This is a 2025 retrospective with “musical gifts” discovered on bandcamp. The music here is shared as name-your-price by artists and labels we admire. You can download the music for free, but please support the artists.
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It’s that time of the year when Anthony Rother comes yet again with a new album, EXIT UTOPIA, as always available as ‘name your price’ on his bandcamp.
From the debut album of cold wave/new wave acts of Konstant, La Nuit Je Mens and Oliver Decrow, to the electro art of veterans Anthony Rother, Dark Vektor, E.R.P. and Legowelt; from the roughness of Filmmaker, Gesloten Cirkel and Howard Thomas to the melodic synthscapes of Steve Moore; from the jacking house of Paranoid London and Timothy J. Fairplay to arpeggiated madness of Rodion & Fabrizio Mammarella, here are our favorite 20 albums from 2024, compiled in chronological order.
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We take the chance to thank you, our readers, for your continuous support and we also have a look at what you enjoyed the most on hipodrome. This is a summary of the top 3 albums, compilations and recordings that you liked the most last year.
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Just in time for Christmas we present a 2024 retrospective with “musical gifts” discovered on bandcamp. The music here is shared for free download / pay-what you want from artists and label we admire.
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‘My album follows this time an already existing other idea of Electro and will be therefore on my new Label “3MULATOR BOY”. It’s my attempt of a variant of Technobeat-Electro. The inspiration for this came after hearing DJ MELL G at the Mechatronica label night at the Human Club in Barcelona 2024.’
We are starting the 2023 retrospective with some “musical gifts” we discovered on the net. Music shared for free download / pay-what you want from artists and label we admire.
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End of the year 2023 and Anthony Rother comes yet again with a new double electro/ambient album, called ROBO POP. Available as ‘name your price’ on bandcamp.
◼️ ALBUM ONE (Title 1-12) total playtime: 72 Minutes
◼️ ALBUM TWO (Title 13-25) total playtime: 59 Minutes
Sonic Transmutations is an extended compilation album celebrating over three decades of Clone Records. Marking the 31 years – which is coincidentally the national Dutch telephone code – the 8×12 inch box set draws together veteran talent and emerging iconoclasts, transmitting a frequency rooted the imprint’s signature blend of essential dance music while journeying off into territories unknown. In a constant state of unfolding, morphing across phases of matter, Sonic Transmutations purveys an elemental energy that stands in testament to Clone’s enduring legacy and explorations of sounds and structures.
Between September 22-24, Timișoara turns into the epicenter of a cultural and artistic revolution, hosting an event that transcends geographical and cultural borders. SABOTAGE 2023 is a festival that brings together artists from Europe and Japan to deliver something truly special.
SABOTAGE X brings together the most prominent names in the industry in a joint effort to explore the boundaries of art, music and technology. Among them are: Anthony Rother (electro hybrid), Broken English Club (live), Byetone (av/live), Cardinal & Nun (live), Kyoka (live), Mieko Suzuki (live), Shifted, SØS Gunver Ryberg (live), Years of Denial (live), Phasing Waves (live ): Ricky Van Broekhoven & Albert Van Abbe.
As we always do at the end of a year, we take the chance to thank you, our readers, for your continuous support and we also have a look at what you enjoyed the most on hipodrome. This is a summary of the top 3 albums, compilations and recordings that you liked the most this year. I’m really happy and proud to see that we have very similar taste in music.
We are starting this year’s retrospective with some “musical gifts” we discovered on the net. Music shared for free download / pay-what you want from artists and label we admire.
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Anthony Rother presents his new electro double album, called AI Space. Experience the world of the digital mind and reflect yourself in this artificial construct to gain new information about the basic fundamentals of our reality.
◼️ ALBUM ONE (Title 1-11) breaks away from the classic Boom-Tschak drum sounds, makes massive use of the AR-Textur-Maschine and examines the field of Techno-Pop.
◼️ ALBUM TWO (Title 12-21) explores a dark disturbing world of the Roland TR-808 Drumcomputer in combination with heavy digital effect processing.
Berlin-based label Burial Soil presents a collaborative electro album initiated by CYRK. Early 2020, they decided to reach out to some of their producer friends as well as artists they’ve been admiring for years, to collaborate on tracks. As they see it, the electro scene is a very close-knit community and it felt more than appropriate to support each other this way. For their album „Freundschaft“ CYRK has collaborated with Steffi, Anthony Rother, Ravn Jonassen, JakoJako, Jensen Interceptor, Alienata, Nite Fleit and David Carretta. BPMs are high on the eight tracks of “Freundschaft”, the end result of this collaborative process, incorporating various influences from electro-adjacent styles like italo, EBM or, unsurprisingly, techno.
Anthony Rother with a surprise release on Marcel Dettmann’s Bad Manners label. Raw effective Techno / Electro stompers.
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