Society Suckers are breakcore

Breakcore

Breakcore is a style of electronic music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and Intelligent dance music. Its sound is largely characterized by a high-tempo, well-timed mingling of distorted kick drums , break beats arranged from samples of the Amen break, and audio samples from a...

 producers Christian Gierden and Nishinga

Their 1997 debut 12" "Anti-carnivore" featured ultrahigh frequency melodies and breakbeats. Live they use turntable

Phonograph

The phonograph record player, or gramophone is a device introduced in 1877 that has had continued common use for reproducing sound recordings, although when first developed, the phonograph was used to both record and reproduce sounds...

s and electronic instruments together to make something in between breakcore

Breakcore

Breakcore is a style of electronic music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and Intelligent dance music. Its sound is largely characterized by a high-tempo, well-timed mingling of distorted kick drums , break beats arranged from samples of the Amen break, and audio samples from a...

, rave

Rave

Rave, rave dance, and rave party are parties that originated mostly from acid house parties, which featured fast-paced electronic music and light shows. At these parties people dance and socialize to dance music played by disc jockeys and occasionally live performers...

, punk

Punk rock

Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...

 and noise

Noise

In common use, the word noise means any unwanted sound. In both analog and digital electronics, noise is random unwanted perturbation to a wanted signal; it is called noise as a generalisation of the acoustic noise heard when listening to a weak radio transmission with significant electrical noise...

.

They have done many live performances in Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

 and some in North America

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

, sharing line-ups with Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares

Venetian Snares is the main performing alias of Canadian electronic musician Aaron Funk .From Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Funk is known for making electronic music often in odd numbered time signatures...

, DJ Scud

DJ Scud

DJ Scud is an alias of South London breakcore producer and DJ Toby Reynolds. In 1997 he started the influential breakcore record label Ambush records...

, Patric Catani, Kid 606, din-st, DJ /rupture

DJ /rupture

DJ /rupture is the pseudonym of Jace Clayton, a New York-based American DJ and producer. He used to play in the drum and bass collective Toneburst, and DJ'ed in Boston during the late 1990s...

, Hrvatski

Hrvatski

In Croatian, hrvatski is the masculine adjectival form meaning "Croatian", used in the same form for plural and singular. Feminine forms are hrvatska and hrvatske...

, Drop the Lime

Drop the Lime

Drop the Lime, is an electronic producer and DJ and founder of dance label Trouble & Bass. Drop the Lime's new material and DJ sets also feature live vocals on original compositions....

, and Melt Banana amongst others. They have released on labels including Mental Ind., Kool.POP, Lux Nigra, Peace Off and Amex.

Discography

• Anti-Carnivore EP (1997, kool.POP)
• Die Strafe Steht Immer Im Verhältnis Zur Schwere Des Vergehens (Ohm 52)
• Not The Suckers Again (kool.POP)
• United On The Warpath (Peace Off)
• Abdullah K / Society Suckers Split E.P. (Amex)
• Le Ragazze Hanno Ancora Sete (Mental.Ind.Records)

External links

• www.society-suckers.com - Official website
• Society Suckers @ Discogs.com - Discography