Boomkat Product Review:
Breakcore survivor Istari Lasterfahrer follows Christoph de Babalon’s lead onto Hamburg’s V I S imprint with a 60 minute production mix of spring heeled yardcore and dub noise experiments, yassss.

Celebrating 20 years of his productions via his Sozialistischer Plattenbau label and many others, Hamburg’s Istari Lasterfahrer has pushed a punkish take on jungle that lands squarely in the breakcore bracket of madness. Like his now label-mate Christoph de Babalon, Lasterfahrer was part of the original c8.com posse of underground labels in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s, with a sound that erred towards the more playful ends of DJ Scud and indeed De Babalon, essentially dicing with elements of early jungle but in a noisier and snottier squat party style, as heard on this tape with added emphasis on the noise and freaky experimentation.

This stuff delivers a nostalgic cosh to the frontal cortex, catapulting us back to a strange run of time when it was hard to find proper old skool jungle and hardcore (as opposed to ubiquitous 2-step D&B) and producers such as Lasterfahrer stepped in to plug a gap in the market and give us something nutty to dance to. Across this 60 minute tape he cycles thru all the pranging amens, gabbercore onslaughts and rave madness you could hope for, but persistently breaking up the rufige with mercurial detours into dungeon synth, radiophonic electronics and sampled cartoon/movie dialogue to keep ravers right on their toes.

Track ID please!
A SIDE
[00:00] - is an untitled track from studies in 2019, it’s numbered 3
[03:20] - cut from a live performance with a modular in bremen 2013,
that has been also used for a soundtrack ‚das glück der lücke‘ a movie
by marco trenkwalder [05:38] unrealeased interlude by a track called
acid-4-136 [06:05] unreleased track called superfunk from 2012 [07:25]
unreleased track called drone2 from 2014 [07:53] piece for a performance
at thalia theater hamburg from 2010 [11:27] track called zugbreak
released on fukdup records in 2014 [15:47] unreleased track called
tracks for doors 1 from 2015 [19:48] unreleased take called sequence200
from 2014 [20:34] unreleased track called spikes new schampoo from 2014
[23:12] a dope track called raptrack from 2015 [24:10] Plexi Structure
Dub 2 released by sozialistischer plattenbau as download [24:20] a
experimental study called untitled_1 from 2019 [27:14] another cut from
the modular live recording in bremen 2013
B SIDE
[00:00] pepi house megamix released in 2006 on The Rabbit In Me ep on
sozialistischer plattenbau [01:24] unreleased track Kuddeling With My
Bass from 2005 [03:51] Proud Of What reelased in 2003 on What Do You
Think ep on sprengstoff records [06:44] unreleased track called
Interlude Jungle 4 3019-3 from 2019 [07:50] One Billion Suckers released
in a different version on Les Lois De L’hostilite on sozialistischer
plattenbau 2019 [12:04] called Oldschool Piano made in 2005 and released
in 2019 on Les Lois De L’hostilite on sozialistischer plattenbau [16:52]
unreleased track called Kool Hardcore Operator from 2006 [20:34]
unreleased track called Back 2 The Streets from 2008 [24:09] Get Slick
Like Hardcore Shit released 2009 on The System Works Because You Work on
sozialistischer plattenbau [27:13] King Size Dub released 2009 on The
System Works Because You Work on sozialistischer plattenbau

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