First of all, let us start by saying thanks for everyone who made it out to Anime Central 2011 and showed their support. The party was easily the biggest and most successful yet, and we’ll for sure be back for an even bigger even in 2012. Hopefully we’ll be able to announce much earlier for next year so everyone can plan to attend.

As for the shop and updates to it, we’ll be reopening with the existing inventory along with some new albums from Allkore, NoKore, RDC Records, and others within the next week. We’re currently waiting for all inventory to get back to our office in California from Chicago. We’ll be adding more new items in the near future once we have our budgets worked out and situated. We’re also in the process of putting together a preorder system for future M3, Comiket and other significant release dates so you all can secure your copies of the CDs at the same low costs we’ve always tried to offer, with more convenient shipping options.

Keep an eye out for developments within the week, and thanks again to everyone who made it out to ACen to hang with us!

We’re a bit late with the announcements this year due to so much going on on our end, but we’re officially announcing HARDCORE SYNERGY 2011 at Anime Central in Rosemont, IL! Starting Friday May 21, 2011 @ 9:00pm in the Hyatt Regency O’Hare Ballroom (same location as last year), we’re throwing the party in a bit of a different direction than the previous few years. In an effort to promote the best talent in the Japanese Hardcore and Underground Electronic Music scene we’re bringing out DJs spanning several genres and labels, many of which are new to the HARDCORE SYNERGY family.

HARDCORE SYNERGY @ Anime Central 2011
Hyatt Regency O’Hare – Rosemont Ballroom
Friday May 20th, 2011 – OPEN/CLOSE: 9:00pm ~ TBA

DJs/LIVE P.A.

DJ CHUCKY (GUHROOVY)
kors k (S2TB Recording)
M-Project (TERRAFORM MUSIC)
GUHROOVY
NO+CHIN (GUHROOVY)
Bokusatsu Shoujo Koubou (MOB SQUAD TOKYO)
RAVEMAN (Aural Vampire/Avex)
TANUKI (MOB SQUAD TOKYO)

We may have a few more announcements regarding the lineup in the next couple days so keep an eye out!

We apologize in advance for the late notice, but due to the holiday there has been some slight shipping delays. Nick and I have both been out of town for Christmas and New Years. All orders placed from 12/22/10 – 1/1/11 have been shipped today.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

M-Project is playing santa this year and it looks like everyone has been good! His gift to you all is a special X-Mas Mix made especially for the holiday!

[Title] M-Project - X-Mas Mix 2010
[Download] http://soundcloud.com/m-project_suzumoto/m-project-xmas-mix-2010

01. PAUL LOKURA and DJ BAROK / So What

02. Brisk & Ham / Run For Cover

03. Scott Brown / Commence

04. DJ DEPATH & M-Project / Pulse Vision (Ruboy Remix)

05. Alex Laser & Dj Lobo / La Luz

06. Spor vs. Gammer / Stompbox Vampires (JAKAZiD Mashup)

07. Pendulum / Salt In The Wounds

08. M-Project / Blue Lotus (DJ Ronny Remix)

09. HENDRI / I KNOW YOU WANT ME

10. DJ ANDY / LAST TRAIN UNIVERSE X-FILE

11. Cyber DJ / BASS OF FUNK 2010

12. DJ NICKO / Hava Nagila

13. Caramell / Caramelldansen (DJ SHIMAMURA Remix)

14. JAKAZiD / Hear The Crowd Go!

15. DJ Et3rn1*T / ANATA 2010

16. Brisk & Ham / Daybreaker

17. DJ Marc Smith & Gammer / Building Shaker

18. Brisk & Stormtrooper / Grumblebum

19. Meccano Twins / Pain & Fear

20. M-Project / Distorted Mind (Hellsystem Remix)

We’ve been working on getting all of the samples up on the website since we opened and as of today we’re a bit over half way there. The following labels are all in place with samples available for each album.

• ALiCE’S EMOTiON
• ALLKORE
• BURNING CHROME RECORDS
• Black Label Records
• DYNASTY RECORDS
• ELECTRONICA EXPOSED
• ENERGIZE JP RECORDS
• FULL CIRCLE RECORDINGS
• GABBADISCO
• HIGH EMOTION/HEB
• AVSS
• OTOMEKAN
• SHOT MUSIC
• HARDCORE TANO*C

We’ll be finishing up the rest throughout the week, and we’ll make sure to post an update as new labels are completed so you all can check them out!

The first release from US Makina label Makinaforce Recordings is going to be dropping soon! Featuring tracks by M-Project and DJ Technetium as well as other top Makina producers from around the world, this looks like an explosive debut from what hopefully becomes a mainstay label in the makina scene!

[Title] MAKINA HARDCORE PANDEMIC
[Label] Makinaforce Recordings
[CatNo] MKFE1
[Price] TBA
[RlsDt] 1/11/2011

01. UVPX / Everlasting

02. DJ Gary MC VS DJ Serna & DJ Ruboy / El Taxo

03. M-Project / Route 143

04. Obsys / Nature of Sound

05. DJ Gary MC / Movimiento (PJ Makina Version)

06. Ray & Suly / Oclusion

07. PJ Makina / Highway 61

08. Overdrive Electronic Records / Live Without You

09. Xavi BCN & Hase / Molecular

10. DJ-Technetium / Tc-ma_014

11. DJ Kapital / No Limits

We did the final bit of testing for the shop itself this morning, and rather than keep everything unannounced until we finish things up like samples and smaller features, we wanted to let you all know that you now can place orders on the shop and shipping will begin tomorrow (Monday, Dec. 13, 2010)! Over the course of the week we’ll be posting smaller updates letting you know which labels we’ve added samples for, what new features have been opened up, and some more details on upcoming promotions. Currently we only accept paypal due to conflict with our merchant service provider, we will be finding another solution soon.

Also, as promised, all items in the shop are 10% off from now until the end of January!

The navigation is pretty straight forward, Artists allows you to search for albums produced or mixed by the artist in question, and labels displays all albums in a particular label. The search bar will also show things on an album level (catalog number, label, album name, artist). Soon we’ll be adding the functionality to search for individual songs on an album or artists that have tracks featured on an album.

Just to start off the samples list by the way, currently the following labels have MOST (if not all) samples available for their catalogs:

ALiCE’S EMOTiON
AllKore
Burning Chrome Records
BL Records
Dynasty Records
Energize JP Records
Electronica Exposed
Full Circle Recordings

If you have any questions or problems with the ordering process, please let us know at service@mydjsobad.com! We hope you all enjoy the new shop and all of the new features and inventory we’ll be adding in the coming weeks!

Note: We’re aware of a bug where out of stock inventory doesn’t denote itself as being out of stock until after you try to add to cart. This is due to the 10% discount code we have in place and will be corrected shortly.

Burning Chrome Records is dropping another collection of the best recent Makina tracks this December. Included in this collection is a new track by DJ DEPATH & M-Project, along with a new remix of fan-favorite “Overpowering Enemies”.

[Title] UNDERGROUND MAKINA CONNECTIONZ VOL.6
[Label] Burning Chrome Records
[CatNo] BCCOMP006
[Price] TBA
[RlsDt] TBA

01. RAUL LOKURA and DJ BAROK / So What (Hard Remix)

02. HINOKURA / Extract from universe

03. DJ JOS-L / Al.Lot Melody

04. DJ DEPATH & M-Project / Overpowering Enemies (Ruboy Rmx 2010)

05. DJ JOS-L / Aikon

06. RAUL LOKURA and DJ BAROK / The cyber synth

07. DJ JOS-L / Tattoo (Hard Remix)

08. MAT3OR / No Name

09. DJ FIRES / Blue Fire

10. DJ DEPATH & M-Project / Let’s Rock

11.  DJ FIRES / Essence

Today MOB SQUAD TOKYO announced the latest installment of the J-CORE MASTERZ series. Following up on the amazing lineup from JCM7, J-CORE MASTERZ VOL.8 features several label mainstays contributing brand new tracks, and a re-mastered version of M-Project’s track from Purotura Record’s 4th release.

[Title] J-CORE MASTERZ VOL.8
[Label] MOB SQUAD TOKYO
[CatNo] MSTBL030
[Price] TBA
[RlsDt] TBA

01.DJ Shoujo / Story

02.DJ Schwarzenegger / BUZZ SHAKER

03. TANUKI / Come On

04. 204 / Show the limit

05. Donk Terrorist / Joy

06. Black Ace / Narutofag

07. M-Project / Chasing The White Rabbit (Remaster)

08. ANA / Comeback again

09. RoughSketch /

10. Filthy / OsiriForever

11. OZIGIRI / Death From Above

12. Sub-69 / ponchatribe

13. 撲殺少女工房 / Floor Quest

14. ディスク百合おん / 先月、世田谷の某コンビニで大友康平さんを目撃しました

15. BUBBLE-B / サイコメトラー英二 アシッド番長MIX

Coming out in Japan soon (likely at the X-TREME HARD event on Dec. 18th) is a “new” release from MADDEST CHICK’NDOM compiling some great tracks from a number of artists that have been featured on the label. MADDEST SAMPLER VOL.1 is like a gateway into some of the most hardcore tunes coming out of Japan year after year.

[Title] MADDEST SAMPLER VOL.1
[Label] MADDEST CHICK'NDOM
[CatNo] MDSTCD029
[Price] TBA
[RlsDt] TBA

01. Killing Scum / Side Story In The Early Morning

02. Sub-69 / fuck it all

03. WARST / Jihad

04. AKIRADEATH / GAME

05. m1dy / Ainthejp

06. 撲殺少女工房 / Bokusatsu Strike Kill

07. DJ Myosuke / Greatest freak out gabber

08. OZIGIRI / Clay Penguin Terror

09. WARST / 100 Giga Saviour

10. m1dy / KIDANGER

11. MOCONORB / Takiguchi Asako 2007

12. DJ Myosuke / Electro shocking

13. DJ CHUCKY / ADDICTED TO THE CORE

14. WARST / Lazy Days

15. 撲殺少女工房 / 虐待系絵師

16. AKIRADEATH / Dope Heads

17. MOCONORB / The Rapeman

18. AKIRADEATH / SLEEPER

19. 撲殺少女工房 / Electro Blastro 2

20. Sub-69 / hate summer

21. MOCONORB / グラップラー野毛

22. SPINELIAR / Bohemian_Rhapsody

23. m1dy / Vietnam Emperor

24. m1dy feat. M-Project / Squid Vs Pantyhose