Opposing Forces – Casualties Of War

Music For The Future is a great Artcore styled Gabber track. It starts off with a long section of high end Gabber kickdrums with a high end tail. There's an out of place German (movie) sample talking about the future, with what he says, he was both right and wrong at the same time. The main synth riff is a wonderful high pitched Alpha Juno melody that rotates on itself, making the melody more intense and a lot of fun listening to. The entire middle is dedicated to the rise and fall of an epic Acid synth line, that also sounds wonderful. The Alpha Juno melody returns to cause more damage to the kickdrum, towards the end of the synth pattern is a really cool extra loud small stab as if its winding up the melody. Music For The Future is a top quality Gabber track by Dennis M, he would later go on to make a different style of Hardcore with label mate Da T-MC under Da Bulldozer Project.

Vive La France is an unusual tune to be included on Coolman Records. I can only assume DJ Rob (the owner of Coolman Records) was a fan of the song and licensed it to his label. Vive La France has a very basic keyboard riff that gets boring very quickly. The highlight is the unnerving breakdown and the loud keyboard stabs that last about 10 seconds. I don't like this song at all, but it got heavy rotation by the Hardcore DJs and unfortunately its a bit of a Early Hardcore "anthem", so it's noteworthy for those reasons.

A Coolman Records documentary in Dutch, for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f16cY-WejQ