12 Jun 2025
Releases:
Rawsome (5th Anniversary Edition)

Since it’s 5 years ago that Rawsome, my collaboration EP with Moleculez was released, I decided to celebrate its anniversary by sharing it on my own Bandcamp with a nice discount that might be interesting for those of you who didn’t have this release yet.

As a bonus for the people who buy the full release, I included all the extra loudness versions that we received when DJ Hidden mastered our tracks: the dynamic versions with minimal compression, and the extra loud versions that have been notched up a few extra decibels if you care about the ‘loudness wars’.

Get Rawsome (5th Anniversary Edition) on Bandcamp:
https://mentalwreckage.bandcamp.com/album/rawsome

16 Jan 2025
Releases:
New track released on Dark Descent

DDRS015. Various Artists – R​​​​​​​ō​​​​​​​nin 十五

Don’t worry, no self-absorbed marketing bullshit – there’s too much of that already. Just enjoy my brand new track ‘Uprising’ (under new alter ego: Upr0ar), play it loud & destroy dancefloors! Or your cousin’s wedding.

Tracklist:
01. Upr0ar – Uprising
02. Autist – Acid Samurai
03. Murmuur – Strange
04. Ronove – Shadow Self

Now available on the new Rōnin EP @ Dark Descent.
For more info & links, go to the Releases page.

** Update 7 March:
This release is now also available on most streaming platforms & digital shops!

05 Oct 2024
Livesets & Podcasts:
Tribute Mix for Mindustries Yuri †

As I hinted last week on my Symp.tom and Mental Wreckage socials; I made a special tribute (mega)mix for a fallen comrade.

Originally, Yuri van Vlijmen from Mindustries was supposed to do October’s edition of my Kapotcast mix series. Tragically, as most of you know by now, he passed away last summer in June. And since Yuri was also a very old friend of mine (even before we both were active musicians), it couldn’t be more fitting to dedicate that edition to filling some of that void with the very essence of his legacy.

This mix is more than just a playlist – it’s a showcase & time capsule of Yuri’s impressive music career, featuring ALL of his released tracks, collaborations, and remixes (both solo and with Nils, his Mindustries partner in crime).

I’ve put quite some time & work in this mix, and it was also kind of grief therapy for me. So this is for you, Yuri. Farewell old friend – may your music and memory live on forever.

This megamix is almost 2 hours long and can be streamed at the following platforms:

28 Nov 2023
Bookings:
I’m playing at Oldschool Madness!

MC Syco will be celebrating his 30 year music career with a banger of a party in my hometown Hengelo, with a massive line-up.

And I’m proud to announce that I’m on it as well! Yes, you read that correctly – I’ll be returning from my ‘retirement’ and will get behind the decks one more time to play some industrial shit.

I hope to see as many of you as possible in February! ????

Oldschool Madness – 30 Years of MC Syco
Date: Feb 10, 2024
Time: 21:00 – 06:00
Location: Empire New York, Hengelo (NL)

Some other artists on this (very large) line-up are names like Angerfist, Ruffneck, Furyan, Vince, Negative A, Nosferatu, Crypsis, Shadowlands Terrorists, The Vinyl Junk, T-Junction, Cemon Victa and Basic Grooves.

For more detailed info about this music event, visit the following links on Facebook or Partyflock.

04 Oct 2023
Release Facts:
Release Fact #06: Wandering in the Dark

Although most of my material can be considered monotone, dark and harsh, I do like to use melodic elements & melodies from time to time (whenever I think it fits the mood of the track).

Wandering in the Dark was made in 2014 and actually originated as the second half of another (still unreleased) track, was finished in 2017 and released in 2020 on Ophidian’s Meta4 label.

The track’s title, was taken from the video game “The Witcher 3” – it’s the name of a playable mission. It just sounded badass and I really wanted to use it. The voice samples are from another video game as well – Mad Max (2015).

Additional fun fact: I used a short fragment of Madonna‘s song “Frozen”, edited it to make it unrecognizable and used it as a percussive loop in this track. It amuses me to do all sort of stuff as a reference (that nobody will ever notice besides myself, lol).