Release Facts is a series of funny stories / anecdotes about some of my released material that I posted on my socials through the years. This one is about Neural Framework, released on Symp.tom 10.

This track was originally planned to be released under the alias ‘Empty Shell‘, since it felt somewhat like a detour from my usual style. By the time the other tracks of Symp.tom 10 were ready, I eventually decided to stick to just one name and put it on the same release as Mental Wreckage.

Years later, Neural Framework would be remixed by a certain American hardcore/techno artist who loved this track (*cough* who likes to Break the Rules *cough*), but those plans were cancelled after the sudden demise of the Symp.tom label in 2011. Since the rights of the entire label’s back-catalogue were sold to another party, all legal stuff regarding any Symp.tom tracks would only give us a major headache. But who knows what the future will bring.

Release Facts is a series of funny stories / anecdotes about some of my released material that I posted on my socials through the years. This one is about Rawk & Roll, released on Symp.tom 13.

Some musicians give their tracks a title based on the movie sample(s) they use in it. Moleculez and I did exactly the opposite here. Bartosz already came up with “Rawk & Roll” as title. But the “this is rock & roll” movie sample was a last-minute addition of mine before we sent the track away for mastering, because I watched ‘The Glimmer Man‘ that week and found that that quote fit in just perfectly!

And yes, even though it’s covered in layers of distortion; that’s Steven Seagal‘s voice. Despite what many people say, I still think he’s a badass.

By the way, this was a very awesome collaboration project to work on – Moleculez and I both enjoyed working on this one a lot!

Release Facts is a series of funny stories / anecdotes about some of my released material that I posted on my socials through the years. This one is about Secret Government, released on Symp.tom 10.

Originally, this track was intended to be a collaboration with Frank from The Outside Agency. I made the first beginnings and then we would exchange it and work on it in turns. However, at the time he was still pretty busy with other projects so it would have to wait a few weeks before he could work on it. Since I was boiling with inspiration at the time I decided to work ahead, doing just a little more each time.

Eventually I ended up doing such a large portion of the concept, arrangement & structure of this track that it was almost complete in itself anyway, so I finished it and let it remain a solo track. It was one of the fastest times that I produced a track; just a little more than a week. It felt really good to have that amount of inspiration & ideas. It just kept coming and coming – the ‘flow’ felt almost as if the track wrote itself.

For those wondering; the spoken samples (“the secret government” and “a plague to end all plagues”) are from the movie ‘X-Files: Fight the Future‘. And yes, there’s a specific reason for why I used those samples & title.

Release Facts is a series of funny stories / anecdotes about some of my released material that I posted on my socials through the years. This one is about Salvation Within Death, released on Symp.tom 10.

I came up with the first ideas of this track when I was lurking around on the producer forum at Partyflock.nl, somewhere in 2007. Some guys started a topic about who could make the most brutal hardcore kickdrums and were being all macho about their results. I listened to some fragments that were posted and to be honest I wasn’t really impressed. I figured I could do that better, so I went to work for a few days until I managed to create some results that were satisfying enough for me.

Combined with a pretty pissed-off mood during that time, I think it turned out to be pretty nice in the end. And yes, being a jerk sometimes motivates me. 😉