Rotterdam Termination Source – Poing

When this came out I was 12 playing a breakout clone named "Poing" on the Amiga. This game also came from the Netherlands. Coincidence? ;)

I wonder if the games title was the inspiration for the tracks title...

Maybe a nice track and all but dunno the hype at all . Similar to was made some time later with Plastik Man : Spastik . Really too repetitive to it's apogee . The real track that is overshadowed here is "Feyenoord" which was the anthem in Dutch football from Feyenoord , somehow what man European countries had during the early 90's with the Moby track "Thousand' which aired on every beginning of à football match .

RTS : Poing is like RTZ : Dance your Azz off as boring as ever .

The Phenomania remix is an awesome example of how the music was back in 1992 at 5am in Rotterdam

The De Bos Remix is classic 1998 hard house, still hits hard now.

I`m german so I this jumping sound from the cartoon "Die Biene Maja" as djmushroom said also very clearly. But from todays pov speaking does it really justify the hype around it? The main focus is only this ittedly interesting sound, but besides nothing else much, haha. Saying this with respect but for me when I hear this it has a certain flavor of infantility. I prefer a little the more diverse approach in the ROT 006 release.

I got it - it's the sound of Flip the grasshopper from the German 70s cartoon series "Biene Maja"!!!

The "Poing" sound is probably taken from "Schnaps Bonus" by Edelweiss (at least, they used the same sound for their track), which was featured on the 12 inch and CD maxi single release of "Bring Me Edelweiss" ("Schnaps Bonus" is only a rhythm track which is interrupted once in a while by some sound effects).

The closing "breaking glass" sound of "Poing" was also used as the intro of "He's a burglar" by Amii Stewart, track recorded for the "Paradise bird" album from 1979.

The track "Feyenoord" refers to the main Rotterdam football squad and was recorded as an answer to "Ajax is art" by Robbie & The Kock, Ajax being the main football squad of rivaling city Amsterdam.

The track "Poing" was a very important gabber track and did inspire other artists to make tracks which were inspired by this track. The 12" and cd-single sold a lot of copies all over the world, and the track "Poing" came out on a lot of cd's.

Later on it became one of the most annoying songs which were ever made as it stood a couple of years in the Dutch "Veronica's Flop Top 100".

I don't know what Maurice and Danny took before they sat down to make thise track. A mono "Poing" sample, that "sits" on a headbanging base-drum, and wash your brain for five and a half minutes.

How silly can you get?
What's the point in such minimalism?
Couldn't you waste your synthesizers on something a bit more complicated?
Did you realy think of making money from this peace of sh**?

Well... You probably was right :D
Redicules as hell, but It's still one of my favorite tracks. After many years, it keeps making me laugh every time I play it! :D

The funny thing was that this track has been follwed by many other tracks, with a similar idea:
for example - F.O.X - "Boing" (The "Boing" Sampled from a Classic Kraftwerk Record), Organic Substance - "Driplle" (based on a little sample, which is very femiliar to all the Macintosh s...)

Was this the start of the Hardcore-Rave scene?

has gone in history as the highest ranking hardcore track ever in the (commercial) dutch charts (1992).