HARDCORE TECHNO: Electronically produced dance music with hard driving 
beats, thunderous bass and mindfucking vocals. Ranging from 150 BPM to 
over 210+ BPM. Making you get off your ass, get on the dancefloor, and go all 
out.
	That's my definition of hardcore techno. I get asked "what's that music 
you're playing" so often, that I was compelled to give it a definition and lay 
it on you. The extreme of hardcore is actually called Gabberhouse. A Dutch 
term which stands for the hardest and fastest dance music on the market 
today. For the DJ, a few record labels to look to if interested in Gabberhouse 
are Rotterdam Records, Industrial Strength, Mokum, and Ruffneck. D.M.C. 
Records and Street Sounds, both in LA, usually mail order to anywhere in the 
US. Both have an excellent hardcore gabberhouse selection of you're in the 
market to pick some up.
	The techno revolution has begun. Techno parties are on the rise and 
more and more DJs are playing the faster more energetic tracks than ever 
before. With the long awaited opening of a new techno weekly next month. 
The emergence of the Underworld warehouse breakins. And the success of 
the Industrial Strength party. San Francisco is prepared to step in the 
evolution of rave.
	On January 22 Industrial Strength brought San Francisco its first and 
phattest hardcore techno party. Uniting the hardest motherfucking DJs from 
all across the country, the party unleashed a true hardcore extravaganza like 
never before. Seven DJs took control of the turntable altar and administered 
sonic mayhem onto the pulsating crowd via Shredder's quadraballistic bass.
	First up was local hardcore technician DJ BEN, who set the pace of the 
night with his barrage of hard hitting, face slamming techno beats. Next 
came LA's techno breakbeat master R.A.W., who schooled the crowd and 
showed them how it's done when a real breakbeat DJ does what he does 
best. Next up came the second half of the LA techno invasion, RON D. CORE. 
Ron worked and worked the crowd, sending shockwaves through their 
bodies as they jacked their souls to a higher level. Then came the orgasm. 
The almighty techno supreme being himself, DJ DEMIGOD. As he took his 
rightful place at the turntable altar and delivered his techno session to the 
crowd. Next up straight outta Pittsburgh, PA came DEADLY BUDA. The force 
of the Buda overpowered the crowd and sent them bouncing off the walls 
showing how real hardcore is done on da East Coast. Up next outta Portland, 
OR the techno messiah himself NIKADEEMAS, who delivered an all out 
assault onto the crowd with the most ballistic mindfuck ever heard. And to 
close the night off, SF's tribal acid dominatrix DJ DRC finished off with an 
amazing set that left everyone in awe.
	More than 700 people participated in this event, proving once again 
that San Francisco is well on its way to a more diversified and exciting 
future. For future Industrial Strength party info the number to call is 415-
979-8411.
	To anyone who says there isn't an underground scene anymore or for 
anyone who can't find an underground party, look again. Underworld is here. 
After its first successful underground warehouse party, Underworld is 
prepared to take hardcore ravers back in time to the days of the illegal 
break-in party. With music ranging from hard trance to breakbeat to 
hardcore techno, the tempo of the party is always fast and furious.
	The locations for Underworld are illegal and unknown up until the 
night of the party due to police intervention. The best sort of party in my 
eyes are these. Dodging the donut dunkers and invading some warehouse to 
dance your ass off all night to kickass music gives me a rush unequal to any 
drug. The idea of the break-in unifies the crowd and gives them energy 
along with the music for form the true essence of rave. Fuck all this bullshit 
about the cops telling us we can't dance and gather here where we want to. 
We all have to support the underground before there is no underground.
	Till next month boys and girls, keep it hard!