Varg – Ursviken [NE019]

April 19, 2015June 8, 2023 hipodromealbum, ambient, ambient techno, drone, experimental, jonas ronnberg, northern electronics, vargLeave a comment

Sophomore album from Jonas Ronnberg aka Varg with icey electronics live recorded. Ursviken is, unsurprisingly, a largely icy and atmospheric affair, with occasional bursts of throbbing, techno-influenced intensity (see the relentless loops and murky textures of “Vitberge”, and industrial freakiness of “Guldstaten”) punctuating the otherwise downbeat, largely ambient mood. As usual, there’s much to admire, from the bleak, dubbed-out oddness of “Raggarsvin” and overwhelmingly dreamy “Ohn”, to the understated grooves and spaced-out chords of “Skaeliptom”.

Roger 23 – Mensch 001 [MENSCH001]

April 12, 2015December 9, 2020 hipodromealbum, ambient, mensch musik, roger 23, roger reuterLeave a comment

ROGER 23 - Mensch 001

Wicked ambient/drone cuts by bad boy Roger 23.

Metasplice – Metasplice [BR005LP]

April 12, 2015July 4, 2023 hipodromealbum, ambient, bruxist, electronics, experimental, metaspliceLeave a comment

Philly’s Metasplice are back with another double LP’s worth of unique soundscapes. To be sure, they’re previous sides for Morphosis’s Morphine label and they’re own imprint _bruxist have been some of the most engaging works of electronic music in recent memory. This collection of new works is even more arresting and vital.

Alessandro Parisi – Phormix Podcast #9

March 25, 2015March 25, 2015 hipodromealessandro parisi, ambient, phormix, podcast, synth pop, synth waveLeave a comment

Rising Sun Systems – Oberheim Space [NW002]

March 15, 2015March 12, 2015 hipodromealbum, ambient, danny wolfers, legowelt, nightwind records, rising sun systemsLeave a comment

Time to hit the vape and embark on the journey of your lifetime, or at least a most pleasant trip this week…or as long as your attention span can handle it. Rising Sun Systems – Oberheim Space, 11 tracks of ambient g-funk slow jams and psychedelic space muzak. Using special frequencies to alter your brain waves and make u a smarter and better human being. Written, produced and performed by Danny Wolfers on Roland Juno 106 KIWI, Oberheim Matrix 1000, Korg DW8000, Yamaha SY35, EMU EMAX II etc.etc.etc.

Vatican Shadow – Death Is Unity With God [LOVE100]

March 15, 2015June 19, 2024 hipodromealbum, ambient, dominick fernow, hospital productions, industrial, modern love, vatican shadowLeave a comment

This double LP album arrives through Modern Love and features a handpicked selection of tracks from the Death Is Unity With God cassette box set Dominick Fernow aka Vatican Shadow issued on his own Hospital Productions label last year. 12 tracks featured here are a balanced blend of broken, ice-cold techno and finely calibrated drone pieces backed by subtle percussive patterns. There’s also plenty of his more raucous beat thrashing and even a few moments of nostalgia.

L’estasi Dell’oro – I Look Upon Nature While I Live in a Steel City [FIELD014]

March 15, 2015May 26, 2023 hipodromealbum, ambient, christopher ernst, field records, industrial, l'estasi dell'oro, technoLeave a comment

Dutch label Field is back with another album project, this time from American producer Christopher Ernst, aka L’estasi Dell’oro, who also records as Penalune and is co-founder of the Voodoo Down label. Before now, Ernst has proved himself to be adept at crafting deep and atmospheric, excellently ambient techno on a range of labels. Varying his tempos and textures, he does acid, raw stuff, tough beats and more industrial grooves. Across this new 8-track album, all this and more is explored in captivating fashion. This is an expressive and expansive modern techno album from L’estasi Dell’oro that is perfectly at home on the always interesting Field label.

Area – One Less Me [SEQ012]

March 15, 2015March 1, 2022 hipodromeambient, area, industrial, m50, sequenciasLeave a comment

Sequencias first release for 2015 comes from Chicagoan, Area. He has melded elements from bass music, industrial, electroacoustic, spoken-word and techno into 3 tracks that distill their influences into something greater than the sum of its parts. Opener “Circadian” is built on a two-chord refrain to a stepping rhythm amidst a dank warehouse atmosphere. Spoken-word interlude, “One Less Me,” is little more than a female voice processed and cleverly twisted over crisp electronic filigree. The EP closes with “XXeXX” (Crushkilled Version), which sounds like the remnants of the opening track after being drop-forged and scattered to the breeze—long peals of reverberating melodic feedback straining under a dense bank of static fog—breaking free every few measures to expand into the light, then crushed. “One Less Me” is the beginning of a new relationship that we look forward to see flourish in the future, and of course, to share it with you.

Gianluca Petrella – 103 EP [ELER007]

January 25, 2015January 23, 2015 hipodromeambient, electronique.it records, gianluca petrellaLeave a comment

Gianluca Petrella is one of the most talented trombonist all around the world. “103 Ep” is traveling on the most intimate and electronic side of Gianluca’s music, clarifying its fine taste with a series of cinematic atmospheres described with the combination of haunting jazz melodies with obscure electronic pathways. This record captures completely the atmospheres evoked by dark cities, midnight, smoky streets, loneliness, existentialism and romanticism, allowing you to experience the jazz music from an unusual perspective.

Occult Orientated Crime – The Occult Orientated Crime Album [NW001]

December 14, 2014December 14, 2014 hipodromealbum, ambient, danny wolfers, legowelt, nightwind records, occult orientated crimeLeave a comment

The first Occult Orientated Crime album on Nightwind Records. Extremely trippy PRO ambient not just some jumbled up random chiliwave overcompressed 80s retro soggy biscuit jerkoff — this is PROFESSIONAL AMBIENT – 100% psychedelic drug music with perfectly finetuned selected frequencies to alter your state of mind and take you to complete loss of subjective self-identity: the result of years of experimentation and research. Korg Microstation, Golden Microkorg, X5D, MS20, Moog Little phatty, Doepfer synthacon-EML101 modular.

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Lawrence – A Day In The Life [MMLP180]

November 30, 2014May 26, 2023 hipodromealbum, ambient, lawrence, mule musiq, peter kerstenLeave a comment

While Peter “Lawrence” Kerten is perhaps best known for his stripped-back approach to house and techno, many of his greatest records have explored his deep-rooted love of ambient music. It’s great to see, then, that this sixth full-length sees him in full-on ambient mode, variously laying down picturesque, becalmed compositions, twinkling productions and hypnotic.

Gunnar Haslam – Mirrors And Copulation [LIES055]

November 23, 2014January 31, 2018 hipodromealbum, ambient, ambient techno, experimental, gunnar haslam, l.i.e.s., long island electrical systemsLeave a comment

Gunnar Haslam returns to LIES records for his second album, Mirrors and Copulation. Following a slew of 12″ releases this year, Gunnar delves deep into his darkest palettes for a return to his patient, haunted soundscapes that shrouded his debut LP, Mimesiak. Across eight tracks of ambient techno both brooding and tumultuous, Gunnar Haslam unravels a narrative on overpopulation and its potential environmental ramifications inspired by the Borges quote the album title references. “Meter By Me, Sybil” cascades arpeggios through a thick fog that never leaves Mirrors. “Ajapajapam Version” cuts through with a sluggish 3/4 strut and nauseated 303 bassline, but the rest of the A side is fully enveloped by the Gunnar’s peerless recreation of the wet ambience of a ghostly rainforest. “Cloud Castle Lake” offers an uptempo cut buoyed by a blasted kick drum and frenetic 606 workout. Still enshrouded, “Cloud Castle Lake” further explores Gunnar’s sonic terrain with the force of a freaked dancefloor’s momentum, much like the album finale, “In Argo Teurano”, which blasts forth from the mist with a weathered adventurer’s grit.

Heidi Lord – English Electric [WEME028]

November 23, 2014October 31, 2017 hipodromealbum, ambient, experimental, heidi lord, jodey kendrick, weme recordsLeave a comment

Heidi Lord is the wife of Rephlex/WeMe artist Jodey Kendrick. Three of Heidi’s tracks are featured on the famous “EDM” Compilation Albums This is the Debut album from Heidi Using a unique pallet of sounds from MRI machines to modular synthersizers to conversations in a super market to her own processed voice Co produced by her Husband “I could describe what the album means to me, But i would much rather leave it to listener to experience and feel and to interpret how they see fit”.

Xosar – Hunt You [VV015]

October 24, 2014February 25, 2015 hipodromeambient, house, sheela rahman, techno, valcrond video, xosarLeave a comment

Xosar’s new release for Valcrond Video marks the onset of a darker, more dungeons & dragons oriented point of view. The four tracks feature both propulsive, doom-laden beats and expansive drum-free dream spaces. These sounds, appropriate for perved-out DJs and depressed teens alike, trace a narrative of pursuit, captivity, and erotic exsanguination. Held in a stone tower, a prisoner’s fluids are harvested for carnal application, before he is finally allowed to drain and find release in euphoric fields: bare dead trees, empty veins.

Russo – Wild Metals [VV013]

September 7, 2014September 4, 2014 hipodromeambient, ari russo, deep techno, electro, experimental, russo, valcrond videoLeave a comment

Deeper and advanced electronix on Valcrond Video, the label run by sound and image artist Luke Wyatt (Torn Hawk). Ari Russo is an NYC based multi-artist whose engagement with abandoned media finds an outlet in the video bursts he culls as OfficeFern. As a programmer, he’s produced innovative music generation tools such as the Diamond Arpeggiator. He returns to his own music with this collection of challenging and transporting structures

Faugust – Devotions (1984 – 2006) [MIRA009]

August 31, 2014January 26, 2024 hipodromeambient, avian music, drone, faugust, james shaw, mira, sighaLeave a comment

Spellbinding new side project from Sigha. Following his latest Avian release, James Shaw now unveils his Faugust project with a 10” title on the Avian sublabel Mira. Emotive and highly personal, Devotions (1984 – 2006) shows a side of Shaw’s sound that has been largely buried since 2004, combining his experience as a guitarist with many of the sonic approaches that characterise his best known music today. Over the course of four tracks it layers pulsating bass and synth lines with melodic flourishes and a pop sensibility not seen in his other work.

1977 – Norman EP [1977001]

August 31, 2014October 31, 2024 hipodrome1977, ambient, dub, for those who know, syncrophone recordings1 Comment

The french producer 1977 delivers with his first EP a bold and subtle blending of ambient textures, deep pads and raw rhythms perfectly mixed with some minimal sequences.

Juju & Jordash – ‘Ambient’ jam @ Freerotation 11-13.07.2014

August 17, 2014November 10, 2017 hipodromeambient, electronics, freerotation festival, juju & jordash, live actLeave a comment

Richard H Kirk – The Many Dimensions Of Richard H Kirk [DS110]

August 17, 2014December 31, 2020 hipodromealbum, ambient, die stadt, electronics, experimental, intone, minimal synth, richard h kirkLeave a comment

This collection of recordings by Richard H Kirk is now released as a 3xCD box set by Die Stadt,in association with and under license from Intone.The box set contains the three albums for the first time on CD. CD 1-Richard H kirk-Reality is Opposite (guitars, breakbeats, electronics and digital interference in the sound of insurrection.) Cd 2- Orchestra Terrestrial-Umladen(classical analogue mood music) Cd 3-Richard H Kirk and the Arpeggio 13-Anonymized (minimalist analogue arpeggio workouts). All three albums were recorded between October 2010 and December 2011 as cities around the world were in turmoil. Richard H Kirk is a co founder and now sole member of electronic music pioneers Cabaret Voltaire and last year celebrated 40 years as an audio/visual artist.

Kettenkarussell – Easy Listening [GLGLP004]

July 27, 2014July 25, 2014 hipodromealbum, ambient, deep house, giegling, kettenkarussellLeave a comment

In times where a rave feels pretty much like a funfair, the chairoplane is still the nicest ride. Thinking of Kettenkarussell some might remember one of those gathered moments in a low summer night under the clear sky when things made sense for a while. But those memories fade away quite fast or seem really strange a few years later on youtube. So what is it that is left behind? After 10 years of collaboration the couple decided to do an album that might challenge the comfort zone of those who try to keep up that easy living. It’s a record full of holes. And still this is what keeps them together. In pain we trust… and yes i believe you and me will make love forever…