(AM3) AFTER MIDNIGHT 3 (Sets From The Livestreamed Podcast Festival)

THE HATERS (USA)
If you're a fan of extreme noise The Haters need no introduction. Founded in 1979 they are one of the earliest and most well known in the harsh/experimental noise scene. The group is primarily the work of the Hollywood, California-based media artist, writer, and filmmaker GX Jupitter-Larsen, accompanied by a constantly changing lineup of other "members," usually local experimental musicians and artists in whatever town in which a Haters performance happens to take place.

The Haters have released singles, EPs and albums with everyone and on every label (almost) for 42 years. Their prolific output is matched only by GX Jupitter-Larsen's boundless enthusiasm for the noise scene.

AFTER MIDNIGHT was extremely grateful to host a set by The Haters. A major influence on a few of us here at ENDE Records.

archive.org/details/the-haters-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE OF THE HATERS:

jupitter-larsen.com
noise.jupitter-larsen.com
noisyvideo.com

DUANE BUFORD (USA)
Duane Buford is a Chicago born and based multi-disciplined composer and musician. Best known as a keyboardist and programmer in industrial legends Ministry and The Revolting Cocks (Duane is the vocalist of the title track on Linger Ficken Good).
He has also worked as a studio engineer on countless records for bands like Chemlab and played in a number of bands in the 1980s and 1990s.

Beginning his career as a pianist, he swiftly moved into composing for commercials for some of the giants of the advertising world. His eight years spent with Ministry and Revolting Cocks produced 3 albums and three tours. The 1994 Ministry track “Bad Blood”, recorded for feature film “The Matrix”, was nominated for two Grammy awards, and in 2000, an on-screen performance of their track “What About Us?” featured in Steven Spielberg’s “Artificial Intelligence: A.I”.

Along with a solo EDM album planned for release soon, and his continued composing for video games, documentaries, television and feature films via his company Process, Inc.,

Duane was an admirer of ENDE Records for around 2 years having met Boris Otterdam online through social media. Boris asked him if he'd be interested in playing some of his original music at AFTER MIDNIGHT and he instead offered to do his first ever DJ set.

Recorded exclusively for ENDE Records in his home studio in Chicago. Duane enjoyed the experience so much that he plans to branch into further DJing sets throughout 2021 and 2022.

archive.org/details/full-duane-djset-2020_202009

MORE ON DUANE BUFORD:
duanebuford.com

DEUTSCH NEPAL (Sweden)
Deutsch Nepal is a name synonymous with death industrial and dark ambient music. Beginning in 1991 after leaving the band Njurmännen.
Deutsch Nepal's sound has evolved further and further through his exploration of experimental sounds, deep natural rhythms and ethereal vocals.

Releases on labels such as Europa Cafe, Entartete Musikk, Staalplaat and the infamously influential Cold Meat Industry have made Deutsch Nepal one of the most recognised names in the darker coldwave industrial movement.

This his set for AFTER MIDNIGHT was his first set in almost 3 years. It was absolutely jaw dropping and we were beside ourselves with being fortunate enough to have him grace our podcast festival.

The show doubled as Boris Otterdam's Birthday as well so to have Deutsch Nepal perform with him on that day was something he'll never forget.

The set recorded exclusively for AFTER MIDNIGHT at ENDE Records featured performances of:

To the Earth
Heartbomb
Butterfly
Amygdala
Pasolini
How Low.. (2017 version)
A Silent Siege

archive.org/details/deutsch-nepal-studiolive-2020

MORE DEUTSCH NEPAL:
deutschnepal.bandcamp.com

CARTHAGE (UK)
CARTHAGE (Damian Bennett) is an experimental/industrial producer from the UK. He has had releases on Irritant and Still Heat Recordings and is currently working on his 3rd album due for release later in 2021. He is currently one half of Khost with Andy Swan. He was one of the artists featured on JK Broadrick's Lo Fibre Companion compilation on Invisible Records in 1999.

He has been in a number of bands including Guage, Cortex and Deathless and still performs in 16-17 with Kevin Martin (The Bug/Techno Animal/White Viper/Curse Of The Golden Vampire) and Alex Buess (Ice). 16-17 have had releases on Digital Hardcore Recordings, Pathological and last year Trost Records. Damian also played on Techno Animal's hugely influential 1995 double album "Re-Entry"

Khost being huge supporters of ENDE Records. Damian was excited to play at AFTER MIDNIGHT and created a truly mindblowing live set exclusively for us.

archive.org/details/carthage-mix-update-2020

MORE CARTHAGE:

He recently did a remix for ENDE Records artist Noistruct which you can hear here:

protocorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/peon-dying-star-remix-by-carthage

NERVE (USA)
Nerve is the experimental noise solo project of American musician David Livingstone. Best known as former guitarist for US noise rock monsters Godbullies (playing on their two best records Mama Womb Womb and Dog Show) and currently playing in Teenage Larvae with Kevin Rutmanis of The Cows (and formerly The Melvins) as well as an accomplished studio engineer with credits such as Hammerhead's debut "Ethereal Killer", The Cows "Daddy Has A Tail" and recently the debut for Lord and Lady Kevin.

David is a great fan of ENDE Records and Noistruct and enjoyed the opportunity to play his solo noise live on a Podcast to a totally different audience. Boris is likewise a great fan of David's work and a noise rock fanatic in general.

archive.org/details/nerve-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE ABOUT DAVID LIVINGSTONE HERE:
www.discogs.com/artist/401418-David-B-Livingstone

XYLOCAINE (Australia)

Australian industrial hardcore master, found sound weirdo, broken beat basher and noise annoyer Xylocaine is most well known as one third of the influential Australian industrial hardcore pioneers Nasenbluten on Bloody Fist Records but since 1995 has made more of a name for himself as Xylocaine through some truly impressive 12" releases and cassettes on his own label Dead Girl, Bloody Fist Records, Strike Records and Terror Noize Industry to name a few.

He also has a few other project pseudonyms such as Data and Exmah. The latter he contributed a track to the Senza Misura series on ENDE Records in 2015 (The first label outside Deadgirl or Bloody Fist Exmah had contributed to)

Xylocaine is one of the few fisters still releasing albums and still occasionally playing live and definitely one of the most unique and creative producers in Australia.

As one of the prime influences of Noistruct. Getting him to play a set for AFTER MIDNIGHT was a dream come true.

archive.org/details/xylocaine-live-at-after-midnight-3

Xylocaine recently remixed a track for Noistruct which you can hear here:

protocorerecords.bandcamp.com/track/seeds-of-dissent-remix-by-xylocaine

MORE XYLOCAINE:
thestableofcrap.bandcamp.com/music

HYPERDRIVER (UK)
Hyperdriver is a breakcore/hardcore/power electronics/noise producer from the UK. A pioneer of the UK breakcore scene with 25+ years experience and releases on dozens of labels including Beergut Recordings, D-Trash Records, ENDE Records and Legs Akimbo to name a few.

Hyperdriver is the multi-genre electronic project of Steve Munslow, a prolific artist and remixer. The project specialises in aggressive, Noisy, weird and distorted sounds; mainly in speedcore, digital hardcore, powernoise and other things of that ilk.

archive.org/details/hyperdriver-after-midnight-3-set

MORE HYPERDRIVER:
www.hyperdriver.co.uk

NOISTRUCT (Australia)
West Australian old school breakcore and hardcore! Over 20 years in the worldwide scene with more than 80 releases on dozens of labels including Sonicterror Recordings and Viral Conspiracy and his own label ENDE Records! Old school distorted breakbeats, warped samples and overdriven basslines!

archive.org/details/noistruct-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE NOISTRUCT:
protocorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/pc06-noistruct-neopagan

LOW ENTROPY (Germany)
Breakcore, Doomcore Pioneer and old school hardcore legend Low Entropy needs no introduction. With over 20 years in the worldwide scene he has influenced countless producers and released seminal records on labels such as Kougai, Widerstand, Praxis and Black Monolith as well as reknown web labels in later years such as ENDE Records, Legs Akimbo and Viral Conspiracy. Low Entropy is notorious for his themed DJ mixes and will present one for us at AFTER MIDNIGHT

archive.org/details/low-entropy-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE LOW ENTROPY:
www.facebook.com/lowentropycore/

MIDI FISTER (USA)
Midi Fister is a breakcore/chipcore/industrial producer based in Texas. An old school fool he's been around in various US breakcore scenes and has had releases on Streetscape and D-Trash Records as well as a few compilation appearances in the late 2000s. He hadn't played in quite some time when AFTER MIDNIGHT asked him to. But his set remained one of the most memorable easily.

archive.org/details/midi-fister-live-at-after-midnight-3

MATT BLEAK (Australia)
Matt Bleak is a hardcore/breakcore/noise producer from Melbourne Australia. Known for starting the infamous CRACK Parties with Doc Ross in 2009 and the highly influential Night Terror Recordings Web Label which ran from 2008 until 2014. Matt Bleak has had dozens of releases on labels such as Legs Akimbo, Viral Conspiracy and Threshold Driven.

archive.org/details/matt-bleak-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE MATT BLEAK:
viralconspiracyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/matt-bleak-final-church

PASTEL BOI (USA)
Sleazy Vaporwave, greasy handed funk and Sad Boi ambiguous trap music. Pastel Boi is a project by Scott Dryman he of Crippling Self Doubt. Sort of like The Jackofficers or The Residents for the Xanax Generation.

archive.org/details/pastel-boi-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE PASTEL BOI:
scottdrymanforever.bandcamp.com/album/pastel-boi-gay-for-pay

AUDIO CEPHLON (Australia)
Audio Cephlon is a dark electronic/IDM producer from Perth Western Australia and one half of the band Omni Noir.
Audio Cephlon has been producing since the 90s and once ran the WA label Kieper Records which also had music by Jaek and Modular of Graylands Music and also ENDE Records.

Audio Cephlon has released a number of releases on Finnish web label Kahvi Collective and recently teamed up with Boris Otterdam to create the side project "Defacto".

He's done a few remixes as well for artists such as The Black Captain (RIP) at Hardline Rekordingz and Noistruct.

archive.org/details/after-dark-set-audio-cephlon

MORE ON AUDIO CEPHLON:
www.discogs.com/artist/203363-Audio-Cephlon

MONAD (UK)
One of the best and weirdest speedcore and hardcore bastards in the UK is Monad. An artist we always wanted to get for ENDE but never managed to catch.
Monad has had some impressive records on Legs Akimbo, Deadpixel and Braincore Records.

These days he's mostly playing bass in his band so we were lucky to get him for a set at AFTER MIDNIGHT.

archive.org/details/monad-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE MONAD:
legsakimborecords.bandcamp.com/album/legs-recs-010-self-obliterated-nihilism

CATDOG (USA)
US breakcore/hardcore producer Catdog has been a fixture in the US breakcore scene for over a decade now.
A staunchly antifascist old school break warrior and defender of social injustices. When not producing or spending time with his family he is often volunteering or organising for his community.

Catdog has had a slew of unapologetically politically charged releases out over the last 5 years in particular including the EP "Resisting Arrest" his debut for ENDE "Fucking Docile" and the brilliant "Escape From America"
Catdog knows that there's never a time when politics and the dancefloor don't mix because they're always one and the same. That being said he doesn't fuck around when it comes to old school rap sampled hardcore and frenetic jungle and breakbeat chaos. When he hits the stage the dancefloor fills quickly.

archive.org/details/ende-stream-set-08-01-2020

MORE CATDOG HERE:
enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende235-catdog-fucking-docile

LAXENANCHAOS (Japan)
Laxenanchaos is a producer of what they call "emotional acid artcore" and has been making a splash in the breakcore scene for the last few years now with a string of self released albums followed by albums on Cock Rock Disco and Suck Puck Records.

Their first time playing with or collaborating with ENDE Records they were very enthusiastic when we told them about AFTER MIDNIGHT and their set had some of the best feedback on the day.

archive.org/details/laxenanchaos-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE LAXENANCHAOS:
anybodyuniverse.bandcamp.com

KROBATT (UK)
Krobatt is an abstract glitch noise, breakcore and hardcore producer from the UK. Quickly getting a reputation for his obscure sound design and unique break assemblies! He also runs the label Feed Me Glass Records which recently released a compilation "Generation Low" available now

archive.org/details/krobatt-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE KROBATT:
feedmeglassrecords.bandcamp.com/album/generation-low

MANIFESTEVIL (Australia)
Manifestevil is a breakcore/IDM/glitchcore/hardcore/black noise producer and visual artist from Bankstown Sydney Australia.

Beginning in the early 2000s with live digital and analogue equipment and tracker software. His music is influenced heavily by horror, splatter films, monster movies and Hitchcockian suspense as well as black metal and the occult.
Many producers sample horror but Manifestevil wasn't just interested in taking sample grabs of famous horror villain quotes. It was the score and the sound work that intrigued him the most. Like a hardcore Argento. He learned to harness distorted breakbeats and noise by juxtaposing it against the impending dread and almost silences used to grip audiences in film. The way orchestras and strings and repetitive single piano notes were used to build suspense and then just as easily create heart pounding terror.

This restrained approach to creating tracks forces punters to not just listen to throwaway breakbeat and cut up samples. But rather short sound creations that have a particular aesthetic. There's as much Ennio Morricone, Goblin and Bernard Herrmann in his music, as there is Doormouse, Venetian Snares and Shizuo.

Aside from the mystique and craftsmanship of film score and suspense soundtracks. Manifestevil is also a great fan of the schlock and cheap splatter and effects of 70s, 80s and 90s horror films.
Live he would often stalk his equipment while wearing a blood splattered labcoat and homemade mask and brandishing a knife. This often delighted and intrigued Sydney warehouse punters who witnessed this. A great fan of the schlocky side of metal and punk like White Zombie and The Misfits he may also start throwing metal mashups and repeating shrieks and scream loops at punters who think they may have him figured out.

When not producing electronic music. He can also be found playing guitar in metal bands and creating black and white physical artwork or digital horror themed visual creations.

archive.org/details/manifestevil-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE MANIFESTEVIL:
enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende19-manifestevil-dead-but-not-buried-unearthed-relics

ETDEVAGINA (Brazil)
Etdevagina (who's name is a play on a famous Brazilian politician) has been producing his own take on old school dark and heavy breakcore and darkstep for over 5 years now.

archive.org/details/etdevagina-set-for-after-midnight-3

MORE ETDEVAGINA:
enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende233-etdevagina-setor-bruto

BLOODCLOT (USA)
Bloodclot is a young ragga junglist breakcore producer from California. After a handful of EPs on Core Collective Records, ENDE Records and one self released. He recently self released his first long player which is full of ragga jungle kickdrum breakcore and jaw dropping dark dnb stompers.

This was his first live appearance on a Podcast and was 90 minutes of foot to the floor high tempo breakbeats. A real highlight of the night!

archive.org/details/bloodclot-live-at-after-midnight-4

MORE BLOODCLOT:
bloodclotmusic.bandcamp.com/album/from-within-vol-1

DARK MATTER PROJECT (Chile)
Dark Matter Project is a darkstep doom junglist project from Chile by expat Australian hardcore/breakcore producer Luciano Zepeda who started the Filth Sound System in Sydney in the 2000s and later was part of KWS (Killerwatts Sound Systems).
Dark Matter Project slows down and strips the traditional format of jungle and darkstep to create a bare skeleton of perverse and morbid low ended slow breakbeat nightmares.

archive.org/details/aftermid-3

MORE DARK MATTER PROJECT:
protocorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/pc04-dark-matter-project-replicants

MARAUD (USA)
Doom/Noise with a Native American flavour from Montana USA

archive.org/details/maraud-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE MARAUD:
maraud.bandcamp.com

NULL HYPOTHESIS (Australia)
Null Hypothesis is an Australian powernoise, harsh noise and industrial hardcore producer from Melbourne. Her live sets have become renowned for their brutal distortion tempered by dark ambience and subversive undertones.

archive.org/details/null-hypothesis-live-at-after-midnight-3

DJ LIMBO
DJ Limbo is one of the resident DJs at Digital Gabba Radio. He also runs the event "We Are Gabbas" for them.

archive.org/details/dj-limbo-live-at-after-midnight-3

HERSENEROSIE (Netherlands)
Hersenerosie is a speedcore/extratone hardcore producer from the Netherlands who also works as a multimedia writer. He's had releases on Legs Akimbo, Gutter Cvnt, Splatter-Kore Reckords to name a few.

This was his first podcast set for AFTER MIDNIGHT and ushered in the start of some of the harder and crazier sets of the night

archive.org/details/hersenerosie-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE FROM HERSENEROSIE:
guttercvnt.bandcamp.com/album/joint-to-the-hip

HELLCREATOR (Netherlands)
Hellcreator began in 2010 as a Frenchcore&Terror Artist but
things took another direction and started to Produce his own.

Hardcore-Techno,Breakcore,Terror & Speedcore.since end 2012.
His First Release was in 2013 what was released on Cassette at
the Death by Hardcore label Thnx to Vague_Entity.

In the summer of 2014 he Joined the Saw Blade Records Crew.
in may 2015 he decided he wanted to go his own way and left Saw Blade Records
Next to that he Started his own Free Label Called "The Goth Chronicles"

Ritchie has his own style when it comes to Hardcore
He takes some Breakcore influences and put it together mostly with Terror or Hardcore-Techno
He also Produces Speedcore Sometimes

archive.org/details/2020-07-25-12h-37m-27s-0-hellcreator-after-midnight-3

MORE HELLCREATOR:
enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende138-hellcreator-dont-devour-the-artist-ep

PRESSTERROR (Germany)
Pressterror is more than a speedcore, extratone "suizidcore" producer. He's a self promoting architect of his own scene and his own music subculture that he calls "drrrrr" named after the speed of the kicks.

Usually playing live in a pigmask and blood splattered hazard suit. Pressterror is renowned for a lot of things but mostly his gruesome stage show, overt enthusiasm and excitement for his own music and attacking hardcore crowds with it like a pigmasked escapee from a lunatic asylum manning a gatling gun loaded with kickdrums and driving in a stolen tank.

Pressterror has a couple of residencies including Toxic Sickness, Power Of Techno, Core Nation Germany, Ultrasonic Events Germany and Kurrupt Recordings UK.

Rumoured to play to anywhere up to 1000 plus people a show. His performances are legendary and once even caught the attention of Vice Magazine. Pressterror's ecstacy is your pain...unless you like extratone and "drrr" and can handle it at 1000bpm at 110db for 3 hours.

well let's test that theory...here's Pressterror's set which we left til early morning on the bill ;)

archive.org/details/pressterror-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE PRESSTERROR:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressterror

EROHYPNOS (UK)
Beyond darkstep and breakcore. Enter the cinematic world of Erohypnos.

Erohypnos has been a mainstay at ENDE Records since 2015. A master breakcore producer who enjoys exploring a wide array of subject matter to entertain his whims. Now the captain of UK label Sunhole Records in 2019 he branched into the more legit American market on a split with Noistruct on Sonicterror Recordings.

AFTER MIDNIGHT 3 was his secondt live performance anywhere but would never be his last.

archive.org/details/erohypnos-live-at-after-midnight-2-june-2020_202008

MORE EROHYPNOS:
enderecords.bandcamp.com/album/ende270-erohypnos-droneskin

BORIS OTTERDAM (Australia)
The Bossman of ENDE Records. Decided at the last minute to do an ultimate tribute to Australian influence and once Mentor Toecutter.

archive.org/details/toecutter-tribute-after-midnight-august-1st

DJ BUTTBABY (USA)
US DJ, sometime producer, lover of the core and archivist of fucked up music. DJ Buttbaby has been spinning tracks and making themed mixes and bending over backwards to promote and support the worldwide breakcore scene for more than a decade. A master DJ and mixer. This was his first AFTER MIDNIGHT set which followed mixes he did for ENDE Records a few years ago.

archive.org/details/djbuttbaby-after-midnight-3-breakcore-set

Q24 (USA)
Once known as Greezus. Q24 is a breakcore producer, hardcore DJ and noise terrorist from the old definition. From a basement somewhere in middle AMerikka they wield analogue and digital weapons alike to create some incredible multi layered noisescapes and harsh, grating scores for a film that's too weird to make yet.

archive.org/details/q-24-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE Q24:
protocorerecords.bandcamp.com/album/pc05-q24-alcoholic-nihilism-superpower


CRACK LIPS (Australia)
Crack Lips is a young breakcore producer from the Ultravirus crew in Sydney. His modern style of slick plunderphonic mashup breakcore had a few heads bobbing in the ENDE office on the day.

After a callout and gauntlet throwdown by a new breed of Sydney producers sick of the lacklustre party scene in Sydney in local print media. We contacted them to offer our support and after listening to a number of their releases. Invited Crack Lips to come and play with us. It turned out it was his first set!

archive.org/details/crack-lips-live-at-after-midnight-3

DJ SKEIN (Australia)
DJ Skein was another last minute drop in. Perth born breakcore and IDM producer who's style is inspired by the early 2000s warped noise and pop antimusic scene of producers like 7U?, Vvm and Jansky Noise.

He was keen to play a set and had a breakcore IDM set he'd been working on he wanted to show us. Late in the evening. His skills as a mixer were presented to the world. A highly skilled beat juggler for abstract rhythms and offtime bass and beats in the vein of DJ Arse n All and Misconceptian.

this is one you'll be flogging a few times.

archive.org/details/dj-skein-live-at-after-midnight-3

MORE DJ SKEIN:
soundcloud.com/djskein

SOUL SCIENTIST (USA)
Soul Scientist aka Ras Edward was a brilliant breakcore producer and DJ from the USA. Head honcho for Coma Recordz one of the biggest multi genre web labels in the US.

This is a set he recorded for AFTER MIDNIGHT 3 he also did one for AFTER MIDNIGHT 4 which sadly would be his last. As he passed away in October 2020. Much like DJ Skein the mixing skills on display are something to behold but the set presented here is of a much more rougher and harder old school vibe.

archive.org/details/soul-scientist-live-at-after-midnight-3