Mikron – Foresight EP [ZONE028]

March 14, 2017October 17, 2022 hipodromeelectro, mikron, techno, the exaltics, zone recordsLeave a comment

The next release on Zone is from electro and techno duo Mikron with a great remix from The Exaltics. The brilliantly gurgling and steely ‘Ulterior’ kicks things off with sheet metal hits, slithering bass and buffed-up synth sounds that make you jerk your body. It’s direct stuff for the dancefloor, and so is ‘Vanguard’. Though less quick and in your face than the opening track, it still has the sort of crisp groove that has real impact. A distant cosmos of howling winds and thundering rumbles add weight to the whole thing and really finishes it in style. ‘Foresight’ is even more haunting and spooky. Chilly metal pads spiral in the background, lurching drums and hits bring the groove and the mood overall is truly unsettling. It’s devastating stuff that gets completed with Clone and Shipwrec artist The Exaltics’ take on Ulterior’. The German has fun layering in Drexcyia style, ripped-up synths and crisp hits. It’s macho and post apocalyptic and is as inviting as it is austere.

Das Ding – Industrial Universal [PNKMN18]

March 10, 2017December 6, 2022 hipodromedanny bosten, das ding, electro, minimal synth, pinkman recordsLeave a comment

Das Ding, the dutch wave savant, arrives on Pinkman with four works of full bodied synth sorrow. Freezing rain pelts rusting machinery, a barren land of decay stretches out onto dancefloors. Rasping rhythms and lumbering bass buttress bitter chords and grinding notes that compel bodies to move. And within the dereliction, behind the dilapidation and rot, burns a purity of expression that is emblematic of Danny Bosten’s consistent quality.

S.M. Nurse – That’s The Body [DOM29-L]

March 10, 2017October 31, 2017 hipodromeanneke stempher, dark wave, domestica records, electro, industrial, jos jak, menko konings, minimal synth, s.m. nurseLeave a comment

The musical output by Amsterdam trio S.M. Nurse — generated in just three years of activity, 1980 to 1983 — is truly amazing by its volume and quality. The “That’s the Body” EP is their third release on Domestica; a selection of previously unknown tracks and unreleased versions on 12” format. “That’s the Body” (1983) and “On And Off” (1983) are first-ever releases. On side B, there’s new versions of “Mort Automatique” (1981) and “Frutta”(1982), previously found on the now expensive “30th Anniversary: 1980-1983” album, released by Domestica in 2013.

Mr. Pauli – Weekend Warrior [WE002]

March 9, 2017December 16, 2021 hipodromedisco, electro, ingmar pauli, mr. pauli, slow motion records, wrong eraLeave a comment

MR PAULI - Weekend Warrior

Time to welcome an international champion of all things cosmic to Wrong Era, Slow Motion’s international facing sister label. With releases on Clone and Viexlexx to name but two, Mr Pauli is one of the disco underground’s favourite tastemakers and he doesn’t disappoint with four slamming tracks of sublime synthesized funk.

Space Dimension Controller – Feel My Bicep #71

March 7, 2017March 7, 2017 hipodromeelectro, feel my bicep, house, jack hamill, podcast, space dimension controller, technoLeave a comment

“Recorded the mix pretty much in one evening at my studio! Mix between vinyl and Ableton. Wanted to do something natural and with an acidic pulse so it took me a while to go back through my records. Really difficult to remember all these tracks so it took a while.”

D’Marc Cantu – Hypnopompic [ENDILL010]

March 6, 2017April 18, 2018 hipodromed'marc cantu, electro, endless illusion, jakbeat, technoLeave a comment

As the world collapses, dragging its unwilling inhabitants into insanity, a few things, fortunately, remain true. The man who’s contributed to the development of the JAK sound on behalf of the Nation community from Lake Michigan to the Dutch west coast, where he became well known for several EPs released on Creme Organization Records, is back. After two full-length albums, dozens of EPs and action in the 2AM/FM project, D’Marc Cantu has gained well-earned respect as an underground artist. We are very pleased to bring this little return to the JAK beat style.

Alessandro Adriani – BIS Radio Show #874

March 2, 2017March 1, 2017 hipodromealessandro adriani, beats in space, electro, mannequin records, minimal synth, podcast, technoLeave a comment

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Beranek – Sound Of Danger [DE147]

March 2, 2017July 17, 2024 hipodromealbum, beranek, dark entries records, electro, espen beranek holm, minimal synthLeave a comment

Espen Beranek Holm is a Norwegian musician and comedian, born 1960 and began his music career as a clarinetist. Inspired by early synthesizer bands Kraftwerk and The Residents, he began making experimental pop music. His debut single Dra te’ hælvete’ was released in 1981 and was immediately banned by national TV/radio channel NRK due to explicit lyrics. This gave the young artist tons of publicity, helping the single spend almost 6 months on the national charts. Beranek returned to the Starholm Studios in Oslo from June – September 1981 to record nine new compositions. His debut album, Sound of Danger’, was released on Mind Expanding Records in November 1981. Nowhere near as accessible as the previous single, the album fared poorly commercially. Withdrawing from the single’s fun, kitsch pop, the album is cool and static, driven by thin rhythm boxes, cold synths, and glacial guitars. Taking heavy cues from David Bowie, all of the songs are sung in a nasally English accent, a rare occurrence in Norway at the time. The lyrics are melancholic, but tinged with paranoia. There are also upbeat tracks that evoke a prog or glam sensibility a la King Crimson, Alan Parsons, or Roxy Music.

VA – Electro: A Personal Selection Of Electro Classics [ZEDD040]

March 2, 2017December 8, 2021 hipodromecompilation, electro, joey negro, new beat, z recordsLeave a comment

NEGRO, Joey/VARIOUS - Joey Negro Presents Electro

Z Records are back in the funk hot-seat, but this time Joey Negro presents a snapshot of the edgier, robotic sounds of the emerging early 80s electro scene. From stone-cold classics such as Hashim’s Al Naafiysh (The Soul), Tyrone Brunson’s ‘The Smurf’ and Key-Matic’s ‘Breakin’ In Space’ to revered party anthem’s such as Aleem’s ‘Release Yourself (Dub)’, Two Sisters ‘High Noon (Part 2)’ and Dwayne Omarr’s ‘This Party’s Jam Packed’ to electro oddities like Paul Hardcastle’s ‘Rain Forest’ and The Packman’s ‘I’m The Packman’ we get a genuine labour of love and a timely reminder of the raw drum machine sounds that were soon to define the beginning of the house and techno scenes we have today.

Metamatics – Bodypop EP [SHIP048]

March 2, 2017December 14, 2022 hipodromeelectro, lee norris, metamatics, neo ouija, shipwrec recordsLeave a comment

It seemed like Neo Ouija, a Norfolk based IDM imprint, had closed up shop. Four years of silence suggested that founder Lee Norris, aka Metamatics, had decided to call it a day. But looks can be deceiving. 2016 saw the boss release a CD album of fluid acid, squelching electro and heartfelt electronics. Shipwrec are now bringing four choice cuts from Bodypop to the vinyl faithful. Proudly sitting on the “difficult to define” shelf, Norris seamlessly shifts from frigid winter moods to warming autumnal sunshine. Old-school sounds are rewired, softened by delicate keys and steady beats. Machine music morphs into organic matter. Acid coils, echoed bleeps and clicks grow and blossom into vivid audio vistas with Metamatics, once again, proving his musical mastery.

Leon x Leon – My Solar Brass [RL022]

March 1, 2017March 30, 2022 hipodromeal dente, disco, electro, house, kid machine, leon x leon, red laser recordsLeave a comment

After dropping several tracks for the collectable Red Laser EPs Leon x Leon exports four monster jams melding metallic disco with slo-mo italo & breezy electro-funk.

Dona – The V.G.P. Sessions [CR1293]

February 28, 2017February 19, 2025 hipodromecreme organization, dj plant texture, dona, electro, house, technoLeave a comment

After an EP on Creme Organization off-shoot Jericho One as DJ Plant Texture, Dona Basile now assumes his Dona alias for a new EP on the main label. Entitled The V.G.P Sessions, it features four new cuts from the Italian. Up first is a live cut version of ‘Energia’, a bristling electro track with globular bass and coarse hits. Turbulent but full of synth based serenity, it is a fine start. ‘Cigarettes’ is rugged and broken, with glossy IDM synths and corrugated drums all loosely arranged into something prickly and unsettling. ‘The Deads At Twelve’ then gets even more fucked up, with rusty synths and blown out drums making for a dystopian house groove that will likely soundtrack the apocalypse. Last but not least, ‘Nr. 13’ mixes up Detroit synths, wild acid, heavenly chords and chopped up, buried deep vocal samples into something that will fire every synapse in your body. This is outlier stuff from Dona that sounds like little else.

Unfinished Portraits – Memory Lake [LT031]

February 28, 2017December 25, 2017 hipodromeelectro, house, lobster theremin, techno, unfinished portraitsLeave a comment

Lobster Theremin is back and rolling and bringing more snappy electro through the Theremin caverns with this indelible EP from Unfinished Portraits.

Juanpablo @ Acido Royale, Winterthur (Switzerland) 16.12.2016

February 27, 2017February 27, 2017 hipodromeacid, acido royale, electro, frigio records, juanpablo, minimal synth, technoLeave a comment

Timothy J. Fairplay – Where Is The Champion? [CHAR-LP01]

February 27, 2017November 24, 2023 hipodromealbum, charlois records, disco, electro, house, pinkman records, techno, timothy j fairplayLeave a comment

Charlois present “Where is the Champion?”, Timothy J. Fairplay’s first full length solo album. Twelve shifting, shuffling and shimmering tracks make up this debut. Cruising the highways and byways between proto-techno, horror disco and forlorn wave, Fairplay conjures up his creations from metal and smoke. Saturated snares, clipped claps and warbling chords are dusted with distortion. And this idea of distortion, manipulation and the blurred line is omnipresent. Innocent and sinister, cruel and playful, accepted boundaries are brazenly ignored as engines growl and synthlines soar.

Steinzeit – Wahrheit [MRT008]

February 27, 2017December 22, 2023 hipodromeacid, bjorn magnusson, electro, hansruedi schnüriger, house, lux rec, mrt, steinzeit, technoLeave a comment

STEINZEIT - Wahrheit

Steinzeit concludes the MRT grey series. The duo is comprised of Hansruedi Schnriger, one half of Echo 106, and Bjorn Magnusson. They recorded these three tracks in a weekend’s time inside Magnusson studio, which is an abandoned factory in the middle of nowhere, in Switzerland, using bare concrete walls as an echo chamber. The pace is slow, atmosphere is bleak, tone is melancholic, drums are evil. It reflects how Switzerland feels in winter. Lonely, and this is true, like the name of the tracks.

VA – La Festa Del Metallo [SLK000]

February 24, 2017October 17, 2023 hipodromebakunin commando, diana berti, electro, industrial, retina.it, she lost kontrol records, synth wave, the-ne21, violet poisonLeave a comment

She Lost Kontrol records is an independent label focused on Electronic Body Music, New Wave, Dark Wave, Neo Folk, Industrial, Noise, Avantgarde. Melanchony and Romantic synth wave mixed with a clear post-punk roots and dynamics insistent EBM loops. On the A side 3 tracks from The-Ne21 known as Retina.it are the duo project from Lino Monaco & Nicola Buono who wants to come back to their new wave background. The duo, placed near the Vesuvio, explored all the capabilities of analogic synths since the beginnings,developing an its own idea of sound. On the B side we have 3 tracks from Bakunin Commando, Violet Poison and Diana Berti.

VA – U/V [SUBREC01140]

February 24, 2017October 10, 2017 hipodromeblackmoon77, electro, experimental, kimmo rapatti, le chocolat noir, luke eargoggle, melodies souterraines, russell alderton, techno, tryphèmeLeave a comment

Music from Le Chocolat Noir, Tryphème, Russell Alderton, Luke Eargoggle, BLΔCKMOON77 and Kimmo Rapatti for your emotional sorrows, choose for now,the energy transmission , take and congregate. The breakable experience of an unconventional trip, but not so modern as that.

Daniel Kyo – Evanescence [BAP089]

February 24, 2017March 30, 2023 hipodromebordello a parigi, daniel kyo, electro, minimal synth, synth waveLeave a comment

Valencia’s Daniel Kyo arrives at the Bordello with a 12″ brimming with his hometown’s synthesizer traditions. Evanescence spills brooding bars across clean percussion. Stripped down rhythms buttress shimmering synthwork, cold bars coarsened by acidic undercurrents. And within this pared back style there lies a groove, a subtle development that grow into full bodied floor jams. An EP of electronic elegance and robust proportions.

Private Eyes – Mirror Image / Anasazi [ST002]

February 24, 2017May 5, 2023 hipodromeelectro, interstellar funk, jeroen, minimal synth, olf van elden, private eyes, safe tripLeave a comment

Private Eyes, a duo made up of Interstellar Funk and Jeroen, two storied members of Amsterdam’s underground electronic music community. Two analogue-heavy electronic workouts that tend towards the atmospheric. A-side “Mirror Image” is spacey and melodious, with an Italo-disco inspired arpeggio bassline underpinning galactic chords and memorable piano lines. It’s a collection of complimentary analogue elements tweaked for maximum late night enjoyment. On the flip you’ll find Interstellar Funk going solo with “Anasazi”, an altogether deeper, more hypnotic affair. Its’ distinctive rhythm comes not from bold drum machine beats, but rather the rising and falling of intricate, micro-house style melodies and looped electronics. It feels like it was influenced by the aural textures of dub techno, the phase-based minimalism of Steve Reich, and the deep space ethos of early ’90s European ambient music.