Shifted – Constant Blue Light [AVNLP006]

July 4, 2021June 29, 2021 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, avian music, drone, experimental, guy brewer, shiftedLeave a comment

SHIFTED - Constant Blue Light

Shifted offers the latest distillation of his trademark sound. Guy Brewer’s fourth studio album and the first to arrive on his own Avian imprint, “Constant Blue Light”, explores new avenues in caustic minimalism. Eschewing the booming effervescence of his own more plosive dance floor material – Shifted takes a no less nuanced, but decidedly more introspective angle on this new LP. At the centre of Brewer’s practice as an artist, there has always been a sense of dedication to the refinement of a singular idea. In some ways “Constant Blue Light” represents a move closer to the apex of this approach. A continued exploration from a focused and diligent artist that provides yet another fully formed and beautifully articulated component to his own discography and that of the Avian label.

Feral – Absolute Zero EP [MMV012]

June 10, 2021June 14, 2021 hipodromedrone, feral, mental modern, minimal technoLeave a comment

FERAL - Absolute Zero EP

Deep spacious Techno grooves from Feral on Mental Modern.

Dino Sabatini – Mantis 06 [DSR/MTS06]

June 6, 2021June 4, 2021 hipodromedelsin records, dino sabatini, drone, experimental, mantisLeave a comment

SABATINI, Dino - Mantis 06

Dino Sabatini arrives on Delsin’s Mantis series with a charged, imposing statement of meditative techno. Sabatini has been at the forefront of the deep techno scene since the mid 00s, cultivating a sound with his own Outis Music which acknowledges the structures of club music while reaching beyond obvious drama and brute force, offering something more subliminal instead. On Mantis 06, Sabatini blurs the lines between organic and electronic percussion as he doubles down on steadfast rhythms executed with delicacy and impact in equal measure.

O Yuki Conjugate – Sleepwalker [UTTER8]

May 23, 2021May 20, 2021 hipodromealbum, ambient, andrew hulme, auf abwegen, drone, experimental, o yuki conjugate, roger horberry, utterLeave a comment

O YUKI CONJUGATE - Sleepwalker (reissue)

O Yuki Conjugate return to Utter for the vinyl version of their most recent album. ‘Sleepwalker’ documents O Yuki Conjugate’s 2017-2019 live shows but also doubles as the soundtrack to a film of the same name by founder member Andrew Hulme. The music and images were conceived together and the resulting album comprises 10 tracks taken from 24 live performances in nine countries across Europe. ‘Sleepwalker’ captures OYC’s current musical direction, a blend of plangent keyboards, abstract guitars and electronic rhythms, presented in OYC’s inimical style.

Monolake – Gobi: The Vinyl Edit 2021 [AI-23]

April 18, 2021April 16, 2021 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, astral industries, drone, experimental, imbalance computer music, monolake, re-release, reissue, robert henkeLeave a comment

MONOLAKE - Gobi: The Vinyl Edit 2021

Originally released on CD in 1999, Astral Industries present a first vinyl issue of Monolake’s much-loved ‘Gobi’, licensed from Imbalance Computer Music. Set to the backdrop of the Gobi desert in eastern Asia, two shimmering vistas plunge the listener into a vast and deeply hypnotic nocturnal soundscape. The perennial hiss and rattle of insects float along the fresh night air in soft waves. The desert thrives with quiet activity as a westerly wind skitters across moonlit dunes, granulated folds dancing like sheets of thin silk. Tectonic plates murmur beneath the shower of stars overhead, their millennial cycles whispering of aeons past. Vividly textured and enticingly synthetic in its sound design, Gobi succeeds as a stunning piece of minimalism.

Valentino Mora – Underwater [SPAZIO022]

April 18, 2021April 16, 2021 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, drone, spazio disponibile, valentino moraLeave a comment

MORA, Valentino - Underwater

Valentino Mora returns to Spazio Disponibile with his first full-length ‘Underwater’. A mesmerizing listening trip over the course of eight tracks taking you into his deep sea world of dark minimalism and eerie drone rhythm structures.

Valentin Ginies – Dimensional Perception [11001-1]

April 18, 2021April 16, 2021 hipodrome11001 records, ambient techno, drone, minimal techno, teufelsberg domecast, valentin giniesLeave a comment

GINIES, Valentin - Dimensional Perception

11001 Records is a Berlin-based record label focused on techno, ambient, experimental and other forms of abstract visions. Co-founder of Teufelsberg Domecast, a sound installation podcast series with ambient experimental live performances using the dome at the top of Teufelsberg as a natural parabolic reverb. In ‘Dimensional Perception’, each song revolves around an object in outer space.

Alina Kalancea – Impedance [IMPREC491]

February 21, 2021February 17, 2021 hipodromealbum, alina kalancea, ambient, drone, experimental, important records, romanianLeave a comment

KALANCEA, Alina - Impedance

Alina Kalancea’s Impedance is an entirely instrumental album spanning four sides, contains powerful rhythmic sequences, heart-beating frequencies and hypnotic loops that are paradoxically encapsulated in carefully crafted compositions which are full of secret passages and hidden doors. Kalancea’s work creates ungraspable sonic experiences, which overtakes you, immersing its listeners in powerful and mind-altering soundscapes. There’s no quick payoff on Impedance. This is the sound of new, patient electronic music, full of depth and substance. Alina Kalancea is a Romanian sound artist and composer based in Modena, Italy. She has studied sound design and synthesis with Enrico Cossimi and collaborated with producer Alex Gamez, and artists Julia Kent and Raven Bush.

Wolfgang Voigt – Rückverzauberung Exhibition [AI-22]

February 21, 2021February 17, 2021 hipodromealbum, ambient, astral industries, drone, experimental, wolfgang voigtLeave a comment

Long-time AI associate Wolfgang Voigt returns to the London label with his newalbum – Rückverzauberung Exhibition. The Exhibition reimagines the concept with renewed purpose, opening the gates to deliver an arresting 60-minute journey into the underworld. Dense soundscapes mutate with alchemic fluidity, unravelling with vast symphonic counterpoints and synesthetic textures. Intoxicating in its Mephistolean dissonances and ambitious sonic structure, the sprawling ”Rückverzauberung” itself becomes a nebulous organism shrouded in the seeping mist of the unknown.

Vril – Alte Seele [145DSR]

January 24, 2021January 25, 2021 hipodromeambient techno, delsin records, drone, dub techno, his master's voice, marcel dettmann, voiski, vrilLeave a comment

Vril returns to Delsin with a cinematic ambient score. Backed with a remix pack of close friends featuring Voiski’s driving dub-techno, rattling breaks by His Master’s Voice and a thumping 808 electro take in collaboration with Marcel Dettmann.

Cosimo Damiano – Hypnos [H951]

December 13, 2020December 9, 2020 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, cosimo damiano, drone, experimental, survive ltd.Leave a comment

COSIMO DAMIANO - Hypnos

Immersive audio experience for both the dj and the collector, ranging across tribal voodoo rhythms, Coilish esoterism and musique concrete atmospheres.

Feral – Woodland [HYPNUS028]

November 8, 2020November 9, 2020 hipodromeambient techno, deep techno, drone, feral, hypnus recordsLeave a comment

FERAL - Woodland

Hypnus shares another vinyl relic by adept veteran Feral. ‘Woodland’ takes us on a trip through his immaculate craftsmanship and inimitable sound, lacing contemporary minimalist deep dub techno with tribal psychedelia. Feral consistently carries a thread of spirituality throughout his work. Embodying the sound of deep techno through his passion for audio engineering, hardware experimentation and fascination for percussive instruments, as well as an affinity for the shamanic becomes apparent when we swirl in tribal timbres and rhythms.

Mod21 – When The Ice Will Break [O5D04]

October 23, 2020October 21, 2020 hipodromedrone, mod21, on the 5th day, technoLeave a comment

MOD21 - When The Ice Will Break

Journey through the beauty and brutality of Mother Earth with ”When The Ice will Break”, a four-track techno EP from Italian producer, Mod21, breaking a year-long pause for On the 5th Day’s label.

Vril & Rødhåd – Out Of Place Artefacs [WSNWG005]

October 18, 2020October 17, 2020 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, drone, experimental, rodhad, vril, wsnwgLeave a comment

VRIL/RODHAD - Out Of Place Artefacs

Strange anomalies are scattered throughout the world. Things that could not possibly belong to the time period or place in which they were found. These so called out of place artifacts baffle historians & archaeologists up until today and have inspired producers Vril & Rødhåd to write a collaborative concept album. As a result the two producers got together in the studio with the idea to subvert the expectations of their previous work. They experimented over two sessions in 2018 and 2019, resulting in a record showcasing a different palette of sounds and tempo. The album is suited for deep listening and exploring aforementioned concepts or introspection in general. A mystic tone is set from the start, and grips the listener throughout the whole run time. Each track encapsulates this notion in its own unique form, blending sonic ambience and complex beats that reaches spectral heights. Both producer’s styles shine individually, but the collaboration achieves something greater than the sum of its parts.

Euan Dalgarno – Nfutures [MOM027]

October 18, 2020October 16, 2020 hipodromealbum, ambient, drone, euan dalgarno, experimental, modern obscure musicLeave a comment

EUAN DALGARNO - Nfutures

Euan Dalgarno follows up his debut on Modern Obscure Music with Nfutures. The Scottish producer presents an album that has been inspired by modern-day classical music, but also informed by forward-thinking electronic music. Nfutures builds on Dalgarno’s previous release on the label, but also enters previously uncharted waters. It is an eleven-track album of mainly probing strings and piano-led compositions. Hel is a real standout with its calming keys and taut strings. Earhorns (for 3 Pianos) is an exciting composition, where the stars really are those pianos. The title track, Nfutures, ends proceedings beautifully with an epic piece that features levitating strings, bright-eyed keys and synthetic waves.

KMRU – Peel [EMEGO289V]

October 4, 2020September 30, 2020 hipodromealbum, ambient, drone, editions mego, experimental, joseph kamaru, kmruLeave a comment

KMRU - Peel

KMRU is the moniker of Joseph Kamaru, a sound artist, and producer based in Nairobi. One of the leading exponents of the burgeoning experimental music scene in Nairobi and beyond he was listed by Resident Advisor as one of ’15 East African Artists You Need To Hear’ in 2018 and is a regular performer at the fabled Nyegenyege Festival having also presented live performances at CTM festival and Gamma Festival. Peel is KMRU’s first release for Editions Mego. exquisite mix of field recordings and electronics unravelling at a repetitive and leisurely pace to expose a rich tapestry of sound that has been revered for it’s ability to cross borders with the sheer undertow of emotional content. The subtle calming atmosphere within Peel belies the compositional prowess as layers of delicate sounds wrap around each other creating a hybrid new form ambient musics both captivating through it’s textural depth and kaleidoscopic patterns. The track titles lend themselves to the themes and mood set within: Why are you here, Well, Solace, Klang, Insubstantial and the title track. This is a deep heartfelt journey with a new strong voice being expressed through the means of organically presented electronic ambient sounds, one which reveals further layers on repeat listens.

RA.740 KMRU

August 16, 2020September 30, 2020 hipodromeambient, drone, experimental, interview, joseph kamaru, kmruLeave a comment

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Kassel Jaeger – Swamps/Things [SP119]

August 1, 2020July 30, 2020 hipodromeambient, drone, experimental, françois j. bonnet, kassel jaeger, shelter pressLeave a comment

JAEGER, Kassel - Swamps/Things

Over the last decade, Kassel Jaeger, the moniker of the Paris-based composer, writer / theorist, producer, and director of the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM), François Bonnet, has meticulously sculpted a body of multidisciplinary work that rests at the forefront contemporary electronic and electroacoustic practice. This is his new album ‘Swamp/Things’ on Shelter-Press. Sound is abstract. When the source is elusive, narrative and meaning shift between the concrete and obscure. With his first solo LP with Shelter Press, Swamps/Things, Kassel Jaeger wades into this foggy, conceptual realm. From memory and metaphor – sliding fluidly through the imagistic and emotive – emerges an immersive, cavernous world that rethinks electroacoustic music on organic terms. ‘Swamps/Things’ was conceived as an opera without distinct characters or text. It draws Kassel Jaeger into his own history, experiences, and the unlikely double of the swamp, a landscape that has held literal and metaphorical sway over him since childhood. Merging 8 works as a total environment, abstaining from distinct shape or discrete articulation, across the album’s breadth, sound becomes a shifting mirror for the bubbling, ordered chaos of organic life.

Nordvest – Grøndal [SUCTION051]

July 11, 2020July 12, 2020 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, drone, experimental, nordvest, roger semsroth, suction recordsLeave a comment

Suction Records welcomes Roger Semsroth back to the label – having previously released 2 full-length albums with us under his retired electro-pop alias, Skanfrom. “Grøndal” is the debut vinyl release under a new alias, Nordvest. These days, Semsroth is best-known for his stark and minimalist techno project, Sleeparchive. The material on Grøndal – icy, melodic, and mostly beatless – is comprised of tracks that were originally released digitally as Sleeparchive, via Bandcamp. The releases were met with general disinterest from Sleeparchive fans, prompting Semsroth to re-brand them as Nordvest, before removing them from Bandcamp altogether. We’ve chosen 11 highlights from 3 of those digital albums, “Rooftops & Chaotic Streets”, “Scribbles”, and “Sleepless”, for a cohesive 11-track LP of austere, synthetic ambiance.

Shifted – The Dirt On Our Hands [AVNLP05]

July 11, 2020July 12, 2020 hipodromealbum, avian music, drone, experimental, shifted, technoLeave a comment

Shifted is back with a double LP called ”The Dirt On Our Hands”.

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