Dreamer and Doer
Prolific Renaissance man Sönke Moehl was born in the dark and stormy Hamburg, Germany of 1980. His youngest years were spent in a time when Germans feared the future, with the possibility of Cold War looming, all while accepting the new gadgets and styles of pop culture. A clash of light and dark; the fun, fluorescent culture contrasted by a general sense of “doom” caused by the global arms race helped form the artist known as Low Entropy.
Low Entropy is a pillar in the hardcore music scene—fruitful producer, record label owner, music curator, hardcore historian, and author—he has dedicated his time and talents to the gritty, grassroots of the electronic underground music scene, and stayed hardcore. He has built a community of like-minded individuals on his Hardcore Overdogs server, uniting them with a common love of hardcore music, then challenging them with project propositions and perplexing discussions. He has been educating the hardcore scene as a whole on his Hardcore Overdogs blog, making sure the intense, fiery history of hardcore has been recorded and shared.
While holding a huge respect for the past, Low Entropy is not stuck there. He owns the present with his bold, imaginative sound, and strives towards the future, creating new methods of music production, stretching and snapping genre boundaries, embracing new technology, such as AI. Always on the lookout for the next best thing, Low Entropy is a river that has never known how to sit still. There’s been a few years the river was low, but the current banks are spilling over.
Armed with a Commodore Amiga computer, Low Entropy began his first forays into music production at that skinned-knee, worm-collecting age of six. The early sounds of synth pop, rave music, and electro filled his early youth, but in 1995, when he was fourteen, he began hearing about hardcore—when he finally found it, he was shocked by it, discovering it on Alec Empire’s MTV show: the track “Speed” by Atari Teenage Riot.
By the time he was teen, punk music had laid the stage for hardcore, and in Germany, it surrounded him. He would have had to make a huge effort to turn away from that “noise” that popped up everywhere he went— Thunderdome CDs were being advertised on TV, Marc Arcardipane’s music was being played at fast food restaurants, and Laurent Ho’s DJ performance at Mayday was broadcasted nationally.
While the “mainstream” Dutch hardcore sounds of Thunderdome took over his country, Low Entropy was attracted to the more grimy, shadowy underbelly of the hardcore universe and began collecting music from labels such as Industrial Strength, Fischkopf, Anticore, Praxis, PCP, and DHR.
The itch to make his own hardcore grew until it was scratched in 1997—Low Entropy began producing hardcore at the age of 16. His first record was released in 1998; his first full EP in 2000. Some three thousand tracks later, and Low Entropy has not slowed down. His brakes went out sometime in the mid-2000’s, and he recently realized his emergency brake is broken.
Low Entropy’s psychedelic tracks are created with anarchist ideals in mind, and he has made hardcore in every sub-genre. He may have been known for speedcore, noizecore, and acid back in the day, but has evolved and mostly produces doomcore these days. As one of the leading producers in the doomcore genre, it made sense for him to start his own record label. So, he did—then started two more. Doomcore, Slowcore, and Omnicore are all labels known for their dark, haunting tracks with massive beats and expressive melodies.
In the 90’s, Low Entropy played his music out to big crowds, at memorable events such as the Fuckparade, and Tresor, and also participated in the throwing the ‘All-Out Demolition!’ parties, but these days most of his music sharing is done on the internet. He doesn’t really miss the party days as he sees such a huge potential on the internet, a global connection of the hardcore scene, and an ease of access to great and sometimes rare music through a quick search—it’s never been easier to be a gabber.
Over three million of Low Entropy’s tracks have been downloaded and enjoyed, but before the internet, gabbers had to rely on vinyl records to get their daily dose of hardcore. Low Entropy was no slouch in his contribution to DJs’ record crates—with releases on all of these record labels: Cdatakill, Viral Conspiracy, Ende, Legs Akimbo, New York Haunted, Pitch Dark, Noisj, Blut, Widerstand, Praxis, Black Monolith, and ZUUR. Newer, digital-only releases are featured on these record labels: Rotjecore, Gabbaret, Pitch Dark, and Uncompromising Analog Terror.
This past year has resulted in tremendous output. In 2025 alone, Low Entropy released two dozen digital albums and compilations on his three labels (by various artists), four sample packs, nine of his own albums, including a colored red vinyl on demonic wavs Records, published three non-fiction music books (adding to the library of seven books already published), created videos for his YouTube channel, designed countless fliers and works of art, participated in three Mixmarathons with his international DJ crew the Gabber Elders, put out quite a few DJ sets, programmed his 2023 invention of “DJ AI” to make more music, began the “Walking through a Doomed Forest” YouTube series, and wrote so many blog posts!
Goals for 2026 include a Hardcore Overdogs Radio show, similar to the Hamburg Hardcore Radio show he had co-created and hosted in the 90’s, more great informational posts on Hardcore Overdogs, DJ sets, albums, creating AI videos, inventing new genres of electronic music, working with other musicians on new projects, and of course, keeping Hardcore alive!
On a personal note, this sober hard-working producer likes to get fresh air and exercise by biking around his seaport city of Hamburg and hiking its haunted forests. He enjoys nature, animals, vegetarian cooking, chatting online with his friends, and the occasional movie.
Quote from Low Entropy:
“Hardcore is very similar to the Punk attitude, with the ‘Fuck All’ sentiment of many Hardcore tracks, and rebellion and questioning social structures and authorities… if you do anarchist or revolutionary music, you can change society towards better goals.”
No AI was used in this article. Article written by Charm Dreier. Sources include Sönke Moehl, and these interviews/biographies:
https://thehardcoreoverdogs.blogspot.com/2023/06/low-entropy-interview-2021.html
https://hcbxcast.blogspot.com/2025/08/
https://lowentropyproducer.blogspot.com/2025/01/low-entropy-bio-and-merits.html
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