The Nightstalker – Tragedies Of A High-Tech World LP [CHILDNINE]

January 22, 2020November 3, 2022 hipodromealbum, childhood intelligence, dan piu, detroit techno, electro, gary rich, popshop, the nightstalkerLeave a comment

Mysterious duo Nightstalker returns after an 18 year hiatus with ‘Tragedies Of A High Tech World’. Ten tracks spread out over 2 heavyweight vinyl slabs, containing dark hues of acid, dreamy atmospheres, and Drexciyan influenced chord progressions of the highest order. A musical journey awaits here, traveling from themes of social programming, and controlled society on Earth to mystical High Tech planets in deep outer space and back. An essential release for all admirers of pure analogue and imaginative Electro and Techno.

Phase Fatale – Scanning Backwards [OSTGUTCD48/LP34]

January 21, 2020January 23, 2020 hipodromealbum, berghain, electro, hayden payne, industrial, ostgut ton, phase fatale, techno1 Comment

Scanning Backwards, Phase Fatale’s second full-length album is music about control. Using the connection between weaponized sound and psychological manipulation as a conceptual foundation, Hayden Payne explores the ways in which music – and sub frequencies in particular – are used to influence thinking and to synchronize emotions and behavior: from military technology to sound systems and the physicality and sexuality of queer techno culture. Known for his innovative post-punk takes of dance music, the Berghain resident draws on his background as both a guitarist and sound engineer to create a heady mix of broken rhythms, noise-, and shoegaze-inflected techno, often at slower tempos. The result is music with space and pace to expand, highlighting the intense rushes of frequencies found in both sonic warfare and functional dance music. Over eight tracks named after a combination of historical and fictional narratives from literature and science fiction, Payne’s rhythmic excursions explore different manifestations of sound as power – specifically within the context of seeing Berghain as an instrument itself. This is also reflected in the album artwork, taken from an early flyer for the SNAX party series and an obvious ode to the fetishization of power dynamics.

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Danny Wolfers – The Land Is Entranced With Peace [NW021TAPE]

January 19, 2020January 17, 2020 hipodromealbum, ambient, cassette, danny wolfers, experimental, nightwind recordsLeave a comment

Nightwind records is Legowelt’s own recordlabel releasing cassettes, cd’s, digital, graphic novels, zines and vinyl LP’s since 2014. A spiritual – but more advanced and freaked out – successor to the defunct Strange Life records that ran from 2004 to 2010. The music on this tape was recorded on 21 October 2017 during a live soundtrack performance for Werner Herzog’s 1972 Fata Morgana film at the LAB111 cinema in Amsterdam. A few months later the tracks were cut loose, edited and put on tape. With the visual content vanished from sight only a few fragmentary voiceovers remain that remind us of the movie. Rearranged as hypnotic samples they give the listener some sparse poetical guidance in the metaphysicial porridge that is this cassettetape.

Frank Hatchett – Body Shots [MOCR003]

January 18, 2020January 18, 2020 hipodromealbum, disco, don alan tipton, frank hatchett, funk, jazz, monte cristo recordsLeave a comment

Frank Hatchett was a legendary dance instructor and originator of VOP. VOP is not an abbreviation but, as he himself puts it: “VOP is a style”. It’s used to flavour the choreography and to communicate and translate emotions to the audience. The record produced by Don Alan Tipton is a wonderful complement of said VOP style. It features 11 tracks made for dancing that are produced and arranged in a moving and funky fashion.

Grant – Fantasy Blues [LT064]

January 2, 2020December 31, 2020 hipodromealbum, anthony collins, dan piu, deep house, emil abramyan, grant, jenifa mayanja, lobster theremin, zarenzeitLeave a comment

US Born, Marseille based house producer and DJ, Grant returns to Lobster Theremin, with ‘Fantasy Blues’, a 9 track album brimming with warm, melodic, deep house cuts. Opener, Ephemeral Chase signals a cosmic journey, driven with four to the floor motive. Mind Space is spaced out, modern deep-house at it’s best. On the flip, Zarenzeit joins Grant on Amaranthine Profundity, while Finite Elements chugs into an ethereal, vocal cut. Blurred Harmony picks up the pace, note a welcome homage to London town. Previous collaborator, Dan Piu features on stripped-back roller, Boundless. Joining forces on Invisible Skills, Brooklyn based composer Emil Abramyan injects otherworldly influences to the album, followed by Melancholic wiggler, Lucent Eyes. The Road In Front Of Me rounds out the release on soulful, classic tip, with velvet vocals courtesy of Jenifa Mayanja.

Jorge Velez – The Saturn Star [UTTER4]

December 22, 2019December 20, 2019 hipodromealbum, ambient, experimental, jorge velez, utterLeave a comment

Utter presents ‘The Saturn Star’, a score to an imaginary film by music producer and visual artist Jorge Velez. Inspired by The Third Ear Band, late-period Coil, Carlos Peron’s lurid soundtracks and European folk music, Velez’s score accompanies the evocative tale of a 16th-century physician-alchemist hunted down by The Inquisition in western Europe. Velez purposefully limited the amount of equipment he used to create a cohesive sonic environment, this time restricting himself to a Korg MonoPoly and Prophet 6. The music flowed quickly, with the entire project recorded and mixed within two weeks. The resulting work veers from moments of unsettling intensity to blissful beauty, underpinned by a lingering sense of mystery and paranoia.

June – Silver Demon [MNQ134]

December 20, 2019August 31, 2020 hipodromeacid, album, june, mannequin records, synth wave, techno, tsampikos fronasLeave a comment

Greek artist June makes his debut on Mannequin Records with the ‘Silver Demon’ LP. The album explores a futuristic dystopian world where transcendence and oppression coexist, where claustrophobia and infinite openness coincide. A world of contrasts that is the product of the artist‘s active imagination and conscious effort to confront the subconscious. The album was recorded using original techniques from the golden era of electronic music (late 70s to mid 80s) with an arsenal of vintage analog synthesizers, drum machines and effect processors (originating) from the same time period. While the aesthetics of the classic precursors emerge through the minimal, deep, dark architecture of June’s music, Silver Demon prevails with the artist’s characteristic originality.

Claro Intelecto – In Vitro [141DSR/142DSR]

December 14, 2019December 12, 2019 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, claro intelecto, delsin records, detroit techno, electro, experimental, mark stewartLeave a comment

Delsin are pleased to gather together some of the highlights from the rich and varied catalogue of Manchester-based producer Claro Intelecto. From his earliest works on Ai Records through a prolific run on Modern Love to his more recent outings on Delsin, Mark Stewart has continually presented a vision of electronic music that uses the Detroit blueprint as a launch pad for his own distinctive strain of techno. Moving from elegant beauty to rabid intensity while grounded by a firm sense of rhythm, his catalogue runs deep and wide. The second volume in this expansive compilation series filters out select highlights from across his discography, and reframes them as a compelling overview of a truly distinctive voice in modern electronic music.

Regis – Delivered Into The Hands Of Indifference [DNLP005]

December 13, 2019December 14, 2019 hipodromealbum, downwards records, karl o’connor, re-release, regis, reissue, technoLeave a comment

21st anniversary edition of Regis’ sophomore album on Downwards in Silver Vinyl. Entirely remastered at D&M and cut with 3 bonus locked grooves not found on the 1998, 2003, or 2012 editions, Karl O’Connor’s banging Regis 1998 blueprint is back in circulation for the techno ultras. It hardly needs to be reiterated but this set includes some of the meanest examples of late ‘90s UK techno, and more specifically, the Birmingham sound that Regis forged so definitively with this album, alongside efforts by his peers, Surgeon, Female, and Mick Harris. If you weren’t party to the original pressing, this one stands out thanks to the remastering, which really highlights the pebbledash grain and clangorous industrial atmospheres of the original recordings, which surely set this record and sound apart from the crowd.

Aleksi Perälä ‎– Resonance [TRP028]

December 13, 2019May 17, 2022 hipodromealbum, aleksi perala, minimal techno, trip recordingsLeave a comment

”Today it has been 6 years, 7 months and 19 days since I based all my music on the colundi sequence. This album is a milestone on my colundi journey. The first half of it was made in Montreal, Canada; and the second half in Lahti, Finland.” Aleksi Perälä

Filmmaker – The Love Market [DR009]

December 12, 2019December 11, 2019 hipodromeacid, album, detriti records, electro, filmmaker, synth waveLeave a comment

The perfect soundtrack for your dystopic-bad-trip life. Obscure Electro.

SΛRIN – Moral Cleansing [BITE010]

December 11, 2019December 1, 2020 hipodromealbum, bite, electro, emad dabiri, industrial, sarin, technoLeave a comment

SARIN, the A/V industrial technoid electronics project of Emad Dabiri, releases his first ever full-length album ‘Moral Cleansing’ on BITE. Dabiri advances his sonic identity by leaps and bounds through his application of subtle pop and electro elements with a greater focus on groove and melody, syncopated basslines, FM synthesis, and his signature cut-up sampling. The album showcases SARIN’s core elements as one of the main influencers in the current EBM techno wave with his brutally minimal sequences and abrasive drum programming. ‘Moral Cleansing’ is the result of Dabiri’s obsessive channelling of historical/geopolitical events, referencing past horrors & conflicts while also hinting at those that may come. He pulls samples, themes, and inspirations from forgotten atrocities and some that even resonate personally with his childhood growing up in wartime Iran.

E.R.P. – Exomoon [FFLP002]

December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 hipodromealbum, convextion, detroit, e.r.p, electro, forgotten future, gerard hansonLeave a comment

After presenting last here the first E.R.P. album called “Afterimage”, Forgotten Future comes now with the second album from E.R.P aka Gerard Hanson. “Exomoon” inclused 8 deep Electro cuts from the man from Texas.

Gavilán Rayna Russom – The Envoy [ELP047]

December 8, 2019December 8, 2019 hipodromealbum, ambient, cosey fanny tutti, ecstatic recordings, experimental, gavilan rayna russom, peter zummoLeave a comment

Transdisciplinary NYC artist Gavilán Rayna Russom beautifully comes into her own with a distinguished solo debut album statement including the voice of Cosey Fanni Tutti and brass arrangements by downtown legend Peter Zummo. After decades exploring her sonic personality in various projects inspired by her deep immersion in NYC’s club and avant-garde scenes, Rayna uses ‘The Envoy’ as a vessel to firm up and convey her personal conclusions on intersections of gender and electronic music.

Ambros Seelos – Ambros Seelos [369.059]

December 7, 2019December 5, 2019 hipodromealbum, ambros seelos, disco, funk, jazz, private records, sony music, synth popLeave a comment

Private Records is back with the archives of SONY Music and the library archive of Ambros Seelo. The German musician Ambros Seelos recorded this psychedelic Disco, Afro Funk and Jazz magic during the 1970’s and early 1980’s.

Disco Morato / Gegen Mann – Abandoned Signatures [FLCS02]

December 3, 2019November 17, 2020 hipodromeacid, album, alexander lomakin, cassette, disco morato, electro, fill-lex records, gegen mann, industrial, technoLeave a comment

Disco Morato and Gegen Mann are Moscow based DJs and sound producers. By playing their music they try to touch the darkest aspects of human emotion expressing an atmosphere of body-control. Apart from DJing they produce music and signed to UK-based NEIN Records. And as a collaboration, they founded imprint “Maxima Culpa Records” to develop their specific sound and vision of music. This release is also the result of their collaboration. There are 10 tracks created with total freedom to experiment with sound.

Greg Foat – The Dreaming Jewels [AOTNLP033]

December 1, 2019September 25, 2020 hipodromealbum, athens of the north, greg foat, jazzLeave a comment

Recording at Malcom Catto’s analogue studio has been an ambition of Greg’s for a long time, not only for the studio itself but for Malcolm’s skill using this vintage equipment, very few people can achieve such an incredibly big sound. Moving to a more rhythmic space, you could call it Jazz funk or Fusion, but labels suck so just listen and appreciate the pure sense of space Malcom achieves with this recording. Instruments float in space, aided by the Vintage EMI desk and a host of valve equipment which has taken Malcolm a lifetime to collect. In amongst the more rhythmic pieces we also have some classic Foat style compositions; ‘Lake Kussharo’ and ‘The Dreaming Jewels’ as emotive and personal as ever, a feeling that can only be expressed and articulated in music. These past few years will no doubt be looked back on with great favour in musical history, with prolific and high quality output in all his various projects this LP is his crowning achievement of 2019.

Function – Existenz [TRESOR315]

November 30, 2019November 27, 2019 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, dave sumner, experimental, function, robert owens, stefanie parnow, tresor recordsLeave a comment

For his new album Existenz, Function marks a clear step away from the corporeal techno of his recent releases. Pivoting around themes of religion, sexuality, trauma and healing, it is a work expansive and celebratory, a clear liberation from a deeply internalized past. Formed from a collection of recordings made in a period from late 2016 to mid 2019, Existenz takes the form of a creative outburst in reaction to a number of traumas – recent, childhood and throughout Function’s life. Life partner Stefanie Parnow assisted the production process in its entirety, providing inspiration, spiritual healing and featuring vocal contributions.

Konduku – White Heron [NOUSLP003]

November 30, 2019April 21, 2023 hipodromealbum, ambient, ambient techno, experimental, konduku, nous'klaer audioLeave a comment

In 2018 Konduku took everyone by surprise with his debut called Kiran. It doesn’t happen all too often a new artist emerges with such a developed and distinctive sound, delivering an album as debut. Now, a year and three EPs later, Nous’klaer Audio is thrilled to present his followup: White Heron. His singular sound of odd-groove based techno has aged into a sound that’s more mature yet still very playful. Konduku further refined his sound of snappy polyrhythmic blips by using a controlled sound palette focusing on the tensions in-between. Starting with the mesmerizing depth of Kenar to the stripped down halfstepper Hermitage, and from the synthetic beat patterns of Kobalt to the colorful dream fields of Belki – White Heron is an album designed to listen from start to finish, but more than anything else meant for the club.

Bartosz Kruczynski – Selected Media 2016-2018 [ERS040]

November 30, 2019November 27, 2019 hipodromealbum, ambient, bartosz kruczynski, emotional response, emotional response recordings, experimentalLeave a comment

Emotional Response presents a special project, a collection of music from Bartosz Kruczynski, recorded for “Selected Media” and presented here as a time-piece of his continuing works. Kruczynski returns to the ambient and ethereal – plus a touch of dub techno – to showcase his expansive collaborative work with Polish studio, TVP Culture. Given free artistic license, the 15 ‘short form’ recordings included here were for programming, in the main, on modern Polish Art including the likes of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Miroslaw Balka and Tadeusz Kantor, as well as some international aspects for Enrico Prampolini, Ai Weiwei and Monica Bonvicini.