THERE IS ONLY ONE ABSOLUTE TRUTH

WHO'S TRUTH IS TRUE?

FIGHT TO THE DEATH.

There will be *NO* overlapping of Scott, Omar, or Hellstorm's sets. Those who want to experience all three will be able to.

As far as locals go, I'm really excited to hear

Galaksy (been too long since i heard some retardedly hard drum & bass thrown down)

Corey K (a special oldschool hardcore set? fucking rooty! Corey is stoked to drop this shit on us)

DJ Mad (he stole the show at HAF4, his hard trance is just amazing)

Moebius (never got to hear this guy on a really big system ... his shit is simply relentless!)

Clown (stole the show at HAF:XXX ... got himself and the crowd jumping all over the place)

Fucktop (the man behind Trance-NRG now ... eager to hear what he's got in store for us! Big room hard dance)

Really, this is about the best lineup ever ... as much as i'm excited for the headliners, the locals are gonna kill!

Final lineup announced!

HARD

SCOTT BROWN (UK)
Hardcore / Happy Hardcore
Evolution Records

PSYKLONE (TO)
Hardcore / Freeform
Goodfellaz Productions

E.N.D. (TO)
Freeform
Goodfellaz Productions

TAMERAX (Sherbrooke)
Hard Trance / Hardstyle
SynergyCanada

DJ MAD
Special Hard as Fuck Trance Set
Transform Records / [ madstation.net ]

Doc Savage (Hard House)
DJ Emm (Energy Trance)
Galaksy (Drum & Bass)
Fucktop (Hard Dance)
Clown (Psy-Tech)
Lone Star (Freeform)
RaveDave (Hardstyle Trance)

HARDER

OMAR SANTANA (LA)
Hardcore / Hard Breaks
H20H Records / Tricked Out

HELLSTORM (NYC)
Hardcore / Hardstyle
H20H Records

MERKURIUS (QC City)
Newstyle Hardcore
Kanibalz Productions

EXT (Ottawa)
Gabber
SynergyCanada / TerrorInc

COREY K
Special Oldschool Hardcore Set
DNA Records

Fishead (Breakcore)
Iznogood (Iznostyle)
Sickness (Speedcore)
Moebius (Live Hardcore PA)
Mad-K (Hardcore)
Seïsmik (Gabber)
Frost (Industrial)

yeah about 4 years ago it became right on red everywhere in canada except montreal

Some people do what they enjoy, and it doesn't matter if it's in an office or somewhere else

do drugs. less visible. more fun.

Full lineup almost complete, just getting confirmation on a few last names

dress code is naked for all hot women

ahahaha awesome

We can't all be awesome like Ottawa

Dr Jo - We sometimes announce the HAF parties with the number - Hard as Fuck 1, Hard as Fuck 2, etc etc. Hard as Fuck 666 was just the teaser name of the event, to say that this is the 6th one and it's having to do with the devil.

Now we have announced the event's full name: Hard as Fuck : Le Masquarade Satanique. This name shows the full concept of the event and the idea behind the decoration, theme, and dress code.

Thanks for the info regarding the proper spelling ... we're getting someone who's very good in french to write up the flyer but I can't sort french verbs to save my life :p

What's booze prices like there?

Haven't done that in like 8 years

Okay yeah that was mean ... sorry

you could fuck the huge gash in his eyeball :-p

I'm staying at home ... got a feeling this is going to get ugly.

Just thought i'd drop in and say ... who's gonna riot tonight?

Yeah, it's our source of power.

Locking everything in, this is definately going to be the biggest and best Hard as Fuck ever.

Hey, I like my parties ... if i didn't, i wouldn't keep throwing them!

Hard as Fuck 3 and 4 were both amazing events ... Hard as Fuck 3's vibe was out of this world!

Working hard to make sure HAF6 will be on this list for many people soon

It's Ottawa that they're illegal. Toronto they're all over the place

Yeah really wicked


And you don't want a rainbow at eclipse because that means it was raining!

Looking forward to WEMF and Eclipse ... the two crazy ass parties i'm attending this summer in Canada :)

I definately have to go to a technival in france ... looks sick sick sick sick.

Katie - I ain't telling you unless you post some pics.

man ... no one's posting images ... come on people!

That's a pretty loose nose

10-11 Sickness
11-12 Kasper Klez
12-1 Satronica
1-3 Julian Liberator
3-4:30 Lenny Dee
4:30-5:30 Ext
5:30-6:30 Sarcastic
6:30-7:30 Iznogood
7:30-8:30 Doc Savage and Emm

Venue : Centre Artistic Fractale
Address: 7240 Clark
Metros : Jean Talon (Orange/Blue Lines) and Du Castlenau (Blue)

Capacity: BIG!!!!
Tickets at the door: $20

Infoline: 1-888-RAVE-050

Check out the article in the Hour!


[ www.hour.ca ]

now i'm intruigued...

Check it out! Full feature article on Lenny Dee in The Hour
[ www.hour.ca ]

War declared: Lenny Dee attacks Montreal
Steve Lalla

The king is back: NYC's Lenny Dee, who defined and directed the sound of hardcore through the 1990s, returns to Montreal this week for Hard as Fuck: World War V Friday night. Though Industrial Strength had slowed their operations to a near-halt through the early years of this millennium, hardcore and hard-techno audiences have been pleased to witness a recent rebirth of the label since 2003.
After hearing Lenny excitedly describe innumerable new projects over the phone from Brooklyn, it was blatantly obvious that his zeal for the label and the music has not diminished at all. In fact, with Dee now inspired by techno and experimental sounds, and beginning to feel the rewards of recent fusions with live music, he appears poised to reclaim a leading position in the resurgence of hard sounds in the international dance music community.

I asked Dee if perhaps the political climate in the U.S. had contributed to a weakening of the country's party scene. "Oh, for sure," Dee replied effusively. "With all these rave laws, where if a promoter fucking throws a party and they find one kid with a joint or an E, then the promoter's going to jail, and they don't want to let you serve water. They're making it so impossible to organize raves that no kid with a brain in his head will try. The party scene is not as big as it was, and I think there's a lot less interest from the younger kids, and I can't really fathom that 'cause when I was young and partying and going out I loved this kind of shit: techno,
hardcore, house music even. For the kids now I think it's a bit of 'seen it, done it,' or they assume it's a fucked-up drug party, when in fact it's really not."

In addition to the trickle-down effects of rave laws, a complete collapse of North American vinyl distributors in 2000-1 precipitated the temporary stagnation of Industrial Strength's regular operations. As if that wasn't enough, Lenny had to endure personal tribulations that brought his own productions to a standstill.

"We had another bad problem which slowed us down after Sept. 11," he explained. "Not only did our home office get a little fucked, setting things back a bit, but shortly after there was a fire in the building where I had my studio, and my entire studio got destroyed!

"So what I did is, being in Europe all the time, I started making tracks with my friends on their labels while I was physically going to court with this guy to pay me my money in New York. That went on for so long that I thought, 'It's silly to keep waiting for this guy, I'm gonna have to sue him.' It was really bad. He started the fire because he had a sweatshop in the building and he didn't want to pay for electricity - one of those guys, so I should've known right there and then that I wasn't gonna get anything from this wanker."

Now, with distributions running exclusively through Europe and an increased presence online, Lenny and his label have weathered the storm, and with their return bring not only new ways of doing business, but also new sounds. Since 2003 Lenny has become more involved with techno music, slower paced than the 200 b.p.m. hardcore of yore, collaborating with, among others, 4X4 Records' Julian Liberator. Liberator accompanies Dee, along with Industrial Strength laptop/live hardcore act Satronica and a spate of leading local DJs, at Hard as Fuck: World War V this Friday, April 14 ($15 in advance; info: [ www.synergyraves.com ]