Digital Hardcore Recordings

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Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) is a music label founded by Alec Empire in 1994 . He got the start-up capital as a severance payment for his band Atari Teenage Riot from the canceled record deal with the major label Phonogram . Musicians and bands from the electro scene are under contract with DHR. In the mid-1990s, the label coined the digital hardcore music style of the same name .

The music was initially recorded mainly in Berlin . Production and sales were carried out through the London office . When the Berlin digital hardcore scene slowly dissolved at the end of the 1990s, the work of the label shifted more to England and the USA . In 1998 Elektra Records was won as a sales partner and an office in New York was opened.

There were two sub-labels that started out from digital hardcore recordings. Early works by Alec Empire that had already been published by Mille Plateaux were published by Geist Recordings . Fatal Recordings was mainly run by Hanin Elias , who wanted to give female musicians an opportunity to assert themselves on the male-dominated music market. Hanin eventually founded Fatal Recordings as an independent label and produced her solo albums there. In early 2006, however, she dissolved Fatal Recordings again.

Digital Hardcore Recordings has released over 100 albums and singles to date.

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