Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl – We Are Not The First [RVNGNL033]

November 29, 2015November 17, 2017 hipodromealbum, experimental, hieroglyphic being, j.i.t.u. ahn-sahm-buhl, jamal moss, jazz, rvng intl.Leave a comment

For those who maintain the more mutable dance music is, the deeper its impact on human evolution, RVNG Intl. presents ‘We Are Not The First’, an epic conducted and deconstructed by Chicago artist Hieroglyphic Being and the JITU Ahn-Sahm-Bul. ‘We Are Not The First’ combines the musical forces of Marshall Allen, Daniel Carter, Greg Fox, Shelley Hirsch, Shahzad Ismaily, Elliott Levin, Jamal Moss, Rafael Sanchez, and Ben Vida in deep dialogue with each other and humans’ hidden sonic history. Tracked as different personale patterns over a week of studio sessions in Brooklyn, said syntax translates into mesmerizing sound forms as the ensemble excavates sonic folklore and ancient music, employing spiritual-jazz’s welfare and health as an agency for balance. An album with an active brain, ‘We Are Not The First’ aspires to reprogram the mind, to transcend our expectations through bugged-out percussion, modular mayhem, flurries of free improvisation, and voices carrying through the air. Hieroglyphic Being & JITU Ahn-Sahm-Bul develop consciousness from primordial ooze. As in listening, the ooze intones an echo of our deep past, rendering the present ever focused. ‘We Are Not The First’ is an 11-part epic and each track is a movement therein that testifies: an ensemble’s vitality lives in its collectivity. When we ask the ooze, the ooze articulates: ‘We Are Not The First’.

Marcello Napoletano Presents Ra Toth and the Brigantes Orchestra – Introspettivo EP [BH025]

November 29, 2015November 13, 2024 hipodromedisco, experimental, jazz, marcello napoletano, ra toth, the brigante's orchestraLeave a comment

The last time that Marcello Napoletano flew this far off the radar was on Jamal Moss Mathematics label back in 2012. Now the follow up release comes on another outsider label, Berceuse Heorique and again, Napoletano treats the listener to another freeform selection. While the Italian producer’s house grooves have always been unconventional, going all the way back to Listen In Dreaming, this is in a whole different realm of weirdness. “Introspettivo” kick starts the release with doubled up beats and mad percussive whirrs and clicks and deranged cowbells. “New Old Think” goes in a jazzy direction with sax squalls fused with Patrick Pulsinger-style atmospherics and “Sunplasemood” ends the release with dubbed out beats and space invader bleeps.

Kirlian Camera – Eclipse [NTNO7871]

November 26, 2015March 24, 2023 hipodromealbum, angelo bergamini, charlie mallozzi, dark wave, experimental, john fryer, kirlian camera, mauro montacchini, norton north, re-release, reissue, rose rosse records, synth pop, synth waveLeave a comment

Norton North presents a collection of deluxe re-releases by Kirlian Camera: after 26 years the best-seller album Eclipse is again available on vinyl with the original tracklist and artwork. This record is one of the most representative albums of the 80’s, with his icy and pop style at the same time, a monumental classic for the synthpop and electronic scene, but also darkwave and experimental (the title-track “Eclipse” is a real classic for each underground club worldwide). Original released by Rose Rosse Records.

Mecánica Popular – Que Sucede Con El Tiempo? [VCR009]

November 26, 2015August 2, 2021 hipodromealbum, dead-cert home entertainment, experimental, industrial, la mecanica popular, post punkLeave a comment

MECANICA POPULAR - Que Sucede Con El Tiempo?

Dead-Cert label have unearthed and reissued this curious record from Mecanica Popular. Originally coming out of Madrid back in 1984 and now available for consumption by a new generation. Because of its relative obscurity it’s difficult to say whether this has been influential or not but these guys were certainly ahead of the curve in many ways and were absorbing influences from great sources, remoulding them into their own vision of electronic music. ‘¿Qué Sucede Con El Tiempo?’ is a diverse and vibrant collection of tracks.

Bryce Hackford – Behind [MEA017]

November 22, 2015April 17, 2025 hipodromealbum, ambient, bryce hackford, experimental, meakusmaLeave a comment

Artist, producer and DJ Bryce Hackford presents the nine-track album Behind, his second full length since 2013’s Fair, and his first for Meakusma. Behind is an expansive collection for Hackford, who draws from experimental, process-oriented composition techniques to create sensorially engaging dance music. An ethos of presence, enrichment and dissociation pervades Behind – by stripping away the constructed-ness of so much dance music, Hackford allows himself to produce music that is as much a joy to create as it is to share. An ambassador of “ecstatic states” as he calls them, Hackford’s music suggests heightened temporal zones may be ubiquitous if you allow them to be. Behind is a proposition of such ecstatic states, its music pulsing vitally at opposite ends of the BPM spectrum. Distinctly unmotivated by polemic dialogues around dance music, Behind seeks a more soluble musical space for unmitigated engagement. It is music inspired by transitions, no less vital before sunset as it is after the curtain call.

VA – Concept 1210 [JUNE009]

November 17, 2015June 29, 2021 hipodromeacid, all the wild eyes, credit 00, experimental, jakbeat, june, june records, nation records, naughty wood, rat life records, solar, synth wave, the pedestrian, traxx, trenton chase, villan x, we are monstersLeave a comment

VARIOUS - Concept 1210

June Records presents Concept 1210, a collaborative project between We Are Monsters, Ratlife Records, Nation and June Records. Represented respectively by All The Wild Eyes (Solar), Credit 00, Naughty Wood, Traxx, The Pedestrian, Villan X, Trenton Chase and June. Concept 1210 is a contemporary take on DIY electronics, made with the original rhythm machines, synthesizers and sequencers that became available between the period of late 1970s to mid 1980s.

Go Music – Go Electronic [GMFC001]

November 16, 2015November 15, 2015 hipodromedisco, electro, experimental, go music, leftfieldLeave a comment

First volume from obscure label Go Music. Wicked evocative melodies and weird electronics from mysterious collective.

Patrick Cowley – Muscle Up [DE106]

November 11, 2015August 9, 2021 hipodromealbum, dark entries records, disco, experimental, honey soundsystem, italo-disco, patrick cowleyLeave a comment

COWLEY, Patrick - Muscle Up

Dark Entries and Honey Soundsystem Records have teamed up again to release another volume of gay porn soundtracks by San Francisco-based musician and producer, Patrick Cowley. Perhaps one of the most revolutionary and influential people in the canon of disco music, Cowley created his own brand of Hi-NRG dance music, ”The San Francisco Sound.” Born in Buffalo, NY on October 19, 1950, Patrick moved to San Francisco at the age of 21. He studied at the City College of San Francisco where he founded the Electronic Music Lab. During this time, Patrick, along with his classmates Maurice Tani and Art Adcock, would create radio jingles and electronic pieces using the school’s equipment: first a Putney, then an E-MU System, and finally a Serge synthesizer. He would make experimental soundtracks by blending various types of music and adapting them to the synthesizer.

Varg – Story Of K [NE023]

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

Jonas Ronnberg aka Varg with a mini album themed around dominance and glamour. This is the statement of Penthouse Electronics.

Oliver Ho & Danny Passarella – Multi [PASS002]

November 8, 2015May 5, 2021 hipodromeambient techno, danny passarella, experimental, oliver ho, passarella recordsLeave a comment

Oliver Ho produces music on the axes of techno and noise. Danny Passarella works with synthesisers, but also designs clothes. Together they’ve made Multi, a conceptual EP on the subject of gender (non-)binaries. Four tracks of thoughtful synth-scapes and reverbed techno. 12” release on Passarella’s self-titled label.

Moufang / Czamanski – Live in Seattle [FUR050]

November 2, 2015May 26, 2023 hipodromedavid moufang, experimental, further records, house, jordan czamanski, live act, move d, technoLeave a comment

In May 2013 at a nondescript Seattle space called 1927 Events, two-thirds of Magic Mountain High—Germany’s David Moufang (aka Move D) and the Netherlands’ Jordan Czamanski of Juju & Jordash—teamed up for a live performance that made everyone in the room feel privileged to have witnessed it. It was the kind of set during which you say to yourself, “I hope to hell somebody’s recording this.” Thankfully, somebody was doing just that, and the 99-minute Live In Seattle is the sterling result.

Saab Knutson – Electronic Music From The Faroe Islands 1993 [NW005]

October 24, 2015March 25, 2019 hipodromealbum, ambient, cassette, danny wolfers, experimental, nightwind records, saab knutsonLeave a comment

The second tape on Legowelt’s Nightwind Records Cassette series. Through his remote viewing powers Danny Wolfers channeled the music of Saab Knutson of Faroe Islands circa 1993. 60 Minutes of Nordic Ambient with a disturbing undertone of dark melancholia with vague notions of distant happiness. Saab Knutson is a man with many issues, but on the Faroe Islands there is no time for issues. To stay of sound mind, Saab plays his synthesizers in the few spare hours he manages to find, unmistakenly influenced by Faroe’s spellbinding landscapes and grim climate. Though Danny has never been to the Islands he has a definite puzzling calling to them, a ‘luring’ force, so to speak. Hopefully he will sell enough Saab Knutson albums so he can fund an expedition and find out more about this mysterious destiny… Played on Yamaha DX100, Roland JX3P, Alpha Juno 2, EMU 16 bit digital sampling keyboard. Ruby metallic cassette tape in luxurious faux plastic case.

Giorgio Gigli – The Right Place Where Not To Be [EDLX045LP]

October 24, 2015December 8, 2021 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, drone, electric deluxe, experimental, giorgio gigliLeave a comment

GIGLI, Giorgio - The Right Place Where Not To Be

“The Right Place Where Not to Be” is the title of Giorgio Gigli’s first full-length “sonic movie”, a work emerging from the depth of his soul and which properly filters every musical input he’s developed over the years. The album takes its outset in a scenario where all human and animal life-forms have perished and only plants and minerals have survived. Giorgio performs that concept writing an ultra-detailed soundtrack to an imaginary movie, using rich textures that reveal new acoustics, enhanced by alienating atmospheres that captivate the listener. The album is focused on obsessive rhythmics cut on low frequencies, a persistent motion, and a stable tremor. The world is justifying its life-forms in detail. The sky is darkened by laden clouds and stratified sonics that electrify the sound of space. Blooming sensations that cover a wide spectrum, alternate from a feverish tension to the lightness of faith. Confines are rejected, techno meets ambient, purging our body of consciousness. A sonic bubble from a faraway era, a timeless atmosphere that describes a vision that seems to answer to the most important question: why? The task of creating an album is brilliantly managed in a manner that cinematically depicts a surreal concept without the loss tension. The experience of the music is enhanced by the intricate artwork with an evocative artwork that expresses Giorgio’s concept: The sequence of mountains dominated by clouds on a clear sky and the depths of flowers are tinged with the memory of a wonderful past.

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Ron Morelli – A Gathering Together [HOS447]

October 20, 2015October 9, 2017 hipodromealbum, drone, experimental, hospital productions, industrial, ron morelliLeave a comment

A Gathering Together is Ron Morelli’s second full-length for Hospital Productions: a ‘techno’ cacophony brought to its granular detail and reduced to its most elemental tonal depths. A cohesive fusion of surreal and feverish deja vu loops, brittle noise, fucked rhythms, scrap metal percussions, pro-one metal synths, and an injection of near-buried, Drano vocal samples, it’s a fearsome celebration of brokenness, of amplified surroundings. Stereo-shifting drones and driving rhythms that tell the stories of those now gone, more a soundtrack for a wake than 4/4 crafted for the dancefloor. There’s a naked anxiety at work that doesn’t turn away from loss, but runs with an excited melancholy that looks to a future that won’t exist. The boldness of the gestures are not to be confused with exuberance. With this effort Morelli has shown remarkable restraint and patience most notably highlighted on title track ‘A Gathering Together.’ An intense cut born from rapid-paced dead-end urban environments that force people together. It’s a calling to do more, include more, and celebrate the many forms within those inconspicuous places. Upon numerous listens, it’s clear the sound design is a reflection of heavy compositional themes that suggest a greater whole. This is hard, dirty techno–humid, reduced, bare bones, yet dense and dissolved to its electronic soil. Heavy without being oppressive, it is the culmination of many elements pulled from all spheres of modern electronics, eaten, digested, and spit back out.

Imaginary Forces – Shift Work [BDN006]

October 20, 2015September 20, 2017 hipodromebedouin records, drone, experimental, imaginary forces, industrial, noise, roly porterLeave a comment

Elegies-in-waiting to the monotonous dread of exploitative labour, dosed with elliptical distortion, industrial noise and ear-crushing bass. Vexd veteran Roly Porter drops by with a sci-fi reinvention of Council Flat, trading in IFs mogadon footwork and megaton polyrhythms for a less apocalyptic, more introspective blend of modern classical, dark ambient and dirty stinking breakbeat.

ADMX-71 – Coherent Abstractions [LIES067]

October 18, 2015July 31, 2019 hipodromeadam mitchell, adam x, admx-71, album, ambient, ambient techno, experimental, industrial, l.i.e.s., long island electrical systemsLeave a comment

Adam X is back with his third album release under his industrial guise, ADMX-71. Adam returns to the L.I.E.S. front with Coherent Abstractions, a brand new album of singular experiments that pull from every corner of electronic music’s landscape into a comprehensive and propulsive full-length. Coherent Abstractions pulsates with fractured rhythms, vacillating melodies and mesmerizing compositions that showcase Adam’s impressive history working in all aspects of the underbelly of electronic music. Noise and industrial elements seep into the album’s 11 songs, churning the cold and abrasive into feverish new territory. Though Coherent Abstractions operates primarily in sounds of solitude, guest vocalist Janina joins Bound and Broken for a rare vocal collaboration on an ADMX-71 track.

Devianza – Tabvla Rasa [KPT002]

October 17, 2015October 15, 2015 hipodromedisco deviance, electro, experimental, kapvt mvndi, technoLeave a comment

Tabvla Rasa is the second vinyl release for the new London based label Kapvt Mvndi Records, a Blackwater Label project about Techno. An experimental and post techno EP based on the historical events of the Second World War. The first track CXIX is about the days of Bombs in London during the War. The second track CMXI is about the connection between the indian Swastica and the esoteric symbolism used by the Nazists in the same period.

Hieroglyphic Being & The Truth Theory Trio – Keep Your Mind Open [BDN007]

October 17, 2015August 25, 2023 hipodromebedouin records, experimental, hieroglyphic being, house, jamal moss, techno, the truth theory trioLeave a comment

The Bedouin imprint continues on with its quest for the sublime and exotic in modern techno and house music. Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being & The Truth Theory Trio delivers more of his signature dusty lo fi electronics but gets an industrial tinged stomp on with “Keep Your Mind Open” and it’s absolutely killer. On the flip is “That Is The Name Of The African God” which is an analogue jam that sounds more like the Hieroglyphic Being we know.

I.B.M. – From The Land Of Rape & Honey (The Suppressed Tapes ) 1995-2005 [IT035]

October 12, 2015April 24, 2024 hipodromeacid, album, chicago, experimental, i.b.m., industrial, insane black man, interdimensional transmissions, jamal mossLeave a comment

Jamal Moss (aka I.B.M. – Insane Black Man) is a lost warrior of sonic truth. Digging through shoe boxes of cassettes, video tapes, and mini discs, we have collected the secret tapes of one Insane Black Man. This is an archive of the impetus of his genius, containing perhaps the holy grail of all Jamal Moss tunes The Land of Rape and Honey and Tribal Retribution. Artists on labels like LIES are still searching for these originals. We have taken them from their dusty and damaged condition and painfully & meticulously restored them. Now we can present these fragile raw and pure visions with the greatest level of quality. Finally the full impact of these ideas can be felt.

Imre Kiss – Midnight Wave [LT013]

October 10, 2015March 28, 2024 hipodromealbum, ambient, ambient techno, drone, experimental, imre kiss, lobster theremin, re-release, reissueLeave a comment

Imre Kiss finally lands back on the Lobster Theremin mothership, this time with a reissue of his seminal tape album Midnight Wave. A seminal, bold and instantly nostalgic LP, Midnight Wave showcases Imre’s immense ability to craft vivid landscapes of ethereal sound, infused with layers and years of emotional content. Culled from live-to-tape synth sessions in his once London abode, these tracks are the result of melancholic and restricted surroundings and trappings. What has emerged is a body of crackling, warm ambient and techno with a vast, cinematic scope. A sonic portrait of an alienated moment in London, told using industrial visceral tools and visualised through the cutting figure of a lonely individual boarding the 5am night bus home.