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The Relic - Instinct

History lesson: E-Rush’s FIX Records became The Relic’s first label in the early 00s, where he put out his work under different aliases. This track was produced around 2005 and bound to become FIX 19 – but as the label went defunct, it was never released. Rediscovered and resurrected from some hard drive it is now made available for free. But beware: One is struck by the amount of massive darkness that was already a feature of The Relic’s productions back then!

Free download at: https://darkdescent.bandcamp.com/album/instinct

Instinct

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[DD00107] The Relic - Instinct

Eating Art, DrinkingTechno, Fuck the System

Industrial hardcore has been one of the most consistent styles that hardcore has spawned, going strong since the turn of the millennia. The same goes for The Relic, moniker of Dutch producer Maurice Pinkster, who has been a steady contributor, and a key player of the scene since its humble beginnings. 

After starting as a producer in 1994, initially releasing on various labels, he found his first home on FIX Records and Neophyte’s Symp.tom, where he released a string of influential 12”es. After Symp.tom went defunct, he created his own label Dark.Descent. in order to be able to develop The Relic – and his various other projects like Zanthrax, Dual Mechanism, Hidden Rooms (dark acid techno) and of course Cubic Nomad (from hard rhythmic IDM to serene ambience) with complete artistic freedom. 

Pushing dark and industrial hardcore and techno forward, Dark.Descent has also released prolific artists like Embrionyc, Dep Affect, Sei2ure, Sound Abuse, Starving Insect and many more; The Relic has cooperated with artists such as Dep Affect, Moleculez, Innovative, Sidephex, Mute. and remixed the likes of Neophyte, Human Resource, Mono No Aware, Sacerdos Vigilia, Traffik, Embrionyc, Somatic Responses, ▲NGST or X-Core. 

The Relic now looks back at a triptych of bunker-themed full-length albums, all pinnacles of his extra-dark, trademark sound that has brought him wide recognition across genre borders. His reputation as a DJ is also more than rock solid, and many of his killer mixes can be found online or via the infamous “Ben Harder Show” which he co-founded. 

Immerse yourself into the dark and distorted world of The Relic – if you dare!

Loves Doomcore, Darkcore, industrial EBM, Dark Electronic, Aggrotech, hellektro, Rhythmic noise/ powernoise, psychedelic/Goa Trance some breakcore, Crossbreed, some tech-trance, some metal, some synthpop, futurepop, synthwave, Witch House

Top Tier: BDACID, Murmuur, Nekrokick, Industrial demon, Bazer, SPF50, Fifth Era, Cubic Nomad, Ophidian, Xaero, The Relic, Low Entropy, Embrionyc

A gamer & Old school Anime head, who enjoys Kungfu films and horror movies and Horror Manga Art

RIP to my best friend Zach
RIP DJ Bazer

DARK TECHNO
INDUSTRIAL TECHNO
INDUSTRIAL HARDCORE

Every track here has been done with just the FruityLoops demo, which means, that everything was done in one consecutive session.
As of right now, I'm considering to revive this project, therefore feedback is still very much appreciated! <3