NHK yx Koyxen – Doom Steppy Reverb [DIAG034]

August 6, 2016December 21, 2017 hipodromealbum, diagonal records, experimental, kouhei matsunaga, nhk yx koyxen, technoLeave a comment

Japanese experimenter Kouhei Matsunaga has been quietly building an exceptional discography as NHK yx Koyxen and the numerous variances. With prior NHK yx Koyxen output on PAN, Skam and Raster Noton, Matsunaga’s growing alliance with Powell’s Diagonal label makes perfect sense. A fresh NHK yx Koyxen LP that expands on his fuzzy, texture-laden, leftfield techno blueprint. So, while there’s plenty of industrial-influenced darkness, claustrophobic tape hiss, and redlined rhythms, the Japanese artist also includes quietly beautiful textures and hazy, looped melodies. This is most evident on the foreboding, late night swing of “Y”, where the application of dub delays helps emphasize the skewed, doom-laden mood.

VA – Volume 1 [PB001]

August 6, 2016October 4, 2023 hipodromeborusiade, camil, disco, future nuggets, khidja, p-balans, romanian, techno, the holy fix, utopusLeave a comment

P-Balans is a new imprint in the Future Nuggets emerging constellation. A tehnodelia ramification within the Bucharest electronic scene that will host rising names like Khidja and Borusiade while introducing new characters like The Holy Fix (Camil Dumitrescu, co-member of Delusion Men) and Utopus (Ion D, producer of Steaua de Mare, Raze de Soare, Anahore?ii among others) already featured on “Sounds on the Unheard from Romania vol. 2”. Keeping the same strategies of fusion and diffusion as Future Nuggets, P-Balans will explore the space traversal to techno, entering and exiting the dark halls of the club through multiple doors.

John T. Gast – Overseer [APRON025]

August 6, 2016August 5, 2016 hipodromeapron records, john t. gast, technoLeave a comment

“Overseer” finds the illusive John T. Gast align with FunkinEven’s Apron label for a sharp, club-ready one-sided 12″. Gast’s appearance on Apron sees him fully engaging in techno forms on his own terms. Wasting little time to kick in, “Overseer” sees a coldly delivered spoken word vocal uttered amidst a cacophony of drum machine hits and synth-shaped drama.

Unknown Artist – I’m Afraid It’s Not Fresh #2: Two Heads Are Better Than One [TABRC002]

August 5, 2016February 16, 2018 hipodromecassette, edits, i'm afraid It's not fresh, italo-disco, tabernacle recordsLeave a comment

Tabernacle Records just launched a new cassette series called I’m Afraid It’s Not Fresh. Part 2 includes 2 italo tracks in cocoa brown cassette, clear case with full colour printed manila J-card inserts.

Plus Instruments – Love Is Enough [EES024]

August 5, 2016July 12, 2021 hipodromedisco, emotional especial, emotional response, emotional response recordings, house, jamie paton, khidja, luke solomon, plus instruments, richard senLeave a comment

PLUS INSTRUMENTS - Love Is Enough

Joining the dots after last years reissue of Plus Instruments early 80s post-punk music on the Bodies EP on Emotional Rescue, Especial now looks at their return to recent music production, taking the song “Love Is Enough” from the recent Trancesonics album and giving it the all encompassing label remix treatment. We get four reinterpretations by Richard Sen, Khidja, Luke Solomon and Jamie Paton.

Lost Scripts – S.O.P. / A.F.K. [HVNED004]

August 5, 2016November 4, 2021 hipodromedisco, edits, hivern discs, house, john talabot, lost scripts, marc pinolLeave a comment

LOST SCRIPTS aka JOHN TALABOT/MARC PINOL - Hiverned #4

The Hivern edit series is back with its 4th instalment, this time with two joints by Lost Scripts, the duo of John Talabot and Marc Pional. On the A side, S.O.P. revamps the theme of a popular TV series with krautish rhythms and woozy percussive details to transform it into kosmische monster ready for the club. On the flip, A.F.K. is an uplifting afro-house number that pairs ritualistic percussion and African chants with curly synths to create a journey that starts in the savannah and ends in outer space. A proven dancefloor wrecker.

Playgroup – Previously Unreleased EP 2 [YWP002]

August 5, 2016November 3, 2017 hipodromedisco, house, playgroup, trevor jackson, yes waveLeave a comment

The Previously Unreleased series of Playgroup 12″s from Trevor Jackson returns with a second edition. Echoing the diverse nature of the classic Playgroup album, there is plenty of stylistic swerves in the three tracks that feature here. Up top, “Doin’ It Right” is a low-slung slab of disco chug with a most devious arpeggio conducting proceedings. On the B-side, “Flyte Mode” is a short proto house piece that would work well as an opening track on a DJ mix whilst “Live At The Funhouse” is a fizzing electro DJ tool.

Folkvett – Tröskelvärk [PATER003]

August 4, 2016February 13, 2026 hipodromealbum, christian Åkerström, folkvett, industrial, pater noster, post punk, synth waveLeave a comment

Pater Noster introduce the debut LP from Swedish synth wizard Christian Åkerström. Produced under the alias Folkvett, ‘Tröskelvärk’ is a collection of ten infectious, hypnotic and cinematic frost-covered Nordic synth jams. Analogue and uncompromising melodic minimal synth, this is music for the ice-cold punks.

Ron Berry – Where Dark Forced Meet [VOD145.RB]

August 4, 2016January 23, 2024 hipodromealbum, experimental, flowmotion, ron berry, synth wave, vinyl on demand recordsLeave a comment

Born in Manchester, UK 1947 Ron Berry became interested in electronics as a child in the mid fifties making radios and other electronic projects. His first musical instrument was a home-made electric guitar made out of scrap wood with pickups fashioned from magnets and coils found in old headphones. He played in his first band at school 1962 and then in various groups as lead guitarist in and around Manchester during the Beatles led Mersey beat era. The “Where Dark Forced Meet” album was first released in 1982 on cassette by Flowmotion label.

Clay Rendering – We Are Aware [HOS463]

August 4, 2016November 7, 2018 hipodromeclay rendering, dominick fernow, experimental, hospital productions, industrial, mike connelly, shoegaze, tara connellyLeave a comment

Clay Rendering, the tortured pop project of former Wolf Eyes member Mike Connelly and his wife Tara, pledge three diverse but unmistakably gothic sacrifices to Hospital Productions. Soused in the spirits of black metal, coldwave pop and shoegaze, their new cuts reflect a black indigo spectrum of tastes with an inflamed desire for proper song structures and the kind of hooks that hearken back to teenaged thrills and what allured them to music in the first place -and it makes for perhaps their most realised set of tracks yet. With Dominick Fernow as producer and effectively acting in a 3rd band member role, they triangulate a sound that’s nostalgic for the gothic undertones of ‘80s and ‘90s darkness, getting into gear with the hearse-cruising coldwave pop rocket We Are Aware, and casting a long, northern-pointing shadow of BM toil and shoegaze anguish in Never Pass Away.

VA – Tales From The Dark Side EP Volume II [KW020]

August 3, 2016December 13, 2017 hipodromejulixo, knotweed records, philippe petit, techno, terrence dixon, the fallenLeave a comment

This is the second episode of our Various Artists serie. The Fallen (a collaboration between Plural (James Johnson) and FBK (Kevin Kennedy)) opens the E.P. with Interference, a fast paced killer hypnotic dance floor friendly dub track: they create a sound that is unique, fluid and extremely danceable. Philippe Petit follows with Exposed, a stripped down, bleepy bass-heavy rhythmic piece of techno. Julixo brings us Own Structure, an aggressive jackin techno track leading to a warm synth line that will leave nobody indifferent. Terrence Dixon closes the E.P. with Odd Numbers, a track that only him can do. Sub bass melodic techno reduced to the max.

JP Enfant – Our Future Is Under Construction EP [LET003]

August 3, 2016August 9, 2023 hipodromedetroit techno, don williams, jp enfant, les enfants terribles, les enfants terribles records, let recordingsLeave a comment

Deep advanced techno by JP Enfant! Three seductive sultry tracks and as cherry on top a brilliant remix from Mojuba’s Don Williams full of tension and playful grooves.

John Barera – I Can See For Miles EP [ENVLP12005]

August 3, 2016August 25, 2023 hipodromedetroit techno, envlp_imprint, john bareraLeave a comment

ENVLP sets its 2016 return with John Barera, the Brooklyn artist that steadly drove its sounds through space and stars with blissful sonorities and elegant productions. John delivers a four track EP that brings a personal interpretation of the Detroit sound elevated by John’s unique skills and strong personality. Starting with the celestial ‘Mission Mode’, we go through the masterful ‘Pattern Theory’ and the catching ‘I Can See For Miles’ until we reach the different notes of’Cloud Nine’: so many change of the directions that show the extreme versatility and talent of John Barera.

Ness – A Personal Voyage EP [MMV004]

August 3, 2016December 13, 2023 hipodromeevigt morker, iori, mental modern, ness, technoLeave a comment

A Personal Voyage Ep These walls have made us the beings we are. They have listened and echoed, our words, our creed, our hate. These walls have tied down the souls of us; they made us insane, hysterics, in observing defenceless, uncredulous that there was not, any reaction. We can only halt us, after having used up our nails, over these walls now rough because of our shouts, our burned hopes, by our passions damned; by our minds, dinned. None could ever help us, because as slaves we feel and now we are, of these cursed walls and of these walls damned that, however still give a sense, to our cold life.

VA – Sleep Not Found [TRP008]

August 2, 2016May 17, 2022 hipodromea_000, bbbbbb, compilation, deniro, exos, maayan nidam, roma zuckerman, techno, trip recordingsLeave a comment

Nina Kraviz’ TRIP label knows how to put out conceptual releases featuring some high calibre music canvassing a wide spectrum of artists. “This Sleep Not Found” edition sees the label tap into some minimal sounds thanks to cuts from Roma Zuckerman, a TRIP upstart, Perlon’s Maayan Nidam (“Justice For Some” is damn funky!) and label faithful Exos. His “Dub Jazz” track helps bridge the gap between minimal and techno, with heavier cuts coming from Bbbbbb, A_000 and Deniro’s Skudge-like “G”.

Bleak – Relics EP [NR004]

August 2, 2016August 2, 2016 hipodromebleak, naura records, santiago naura, technoLeave a comment

Naura Records presents the third release of the Bleak series. ‘Relics’ is a full oriented dance floor track, twisted and static in all directions.’Black Ice’ reveals itself as a cataclysmic and intelligent analog tool with pulsating baselines and profound deepness.

Artefakt – The Final Theory [FIELD021]

August 2, 2016June 7, 2022 hipodromeartefakt, field records, nick lapien, robin koek, technoLeave a comment

The excellent Field label embarks on a new mini trilogy of EPs that will “present a magical journey through modern-day trance.” First up in the series is Artefakt with their three track effort The Final Theory. Dutch producers Robin Koek and Nick Lapien make up Artefakt, and between them they excel at moody voodoo music on labels like Delsin. They open this latest EP with the title track, a deep, spacious house roller with subtle pads and gentle acid that perform slow motion acrobatics for nearly ten minutes. It is suspensory, dreamy music that works on the head as well as the heel. Moving Horizon is then less doleful and introspective but just as deep, with sweeping pads add a sense of scale, busy drums bring the dynamism and icy percussive sounds adding a sense of urgency. Last but not least, Solaris is a fatter, more physical groove with claps and gloopy bass, acid flashes and trancey pads all fleshing out a lush and deep electro workout. This is heavenly stuff that cannot fail to get inside your head and heart.

Valent – Amon EP [BAO058]

August 2, 2016December 13, 2023 hipodromeacid, be as one recordings, techno, valentLeave a comment

VALENT - Amon EP

Be As One welcomes Valent as their new exclusive signing to the imprint. The German producer debuts on the label with this 4 storming acid tracks EP, acid meets techno again on the Be As One catalogue.

Marcel Fengler – Kyu EP [IMF007]

August 2, 2016June 6, 2018 hipodromeimf, index marcel fengler, marcel fengler, technoLeave a comment

Strength lies in calmness – and vice versa. Marcel Fengler returns on IMF and offers three new inspirited musical pieces that protrude from the club context just as well as cater for your home stereo, picking up on the diverse musical moods defined by his debut album Fokus (Ostgut Ton, 2013) while concentrating on intertwining sound aesthetics.

Jared Wilson – Ghost Miners Remixes [7777011]

August 1, 2016November 2, 2022 hipodrome7777, acid house, andreas gehm, brian thrash, fit siegel, jared wilsonLeave a comment

“For the 11th release 7777 presents the Ghost Miners Remixes. For these remixes I offered each producer samples from different songs from the 2 Ghost Miners records. Instead of doing straight forward remixes of a single song, I put forth the proposal for each artist to make their own version of a Ghost Miners song from scratch or using any samples they feel like. Contributors include 3 of my favorite producers. 2 in demand artists; FIT Siegel and Andreas Gehm and one new comer; Brian Thrash. Andreas Gehm’s version is a standard acid Gehm gem. Calling in the chords from the originals mixed with standard Gehm acid brilliance. In FIT Siegel’s version you’ll find the perfect pure underground dance sound. Featuring Ray-7 on hand drums FIT constructs a remix that combines elements of classic Detroit and Chicago sound while keeping the attitude and acid aesthetic of the original material. On the B side Brian Thrash, controlling his analogue arsenal, takes you on an epic acid journey traversing through the underground and space.” Jared Wilson