Peter Kurten

Peter Kurten is the stage name of Belgian producer and DJ Pierre Colmant. He works in drum and bass with a focus on darker styles, and also produces gabber and jungle material. He is based in Dour, Belgium, and performs and releases under the name Peter Kurten.

Public biographical detail beyond his location and stage name is limited. What is verifiable: he is a member of the group Antichristus, and he has released music on a string of labels across the harder end of the spectrum — Black Hoe Recordings, Independenza Recordings, Evil Beats Recordings, Nightmare Recordings, Zardonic Recordings, Manticore Recordings, M-Atome Recordings, Melting Pot Recordings and Cyba Drum Recordings.

Musically, Kurten’s output sits in the darker, harder registers of drum and bass and jungle. On his label releases you’ll find production choices that aim for weight and aggression: punchy, distorted kick and bass layers, short edited breakbeats and amen-style chopping, and dense, industrial atmospheres. He often balances low-end sub weight with midrange distortion and sample-driven textures; that combination gives tracks a hard, club-oriented presence while keeping percussion detailed and chopped.

As a producer he leans on heavy processing and saturation to push sounds forward — parallel compression on drums, aggressive distortion on basslines, and reverb/delay used to carve space for abrasive atmospherics. Where jungle elements appear, they are implemented through cut-up break edits and chopped vocal samples rather than long, melodic passages. Tracks released on labels like Nightmare and Zardonic Recordings demonstrate this approach: fast, tight percussion, gritty bass design and an emphasis on impact over polish.

In the scene his verifiable contributions are the recorded output and his participation in Antichristus. The list of labels above documents that output across a range of imprints known for heavy, darker electronic music; those releases are the primary public record of his work. Specific single or album titles are not widely documented in public sources provided here.

No detailed, sourced list of personal influences is publicly available in the materials given. What can be seen from his catalog and label relationships is a clear alignment with producers and imprints who favour dark, aggressive drum and bass, gabber and jungle aesthetics rather than liquid or melodic substyles.