One of the most profilic producers of interesting and experimental hardcore in the 90s was Lasse Steen, who not only spread his output on many of the key labels, but also created many labels of his own. he produced under various forms of music; sometimes closer to speedcore, sometimes closer to techno, but a main factor was pounding drums, piercing acid lines and abstract, spacey synth routines. in fact, i'd say a lot of his output is close to the atmosphere of movie scores, and for sure could be used in this way.
i knew some people who did mind that he often gave in to 4/4 brutality and were eager to lump him into the generic "hardcore techno" category but to me, these rhythms and techno appeal were a further plus on his music.with his net of releases and sub- and subsublabels he created his own dark catacomb of dark hardcore releases that are waiting to be explored. i must say his killing rate output harmonizes the most with me; often arhythmic beats, with some of the most deliberate cybernoid melodies and techno FX. check his "fraud" output for rough and fast terrorising tunes (as well as melancholic ones). or sut rov for very pounding, noizy hardcore. or his guest releases on acid assault for some of the finest in dreamy acid techno - before that genre became so big.
and don't forget a visit on drop bass network for just purely teethgnashing dirty gritty hardacid.
Lasse could be also known as "the man with 100" names as he is known as a person with some of the most aliases in both the techno and hardcore world, similiar to martin damm, and is only topped by acardipane with this.
Lasse definately had a distinct style of his own. while this music is mostly associated with acidcore now, it is by far more diverse than just this style.
his harder tunes were quite popular in the days and got played a lot on parties, and give a good expression of how experimental hardcore could sound like. nowadays he is doing trance music and we wish him much luck with that.
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