10 Jul 2009
Bookings, Livesets & Podcasts, Releases:
Nightmare Outdoor 2009 – The Live Sets

The new Nightmare Outdoor liveset CD has just been released on Rotterdam Records. It features my recorded set from the Symp.tom area (Industrial Hardcore) on Disc 3.

Tracklist:
01. Armageddon Project & Promo – Righteous Infliction of Retribution
02. Mental Wreckage – Salvation within Death
03. N-Vitral – Binck
04. Armageddon Project & Promo – Diamonds for the Pigs
05. Peaky Pounder – Viimeinen
06. Moleculez – Morning Has Broken
07. The Outside Agency – Dark Serenity
08. Tieum & Laser Chaser – People Kill People
09. Moleculez & Mental Wreckage – Consumed by Corpses
10. Rude Awakening – Means to An End
11. The Outside Agency & Ruffneck – Waste of Humanity
12. Tieum – Tresso
13. Mindustries – Beat the System
14. Mental Wreckage – Secret Government
15. Ruffneck & Sei2ure – Armorgeddon
16. Wedlock & Comababy – Void Sector (Assault Remix by Nosferatu)
17. Sei2ure – Rocket Fuel

Available at the Mid-Town online shop!

06 Mar 2009
Bookings:
Symp.tom Area at Nightmare Outdoor!

The industrial hardcore label Symp.tom, founded back in 2004, represents a dark and alternative side of hardcore. Over the past 5 years the label has brought us various slamming releases by its main artists Mental Wreckage, Mute. and The Relic.

Well- respected artists such as Moleculez, The Outside Agency and Mindustries have also made a guest appearance on either a vinyl release or the Symp.toms CD series. The last edition (volume 4) of this successful series was released in December of last year and got raving reviews throughout the entire scene.

This year Nightmare Outdoor will have a separate Industrial area for the first time (previous edition combined industrial and terror) and so it was an obvious choice to let Symp.tom host this area. Main producers of the label – The Relic and Mental Wreckage – will show their very best skills in 2 separate DJ sets and will join forces together to perform under their Dual Mechanism guise. Joining them are a selection of top artist that closely represent and complement the sound of the label. Altogether they will provide the ingredients for a thrilling day at the Industrial area at the Luttenbergerweg in Hellendoorn.

Check the entire line-up for the area below:

Project 9
Peaky Pounder
Synapse & Sei2ure Live
The Relic
Hamunaptra
Moleculez Live
Mental Wreckage
Mindustries
N-Vitral Live
Dual Mechanism
The Outside Agency

If you want to know more about Nightmare Outdoor or the label Symp.tom, check nightmare-outdoor.com or symp-tom.nl. Mid-Town hopes to see you at the industrial area at Nightmare Outdoor on the 16th of May 2009!

21 Jan 2009
Bookings:
Enzyme Incubation 3

The Relic and I will do another back-to-back DJ set, this time at the third edition of Enzyme Incubation, on the 28th of February. Here’s the official press release:

A global pandemic virus of unknown origin hit our society in the year 2001. Many people suffered from this infectious virus. Illegal obtained undisclosed documents show scaring well organised and accurate planned outbreaks on 01-02-2003 and 14-05-2005. Which led to even more victims of the virus. It hit us hard, relentless and without mercy. Recent intel revealed the incubation state of the virus, derived from this fact we now know something is about to happen on 28-02-2009…


Area 1 : NZM 1NN0V4T0RS
Nosferatu
Weapon X
D-Passion
The Viper
Triax
Mad Dog
Anime
Catscan
The Playah
Prowler
Lenny Dee
Newstyler
Live: Endymion – Ophidian


Area 2: NZM TR4D1T10N4L
Ruffneck
Dione
Buzz fuzz
Drokz
Marc Acardipane
Lyrix
Dano
Predator
R-kane
Stylewars


Area 3 : NZM 4RCH1T3CTUR3
Mindustries
Outside Agency
Enzyme X
Tieum
Sandy Warez
Leo Laker
Mat M. Maddox
Mental Wreckage & The Relic
Mortifer
Twilight
Live: Synapse & Sei2ure
Live: Tapage

Date: 28-02-2009
Doors open: 20:00 / 08:00
Location: Turbinenhalle, Oberhausen (Germany)

03 Dec 2008
Releases:
Symp.toms Vol. 4: Life Below 20Hz

As the dark days of Christmas draw ever closer and the beginning of a new year becomes imminent, Symp.tom decided it wanted to end 2008 with a bang. So without further ado Symp.tom presents Volume 4 of the well-known Symp.toms series: Life Below 20Hz. Where the previous 2 editions were filled with some of the hardest live sets from the industrial area of A Nightmare Outdoor, this time we return to the concept of the first chapter of the series… only this time, everything goes on overdrive!

Putting the total at 52 tracks on 2 discs, Symp.tom’s own residents Mental Wreckage and The Relic each crafted a mix out of a carefully selected collection of the darkest and filthiest “industrial” orientated hardcore tracks. Of course lots of material from the Symp.tom label itself (including new tracks by Mute., Dual Mechanism & The Relic) as well as (some new and exclusive) quality tracks from the likes of The Outside Agency, Ophidian, Moleculez, Broken Rules, Razor Edge and many… many more.

The result is 2 smashing discs both containing an uncompromised sonic assault filled with crushing kickdrums, wicked breaks, pitch dark atmospheres and a lot of distortion. The ideal soundtrack for the dark days of the winter.

08 Oct 2008
Releases:
Symp.tom 10: Evolve or Die

My third solo release just came from the pressing plant! I’m very proud of this release and it already has pretty good DJ support. Here’s the official press release:

“After having only participated in other projects for the last 3 years, Mental Wreckage is finally back for a new solo-release. Symp.tom 10, called “Evolve Or Die”, takes on a different direction compared to MW’s previous releases… hence the title. This will also be the first Symp.tom release with a brand new cover-design.

Salvation Within Death will destroy everything in its path, with distorted sounds and a massive kick. Secret Government is a monotone and empty track, but its pounding drive can do some pretty good damage. The Exile Returns is a chaos of messed-up and retriggering loops, accompanied by a deep kick. Recommended for the jocks who don’t fear the experimental side of the core. Neural Framework has a groovy techno-feel with nice rhytms and a solid kick. The Afterlife is an outtro, dedicated to the ones who were lost in October 2007.

This release is already having some serious DJ-support:
Peaky Pounder, The Outside Agency, DJ Daisy, Mindustries, Stormtrooper, Broken Rules, Petrochemical, Hamunaptra, Genosha All-Stars, Mental Wreckage & The Relic.”