Hardcore Blasters: 26 records that have passed through the crate

The story of Hardcore Blasters

Hardcore Blasters was founded in 2002 by Diego Buffoni — DJ D — and Simone Gritti, the same pair who in 1994 had set up Ipnotika, a hardstyle and hard trance label. So this is not a beginners' house: it is people who had already been releasing for eight years and decided to open an imprint specifically for hardcore.

The interesting part is the roster. Although the label is Italian, it releases Dutch, Italian and Spanish producers all at once — Nitrogenetics, Rayden, Juanma, Hellsystem, Miosa, Dirty Bastards — at a time when each national scene tended to release itself. You can hear it in the catalogue: it doesn't sound like a country, it sounds like an era.

The HM prefix

References run on HM and four figures (HM 2704, HM2762). Twenty-six have passed through here, between 2001 and 2009, with hardcore and gabber split almost fifty-fifty.

The record to start with

How Hardcore Blasters sounds in our crate

26 different releases on Hardcore Blasters have passed through beatdo, 53 copies counting duplicates, pressed between 2001 and 2009.

What comes up most often, in this order: Hardcore and Gabber.

One copy is available right now.

How to recognise a Hardcore Blasters release

The catalogue numbers we have seen follow the pattern HM, hmg, hm. It is the first thing to check on the centre label when a record comes with no sleeve, which in this repertoire is the norm.

In the crate now

The archive: 25 releases on Hardcore Blasters