Real name: Patrick van Kerckhoven

Effective period / Period of releases: 2019 - 2022

The Ruffneck Prime project could be best described as powerful original techno, comprising of fierce drum patterns, rolling rhythms and powerful melody-lines in a variety of styles ranging from hard industrial based techno with unsettling. ambiance all the way up to deep pounding eerie acid techno and anything in between.

Underground veteran and founding father of the hardcore sound Patrick van Kerckhoven started his first label back in 1989 called 80 Aum records and had several cult hits under his belt before moving on to form the Hardcore techno sound, better known as gabber in the early nineties.
Countless hits have been released on his famous Ruffneck Records & Enzyme Records label under an insane amount of aliases.