2025 Top 3 – Readers List
We take the chance to thank you, our readers, for your continuous support and we also have a look at what you enjoyed the most on hipodrome. This is a summary of the top 3 albums, compilations and recordings that you liked the most last year.
Continue reading “2025 Top 3 – Readers List”2025 Best Tracks part. 10 (of 10)
We present our favorite tracks from 2025, more or less in a chronological order and finally we are at the last set of 10 tracks.
Troy – Echoes of Ancient Life LP [INF028]
Dutch techno producer Troy, has long been a steady presence in the deeper realms of contemporary techno. Known for his timeless sound on labels such as Klockworks, Non Series, and KEY Vinyl, Troy continues to explore the intersection of raw energy and refined sound design on his first Double EP ‘Echoes of Ancient Life’ on Function’s Infrastructure New York. Across these 8 tracks, Troy constructs a continuum between the mystical and the mechanical: deep, tunneling synth lines, evolving textures, and precise rhythmic flow pushing his punchy techno sound to the next level.
Deniro – 4 Cities EP [TAPE017]
Deniro is back on his own label with 4 tracks inspired by 4 cities around the world. ‘Detroit’ opens with deep Motor City techno laced with soft acid and subtle bird calls that bring an organic feel. ‘Amsterdam’ leans more into the drums but is still a warm, supple sound with late night serenity in the pads and ‘Birmingham’ cuts more loose and has taught techno and spangled synth lines. ‘Paris’ has a classic touch with warm surges of synth and icy hi hats that are oversized and jazzy.
Arnaud Rebotini & Acid Washed – Artificial Darwinism (A) [LAXBLACK03]
Skylax Records presents the second chapter in a landmark 4-part saga — a secretive and conceptual series uniting two titans of French electronic music: Arnaud Rebotini & Acid Washed. Following the acclaimed Winter Sequences (LAXBLACK 01) and Rebotini’s Musical Component, SKYLAX BLACK 3 pushes further into cinematic rave, electro, and techno territory. On the A-side, Artificial Darwinism ignites the EP with raw intensity — fusing early 2000s Blackstrobe energy, UR aggression, and cold wave tension into a hypnotic, funk-laced ritual. They Are Coming follows with darker, driving techno — mechanical yet alive, pulsing with paranoia and urgency. Flip to the B-side for Space Time 303, a dreamy ambient-acid trip evoking early R&S and IDM — ethereal, timeless, and drifting through time. Closing the EP, A Comet in the Northern Sky delivers melancholic electro in the spirit of Dopplereffekt and Drexciya, elevated by Rebotini’s analog mastery. A visionary statement — intelligent, bold, and essential.
Versalife – Crack City [RET017]
Rotterdam Electronix continues their journey in the realm of Electro teaming up with profound producer and city inhabitant Versalife. The Crack City EP contains four versatile Electro tracks with each a distinct mood that covers the different elements of the harbour city in presents times. hard, rough to playful and joyful.
Elektrotechnik – Fictional Reality EP [ABSTRCTRTM012]
‘Fictional Reality’ is the new EP from Elektrotechnik. The EP contains five original tracks and one remix by LDI Records label head Lloyd Stellar. Track “Delta” sets the right mood straight away with its nice warm and atmospheric pads, while “Options” already brings in the energy for the dancefloor. The A Side closes with the track “Electro”, a real old school style Electro hymn. For his remix of “Electro” on B1, Lloyd Stellar focusses on a few elements of the original track and creates a totally new groove. The tracks “A.I.” and “Primate Dance” are both energetic, eclectic and round up the EP in a perfect way..
Afrobot – Rough Afro Edits [Afrobotic Musicology]
After years of lighting up dance floors around Europe and beyond, Afrobot it’s finally opening the vault. Dozens of unreleased edits – tested in sweaty rooms, peak-time moments, and long nights between 2009 and 2020 – are coming out at last. This new compilation series will travel through Disco, New Wave, Bollywood, Caribbean sounds, and electronic Afro mutations. Raw cuts. Heavy grooves. Dance-floor weapons.
Grupo Um – Nineteen Seventy Seven LP [FARO254LP]
Brazilian avant-jazz vanguardists Grupo Um celebrate their 50th anniversary, sharing a second previously lost 1970s album from the vaults. Nineteen Seventy Seven (titled after the year it was recorded) is another rip-roaring instrumental fusion treasure from the band which spawned from within Hermeto Pascoal’s famed mid-1970s São Paulo collective. Like their debut album Starting Point, Grupo Um’s Nineteen Seventy Seven was recorded when Brazil’s military dictatorship was at its most repressive. “There were no open doors to those who dreamt to be protagonists in creative instrumental music”, remembers drummer Zé Eduardo Nazario, “even popular composers and singers had to submit their songs to censors and many records were banned and confiscated from the stores.”
Sweater On Polo – Almighty Grand Essence LP [LIES-222]
NYC’s Sweater on Polo follows up his acclaimed L.I.E.S. 12 inch from 2023 with debut full length double LP, “Almighty Grand Essence”. This is pure to form 1985-1988 Chicago House worship, and while many have attempted to recreate this sound, most fail to deliver with correct reverence. Names like Saunders, Mixx, Virgo Four, undoubtedly appear in this conversation with Sweater on Polo taking cues and transforming the vintage sound into re-imagined dancefloor classics. Raw but clean, psychedelic but functional…this nine track record can move the crowd in all the right ways, with the lush deepness of “The Creation” to the nu-wave-house hybrid of “Proto Wave” or BMX beat track closer Psychotic Seance, its rare to find a young producer tapping into the vaults in such a focused, effective manner.
UFO95 – A Brutalist Dystopian Society part 2 LP [MORDLP005]
Sometimes you’ve just got to point things out for what they are. Brussels-based, French born UFO95 does so impressively on the second instalment of his brutalist architecture-inspired series, framing producer and DJ as alien abductee and diagnosing the current world state from an extranormal perspective. Techno with narrative suffers much unfair derision, so this album is very welcome: the saturated ambience of ‘Dystopie’ sounds like a Heptapod’s warning blasted over glacier valleys, while everything from there is an invasion in churning waves, like the many bulldozing arms of a self-replicating war machine.
Gockel – Otorongo [PATENT002]
Gockel steps out with Otorongo, a 4-track EP of deep, dub-infused techno touched with Detroit spirit. Heavy low-ends, driving rhythms, and atmospheric layers make this one built for heads and dancefloors alike. Each track carries its own depth and character, yet together they form a powerful and immersive journey.
Intergalactic Gary – Diffuse Reality Podcast 291
Futuristic Dancer – Espacio Profundo EP [NOP019]
Futuristic Dancer charts a course into the unknown, delivering Espacio Profundo: a sonic odyssey that explores the thin line between neural architecture and the vastness of the cosmos. While the title evokes the sidereal void, the music fills the distance with a pulsing force, transforming the silence of the universe into a manifesto for the future of the dancefloor. Espacio Profundo is more than just an album; it is a sonic artifact designed for those seeking transcendence beyond the atmosphere. Futuristic Dancer has crafted the perfect soundtrack for the next human evolution, where rhythm becomes the only possible compass in the darkness of space.
Intergalactic Gary b2b Mowgli @ Time Is The New Space (Rotterdam) 30.01.2026
Intergalactic Gary @ Disco Církev (Prague) 12.12.2025
Bobby O – Rarities Vol. 1 [IDL076]
Bobby Orlando is regarded as the innovator in the hi-NRG genre for developing his signature sound. In the early years he became famous for his hits with Divine, The Flirts and The Pet Shop Boys. During the years 1987 and 1988 he created more obscure tracks, which are really hard to find on vinyl. On this compilation you will find 4 of those tracks in full versions. Nancy Dean comes in the exclusive BobCat Remix.
Jay Bliss @ Wax Lounge 2026
Kid Machine – Melodia LP
Kid Machine’s 9th album featuring more deep space Electro Italo rarities. This is 3rd in the current series of albums of this kind.
DayVentura – Fashion District [SLOMO056S]
DayVentura anticipates his debut EP on Slow Motion with “Fashion District”. Wrong Era affiliate and Italo, Electro icon Leona Jacewska, joins DayVentura in this driving collaboration dripping in infectious sleaze. His signature percussion rides through with Leona’s enigmatic synths and commanding vocals. Marta Paradise joins this explosive release with their arcane, simmering ‘Midnite Compulsion Dub’. Keeping the augmented synths at the forefront, they swim in the murkier depths of the track, building upon the vocals of the original, letting instrumentation brood with their glistening Italo class.
FLML – Heavy Land [ALV013]
Uncompromising 2 tracker from the duo FLML, recorded live in their studio through the use of analog synthesizers and drum machine. Both tracks draw influences from early Detroit techno and Chicago acid, moving towards wild trippy and gloomy sonic palette.
Bobby Dreams – The Signal [NICE005]
All Nice Records returns with NICE005, the second release from label co-founder Bobby Dreams, a five-track excursion through deep, functional, and emotionally rich house music.
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