Alan Dente – Dark Nebula [BAP059]

May 10, 2016October 24, 2023 hipodromealan dente, bordello a parigi, disco, italo-discoLeave a comment

Born in an X1/9 and raised on a diet of B-movies, Cerrone and fettuccine, French DJ and producer Alan Dente is the latest addition to the esteemed Bordello A Parigi roster. A full time member of Parisian party crew and digging experts Les Yeux Orange, Dente has spent the last few years tearing up the banlieues and blogosphere with a heady mix of disco, boogie, Italo and proto-house. After a life changing contribution to Manctalo institution Red Laser Records, Dente arrives at the Bordello in style with his dancefloor haute couture.

Macdonald Flak & The Ack Ack Pack – The Cortina Kidz [MR014]

May 10, 2016October 14, 2021 hipodromedisco, factory floor, house, juan maclean, macdonald flak, mr. intl, the ack ack pack, tim sweeneyLeave a comment

MACDONALD FLAK & THE ACK ACK PACK - The Cortina Kidz

Mr.intl have unearthed a lost gem. ‘Cortina Kidz’ is an utterly overlooked part of the tapestry of late 80’s British acid house history. Recorded in a cold water flat on Stoke Newington Road in 1987 and then released as a B-side in 1988, its eccentric spoken word overlay and weird lead vocal made it very unlike the prevailing dance music sound of the time. This is a unique recording whose time has come. That was until Mr.Intl, Andy Butler’s record label, made a chance discovery in 2015. It was a track so good that they pledged to resurrect it with interpretations from Factory Floor and NYC cohorts Juan Maclean & Tim Sweeney.

VA – Household Shocks LP [DE114]

May 9, 2016July 17, 2024 hipodromecompilation, dark entries records, defectors, fault 151, juveniles, minimal synth, mystery girls, new wave, one gang logic, post punk, product of reason, sinking ships, stark products, thunderboys, urbantechLeave a comment

Dark Entries present “Household Shocks”, a 16-track compilation of UK DIY/Synth/New Wave/Post-Punk originally released in 1980. The album showcases 9 bands from the thriving post-punk scene in Scunthorpe and the North of England. Operating on a shoestring budget, co-producers Chris Leaning and Paul Singleton (both of One Gang Logic), released “Household Shocks” on Stark Products, a label they founded in 1979. At almost 50 minutes of music, the album took four weeks to produce at the Studio Playground in Lincoln. It was supported heavily by the late Radio 1 DJ John Peel.

ZYX – Trust No Woman [DE112]

May 9, 2016July 17, 2024 hipodromealbum, dark entries records, inge graf, minimal synth, rca music, re-release, reissue, walter zyx, zyxLeave a comment

ZYX are the duo of Inge Graf and Walter Zyx. They formed in Vienna, Austria in 1977. Committing themselves to the “aestheticisation of everyday life” in all fields of art, their works with video, photography, graphic design, and music are visually influenced by Pop Art, Constructivism, Futurism, Dadaism, Beat culture, and the electronic rock of the 60s and 70s. They are considered pioneers of multimedia art worldwide, and continue to remain active to this day. ‘Trust No Woman’ is the debut album from ZYX, and was released in 1981 on the label RCA Music. It was recorded, mixed and mastered from March to August 1981 at their own Sun Moon & Stars Studio Vienna. They designed short, punchy songs around a barrage of analogue synths, rock-solid electro beats and tempered, low-key vocals. Cold and claustrophobic atmospheres collide with mechanical rhythms The songs are sung in English with a heavy German accent, and lyrics channel obscure existentialist dialogues. Despite the sombre tone, there lingers a touch of the enthusiasm that accompanied the influx of affordable technologies and new media of the era.

The KVB – Of Desire [INV150]

May 9, 2016June 16, 2025 hipodromealbum, invada records, kat day, minimal synth, new wave, nicholas wood, psychedelic, shoegaze, the kvbLeave a comment

Having begun life as a bedroom project for then Southampton-based Nicholas Wood to experiment with ideas around minimal electronica and shoegaze, The KVB has grown with partner and collaborator Kat Day. The now Berlin-based productive pair have released four albums of woozy and immersive anthems since 2010. ‘Of Desire’ is The KVB’s most fully formed record to date, taking in influences such as Death In Vegas, Scott Walker and Roxy Music to create something that is at once familiar and yet inventive and original. Steeped in musical history, it’s an album that hums with devotion and captures a band ready to emerge from the underground and embrace an ever-growing audience. “Being able to produce from home meant we weren’t restricted.” Wood says remembering The KVB’s early days. Many of the songs on ‘Of Desire’ date back to these earliest bedroom recordings, including lead single ‘In Deep’. “It’s about longing,” he adds of a song powered by a motorik beat and distorted blasts of icy guitars.” There’s definitely a romantic undercurrent to the record.”

The Greg Foat Group – Cityscapes / Landscapes [JMAN086]

May 8, 2016September 12, 2019 hipodromealbum, greg foat, jazz, jazzman records, the greg foat groupLeave a comment

This latest twin release of two ten inchers, Cityscapes and Landscapes offers a rare treat because for the first time, the listener is given a fascinating insight into the development of the Greg Foat Group. The recordings presented on these two EPs represent a journey from urban to rural environments in musical form. Foat actually wrote these around 2002 at the age of 23 when he was living in Stockholm, Sweden. But crucially, they sound like they were written today.

Cityscapes / Landscapes

Dimenzio & Marius Cultier – Two Sides Of Club Jazz: Hungary V’s France Volume Two [MUKAT044]

May 8, 2016November 10, 2017 hipodromedimenzio, funk, gilles peterson, jazz, marius cultier, mukatsuku records, nik westonLeave a comment

Two tracks officially licensed and remastered and never before issued on a 45 before. Taken from the self titled Hungarian album from 1981 Dimenzio ‘ Bamba’ is jazz dancefloor monster in the true sense of the word and is a Gilles Peterson club classic. On the flip the lesser known ‘Daimont’ from French artist Marius Cultier and taken from the 1975 album Ouelele Souskai .

Moses Boyd – Rye Lane Shuffle [XODUS001]

May 8, 2016 hipodromeexodus records, house, jazz, moses boydLeave a comment

This single has recieved airplay on Radio 1 from the likes of Four Tet and BBC 6 from Giles peterson. The opening song was also featured within Four Tet’s latest London Boiler Room set. Mixed by Fourtet And Floating points and masterd by Matt Colton. These songs have become a staple to their DJ sets worldwide which has created a huge buzz long before its officail release.

Terrence Dixon – Minimal Detroit Album Vol. 1

May 7, 2016May 6, 2016 hipodromealbum, detroit techno, minimal techno, terrence dixonLeave a comment

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New Terrence Dixon album appears on Bandcamp.

Yan Cook – XX LP [PRRUKBLK010]

May 7, 2016March 12, 2026 hipodromealbum, planet rhythm black, planet rhythm records, techno, yan cookLeave a comment

It’s been a while since Planet Rhythm released an entire LP project. Who else to thread into album territories than Ukranian Planet Rhythm stalwart ”Yan Cook”. After releasing various efforts through the Rotterdam based imprint over the last few years, Yan Cook comes up with a double LP consisting of 2 discs with 2 tracks on each side. Whilst shifting between various sides of the Yan Cook identity the XX LP proves to be an effective and bulding package over mechanic Techno sounds with strong builds and exciting taints of FX.

Developer – Archive 6 [DEVELOPER006]

May 7, 2016July 15, 2026 hipodromeadrian sandoval, developer, developer archive, technoLeave a comment

Techno and bizarre raw grooves produced by Developer.

ASOK – A Mind Forever Voyaging [CRLP13]

May 6, 2016July 15, 2026 hipodromealbum, asok, creme organization, house, stu robinson, technoLeave a comment

Liverpool artist Stu Robinson aka ASOK steps up to Creme Organization with a debut full length offering, A Mind Forever Voyaging, featuring ten tracks of macho yet melodic, tender yet tense analogue house and techno. Something of a late starter, Robinson has fomented his own mystical, nostalgic, inventive analogue sound that makes you jack, as well as conjuring real emotions with his great knack for melody. This album was recorded live then edited down. “So if something doesn’t sound good it either stays in or I re-record the whole thing,” says Robinson, who used things like Maschine, tb303, analog RYTM, JX-8P, Microkorg, some plugins and “a shit load of old rave samples” to create his debut full length. All written at home over a period of a year or so, it proves the artist has plenty of ideas and more than enough skills to carry them off. All unified by a sense of emotion and kinked dance floor groove that has been picked up over the course of 25 years of living and breathing many different forms of dance music, it is an accomplished debut.

VFR – Trip Voyager [TPL005]

May 6, 2016May 6, 2016 hipodromehouse, techno, that place records, vfr, visitors for reworksLeave a comment

VFR aka Visitors For Reworks is back on That Place Records. He has taking time to cook new tracks, showing his deep side of House & Techno music. The result is Trip Voyager.

VA – Regelbau 04 [RB004]

May 6, 2016July 5, 2018 hipodromec.k., deep house, maizena, regelbau, timemanLeave a comment

Another installment from the Danish posse, Regelbau, featuring 4 lush tracks from Maizena, Regelbau and C.K. & Timeman.

Jeremiah R – Interstellar [INST006]

May 5, 2016October 11, 2017 hipodromeelectro, house, instruction records, jeremiah r., technoLeave a comment

Brilliant techno & electro release from Rotterdam’s Jeremiah R. Eclectic sound for a one way trip into the future…

Morphology – Lack of Light [AFS020.03]

May 5, 2016May 16, 2022 hipodromeabstract forms, electro, matti turunen, michael diekmann, morphology, technoLeave a comment

Morphology, back where they began on Abstract Forms. Killer aquatic electro born out of cold, dark and long winters in Finland.

Vactrol Park – II [ESP026B]

May 5, 2016August 5, 2025 hipodromeelectro, esp institute, experimental, guido zen, kyle martin, techno, vactrol parkLeave a comment

Vactrol Park, the collaborative endeavor between Kyle Martin (Land of Light) and Guido Zen (Brain Machine), returns to the ESP Institute with II, rounding out the second half of their EP series. For this installment, a sojourn was made to Stockholm to record at the computer music mecca, EMS (Elektronmusikstudion), where the artists had the opportunity to experiment extensively with the legendary Buchla 200 Modular and Serge Modular, two of the rarest and most pornographic modular synthesizers in existence. While both instruments originate from California (Buchla in Berkeley as a commission from pioneer Morton Subotnik, and Serge at the California Institute of the Arts), the music Vactrol Park draws from these machines is far from warm and sunny. Akin to their predecessors on the 2015 debut I, these works materialize a level of taste and measure of craft that’s unattainable by most, each retaining an individual cinematic approach yet working collectively toward one consummate goal—paralysis.

Adapta – MKS-50 Tracks [FR034]

May 5, 2016February 3, 2026 hipodromeadapta, electro, frustrated funk, steve conner, technoLeave a comment

The in 1986 produced MKS-50 synth is a rack-mount version of Roland Corporation’s Alpha Juno. It has the same synth engine and architecture, but with added features like 16 programmable chord memories, the ability to store velocity, volume, panning, de-tune, portamento and other similar parameters within each patch you create. The optional PG-300 gives traditional slider type control of all editable tone parameters which include DCO (digitally controlled oscillators) LFO, bend, ENV, pulse, waveforms, noise, PW/PWM, high pass filter, VCF (filter) with freq/env/res/LFO/kybd, VCA envelope, chorus, and more. Adapta delivers a project based on this legendary MKS-50 synth. Tracks created with technology from the past, aimed for the future.

Orbe – Kepler 438 [BAO056.5]

May 4, 2016December 13, 2023 hipodromealbum, be as one recordings, coherence, detroit techno, fernando sanz, orbeLeave a comment

Coherence is a new vinyl only series from Be As One, a channel of expression with a different approach than the main label catalogue. Focused exclusively towards hypnotic and carefully programmed Techno, Coherence will be an outlet for established artists, but also for breaking the new and exciting talent. The first release comes from techno alumnus Orbe, who launch this new limited series with a double LP of dreamy, hypnotic Techno.

2030 – Prescience [CLFT011]

May 4, 2016October 14, 2025 hipodrome2030, clft, detroit techno, electro, kaelan, nico campanellaLeave a comment

The mysterious Italian producer 2030 is back on CLFT. Here – with these four tracks – comes another deep and refreshing breath, still full of these unique retro-futur-rhythms.