Always good to get more distro for our pressed D-TRASH Records CDs, now distributing our releases in North America, is the fine lads from grindcore/metal/eclectic label/distro CRUCIAL BLAST, who's most awesome webstore you can find @ www.crucialblast.net.  Here's what CDs they've got and what they have to say about em:


CONTRA Enter The Winter CD
D-Trash
 

Along with the new Atari Teenage Riot tribute-comp CD The Virus Has Been Spread, we've picked up some of the harder releases from the diverse D-Trash back catalog, which at it's loudest features ferocious DIY digital hardcore and gabba violence that fans of brutal beat-driven electronics and metal-infused industrial should definitely be checking out. One of these is Enter The Winter, an 11-track album from Canada's Contra, whose brutal, breakcore-infected soundscapes layer eerie luminous drones, loops of orchestral strings, and caustic harsh noise over deep bass tones and crushing heavily distorted breakbeats. The beats are very distinctive...instead of working samples of the classic "Amen" break that serves as the cornerstone of so much breakcore stuff, Contra creates his own complex rhythmic patterns that veer many of these tracks into a weird Aphex Twin/hip hop/industrial/gabba/blast realm. Fast paced attacks of electronic distress are chopped up and vomited back up into a bloody cyberpunk hallucination...very cool.
 
 

SCHIZOID All Things Are Connected CD
D-Trash
 

We've added a bunch of new and old titles from D-Trash this week; for those that aren't familiar with the long-running Canadian label, D-Trash started up in the late '90s as sort of a North American answer to Digital Hardcore Enterprises and has released a host of stuff that spans the more damaged realms of breakcore and digital hardcore. D-Trash label boss Schizoid hand-picked some of the label's harder releases for us, and one of the heaviest of the bunch is Schizoid's very own full length All Things Are Connected. Blending together a harsh, hateful hybrid of aggressive distorted breakbeats, black metal influences, and drug-trip sample loops, this is a crushing blackened gabba assault that sounds like a much more metallic cousin to Realicide's DIY gabba/noise/grind, with a similiar tendency towards furious, anti-corporate ranting and primal aggression. Man, this is total mayhem - fast-paced, distorted breaks head off in multiple directions, while Schizoid emits an equally distorted and evil black metal croak, shrieking over dense soundfields of collaged black metal guitars, blastbeats, looped samples, drones, weird pop culture references. Yeah, this is easily the heaviest, fiercest stuff on D-Trash that I've heard, a brutal assault of fractured black metal, creepazoid ambience, and ironclad gabber destruction, like Agoraphobic Nosebleed, Venetian Snares, Burzum, Mayhem, and Atari Teenage Riot smashed together into bloody, hypnotic breakbeat apocaylpse.
 

UNITUS Cross Contamination CD
D-Trash
 

Next to Schizoid, this has to be some of the heaviest shit in the D-Trash catalog. Unitus' Cross Contamination opens with a massively distorted guitar riff that's swallowed up by powerdrill breakbeats and a heavy coat of distortion on everything, launching into a kind of industrial club metal charged with buzzing feedback, gritty noise, and brutal levels of distortion. The beats are pulverizing, rumbling like the grind of deathmachines out of a furnace of formless noise, a perfect audio manifestation of the Soviet Bloc artillery featured in the album's propaganda poster-style art. Beat-heavy doesn't even cover it - these jams are SKULLCRUSHING. Unitus welds the breaks together with sheet metal and steel bolts and lets them cruise through a battlefield of thick, distorted ambient drone swirl, monstrous industrial doom riffs, and rumbling low frequency noise, super hypnotic and trance inducing, but inexorably crunchy and crushing, like Godflesh doing ultra blown-out drum n' bass industro dirge splattered with surreal samples and dreamy machine whirr. This is alot different from anything else on D-Trash, but it's my favorite release alongside Schizoid's awesome black metal-meets-breakcore riot All Things Are Connected. And check out the final "hidden" track for a fucking awesome electro-dirge jam that sounds like something off of Ministry's Twitch album but a hundred times heavier. Highly recommended!!
 

VARIOUS ARTISTS Rising Tide CD
D-Trash (Canada)
 

We've got some great stuff in this week from the Canadian label D-Trash, a mix of both new and old stuff that fans of extreme electronica and brutal gabber/breakcore action are going to wanna take a big bite out of. And this heavy compilation of exclusive tracks from the D-Trash camp is probably one of the best places to start for anyone new to the sound and looking for a loaded mixtape of what those mutants at D-Trash and their affiliates are doing. Essentially acting as the North American arm of Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore label, D-Trash has compiled a small army of artists on this disc including Unitus, Schizoid, Contra, Exist, Nocore, CPUWar, Knar, The Bureau De Chnage, Stunt Rock, DHC Meinhof, Ambassador 21, Zymotic, and Asure. All of the jams on this disc are great, but my personal favorites are Schizoid's crusty Burzum-meets-Atari Teenage Riot blackened breakcore and his fiery anarchopunk ranting, Unitus' crushing metallic breakbeat doom, the hyperkinetic gabba cutups of Contra, CPUwar's ultra distorted techno, and DHC Meinhof's awesome fusion of melodic anarchopunk and harsh digital blastcore. It's a stellar lineup across the board though, and any fan of the noisiest, heaviest, fastest breeds of electronica will blow their top over this orgy of extreme breakbeat action.
 

VARIOUS ARTISTS The Virus Has Been Spread : A Tribute To Atari Teenage Riot CD
D-Trash (Canada)
 

The newest release from the long running Canadian label D-Trash is a tribute compilation to Atari Teenage Riot, and there's probably no other label better suited to curate a collection of artists ready to pay homage to the masters of digital hardcore than D-Trash. They've basically been a North American arm of the DHR label since the label came into being in the late '90's, and D-Trash artists like Schizoid and Unitus have been featured on DHR compilations and released through the DHR imprint. So here we are, seven years after Atari Teenage Riot ceased operations, and D-Trash takes stock of the current state of hardcore techno/gabber/speed metal techno with this 16-track compilation that features Schizoid, Rabbit Junk, Howard Roark, Zymotic, Unitus, CTRLER, NOCORE, The Secret Life Of Teenage Girls, Phallus Uber Alles, Hercklekot, Cyanotic and The Phoeron each doing a version of a classic ATR track. Most of the renditions here stick pretty close to the originals, just ratcheting up the noise and speed levels when they can, and some of this shit is the fastest speed metal/techno I've ever heard. Some of the standouts: Howard Roark's version of "No Remorse (I Wanna Die)", which was a collaboration between ATR and Slayer that appeared on the soundtrack for the movie Spawn; his version is appropriately shredding, complete with maniacal Araya style yelling blasting through a distorted megaphone; Schizoid, who we can always rely on for sheer blasting blackened breakbeat mayhem, drops a scorching buzzsaw cover of "The Future Of War". And Unitus slows "Death Star" down into a crushing dirge that sounds like a breakbeat-heavy Godflesh being sucked into a black hole. And this compilation also works well as a introduction to the speed-metal infested digital hardcore underground, as most of these tracks rip mightily, fusing fierce distorted breakbeat action to speed/thrash metal guitars and gobs of vicious electronic noise.

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