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.
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.
Tom Carruthers – Trojan [RYDM196]
Tom Carruthers continues his highly prolific production strikes with the first of the year 2026 on his label Non Stop Rhythm.
Robert Henke – Layering Buddha [AI-41]
Astral Industries presents a vinyl reissue of Robert Henke’s multifaceted concept album ‘Layering Buddha’. An erudite masterclass on sampling and composition, ‘Layering Buddha’ encapsulates the material process of metamorphosis and a well of nascent, ever-present potentialities. Originally released in 2006, ‘Layering Buddha’ began with a curious encounter with the ‘Buddha Machine’ – a pocket-sized, battery powered playback device that, over the past two decades, has quietly achieved a cult status around the world. Conceived by the Beijing-based group FM3 (Christiaan Virant, Zhang Jian), the machine takes inspiration from Tibetan Buddhist prayer boxes and consists of nine sound loop compositions of varying length, which can be toggled with a single switch. Due to low production cost and manufacturing imperfections, each Buddha Machine is unique, giving slight variations in sound, pitch and duration. Using a state of the art A/D converter Henke made high quality recordings from a single machine, providing the source material for the album. Through various processing and arrangement methods, new pieces emerged, most of them all deriving from a single source loop. The pieces were then set up on the computer as generative arrangements, living as continuously permutating structures that could theoretically go on forever – just as the loops do within the Buddha Machines…
Group Modular – Hecker / Sharon [GMTWO]
Retro-futurist duo Group Modular presents the second release in its new 7inch series, powered by Confused Machines and Delights labels. On the new double-sider, Mule Driver and Markey Funk share their fascination with the late 20th century brutalist architecture and explore themes of geometric patterns, urbanistic utopia and its inevitable decay. “Hecker” is a dreamy yet uplifting short piece. Tirelessly building up in repetitive odd cycles, it portrays an imaginary time-lapse of a modern city’s perpetual development and renewal. On the flipside, slow and gentle “Sharon”, inspired by the sound of early 80s Bruton library, paints a melancholic and alienated picture of a late-night residential area.
Modern Sound Quartet – Italian Library Breaks [FLIESBX03]
The Modern Sound Quartet represents one of the most treasured, yet least documented, outfits in the history of Italian library music. An exceptional studio band of session musicians with a formidable groove, they released only a handful of albums under this name in the second half of the 1970s. However, their sound indelibly shaped dozens of “invisible” soundtracks, often without ever receiving an official credit on the back sleeve. Led by pianist and composer Oscar Rocchi, and featuring Andrea Surdi (drums), Luigi Cappellotto (bass), and Ernesto Verardi (guitar), the quartet embodies the more jazz-funk, cinematic, and irresistibly groovy side of the 1970s Milan scene. This boxset celebrates their funkiest side – an irresistible combination of incandescent drum breaks, tight grooves, and high-intensity fusion passages – bringing together some of the most sought-after tracks from legendary LPs.
Scam Dust – Gastric Pulse [PARAISO018]
Two Lisbon mainstays from contiguous generations join forces as Scam Dust for the new Paraíso record: Tiago, Lux Frágil resident, world-renowned DJ’s DJ and all-round music whizz plus Shcuro, Paraíso’s co-founder, scene documenter and impeccable selector & producer. Funnily enough they also live in contiguous beach towns in the outskirts of the capital, Parede and Carcavelos. That’s where they zig-zagged amid home-studios and, four hands in various machines, concocted this refreshingly to-the-bone record. Like a non-local entanglement between Lisbon, Sheffield, The Hague and somewhere in the American Midwest, ‘Gastric Pulse’ EP opens with a saturated, modulated acid line over a tight, industrial-tinged techno beat, peppered with sonic dirt of the highest order.
Skudge – Source EP [SKUDGE015]
Long serving Swedish techno cadet Elias Landberg aka Skudge returns to his own label with a release that feels cut into starker silhouette rather than softened by years spent refining his minimalist language.
Ingo Hammer – The Devil’s Hammer [INDUSTRIALLIES004]
Ingo Hammer delivers four devilishly great burners on Industrial Lies. This time, his satanic majesty drops the sleazy, pulsating ‘Kneejerk’ and ‘Insane’, rewires body music with the robotic ‘Chinois’ before riding the D train to hell and back on the breakin’ ‘New York’. Each one is a guaranteed dance floor ‘hammer’.
TLXCO – The Part [VOLREC001]
Dystopia is closer than you think and TLXCO is letting you know through this immersive electro experience dissolving anything calcified within at least a miles range. All four tracks are as mesmerizing in the club as during a listening session. The second version of the title track introduces more distorted acid and intensifies the feeling of impending dystopia, leaving you in an eerie place in the dark. The ground is more of an acid slow burner, useful in many situations on the dance floor.
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