2002. The sound stayed with them as they developed their own Sickcore.
07DRILL ’N KOREThe BraindrillerzBefore Drill ’n Kore.
Sebastian began DJing progressive and techno in 1997. A French teknival led him towards harder electronic music; in 2012, he made the anthem Frenchcore S’il Vous Plaît.
Adrenokrome found Radium’s MasterPiss remix contest a week before it closed. He won the unsigned-artists category, and his remix appeared on vinyl in 2011.
11PSKT / 1999Le BaskPSKT and the southern free parties.
Le Bask and friends founded the PSKT sound system in 1999 and organised free parties in southern France. His track Hardchoristes broke through in 2007.
LOST / FOUNDFOUND BETWEEN THE RECORDSSomeone left the good stuff.
01PAPER CROISSANTZAN OBJECT FROM THE RECORD BAGPAPER CROISSANTZOpen it. Who does it belong to?
Mr. Ivex’s first released track, Paper Croissantz, appeared on a Project Hardcore compilation. He remembers signing his first autographs after opening Harmony of Hardcore.
04CAWFEEAN OBJECT FROM THE RECORD BAGCAWFEEOpen it. Who does it belong to?
Before his solo work as Remzcore, Rémi Dechoux was part of the Frenchcore duo Brutal Jesters. His Cawfee tracks continue another thread in his catalogue.
Dig smarter: find a track, a pressing or the real source
Try an artist + track title + label. For vinyl, add the catalogue number and check the exact version. For sets, start with the artist or organiser’s own channel. Early hardcore vinyl, early Frenchcore sets and industrial hardcore labels are useful routes, not interchangeable genres.
An editorial listening map, not a ranking or an affiliation. The linked organisers, artists and labels are the sources; no events or tickets are sold here. Routes researched on 28 October 2026.
SH / 01
BETWEEN THE RECORDS
The kick and the people around it.
A distorted kick tells you something about the music. Gabber also tells you about the people: who comes dancing, passes a record across the decks and finds the same faces years later.
NOG EENTJE! · HAKKUH!
One more! Hakken!
Parkzicht helped shape Rotterdam’s early sound. At Amsterdam’s Multigroove warehouse parties, ravers, punks and skaters met on the same floor. VPRO’s 1995 Loladamusica captured a scene already building its own language, clothes and sense of belonging. Put the footage beside a recent set: listen for what changed, and look at what people still recognise in each other.
A DJ name borrowed from a track. A B-side that took over. Seven records, seven ways into the scene. Pull one out, follow its story, and keep the links in your listening bag.
Apple Music · Radium is track 18 on the 2007 compilation.
ACTUAL BACKSTORY
A track so good someone wore its name.
According to Audiogenic’s Micropoint biography, Radium borrowed his DJ name from a Liza N’Eliaz track. That makes this a record with an unusually loud namesake.
Bandcamp · original track, remastered in 2017; not an Aphex remix.
ACTUAL BACKSTORY
Aphex Twin entered the chat.
The official 2017 reissue notes date this track to 1990 and trace later releases through Industrial Strength and R&S, including Aphex Twin remixes. Its credits name The Mover as producer: another name used by Marc Acardipane.
Mokum Bandcamp · Zippy Mixxx, on the 2024 Classixxx reissue.
ACTUAL BACKSTORY
The B-side had plans of its own.
Mokum’s catalogue places I Wanna Be A Hippy at B1 on MOK32, with Mary Jane on A1. MOK37 then lists four Hippy mixes, including the Flamman & Abraxas radio mix. Always check the other side of the record.
SoundCloud · upload by The Sickest Squad, featuring Randy & Lenny Dee.
ACTUAL BACKSTORY
They liked it enough to name a sound.
In a 2010 interview, The Sickest Squad described the Boomshakalaka EP with Lenny Dee and Randy as the hardcore/Frenchcore hybrid they had been chasing. They called that sound Sickcore.
Mokum Bandcamp · Guyver (2023 Remaster), first track on Guyver+.
ACTUAL BACKSTORY
Two names. One suspicious record bag.
Tellurian is also Leviathan, the artist behind Cenobite Records. In his 2013 interview he says he made the Guyver EP for Mokum after starting Cenobite, and calls it probably his best release on Mokum.
Top 40 · track page with video and the version’s backstory.
ACTUAL BACKSTORY
That voice had already lived another life.
Top 40 identifies the original vocal sample as Tony Ronald’s Help, Get Me Some Help. Its track notes say a later version used newly recorded vocals by Albert West after the sample caused a rights dispute.
Mokum’s tribute traces François Prijt’s first experiments in hip-hop and electro to a Commodore 64. It identifies Name Of The DJ as MOK46 from 1995. A tiny home computer sits somewhere behind that enormous legacy.
His early experiments on a home computer became part of hardcore history.
Editorial discoveries, not sponsored placements. Sources checked 28 October 2026. The linked edition may be a remaster or compilation; it is named on each card.
One more record? Put a bag together or try the sleeve detective
SH / AFTERHOURSONE MORE RECORD
THE DANCE FLOOR IS NOW YOUR PROBLEM
Your record bag. Your rules.
Pick six records. Put them in order. Or see what you recognise from the sleeve notes.
01 / THE PROGRAMMING DEPARTMENT
Six records. Your name on the bill.
Choose six different records from the crate. Arrange the night, name it, then take home a poster and a tracklist with listening links.
06VACANCY: ONE DJ WITH QUESTIONABLE JUDGEMENT.Fill the six slots. Take the bill.
Six slots. No booking fee. An alarming amount of responsibility.
02 / NO SHAZAM. JUST YOUR HEAD.
Who is hiding in that sleeve?
Six cases. Real record history. Each extra clue costs one point. A good memory earns you absolutely no legal authority, but quite a nice score.
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CAT. № ???IDENTITY WITHHELD
Identify this record.
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A producer borrowed his stage name from this record.
That producer is one half of Micropoint.
The original artist is Liza N’Eliaz.
According to Audiogenic’s Micropoint biography, Radium borrowed his DJ name from a Liza N’Eliaz track. That makes this a record with an unusually loud namesake.
The credited producer is The Mover. The release name is Mescalinum United.
The official 2017 reissue notes date this track to 1990 and trace later releases through Industrial Strength and R&S, including Aphex Twin remixes. Its credits name The Mover as producer: another name used by Marc Acardipane.
Mokum’s catalogue places I Wanna Be A Hippy at B1 on MOK32, with Mary Jane on A1. MOK37 then lists four Hippy mixes, including the Flamman & Abraxas radio mix. Always check the other side of the record.
A 2010 interview describes this EP as a hardcore/Frenchcore hybrid.
The Sickest Squad called that sound Sickcore.
Lenny Dee and Randy are in the credits too.
In a 2010 interview, The Sickest Squad described the Boomshakalaka EP with Lenny Dee and Randy as the hardcore/Frenchcore hybrid they had been chasing. They called that sound Sickcore.
Tellurian is also Leviathan, the artist behind Cenobite Records. In his 2013 interview he says he made the Guyver EP for Mokum after starting Cenobite, and calls it probably his best release on Mokum.
The original vocal sample comes from a Tony Ronald song.
A later version used newly recorded Albert West vocals.
Charly Lownoise and Mental Theo made this one.
Top 40 identifies the original vocal sample as Tony Ronald’s Help, Get Me Some Help. Its track notes say a later version used newly recorded vocals by Albert West after the sample caused a rights dispute.
Mokum’s catalogue number is MOK46. The year is 1995.
Its producer’s early experiments involved a Commodore 64.
The artist is DJ Chosen Few.
Mokum’s tribute traces François Prijt’s first experiments in hip-hop and electro to a Commodore 64. It identifies Name Of The DJ as MOK46 from 1995. A tiny home computer sits somewhere behind that enormous legacy.
Pick a side. Defend the indefensible. The highly unqualified committee is ready to do absolutely nothing with your opinion.
SH / 909ZERO INFLUENCEFULLY UNQUALIFIED
INSERT AN OPINION● ● ●
SONG-HUB / OPINION PROCESSING
OFFICIALLY IGNORED
Your opinion could be here. What a prospect.
Pick something for the machine to ignore properly.
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Your bureaucratic career begins here.
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DEPARTMENT OF CREATIVE MISQUOTATION
Here it's fixed, you're welcome. Come again.
A deliberately rigged toy. Give your opinion and watch this box rewrite it. Correct it and the machine interferes again after you finish typing. Nothing is sent or saved.
The shredder is warming up.
Your actual words:
A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER / 01
Vinyl or digital? Pick a side.
A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER / 02
How long should the intro be?
A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER / 03
Where are you on the dancefloor?
A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER / 04
Which kick gets the keys?
A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER / 05
One more record. Then home?
A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER / 06
The DJ plays something you do not know.
A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER / 07
What is the dress code?
A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER / 08
The break arrives. What now?
A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER / 09
What goes in the time capsule?
A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER / 10
The 303 starts talking.
A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER / 11
My opinion is…
A VERY IMPORTANT MATTER / 12
Your gabber says it is time to leave.
THE UNOFFICIAL GABBER PASSPORT
What kind of kick creature are you?
Midnight crate diggerOne more track. Then home. Probably.SONGHUB / KICK CIRCUS / EN
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SONGHUB PRESENTS · EN · ISSUE 001
Het Gabber Weekblad.
· Week 44 · Next issue: 4 Nov
ENGLISH
Dark nights. Bright kicks.
This week: Saturday, 31 October is Halloween. Cue three tracks: a dark favourite, an unfamiliar discovery and a melody that sounds suspiciously cheerful among the rumble.
A little kick arithmetic: at 200 BPM, one beat lasts 0.3 seconds. Four bars of four beats? Just 4.8 seconds. Enough time to think: “I need that kick again.”
Listening game: pick two tracks at roughly the same playback volume. Follow only the kick first, then the melody. Which combination stays with you? Heavy and melodic can work together; your ears decide.
Looking ahead — playful speculation: somewhere this weekend, a spooky intro will outshine a pumpkin. Or an unexpectedly cheerful melody will. No crystal ball required to give both a chance.
For the hypnotic detour: Cenobite calls its blend psychedelic hardcore, or psycore. Dark hardcore meets breakbeat, tekno, acidcore and psytrance. Start with the label’s own explanation, then let the catalogue bend your route.
Baba says Spider Willem gave him his first real gig at a Mushroom event at Hemkade as a birthday present. His artist profile also records former membership of Point 44: a group connection, not a solo alias.
Broken rhythms, pressure and abrasive textures. PRSPCT is a doorway into music that crosses hardcore, industrial, techno and drum & bass. Follow a release’s artists and credits: the smaller names are often the beginning of the best detour.
08 / ON AIRDano: a deadline before the drop.↳Mokum Records
The record bag contains a press pass.
Mokum Records’ biography places Dano at Amsterdam pirate radio in 1984 and at a youth newspaper two years later. It also credits a Fear Factory T-1000 remix. Radio, writing, metal and hardcore: the connections travel further than the genre label.
03D.O.M.X-Mind / D.O.M.D.O.M. before the solo project.
During a rock-club residency, X-Mind and DJ Fluid played psytrance, drum & bass and hardcore. Together they formed the industrial Frenchcore project D.O.M. before pursuing solo work.
Service charge: zero. Filing charge: zero. Unsolicited opinions: still available at counter 909.
Original archive MP3s, preserved as offered on the old free-download page. These are the archived editions, not new remasters. More from The Phantom · The old shop window
THE PHANTOM / TOBIT / SIDE B
The Massive Attack detour.
120BPM
FF-EX’s introduction to Massive Attack opened another door in The Phantom’s archive. Tobit’s Where the wind blows takes that slower route at 120 BPM. Put it after Kaas’ Gabber or Darkness and listen to the change in mood.
Keep digging through The Phantom’s current releases at TPOTHE.
The tram has eaten the sound system. The dragon has eaten the timetable. Your way back is through the flyers: three real nights from the old event archive.
Take a ticket. Old nights, names scratched into the mixing desk, recordings that made it home.
THE CONDUCTOR HAS LOST THE PLOT
No timetable. Six detours. Every door leads somewhere worth hearing.
04 / RECIPED-Xtreme: the recipe acquired a kickdrum.↳
From cooking school to the studio.
In his artist biography, D-Xtreme credits his cooking-school instructor with introducing him to production software on a CD-ROM. That name on the old flyer has a story beyond the lineup. Kaycie, also on these archived bills, cofounded Strength of Unity: another thread towards Ouwe Stijl.
Kaycie at Route 909, Niro’s CD mix and Xqruciator at RADION. Three recordings from the Ouwe Stijl corner.
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Live at Route 909. Straight from Kaycie’s own upload.
Johnny Napalm. Gone up in smoke. Still in the system.
Songhub / ·
Johnny, this is a very loud postcard from the dancefloor. Your mixes deserve fresh ears, your name deserves another trip around the group chat, and somewhere a perfectly innocent pair of nipples is about to discover Frenchcore.
Where did you disappear to, Mr Napalm? The old sets are still here, doing their best to turn an ordinary afternoon into a deeply impractical one. There is room for another. Consider this your place on the wall.
Van Frenchcore Krijg Je Harde Tepels. Johnny put it right there in the title. Part three is still in the archive, complete with its tracklist. Your T-shirt has been warned.
That title belongs on a terrible embroidered cushion. Next to it: a good pair of speakers and a very bad excuse for staying home. Take the set for a spin; let your nipples file their own review.
His artist biography starts with bedroom DJing in 2010, bookings in 2011 and Megarave Germany in 2012. It also credits closing sets at his first Dominator appearance and the twentieth-anniversary Masters of Hardcore. A bedroom hobby grew some fairly enormous speakers.
The last slot asks something of a DJ. People have given the dancefloor their day, their night and most of their remaining coordination. You get the final chance to send them home with something worth remembering. That is a place in the story worth keeping.
One fan’s 2016 Partyflock memory praises both the dancing and the time he made for a chat, a photograph or a drink. That is a lovely thing to leave behind: someone remembering that the DJ made time for them.
So here is a little appreciation with the bass turned up. For the sets that travelled further than the party. For a sense of humour ridiculous enough to survive on an old mix title. For being a name somebody still wants to pass on.
An hour from the bedroom. A new track. An old tape rescued from a hard drive. If you ever feel like putting something out again, this corner of the record bag would love to hear it. A comeback can begin with pressing play.
Until then, the Dominator podcast is right below. Play it. Send a mate the link with Johnny’s name attached. Mr Napalm, a salute from Songhub: good vibes, a deeply unqualified nipple inspection, and a proper thank you for the music.
Hellbound’s unpolished hardcore history, Rotterdam Terror Corps’ own channels and a Shadowlands Terrorists set published by b2s. Different doors into the harder side: compare the rhythms, the atmosphere and the way a live act works a room.
The anthem you recognise can be the start of a deeper search. Explore Thunderdome’s eras, Dominator’s festival world and Neophyte’s label catalogue. Then trace a favourite producer backwards through releases, remixes and collaborations.
Gizmo’s official timeline includes work at a Hague roller-skating venue in 1983, with hip-hop, breakdance and scratching shaping his approach. Before an anthem becomes a memory, someone has been listening outside the expected aisle.
A French name, an international record bag. Radium and Al Core built Micropoint in France; The Sickest Squad began as Sick Dj Team in Italy in 2000. Different studios found their own way into that hard, rolling rhythm.
The exchange keeps producing records. In 2024, The Sickest Squad joined Dutch producer Deathroar for Now For Real and Radium for Make A Sound Bang. Put those next to the older Micropoint catalogue. The sound has travelled through different hands, and each has left something in the groove.
Eight main editions, from the 2012 farewell to the announced 2026 weekender. Choose a year; the gatherings and interruptions in between have their own place below.
ARCHIVE / 15.12.2012 · RAI, Amsterdam
2012: the final exam was not the final word.
Twenty years of Thunderdome led to The Final Exam at Amsterdam’s RAI on 15 December. It was presented as the farewell. For the people taking those records home, the music still had somewhere to go. The main party disappeared from the calendar; the fans kept meeting, collecting and dancing.
Five years after the farewell, Thunderdome returned to the Jaarbeurs on 28 October for its 25th anniversary. The gap had not erased the audience. Old records, shirts and friendships came back through the doors alongside people making their first Thunderdome memories.
An Ode to the Gabber brought Thunderdome back to Utrecht on 26 October. Dither supplied To The Death, the official anthem. A contemporary Guardian report followed the fans and their attachment to the scene: an anniversary had become a renewed meeting place.
2022: thirty years, after another year of waiting.
The December 2021 party was postponed under coronavirus restrictions. Its tickets remained valid for 10 December 2022, when the Jaarbeurs hosted thirty years of Thunderdome. Keep that missing year in the story: a 2021 compilation exists, but the planned main party did not take place that December.
On 9 December, Xtreme Audio kept Thunderdome in Utrecht. Mad Dog made the anthem of the same name, released in both regular and downtempo versions. Listen to the two approaches before moving on to 2024: the record changes its weight, and the next edition changes the room.
Thunderdome filled Antwerp’s Sportpaleis on 13 and 14 December. OMEGA looked back to early hardcore on Friday; ALPHA looked ahead on Saturday. The visuals had a physical trick: LED panels moved up and down above the crowd, alongside a separate screen shaped like the Thunderdome emblem. You were dancing underneath the show as well as in front of it.
In the December 2024 fan discussion, some visitors remember the friendly crowd and the dancing most vividly. Others mention heat and crowding. The same room leaves different memories; the replies are worth reading alongside the production photos.
On 13 December, Thunderdome returned to the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. Nosferatu & Tha Playah supplied the anthem, Move As One. Across the venue, familiar CD-cover artwork appeared on illuminated fabric and printed scenery. The pictures that once sat beside your stereo had grown large enough to stand under. Print partner CB Print shows how it was made.
The December 2025 review thread includes praise for the music, lights and friendly encounters, alongside complaints about queues and finding the way around. What made your night can be a particular set; what you remember on Monday can also be the queue outside it.
The next edition is announced for 11 and 12 December at AFAS Dome in Antwerp. Friday is ORDER; Saturday is CHAOS. Each night has its own anthem: Unexist & Art of Fighters made ORDER, Catscan & Starving Insect made CHAOS. Both are on Thunderdome’s music page. Play them, compare them, then follow the organiser’s programme for the night you want.
Before the event, the September line-up discussion singled out Drokz’s gabber set and Menace II Society for enthusiastic replies. Other fans debated the mix of styles. A useful question to take into the programme: which set would pull you away from your mates for an hour?
The linked fan threads contain individual memories of 2024 and 2025, and discussion before the 2026 event.
Between the main editions: Die Hard Days, hosted stages and the missing year
2015 / Die Hard Day. 5 December, Melkweg, Amsterdam. The gathering
2016 / Die Hard Day II. 3 December, Amsterdam. The gathering
2018 / Tomorrowland. 22 July, De Schorre, Boom, Belgium. Thunderdome hosted a stage at Tomorrowland, separate from its own main edition. Thunderdome / organiser archive on Partyflock
2018 / Die Hard Day III. 27 October, Warehouse Elementenstraat, Amsterdam. The gathering
2021 / Postponed. The planned 11 December party moved to 10 December 2022. The announcement
2022–2023 / Mysteryland. Thunderdome also appeared as a hosted stage, separate from its own main party. 2022 / timetable · 2023 / archive
2025 / Dominator. A Thunderdome stage was announced for the 18–19 July festival in Eersel. The stage announcement
The selector covers the main editions since 2012. These are selected additional gatherings and stages, rather than every tour or appearance under the name.
02 / STILL ON AIR
Legends and their records.
Artist facts and announcements from the sources as checked on 28 October 2026. Follow the organiser for event details.
01
Drokz
The terror route takes a gabber turn.
The announced Friday programme includes a Drokz gabber set. He is also on Saturday’s official line-up. Same artist, another way into the record bag.
By 28 October 2026, he was announced for ORDER and CHAOS in December. See the organiser for the event details.
On 28 October 2026, Neophyte Records featured Recession (Angerfist Remix) and the Neophyte & Panic collaboration Anthem of Power. The label dates its own story to 1999.
By 28 October 2026, Neophyte was announced for CHAOS on 12 December 2026.
Their CHAOS anthem is the Saturday counterpart to ORDER. The organiser’s October update brings both anthems together on one vinyl, with EPACOT and THUNDERDOOM completing the track list.
Thunderdome’s music page lists both anthems and the four-track release.
The name on the flyer is Da Mouth of Madness. The person behind it is Sietse van Daalen. His artist biography traces the route back to hip-hop crew II Damn Dope with DJ Uzi, before hardcore became their next language. Their first Thunderdome appearance together followed in 1995. That is a useful place to begin: with two people making something happen, long before a familiar voice could carry decades of recognition into a room.
Beyond the stage.
That voice travelled beyond the stage. His own biography places him on TMF Hakkeeh in 1997–98 and on Thunderdome Radio, first at ID&T Radio in 2003–05 and later online from 2006 to 2013. Television, radio, a packed floor: different ways to bring hardcore to people. A night ends; a broadcast reaches someone at home. The connection does not need to happen in the same place for the music to become part of somebody’s life.
The next record.
Old Dog New Trixx takes the microphone onto an album of his own. For another route into the music, his artist site points to Bodybag with Angerfist. Hear what happens when that familiar voice meets the kick. There is another date ahead, too: as checked on 28 October 2026, he was announced to host both Thunderdome nights on 11 and 12 December 2026. That is an announced booking, with the organiser’s details linked below.
Dano, Buzz Fuzz, Gizmo and The Prophet made the original Dreamteam. Here, Da Mouth of Madness joins them on the wall, microphone in hand. Pick a face and give the speakers something to do.
Dano
Dano was playing on Amsterdam pirate radio in 1984. A night dancing at the Roxy drew him into acid house; his Acid Explosion radio show and Mazzo residency followed.
Mark Vos won the Dutch House DJ Championships in 1992. The prize included a release on Midtown Records; later, his own BZRK Records label became another home for the harder sound.
The Dreamteam’s group biography remembers Gizmo as its breakbeat specialist. Alongside Dano’s acid, The Prophet’s melodies and Buzz Fuzz’s harder selections, his broken rhythms gave the four another direction.
Dov Elkabas helped shape both early hardcore and the rise of hardstyle. His catalogue connects those years with Scantraxx releases such as Stampuhh!!, Wanna Play? and From The Hard.
The microphone marks a later chapter. The Dreamteam’s 2013 biography names Da Mouth of Madness as the host of its live shows, alongside Dano, Buzz Fuzz and Gizmo after The Prophet’s departure.
A grin across the room. Somebody pulling their mate forward. Your name on a shirt that starts a conversation. Peter-Paul, you still belong here. There is a place for you in the next record.
The man, the name, the myth, the legend, the memory.
3 Steps Ahead began as a project involving Peter-Paul Pigmans, Rob Fabrie and Ed Bout before Pigmans carried the name forward. He died in 2003. This is a present-day tribute to his lasting place in hardcore.
In a December 2025 fan thread, people describe meeting other fans through 3 Steps Ahead shirts and sharing memories of his records. That sense of recognition is what this corner honours.
3 Steps Ahead has his own tribute above because 2003 falls outside this ten-year period. Bass-D’s death date and the January 2026 public announcement are listed separately in the sources.
SH / 03
BETWEEN THE RECORDS
After the final night.
Losing a room changes a scene. Multigroove’s Elementenstraat parties were shut down in 1993; smaller nights and the Hemkade followed. Thunderdome said farewell in 2012, then returned in 2017. The years between mattered too: people kept the records, organised nights and found each other elsewhere.
A hope for the next decade is more room for smaller nights, unfamiliar producers and the friend who has never heard that old record. An archive can bring people back together. A new track gives them something else to talk about on the way home.
05 / CLOAKROOMOuwe Stijl: the coat knows the way.↳
WAAR IS M’N JAS? · DAARZO!
Where’s my coat? Over there!
The cloakroom and the record room are talking.
Strength of Unity, home of Ouwe Stijl is Botergeil, names Hard-Wear as its official merchandise partner. That is their connection. Here, you choose your own clothes, records and detours.
Strength of Unity grew from a group of friends. Ouwe Stijl is Botergeil keeps that connection to early hardcore on the dancefloor. On the bill for 5 September 2026 at Melkweg: Kaycie, Niro and Xqruciator, alongside a celebration of thirty years of Cenobite Records.
ARMY OF HARDCORERECRUITMENT / ABSOLUTELY UNQUALIFIED909
FIVE QUESTIONS. QUESTIONABLE AUTHORITY.
GABBER TO THE BONE?
Report for your completely unofficial assessment. The recruitment officer is a subwoofer with a clipboard.
SH / A.O.H.)))909BASS DIVISION
FORM 909-B / HUMAN OR SUBWOOFER?
Your knees are your references.
No CV. No dress inspection. Five dilemmas and a stamp from someone who really should not have one.
FIT?UNFIT?THE STAMP WILL DECIDE.
EXAMINER: SUBWOOFER 01
OFFICIAL-LOOKING / ENTIRELY FICTIONAL
SIGNED: THE SUBWOOFER
Make your pick. The bass is waiting.
Your assignment has arrived: three months at a party in Afghanistan. Pick up your gear at the next exit. An educational alternative is available. Allegedly.
A.O.H. / OPERATION: ONE MORE TRACK
Afghanistan. You are on the line-up.
Ninety days of rave. Your first shift is carrying the bass bin. Your last shift is asking whose bass bin this was. The stage manager is a camel wearing ear defenders.
NEXT EXIT COLLECT YOUR GEAR
01 One tracksuit. Rank: permanently damp.
02 Earplugs, water bottle, spare laces.
03 A tent that folds into a subwoofer. Never the other way round.
You teach penguins synchronised hakken and how to direct airport traffic with glow sticks. Your lecturer, Professor Waddle, has eaten the timetable.
🐧🐧🐧909 FM
GRADUATED. YOUR CAMPUS HAS DRIFTED AWAY.
You are stuck on a floating piece of ice. Three penguins. One generator. No steering wheel. The penguins have elected you head of warming the dance floor.
07 / SOURCE CODEChrono: behind the decks, inside the synth.↳
Some producers bring a USB. Others build the machine.
Impact Soundworks identifies Chro-Nyx developer Jasper Broeks as Chrono and describes his programming and Pulsecraft synth development. Music and IT share a workbench here. Curious about making your own sound? Follow the TPOTHE theory link above.
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Buying a track for tonight’s set? Digging for a record you heard years ago? Choose a route below.
One artist’s world. Explore the music and archive; checkout remains in development.
A selection checked against the linked catalogues between 28 October and 1 November 2026. Formats and availability vary by release; confirm them at the source. This is a guide to fit, not a price or quality ranking.
Links lead to independent music sources. ITE project promotions and paid advertisements are labelled separately.
THE SONIC KALEIDOSCOPE
Bend the light. Find your frequency.
Drag through the neon. Turn up the visual weirdness.
Move your pointer or drag. With a keyboard, focus the artwork and use the arrow keys. Motion is optional. No sound, no flashing, just colour.
SIDE B / THREE MORE RECORDINGS
Three more tapes. One last detour.
StonerSteve, D-Chronic and Johnny Napalm. A set, a reggae-Frenchcore track and an official Dominator podcast.
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The old name on the tape. Uploaded by Raging Frequency aka StonerSteve.
Official destinations and legitimate music sources, selected on 28 October 2026. Event details and purchases belong on the organiser’s or shop’s own site. ITE projects are marked; independent listings do not imply a partnership.
ITE HOUSE PROMOTIONS / TAKE A DETOUR
The wall has other plans.
Eight doors into the IT and events family. Pick a flyer. Follow something you did not come here for.
Dune.wtf is being phased out towards 2030. The Chad line is being retired; Biepr is offline. Songhub is this temporary discovery hub, with its own music moving to TPOTHE. Kingdom of Alexia is a portfolio project under construction for a friend.
These are ITE’s own project promotions. Independent scene links above are editorial discoveries, not sponsors.
SH / SPREAD THE SIGNAL
Let the dragon loose. Pass the noise on.
Take a poster for the group chat. Pick an image, copy its caption and give the next gabber a way in.
THE WALL AFTER CLOSING / Make your own propaganda
The dragon ate the advertising budget. You have the posters, the paste and a whole wall. Layer the artwork, drag it around, then take the wall home as a PNG.
Original blue-dragon artwork. Your arrangement. Up to nine posters; nothing is uploaded.
If the wall is unavailable, download the original posters below to make your own collage.
