ABELDJAY AT HEADSTRONG 4

Review by: bill @ Techno punk music 2000???
All I can say is this ain't your typical DJ . DJay Abel rocks cause he dares to get creative with hardcore and make the usually straight-forward and full on style sound gorgeous and frisky as hell. Highly recommended for those who can stand the heat! DJay Abel. This kid still rocks - hard! In fact, his colossal Los Angeles Hardcore is an ear-bleeding masterpiece, taking that evil, militant pounding that defines this powerful style and keeping it jarringly intense throughout its one-hour running time. DJ perpetrator's "World Of Shit" grabs a handful of great samples from Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket including a pivotal part where Vincent D'Onofrio so boldly states, "There's only one fucking sniper out there." And like that deadly shooter, DJay Abel has his fingers locked on the trigger, itching to pick off as many motherfuckers as possible. Still, even that bloody affair is nothing admirable in comparison to the opening moments of Abel's Audio 909 where an ancient Hitchcock film score gets mixed into a very meticulous gulf of work on DJ Attic & DJ Stylzz' "Emphasis On Hardcore." Gasp, is it true, hardcore can honestly be art? Well, I'll be damned. The bass always creates a wall of suffocation on Audio 909 but this air tight mix has structure and surprises galore. With The Viper & Mad E Fact bad-ass funky "The Beats The Sukers Wish They Had," AC DJ & Bike DJ's double-headed monsters on "Loop Bass" and "Drum Compressor," and DJ Dione's surprising light and dark contrast on "Darkness & Brightness" and those so-sweet vocals against the bombastic territory of "Low Down," this is perhaps Abel's finest mix work. And if you think that's crazy enough to make you rethink all those generalizations about all hardcore being just about the same kind of terrorizing madness, just get an earful of Drum Distortion where Abel pushes the envelope to its gorgeous extreme. If ever one thing could be described as hectic serenity than this riled-up land of peace is that locale. Drum Distortion is in abundance. Hard, invigorating, inspiring and blazingly comforting in all the ways, overall, that makes DJay Abel himself such an unforgettable talent.