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Lush and brooding, like a storm moving into a swamp, ‘If Not To Give A Fantasy’ is the latest album from New York’s hardcore queen Kilbourne. Releasing on her label Hammerhead Records, Kilbourne is pulling back, reducing the maximalism of contemporary hardcore to a sparing, bristly, textural gabber.

Pre-Order: kilbourne.bandcamp.com/album/if-not-…ive-a-fantasy

Mix and Master by SMAC
Photography by Brandon Ward

If Not To Give A Fantasy [HMMRHD004]

Seismic

Gore Tex

The final track of @plexosmusic - Mangled Memories EP on @kompoundindustrial is Kilbourne's remix of "What's Left Of Happiness," a 195 BPM hardcore closer gushing with breaks and choral stabs.

Pre-Order: kompound.bandcamp.com/album/mangled-memories 

Artist: PLEXØS
Remixers: KØZLØV, Kilbourne
Title: MANGLED MEMORIES
Label: KOMPOUND
Catalog: KMPND008
Format: Digital
Genre: Techno, Hardcore
Style: Industrial
Release Date: 05/08/2021

Mastering by Wanton

Mangled Memories

PLEXØS - What's Left Of Happiness (Kilbourne Remix) [KMPND008]

Kilbourne summons body horror, religious ecstasy and societal rage on her debut EP for PRSPCT. Featuring screaming vocals, grinding metallic sound design and a collaboration with New York speedcore veteran DJ Narotic on 'New York Takeover', Cathedrals EP is an ecstatic rallying cry for our generation. Don’t even try to f*ck with us!

1. Society Scandal [150 BPM]
2. Cathedral [200 BPM]
3. New York Takeover (feat. DJ Narotic) [250 BPM]
4. Razor Eater [140 BPM]

Bandcamp: https://bandcamp.prspct.nl/album/cathedrals-ep
Vinyl: https://www.prspct.nl/product/kilbourne-cathedrals-ep-pre-order/
Longsleeve: https://www.prspct.nl/product/kilbourne-cathedrals-longsleeve/

Cathedrals

Music Video

Razor Eater

Kilbourne summons body horror, religious ecstasy and societal rage on her debut EP for PRSPCT. Featuring screaming vocals, grinding metallic sound design and a collaboration with New York speedcore veteran DJ Narotic on 'New York Takeover', Cathedrals EP is an ecstatic rallying cry for our generation. Don’t even try to f*ck with us!

1. Society Scandal [150 BPM]
2. Cathedral [200 BPM]
3. New York Takeover (feat. DJ Narotic) [250 BPM]
4. Razor Eater [140 BPM]

Bandcamp: bandcamp.prspct.nl/album/cathedrals-ep
Vinyl: www.prspct.nl/product/kilbourne-cathedrals-ep-pre-order/
Longsleeve: www.prspct.nl/product/kilbourne-cathedrals-longsleeve/

Bandcamp

Cathedral

Society Scandal

Remix of Milkshake by the legend @Catscan

12" Vinyl + Digital Release
Order the 12" full artwork vinyl at: https://prspctrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/milkshake

Kilbourne revs up the engine for Milkshake, her sophomore PRSPCT release. The title track is a filter-tweaking rager, with bouncing kicks and madness-inducing percussion. Sunshine Terror weds terror and serenity, a fleeting calm in the eye of a hurricane, while Plague Raver pays tribute to an especially unhinged period of nightlife in New York. Ignoring the T-99 Anasthasia stab mania, each track on Milkshake adds new orchestral stabs to the canon, from Verdi’s Dies Irae to John Williams’ film scores. The EP is rounded out by legendary darkcore producer Catscan’s remix of Milkshake, a club-ready anthem that recalls the explosive sound of his early catalog.

A1 + A2 + B1 written and produced by Ashe Kilbourne
B2 written and produced by Bart Kok
Photo by Yulissa Benitez Amaro
Mastered by Dennis Jacobs

PRSPCT 304

Milkshake

Milkshake (Catscan Remix)

12" Vinyl + Digital Release
Order the 12" full artwork vinyl at: https://prspctrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/milkshake

Kilbourne revs up the engine for Milkshake, her sophomore PRSPCT release. The title track is a filter-tweaking rager, with bouncing kicks and madness-inducing percussion. Sunshine Terror weds terror and serenity, a fleeting calm in the eye of a hurricane, while Plague Raver pays tribute to an especially unhinged period of nightlife in New York. Ignoring the T-99 Anasthasia stab mania, each track on Milkshake adds new orchestral stabs to the canon, from Verdi’s Dies Irae to John Williams’ film scores. The EP is rounded out by legendary darkcore producer Catscan’s remix of Milkshake, a club-ready anthem that recalls the explosive sound of his early catalog.

A1 + A2 + B1 written and produced by Ashe Kilbourne
B2 written and produced by Bart Kok
Photo by Yulissa Benitez Amaro
Mastered by Dennis Jacobs

PRSPCT 304

Plague Raver

Sunshine Terror

Kilbourne debuts her label Hammerhead Records and its first release Panopticon, a two tracker by the New York hardcore icon. The title track kicks off with a sinister saw riff and chattering hihats before descending into nazgûl-screeching madness. Rolly Polly sees Kilbourne dropping the tempo, playing with more groovy and repetitive sounds to psychedelic effect. The Panopticon EP is Kilbourne’s vision of hardcore today, and an exciting taste of the music to come from Hammerhead.

Music by Ashe Kilbourne 
Mastering by SMAC 
Art by Zhi Wei

Panopticon

Support

Rolly Polly

Kilbourne's set from the Hammerhead 1-Year Anniversary in New York 4.6.24
@hammerheadrec

Tracklist:
Celsius - La Haine
Kilbourne - Rolly Polly
Kilbourne - Loon Call
Enayet - Chokkor (Kilbourne Remix)
Ewa Justka - You Are Repeating Yourself Indeed ([KRTM] Remix)
RABBeAT - Threat
DJ Mad Dog & Marc Acardipane - Sick With It (Alternative Version)
Sub Terra - Mithrandir
Kilbourne - Panopticon
Kilbourne - Milkshake
Kilbourne - Milkshake (Catscan Remix)
Promo - Counter Attack (Starving Insect Remix)
[KRTM] - Buddy (Little Man With Knife)
N-Vitral - Boenck
Tripped - This Does Not Contain Rave Stabs
Shlømo - Golem
Greg Notill - Groovy Old Skool
Enzyme X - The Rosy-Lipped Batfish
RABBeAT - Jungle Boy
Kilbourne - ID
Moleculez - Particle Cannon (Mental Wreckage Edit)
Somniac One - Shirtless
Meccano Twins - Gamma Release
Nightshift - A For Apocalypse
E-Man - Satellitez
E-Man - Scattered
Neagles - Burglary Siren
Gostwork / Portishead - Cowboys In A Hell Bunker
RABBeAT - The End (165 BPM Edit)
So Juice - Nowadays Music (Duel Dammage Remix)
So Juice - Nowadays Music
Rebelion & Vertile - Simulatory (Drum Edit)
Moleculez - Lava Bomb
The Outside Agency & Fracture4 - Manhunt
Neophyte & The Stunned Guys - The Music Is Rising
Moleculez & The Relic - Sentinel Killer
Stan Christ & Raxeller - She Puked In My Drink
[KRTM] - Baldboy
Mindustries - Throes Of Rejection (Nosferatu & Endymion Remix)
DJ Mad Dog - The Box
Hard Creation - I Will Have That Power
Hard Creation - I Will Have That Power (Chaos Project Remix)
DJ Mad Dog - Underground
Kilbourne - Pachyderm
The DJ Producer - Witch Hunt
Sei2ure - Hunting For Bounty
DJ Buzz Fuzz - Frequencies
Angerfist - And Jesus Wept
The Supreme Team - Dominator 2014
The DJ Producer - Kicks In Unparalleled
Leeloo - Steadiness Balance
DJ Mad Dog - In My House
Akira - Body Slam Musik
Tripped - Wheel Of Foreskin
Kilbourne - ID
New Frames - Eine Andere Welt
Tripped - Tank
Leo Laker - Ironbrick
SummA - The Fantasy of a Disordered Mind (Sacerdos Vigilia Remix)
Kilbourne - Bleached Whale
Mindustries - Corpse Candle
Sei2ure - Assault
Catscan & Starving Insect - Merged With Silence
RABBeAT - Mourir De Joie
Kilbourne - Society Scandal
The Dj Producer - Zero Tolerance
Sperminator - No Woman Allowed
Kilbourne - Evnika
Malice & Unresolved - Bring The Panic!
DJ Mad Dog & Nightshift - Focul Arde
Doxa & Kilbourne - Ham Shop (Kilbourne VIP)
Kilbourne - Mouth Inside A Mouth

Kilbourne Closing Set <Hammerhead 1 Year 4.6.24>

Hardcore’s most exciting new voice @rabbeaat delivers a punishing 8-tracker of seismic kickdrums and mournful screams on New York’s Hammerhead Records. Meditating on withdrawal from the world, Lyon-via-Madagascar artist Julien Ravit is at his most vicious, bucking between paranoid, pitiable, and triumphant.

Threat is a blistering first volley, a 140 BPM track that feels like 160, narrating a hunt from the perspective of prey. Escape follows with a 9 minute lament on loneliness, sharp staccato drums biting the ear and reverberating in the recoil. Ravit has retooled two of his first "lonely tracks," Quiet and Isolation, both of which sound louder (and sadder) than ever. The album closer Do You Wonder Why I Prefer To Be Alone is a surprising ballad, pairing Ravit's signature kickdrum destruction with a ghostly voice singing a dirge of social death and reclusion.

The EP features dub mixes of three of the tracks for a more atmospheric effect. HMMRHD003 is available on CD, Digital, and also features a eucalyptus hand-dyed T-Shirt. With early support from Manu Le Malin, Densha Crisis, Kilbourne, and many others, What’s That, Who’s There is destined to be a classic of industrial hardcore.

What's That, Who's There

Do You Wonder Why I Prefer To Be Alone (Whisper Dub)

The REER collective breaks now ground with its debut 2x12" VA release featuring some of the best established and emerging names the industrial scene has to offer. The revolution starts here.

Follow the artist: 
SC: https://soundcloud.com/kilbourne
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kilbourne2themax/

Industrial Revolution 1.0

Beautiful Boys on a Beautiful Dancefloor

Kilbourne - Beautiful Boys on a Beautiful Dance Floor

𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓀𝑒𝑒𝓅 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓀𝑒𝑒𝓅 𝒸𝒶𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔

I've been playing this out for the last year and it is consistently the one people ask most about. Wrote this on the lake. New album in 2025.

Mix and Master by SMAC
Art by SBS

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Loon Call

𝖔𝖓𝖊 𝕭𝕭𝕷 𝖎𝖘 𝖓𝖔𝖙 𝖊𝖓𝖔𝖚𝖌𝖍

Lush and brooding, like a storm moving into a swamp, ‘If Not To Give A Fantasy’ is the latest album from New York’s hardcore queen Kilbourne. Releasing on her label Hammerhead Records, Kilbourne is pulling back, reducing the maximalism of contemporary hardcore to a sparing, bristly, textural gabber. Double BBL cheekily swaps upbeat and downbeat, regular and double time, skronchy acid and clobbering hardcore.

Pre-Order: https://kilbourne.bandcamp.com/album/if-not-to-give-a-fantasy

Mix and Master by SMAC
Photography by Brandon Ward

📹

Double BBL

Lush and brooding, like a storm moving into a swamp, ‘If Not To Give A Fantasy’ is the latest album from New York’s hardcore queen Kilbourne. Releasing on her label Hammerhead Records, Kilbourne is pulling back, reducing the maximalism of contemporary hardcore to a sparing, bristly, textural gabber. Double BBL cheekily swaps upbeat and downbeat, regular and double time, skronchy acid and clobbering hardcore.

Pre-Order: https://kilbourne.bandcamp.com/album/if-not-to-give-a-fantasy

Mix and Master by SMAC
Photography by Brandon Ward

Bald Boys (Quiet Mix)

Lush and brooding, like a storm moving into a swamp, ‘If Not To Give A Fantasy’ is the latest album from New York’s hardcore queen Kilbourne. Releasing on her label Hammerhead Records, Kilbourne is pulling back, reducing the maximalism of contemporary hardcore to a sparing, bristly, textural gabber.

Pre-Order: https://kilbourne.bandcamp.com/album/if-not-to-give-a-fantasy

Mix and Master by SMAC
Photography by Brandon Ward

Deer Stomps Its Hooves In Warning

Sugarbee

Bald Boys

Honeycrisp

@kilbourne live from The Inn at Dripping 2024

@hammerheadrec

Kilbourne at Dripping 2024

the two best genres smushed together

Tracklist:
RABBeAT - The End
Bunji Garlin - Hard Fete
Dave Blunt - Scars
RABBeAT - Jungle Boy
Machel Montano & Ashanti - The Road
Nailah Blackman - Round & Rosie
Tripped - Shinjuku Heat
Trinidad Killa - Riot
Skinny Fabulous - Duracell (Charge Up)
DJ Mad Dog - The Box
Nailah Blackman & Skinny Fabulous - Come Home
Mutilator - Move My Body
Neophyte - Coming Up Strong
Nailah Blackman & Skinny Fabulous - Forever
DJ Mad Dog - Time
Lady Lava ft Viking & Ding Dong - Flowers
Marc Acardipane - Pitch-Hiker
RABBeAT - Quiet
Kes & Tano - Miracle
Shal Marshall & Kerwin Du Bois - Document We
Kilbourne - Double BBL
Patrice Roberts - Anxiety
Tallpree - Wicked Jab
Machel Montano & Patrice Roberts - Band Of D Year (B.O.D.Y.)
Mr Killa - Psycho
Nailah Blackman - Truck Instructions
Pumpa - Time & Place
Nadia Batson - Fattt
TK International - Whistle While You Work
DJ Lancinhouse & The Stunned Guys - Atmosfera
Patrice Roberts & Machel Montano - Like Yuh Self
Face Hoover - Pure Fucking Armageddon
Hashtaga - Toys (Tripped Remix)
Preedy - Monopoly
Nailah Blackman - Something In The Water
Kerwin Du Bois - Bad Switch
Blaxx - Huntin
Fay-Ann Lyons - Meet Superblue
Bunji Garlin - Carnival Contract
Cancel & AVLM - Chaos Module
Marc Acardipane - Atmos-Fear (Catscan Remix)
Rosell Kid & Ukk0o0 - Fun Maker
Kassidjé Gazagirl - Bouyon Hardcore
Lil Natty & Thunda - Top Striker
Problem Child - Back Must Bend
Lyrikal - Rukshun
Problem Child - Nasty Up
Skinny Fabulous & Machel Montano - Fallen Fetters
Kilbourne - Beautiful Boys On A Beautiful Dancefloor
Nailah Blackman - No One Else
Neagles - Hellscape
Nessa Preppy - Go Bestie
Nessa Preppy & Orlando Octave - Nobody Like You (Kilbourne Remix)
Neagles - Rave Submarine
Voice & Patrice Roberts - Carnival Day

POWER SOCA GABBA THUMPER

Interview & tracklist: https://djmag.com/features/recognise-082-kilbourne

New York’s hardcore techno luminary @Kilbourne lays waste to DJ Mag’s Recognise series with a blistering two-hour live recording from her Hammerhead party, and speaks to Michael McKinney about the hard-fought pleasure of hard-edged dance music, its parallels with punk, and how her new album ‘If Not to Give a Fantasy’ critiques ideas of dancefloor escapism and utopia

Tracklist & Interview

Recognise 082: Kilbourne

Download

Kilbourne - Come Up With Us

@kilbourne

Brooklyn-based Kilbourne has been at the top of her game for some years now. Perhaps New York’s most renowned and acclaimed industrial hardcore act, she released her stellar debut album "If Not to Give a Fantasy" earlier this year, an unyielding suite of in-yer-face hardcore threaded with the kind of curiosity and detail that lingers in the memory even after a proper brain-rinsing. 

Her set of all-original productions for CENTER BOOTH is testament to this blend of ferocity and conscientiousness, an hour in which it’s possible to both lose and find yourself. There are sections of slamming kicks serving to soundtrack an imagined (or real) session on your punching bag of choice, frosty techno cuts made even chillier with ecclesiastic synths and chanting, excursions in electro-techno riven with juicy distorted basslines and breaksy passages, and trancecore-esque tracks loaded with bleepy synths and speed bag drum patterns fit for forest raves. To close, creepy vaudevillian laughter gives way to huge kicks, then celestial pads to draw the listener outwards and upwards. 

The founder of Hammerhead, a hardcore techno label and party crew, and half of the newly formed duo Cry with Relaxer, her sets can be heard at sympatico clubs and parties the world over including Dripping, Honcho, Nature Loves Courage festival and Shock Value.

https://youtu.be/lYPLtTDX9xs
https://www.lettonne.dance/

Kilbourne – Center Booth ◎ S2E15

Four producers, four nationalities, four highly personal interpretations of “Guilty,” the aggressive, industrial track released by W.LV.S (Manu le Malin & Electric Rescue) in 2022. RABBeAT, Scalameriya, Kilbourne, and Ghost In The Machine are at the helm of this EP of fierce and unique remixes. 

Guilty Remixes

W.LV.S - Guilty (Kilbourne Remix)

I love christmas music, i hope you do too! happy hanukkah <3

Tracklist:
Kilbourne - Come Up With Us
DJ Swizzymack - Carol Of The Bells
The Prophet - Hosanna
The Triplets - Marry X-Mazz
Santasaurus-Rex - Up On A House Top
Hardcore Nation - All I Want For X-Mas
Scrooge - X-Mass Alone
Scarface - Santawaus
Northpole Gangster - Bethlehem Riot
Dj Scumback - Merry Little Christmas
Rotterdam Termination Source - Merry X-Mess
Cher - DJ Play A Christmas Song HC
X-Mess - X-Bell
Angerfist - Holy Knight
Louis Hardstrong - Santa Claus
The SIlverbellys - Santa Comes Tonight
Lenz vs The Muppets - It Feels Like This
Scott Brown - Start The Cavalry
DJ Gizmo - Ghost of X-Mass Future
Jack Skellington vs Pilldriver - What Is Pitch
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Miss Groovy - Naked Aggression
Rotterdam Termination Source - Poing (Mustafa Alici Remix)
Bitch Crosby - Christmas Is Here
Buzz Fuzz - Christmas Can Be A Bitch Sometimes
Scott Brown - Ding Dong Merrily
Sensor - Rudolf The Rednose Ravedeer
Painbringer - Sidious
Tommy Lee Sparta - Shelly Christ-Mas
DJ Sparky - Here Comes Santa Claus
Noise-Gate - The Magic Sack
Akira - Rebel With A Claus
C-Netik - Jingling Red Balls
Rotterdam Termination Source - Excell
Kilbourne - Gabbahanukkah

𝓂𝑒𝓇𝓇𝓎 𝓍-𝓂𝒶𝓈 𝒹𝒾𝓋𝒶: 𝓐 𝓥𝓔𝓡𝓨 𝓖𝓐𝓑𝓑𝓔𝓡 𝓒𝓗𝓡𝓘𝓢𝓣𝓜𝓐𝓢 🎄

The invocation of LaMagra reaches critical mass.

These songs are excerpts from Kilbourne's rescore of the 90's vampire classic Blade. While preserving the original dialogue, Kilbourne has provided an entirely new 2-hour soundtrack to the film, taking the audience through hardcore techno bloodraves and breakbeat vampire sacrifices. 

Vocals by Jeremy Senie

Book Blade: A Rescore by Kilbourne in your city kilbourne.blade@gmail.com
Purchase the cassette at https://kilbourne.bandcamp.com/
Purchase a shirt at https://coldbrewcollective.bandcamp.com/merch/blade-a-rescore-by-kilbourne-long-sleeve-tee

1. Rave Breaker
2. Injustice Gods
3. Fault
4. Blade In Moscow
5. When It's Cold I'd Like To Die (With Jess)

Bloodrave: Songs From Blade

Cassette

When It's Cold I'd Like To Die (With Jess)

EXT. MEAT PACKING PLANT - NIGHT

Songs from the Kilbourne Rescore of Blade (1998)
Full Tape Out 2.27

1. Rave Breaker
2. Injustice Gods
3. Fault
4. Blade In Moscow
5. When It's Cold I'd Like To Die (With Jeremy)

Rave Breaker

Meta4 W: Kilbourne - "Evnika"
Listen and order here: https://meta4recordings.bandcamp.com/album/evnika

Written and produced by A. Kilbourne
Mixed and mastered by SMAC
Artwork by Martina Maccianti

Songs about the ocean

Evnika

Bleached Whale

Honey was written for Tanner.

NJ Terror is a loving tribute to the early speedcore and terror of the US and its cultural mashup of hardcore techno, metal, rave, hip-hop, the city, the shore, and the space between. Seesawing through reckless breaks and gentle pads, this EP is dedicated to the freaks of the rave.

Mixing and Mastering: Lenny Dee
Illustration: Chandler Moses
Cover: Scott Sanders

1. NJ Terror
2. Catch It
3. Honey
4. There Is No Ocean

Juno: https://www.junodownload.com/products/kilbourne-nj-terror-explicit/4187114-02/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0hYWw2QBSHlUnLDF3OsYyo

NJ Terror

Honey

Nekro006 is live! Pain Becomes Pleasure features 4 tracks of terror, hardcore, and techno from Kilbourne, Nekronomikon, and Plexøs. 

The title track features two US hardcore figures joining forces, as Kilbourne and Plexøs push the tempo up high while swirling synths build to an excruciating climax. Pachyderm continues the eerie tone with choral stabs, reproachful voices, and stuttering alarms. Side B begins with the pumping Fuck The Wave from French HC veteran and label-boss Nekronomikon that recalls both contemporary industrial techno and the golden age hardcore of yore. The record closes with the creaking techno of Dropping Plenty Ravers joyfully declaring "My whole family is addicted to speed, and I am so proud."

Art by Rex Morris
Mixing on A1, A2, and B2 by Sacerdos Vigilia
Vinyl Mastering by M. Merino

A1 Kilbourne & Plexøs - Pain Becomes Pleasure
A2 Kilbourne - Pachyderm
B1 Nekronomikon - Fuck The Wave
B2 Kilbourne - Dropping Plenty Ravers

Purchase Links
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/kilbourne-plexos-nekronomikon-pain-becomes-pleasure/796597-01/
http://www.toolboxrecords.com/fr/product/36223/techno-hardtechno/nekro-editions-06/
https://www.techno-import.fr/shop/index.php?id_product=39370&controller=product&id_lang=1
https://www.decks.de/track/various_artists-pain_becomes_pleasure/ch9-td
https://www.deejay.de/Various_006_NE006_Vinyl__962741

Pain Becomes Pleasure MP3

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Pachyderm

Pain Becomes Pleasure

Hardcore Techno + Terror
@hammerheadrec

𝗜𝗙 𝗡𝗢𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗚𝗜𝗩𝗘 𝗔 𝗙𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗦𝗬 https://linktr.ee/kilbournehq

us: booking@onthesly.co
eu: booking@reercollective.com

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