KKD – In A Secret Room LP [RWCLTR031]

July 13, 2026July 13, 2026 hipodromealbum, kkd, kriminal killers division, minimal synth, new wave, raw cultureLeave a comment

‘In a Secret Room’ is a retrospective that reopens the sonic and visual archive of KKD (Kriminal Killers Division composed by Loris Barbi, Alessandro Molinari, Guido Molinari, Giancarlo Vitali), bringing back to light a trajectory that long remained underground within the history of Italian new wave. The tracks, recorded between 1979 and 1986, reflect a constantly evolving process shaped by experimentation, improvisation, and a drive toward new languages. The project takes shape inside a former hotel in Italy’s Po Valley, transformed into a studio, rehearsal space, and visual lab. Here, among analog synthesizers, homemade electronics, and multitrack recorders, Kriminal Killer Division experimented with and pushed their available technology to its limits, developing a hybrid language: sounds captured from radio and the street, synthetic voices, guitars, and electronic sequences intertwine in compositions that move between art rock, minimal wave, and more industrial directions. This collection aims precisely to reactivate that imaginary. ‘In a Secret Room’ offers access to a hidden space where interference, noise, and intuition take form without mediation. Not a nostalgic operation, but a re-emergence: a living archive that continues to generate meaning in the present.

STL – Take Me To Your Leader LP [SOMETHING33]

July 12, 2026July 10, 2026 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, deep house, deep techno, dub techno, experimental, something records, stephan laubner, stlLeave a comment

STL’s music has always been free and imperfect – sketches rather than songs. He operates in a smoky and smoggy world somewhere between house, lo-fi, dub and ambient and his tracks always arrive fully formed, as if they are looping infinitely in some parallel dimension. ‘Take Me To Your Leader’ is another magnificent collection of all that, with sublime extended psychedelic workouts that range from the wonky, malfunctioning sounds of ‘M-Brainiac’ which is like the machines have taken over then realised they can’t cope, to the more cuddly and soft-edged but still ramshackle rhythms of ‘Fat Sunday’ which are as heady as can be. Brilliantly dusty and analogue as ever.

Los Orientales De Paramonga – Los Orientales De Paramonga 1972-1976 LP [AALP105]

July 5, 2026July 3, 2026 hipodromealbum, analog africa, cumbia, los orientales de paramonga, outernational, peru, victor ramirezLeave a comment

In the late 1960s, the coastal city of Paramonga, just a three-hour drive north of Lima, gave rise to a vibrant music scene shaped by surf, rockabilly, and tropical sounds. Among its protagonists were two musicians, Víctor Ramírez and Maximiliano Chávez, who, with their psychedelic guitars, Fender amplifiers, and wah-wah pedals, would define not only their own sound but also shape the musical identity of the region. Under the mentorship of their manager, Néstor “Romanito” Robles, the two guitarists added a few remarkable percussionists to the lineup and formed Los Orientales. Their debut single, “Lobos Al Escape,” recorded in 1970, reached the very top of the Peruvian charts, catapulting the band to national fame and spreading their electrifying cumbia throughout the country. Despite this early success, internal tensions led to a split between Víctor and Maximiliano, resulting in two rival groups with the exact same name. Seeking wider recognition, Los Orientales de Paramonga of Víctor Ramírez – the band featured in this project — traveled to Lima and signed with Sono Radio, the country’s leading label. The seven songs on Side A of this compilation are from the LP “Con Sabor Tropical” from 1972, and the six songs on Side B are from the LP “Tremendo Ritmo” from 1973, while Sides C and D are compilations drawn from their 45 RPM singles. Together, these recordings offer a complete journey through the sound and spirit of Los Orientales de Paramonga at their peak.

Play Time – Magic Object LP [BALMAT22]

July 5, 2026July 3, 2026 hipodromealbum, balmat, ben vida, booker stardrum, experimental, jazz, play time, will epsteinLeave a comment

Ben Vida, Will Epstein and Booker Stardrum; three Hudson Valley-based musicians whose individual CVs associate Nicolas Jaar, Darkside, Tyondai Braxton and Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, though Play Time sounds like no collaboration they’ve ever done so far. Forming through mutual habit, passion and convenience, Epstein and Stardrum relocated to the Hudson Valley in 2020-21, began playing at Vida’s house, and developed a residency at Tubby’s in Kingston. The new LP was recorded over two days in a converted wooden barn, live in one room, with no separation, resulting in a “polymetric pulse” minimalism more than the sum of its parts. Magic Object is really one such, its traditional scales and vintage textures climbing and flourishing like vines against a trellis of live drums from Stardrum, especially on our favourites ‘Q&A’ and ‘Waves Within Waves’. “Magic Object” is a polymetric blend of improvisation and pulse minimalism for saxophone, drums, and Moog.

Forest Drive West – Mantis 1920 LP [DSR/MTS1920]

July 4, 2026July 2, 2026 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, db1, delsin records, drum & bass, experimental, forest drive west, joe baker, mantis, patrick russellLeave a comment

Forest Drive West returns to Mantis with a double pack of crooked, finely chiseled rhythms and porous, tactile atmospherics. Hovering comfortably between the distinct energies of drum & bass and techno, Joe Baker has helped define the creative upsurge in crossover tempos and tones with a practice that focuses on mood and presence rather than genre tropes. His first releases appeared 10 years ago on influential labels like Livity Sound, Rupture and Hidden Hawaii. He reconvenes on Mantis after delivering the first release for the Delsin series back in 2020. The scope across these eight new tracks is steeped in Baker’s trademark restraint and subtlety, but equally he explores a broad scope of energies and tempos. From ambient, spacious downtempo and slow-motion, heavily dubbed drum mantras through to crisp, techy drum funk and dancehall-coded swagger, the range within the distinctive Forest Drive West sound is more versatile than ever. It’s a range cemented further by the guest appearances on the album, as Patrick Russell comes on board for snarling, D&B-coded workout ‘Uromastyx’ and DB1 lends his chops to mesmerising closing breakbeat trip ‘Planes’. Exquisite sound design with a mysterious streak binds these various approaches together. With club impact matched by spatial immensity, Mantis 1920 furthers the surefooted, intentional sound Baker has been shaping out as Forest Drive West for the past decade.

Poeme Electronique – The Echoes Fade LP [ANNA025]

July 3, 2026July 1, 2026 hipodromealbum, anna logue, dave hewson, julie ruler, les hewson, minimal synth, poeme electronique, re-release, reissue, sharon abbott, synth pop, synth waveLeave a comment

Poeme Electronique was Dave Hewson (synthesisers, production), Sharon Abbott (lyrics, lead and backing vocals), Julie Ruler (backing vocals) and Les Hewson (bass), formed in 1980 by Dave Hewson in South London, UK, in 1980. Dave was studying music and as a rare kind of student species he had a deep fascination for New Wave and electronic music thus also playing and recording electronic music ever since using the Boss DR-55, Cosmo Sound Super Drum, Elka Rhapsody 610, EMS Synthi AKS, Korg MS-20(X2)/Polysix/Polyphonic Ensemble 1000/VC-10 Vocoder, Linn Electronics LM-1, Octave Kitten, Roland RS-09/VP-330 Vocoder Plus, Simmons SDS-V Kit and Yamaha CS-80. This deluxe 2LP vinyl retrospective album includes original material from 1981/82, 16 tracks of which 14 have never been published before.

pdqb – Der Transiente Zeuge LP [SC029]

June 29, 2026June 29, 2026 hipodromealbum, egyptian lover, electro, felix da housecat, pdqb, sniper mode, synaptic cliffs, umweltLeave a comment

pdqb shows no signs of slowing down. Relentlessly productive and constantly locked into transmission mode, it delivers 13 tracks of its unmistakable electro-cognition sound. Sharp, futuristic, body-moving music wired straight into the nervous system. The remix lineup is equally heavyweight. Four elite reworks from four serious operators, each one twisting the source code into new dimensions; Egyptian Lover, Felix Da Housecat, Sniper Mode and Umwelt.

Jeff Mills – The Trip To Vega LP [AX129]

June 22, 2026June 18, 2026 hipodromealbum, axis records, detroit, detroit techno, jeff mills, minimal technoLeave a comment

‘The Trip To Vega’ is the new album by Jeff Mills and is about deep outer space odyssey that occurs in the process of traveling from Earth through the Cosmos to another ”favorable” star system 25.3 light-years away.

Moyses Dos Santos – Maria LP [FARO260LP]

June 21, 2026June 17, 2026 hipodromealbum, brazil, disco, far out recordings, funk, jazz, moyses dos santos, outernationalLeave a comment

Maria is the debut album from renowned Brazilian electric bassist and composer Moyses Dos Santos. A homecoming for the London-based artist, Moyses’ debut reconnects him with his North-Eastern roots while assembling an international cast of collaborators including legendary Brazilian arranger Arthur Verocai, US trumpet sensation Theo Croker and London-based vocal star Lynda Dawn. Drawing on the lineage of North American electric bass artists, Moyses runs Brazilian musical traditions through jazz, funk, soul and disco: his sound charged with the cosmopolitan energy of London’s contemporary jazz scene.

Bernardino Femminielli – Mémoires d’un Auto-Sabotage LP [KH062]

June 18, 2026June 17, 2026 hipodromealbum, bernardino femminielli, disco, knekelhuis, synth popLeave a comment

Memoirs of Self-Sabotage unfolds as a musical drift: fragments written and recorded on tour between France and Italy, shaped by precariousness, administrative tension, loss, and paranoia. The tracks emerge like scenes from a psychological film noir—a distorted discotheque of monologues, songs, skits, and anachronisms—where the voice oscillates between seduction and rupture. At its core lies a troubling insight: the most insidious exploitation is that of one’s own intimacy. As emotions and desires become commodities, the project resists absorption. Each track becomes a site of desertion—refusing roles, codes, and systems of control, even those posing as critique. Alliances blur, betrayals loom; lucidity tips into paranoia. Warped echoes of nostalgia, cinematic layers, voices in tension: the music becomes anunstable space, a laboratory of drift and survival. Neither record, manifesto, nor autobiography, it unfolds as a mental disco where desire, fear, and self-sabotage coexist.

Das Ding – Practical Limits of Nihilism LP [EE045RTM]

June 17, 2026June 17, 2026 hipodromealbum, danny bosten, das das, electro, electronic emergencies records, minimal synth, synth pop, synth waveLeave a comment

‘Practical Limits of Nihilism’ is a double album by Das Ding containing 14 brand new tracks. On the album, Danny Bosten searches for meaning in an incomprehensible world in which even nihilism does not offer a way out anymore. Created on self-built analogue synths and drum machines, Practical Limits of Nihilism sees the typical Das Ding sound evolving into new territory, including 4 vocal tracks. The atmosphere varies from dark wave to ambient trance and italo, while remaining true to itself. The artwork on the gatefold sleeve was also created by Danny Bosten and reflects a collapsing world, leading to the emptiness that is symbolised by the white vinyl the album is pressed on.

Mystic Letter K – Occulimus LP [OR158]

June 13, 2026June 11, 2026 hipodromealbum, cari lekebusch, electro, mystic letter k, oraculo recordsLeave a comment

With Mystic Letter K, Cari Lekebusch steps into a parallel, more mature and conceptual universe—one where he fully explores a mental, tribal, deeply hypnotic and highly danceable strain of electro. His sound is built on constantly shifting patterns: elements that repeat, reconfigure, and sequence themselves in multiple ways, creating a continuous
sense of motion that drives the listener into states of trance and altered perception. ‘Occulimus’ captures this essence with surgical precision: an unmatched groove, raw yet refined, designed for the dancefloor but equally suited for full immersion. Each side of this double vinyl acts as a powerful and versatile tool, allowing any DJ to build, sustain, and transform energy with a single record in the bag. A direct, functional, and absorbing work that reaffirms Lekebusch’s forward-thinking vision and his unique ability to sculpt sound in motion.

Shot Caller – 1000 Lamentos LP [OR156]

June 12, 2026June 12, 2026 hipodromealbum, cold wave, oraculo records, post punk, shot caller, synth popLeave a comment

Shot Caller present “1000 Lamentos”, a promising debut without artifice. Three different cultures and paths converge here for stripped-down songs, unvarnished, where every element feels immediately exposed, the simplicity as its best. There is neither easy nostalgia to lean on—only instinct, balance, and a sensitivity that cuts through the whole listen experience without raising its voice, echoing some of the label’s most defining releases and hinting at a strong path ahead. The structures are simple, almost primitive. Bass guitar, and rhythm move with quiet urgency, leaving space for what truly lingers: a voice that doesn’t demand attention, yet stays with you. Fragile, intimate, and deeply enveloping—as if each line could break or reveal too much.

Model 500 – Classics Vol. 2 [MLP226]

June 5, 2026September 4, 2026 hipodromealbum, detroit, detroit techno, juan atkins, metroplex, model 500Leave a comment

Following the celebrated reissue of Classics Vol. 1, Metroplex unveils Model 500 – Classics Vol. 2, a powerful new collection of essential works from Juan Atkins – pioneer of Techno and architect of some of the most forward-thinking electronic music ever recorded. Bringing together key cuts, rare mixes, and long-sought favorites from across Atkins’ groundbreaking output, this compilation highlights the full spectrum of his sonic universe: deep, rolling machine funk, shimmering electro-techno hybrids, and timeless futurist grooves that helped shape generations of electronic artists. Each track has been carefully remastered to enhance its original energy while preserving the raw spirit and space that define the Model 500 sound. From expansive, atmospheric journeys to soulful vocal transmissions and Detroit-powered rhythmic science, Classics Vol. 2 presents Juan Atkins at his most inspired–an essential document of a visionary whose influence continues to echo across dancefloors worldwide. Three decades on, these tracks have lost none of their immediacy, imagination, or futuristic pull. Restored for a new era, Classics Vol. 2 celebrates the legacy of Model 500 with pristine sound and renewed force. Pure Detroit heritage. Eternal future music.

Filmmaker – Undercurrents LP

June 3, 2026June 3, 2026 hipodromealbum, dark wave, electro, filmmakerLeave a comment

‘Undercurrents’ by Filmmaker is an interconnected body of work that drifts into moods and mind travel through the slower side that distances from prior dance/club-intended tracks, a new yet familiar exploration in search of emotional resonance, resemblance and tonal identity following the downbeat, hazy granular synthesis and low lit atmospheres developed on recent and not so recent releases.

Ensemble Infini – Volume ∞ [CM0202226]

May 31, 2026May 29, 2026 hipodromealbum, cellar music, ensemble infini, experimental, jazzLeave a comment

L’Ensemble Infini is an intergenerational octet bringing together some of Montréal’s most active experimental musicians around around drummer Guy Thouin, a leading figure in Quebec’s counterculture (Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec, L’Infonie). With its debut album Volume ∞, the group draws on six decades of creativity to produce music that is open, dense, and fluid, where free jazz, collective improvisation, electronic textures, and kaleidoscopic collages drift together in a unified psychedelic flow.

The Barigozzi Group – Woman’s Colours LP [FLIES84]

May 31, 2026May 29, 2026 hipodromealbum, fonovideo, four flies records, giancarlo barigozzi, jazz, oscar rocchi, re-release, reissue, sergio farina, the barigozzi groupLeave a comment

In the early 1970s, Milan was a city defined by a restless, creative energy. Its recording studios hummed with activity day and night, populated by an elite circle of jazz-trained session musicians who split their time between tracking dates in the studio and jam sessions in the city’s clubs. Among them was Giancarlo Barigozzi, one of the most revered flautists and saxophonists of the scene, who was just then beginning to navigate the enigmatic world of library music. The Barigozzi Group – formed alongside guitarist Sergio Farina and pianist Oscar Rocchi, both fellow session musicians – became a defining ensemble of Italian library. Commissioned by publishers in Milan and Rome, they produced some of the most exquisite library LPs of all time, records that effortlessly translated the spirit of the era into sound. Of these, ‘Woman’s Colours’ stands as arguably their most iconic and celebrated achievement. Originally released in 1974 on the Fonovideo label under the artistic supervision of Fabio Fabor, the album is a cohesive, organic exploration of a single theme: a refined tribute to the female form, with every track associating a specific colour with a different part of the body. ‘Woman’s Colours’ is finally available again in its first official reissue, and for the first time in digital format. Presented by Four Flies Records.

Cosey Mueller – Embodiment of Denial LP [BRTLP16]

May 30, 2026May 28, 2026 hipodromealbum, bretford records, cosey mueller, ebm, post punkLeave a comment

Like someone who filters out a signal from noise, Cosey Mueller always discovers innovative variations of punk and experimental electronics and develops an unmistakable style from this in her impressive discography – which now reaches a new peak with “Embodiment of Denial”. An increasingly buoyant danceability forms the backdrop for an increased concentration on Mueller’s voice. The album’s eight tracks are full of catchy hooks, while they, far from the empty slogans parodied in “Der Politiker”, reclaim the declarative statement for the forces of good.

Shin Watanabe – Red Zone-Ethos Mama Trax LP [LIES-227]

May 29, 2026May 28, 2026 hipodromealbum, deep house, hotmix records, house, l.i.e.s., long island electrical systems, shin watanabeLeave a comment

The elusive Shin Watanabe, gives us an insane 13 track double LP of absolute deep house mastery. When talking about deep house here, we mean along the lines of greats like Master C+J, Quest, Burrell, or Blue Jean to name a few. Late night mid-tempo dark house sleaze for the corners of the club. Total old school deep cuts in the truest of traditions.

Planetary Assault Systems – Planetary People LP [OSTGUTLP39]

May 25, 2026May 25, 2026 hipodromealbum, luke slater, ostgut ton, planetary assault systems, technoLeave a comment

One of Berghain’s longest-serving residents, Luke Slater has been defining bleepy, polyrhythmic, industrial-strength techno as Planetary Assault Systems since the mid-nineties.His new album, ‘Planetary People’ has the deliberate imagination and depth of a record that took its time, shaped as much by live rooms and crowds as by the studio.