HCBXCast Vol 61 - GabberGirl - Merica: Home Of The Hardcore

GabberGirl is back, and she's bringing in a hardcore fireworks display for USA's Independence Day in the form of HCBX vol 61.  This set is a trip through the US (you know GG likes a themed set!) as she brings you her "Merica - Home of the Hardcore" set.

GG has been collaborating with HCBX since the New Year 90's Madness event at the beginning of 2025 and made her first HCBX appearance in March on Vol 49 where she did an excellent acid fuelled DBN inspired bumper set - this went down with the HCBX crew, and attracted a few new followers (cheers pal!). And more recently she featured on the Summertime Mixmarathon event along with Low Entropy, Nikaj and some other unknown Scottish DJ.

Back to present times - here's the bollocks I spraffed about her 4th July set on the flyer...

"GabberGirl makes her welcome return to HCBXCast with a special themed set for the 4th of July.  Last time, she spun a set of all Midwest Hardcorps heroes.  This time she goes nationwide in the US, bringing you her “’Merica - Home Of The Hardcore”.  This set celebrates some of the heavyweights of hardcore from over the pond, such as Tron, Delta 9, DOA, the Apocalypse crew and many more.  Get ready for 90 mins of rootin’ tootin’ muthafuckin’ hardcore. USA! USA!"

As you may or may not know I've started to do some interviews and articles on the back of these sets, but GG has literally just done a massive interview on Mr Low Entropy's excellent Hardcore Techno Overdogs blog... so I really didn't want to step on the lad's toes (since he's such a nice guy after all).  To compensate - here's the link to what is an excellent interview.  GG has a wealth of hardcore related stories over the years (many of which she's told in HCBX chats, so get yourself involved any time you see her on the chat!) so this is a quality read.

GabberGirl's Overdogs Interview

But I also had an online chat with GG about the set and the work and research she's put into what has turned out to be a wildly diverse (in style) and excellent trip through her homeland.

"I'm so excited for my Independence Day set.  I spun out the set a few times last weekend.  It is a really intense set.  I had to sit on it a couple days.  Last night I listened to one of the recordings and it was AWESOME.  

I just want to say this was a ridiculously hard set for me.  you know I spent weeks and months getting it ready.  I listened to whole discographies of some artists to pick one track.  I did tons of research.  I searched and searched for some tracks of artists who maybe only published a few in the 90's and are hard to find now.  It was a crazy fun adventure.  

The setlist itself has been meticulously planned by GG as it's been split into territories! 

"Once I had the tracks, I had another impossible task to order them.  There are all sorts of tempos and styles represented-- not just hardcore, but also breakcore, noizecore, hardcore techno, acid, speedcore, & doomcore.  I definitely dipped out of my comfort zone with the breakcore and noize.

Plus I wanted to do the regional grouping. This set is comprised by tracks created only by American hardcore producers.  First I hit you hard with the Midwest at 180, back it up to 145 to 160 for a few tracks, then murder you with some 240 as the Midwest heads to the West Coast.  After a few tracks, it drops to 200 with some brutalizing west coast weirdcore, not letting up as we move to the East Coast and some 320 out of NYC.  It levels out again for a while at 200, then 240 for a few, ending at 270.

Oh yeah, I also mixed in 2 of my own tracks from the 90's that I had never released before."

Here are the tracks in all their glory!

MIDWEST

• Bombardier (Iowa)—Unchosen
• Delta 9 (Chicago)—Ground Zero
• The Demix (Milwaukee)—Regolith
• Doormouse (Milwaukee)—Acid Americano
• William Darkzyde (Wisconsin)—End of Days
• Bad Acid Cult (MN)/John F. Ketamine Remix (WI)—Adrift on Celestial Waves
• GabberGirl (Minneapolis)—Gambient Radio
• Laura Grabb (Detroit) & Freddy Fresh (Minneapolis)—Friendly Fuego
• Laura Grabb & Freddy Fresh—La Calendaria (Cuckoo)
• DJ Tron (Chicago)—Demon
• Delta 9—Control

WEST COAST

• Delta 9/Fiend Remix (SoCal)—Control
• GabberGirl (San Francisco)—Meter Murder
• Ron D Core (Los Angeles)—Fuck Deep House
• Flail (San Francisco)—Buckfaster
• Nakedslice (Oakland)—Desperados
• 396 (Oakland)—Fuck You
• Aneurysm (Oakland)—Back Up
• DJ Fiend (SoCal)—Asshole
• Deadly Buda & The Superstars Of Death (LA)—Beats Upon Your Brain

EAST COAST

• Hellz Army (Tyrant & DJ Churchshoes—New York City)— Terrorists Taliban
• Lesbians in their Burquas
• Satronica (Washington DC) & Narc (NY)—Jackrabbit
• Duran Duran Duran (Philadelphia)—Theme
• DJ Tense (NYC) & Deadnoise (AZ)—Dissolution
• Lenny Dee (NYC)—I Don’t Understand This
• Doormouse—1500 Micrograms
• Fury 8 (NYC)—In Her Burqua
• Bombardier (NYC)—Kamphetamine
• Disciples of Annihilation (NYC)—Unleash the Brutality
• Pussyfist (Baroness Jennylee & Jay Maniakal) & PTBS (NYC)—World Eaters
• Doormouse (Miami)—Spring Break Forever
• Amok (NYC)—Twenty Three
• DJ Repete (NYC)—Imortal Kombat
• Nevermind (NYC)—No Surrender (Larry Nevermind Remix)
• Flail (Philadelphia)—A Maze

As you can see from the set list there are some household names, but also some you may not be so familiar with.  Prepare to be educated on some US hardcore!

The momentum continues for GabberGirl with plenty of bookings on the horizon under GG and also her new alias Mechanical Clown.  Massive thanks for the set and hope all you punks enjoy!

Cheers

DJ Asylum