Hardcore, Breakcore, noistruct Boris Otterdam
OTTERDAM INFLUENCES PART 4: BEYOND THE THUNDERDOME

PART 4: BEYOND THE THUNDERDOME

I've actually made about 20 of these and I'm picking and choosing the ones that work the most. I'm going to upload them periodically from time to time. They're totally self indulgent but I'm older now so a lot more reflective on how music has effected me. Listen or don't.

• While living out of home for the first time in 1997, in a flat in Peninsula Rd. Maylands in Perth with an old childhood friend. I was mostly driving my housemate insane with constantly playing ATR. One of his friends heard me playing it one day and said "ah that's just gabber". Not nowing what gabber is he offered to show me.
  I ended up getting a lift with him on a pizza route one day. He was a pizza delivery man. In a tiny, beaten up hatchback, he would snort speed off his dash, drive a million miles an hour through Maylands and North Perth and deliver pizzas. Windows down due to being summer and the car barely held together die to the speed he went at, let alone the massive volume of 909 kick drums blaring out of the door speakers and shaking the windows violently.
  He explained to me that gabber and hardcore techno was the "bastard son of house". The idea being to use distortion and velocity to break heads beyond just creating dancefloor tunes.
  His glovebox was full of 2 and 3 cd compilations of "Thunderdome" and other titles I can't remember that were adorned with garishly, bright, glowing skulls and flames and dodgy Rob Liefeld type comic cover rip off cover art. Skulls, flames, demons. guns seemed to be the recurring theme.
  Aside from the exhiliration of listening to this insane smashing techno shit while racking rails of dexies off of a sun cracked Barina dashboard. It was hilarious watching him deliver pizzas with the gabber still blaring out of his windows while he stood on someone's doorstep and made his delivery.
  He offered to make me a tape of his favourite gabber tracks and I gave him some blank cassettes and he filled them up within a few days. On those compilations were Quindoor's "Full Energy Flash" still my favourite gabber track and Delta 9 and Speedfreak.
  When I first started producing, gabber and hardcore was a huge influence on me. A lot of it was very simple and heavy on impact. It was easy to read and pull apart to see how it worked.
  "D and F - Tonight You Sleep In Hell" I first heard on the old RTRFM goth/industrial radio show "Darkwings" in early 1998.

QUINDOOR - FULL ENERGY FLASH
SPEEDFREAK - THE DOCTOR IS BACK
DOA - YA MUTHA
D AND F - TONIGHT YOU SLEEP IN HELL
DELTA 9 - WATCH YOUR BACK
HELLFISH AND THE PRODUCER - NO MORE ROCK N ROLL
LEATHERNECKS - SCHAIIEESSSEEE
TURBULENCE - 6 MILLION WAYS TO DIE
ANSCENIC - CLICK CLICK CHOP CHOP
ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE - OBJECT OF A RAVE
HYDRAUL1K - DEATH TO HARDCORE
DEADLOCK - CANCER
MORBUS - SHOTDOG
556A - UGLY MILITA WHORE
RYBACKER - WANKER
DISLASYSTEM - WHAT I MEANT TO SAY
MANIFESTEVIL - SLAUGHTERYARD ROAD
HATENOIZE - A GOOD DAY TO DIE
DIMFIGURE - MURDER
STOYK - XXX
EPO VS THE FILTH - HAUNTED HOUSE
TOECUTTER - HONG KONG HO
RANK SINATRA - CHRISTMAS DUET WITH BRITNEY
DJ MANSON - GHETTO ENVY
SCRUTS WITH GUNS - DENTAL HAIR
COMPOSITE OF NEGATIVES - KARMIC DISASTER
MISANTHROPE - DARKNESS