Shadowlust – Trust In Pain [LIES035]

November 4, 2013August 11, 2017 hipodrome51717, album, experimental, l.i.e.s., lili schulder, long island electrical systems, marquis cooper, shadowlust, shoegaze, svengalisghostLeave a comment

A collaborative effort between Marquis Cooper (Svengalisghost) and Lili Schulder (51717), this project was born in the winter of 2013. What can best be described as non-stop electronic erotic cabaret, the duo played a series of improvised performances which served as a structural backbone prior to the recording of this album. Finished in merely two weeks, this 8 song double LP acts as a complete listening experience, engrossed in the down beat primitive electronics of the past whilst pushing further into the self-created anti-beat world of today. Pulsing tones, off beat drums, melancholic vocals, and overall dark vibes characterize, but do not solely define what it is to truly trust in pain.

Charles Cohen – Music For Dance And Theater [DOSER021LP]

November 4, 2013August 8, 2019 hipodromealbum, charles cohen, experimental, minimal synth, morphine records, synth waveLeave a comment

Final part in the Charles Cohen trilogy on Morphine Records. Featuring various works made for Dance & Theatre productions between 1976 & 1988. Eleven tracks in total – lovingly spread over double LP and featuring some of the most beautiful material of the series. Another essential purchase.

Charles Cohen – The Middle Distance [DOSER019LP]

October 31, 2013August 8, 2019 hipodromealbum, charles cohen, experimental, minimal synth, morphine records, synth waveLeave a comment

Morphosis’ Morphine records boldly step into the archives of one of Philadelphia’s best kept underground secrets: synth composer, Charles Cohen. This excellent release beholds seven key tracks (recorded between 1979 & 1988) that go into uncharted polyrhythmic / ambient / cosmic territory. The label say ” First chapter in the trilogy of Charles Cohen retrospective works, featuring some of his early works from the Philadelphia’s “No Man’s Land” Art Installment, the “University Of Texas in El Paso” and “The Painted Bride” Art Center performances. This release also features the track, Dance Of The Spiritcatchers, which previously appeared on the Music From No Man’s Land EP by Ghostwriters, a split record with Jeff Cain, originally issued in 1980 on Zero Records.”

Barbiturates – Shades 10″ [LRR007]

October 7, 2013October 7, 2013 hipodromealbum, ambient, barbiturates, experimental, lost race records, new wave, post punk, roland hellarvker, shoegaze, synth popLeave a comment

Lost Race Records presents Shades 10” the new album from Barbiturates, featuring 8 synth-pop & new wave tracks.

VA – Halha (20 Years Of Downwards) [DN02020]

October 6, 2013November 7, 2018 hipodromeanthony child, antonym, compilation, concrete fence, downwards records, experimental, industrial, leftfield, regis, sleeparchiveLeave a comment

Cover art - Various Artists: DN 02020

Downwards Records present a full circle label showcase featuring the noisier, leftfield end of Techno.

Mika Vainio – Kilo [PTYT076LP]

October 6, 2013April 14, 2017 hipodromealbum, blast first petite, drone, experimental, industrial, mika vainioLeave a comment

Finnish experimentalist Mika Vainio always continues to surprise and amaze with each new release, managing to always re-invent hi sound and go beyond his peers. Kilo comes courtesy of Blast First Petite and goes through ten tracks of Vainio’s finest drone manipulations via way of complex beat-driven machinics. Everything from the opener “Cargo” to tracks like “Cranes” or “Sub-Atlantic” and even “Wreck” display a a more aggressive side of Vainio that harks back to his classic work with Pan Sonic, albeit with a more explicit industrial techno fury

Massprod & Herva – Technology Fail As A Birth Control For Unnecessary Recordings [KMWL006]

October 6, 2013February 24, 2023 hipodromeexperimental, herva, herve atsè corti, industrial, kontra musik, kontra musik white label, massprodLeave a comment

“As a label manager a lot of music reaches you ears. Some you get especially attached to. This release is one of those. The two Italian producers Massprod and Herva has together produced some music that feels very unique and different. The EP that goes under the wonderful title Technology Fail as a Birth Control for Unnecessary Recordings, contains a set of songs that blend distorted funk, lo-fi tape recordings, noise and ultra minimal electronica. Titles like ‘Mike vs Speak and Overdub as a Weapon Against Modern Laptop Wanking’ and ‘Fourth Dimension Opens Up to Show Invisible Boogie Maze’ might even open up for new horizons for our label, the label with no set goals. We hope you like this one. We do.”

Helm – Silencer [PAN043]

October 6, 2013July 31, 2023 hipodromeambient, experimental, helm, industrial, luke younger, pan recordsLeave a comment

Helm’s Impossible Symmetry was one of PAN’s most far-out musical transmissions of 2012 – something that was no mean feat – and on Silencer, Luke Younger continues his exploration of sound’s darker corners with four equally as nuanced productions. The title track seems to tap into the similar rhythmic zone as Demdike Stare’s recent Testpressing releases, combining noisy textures with clattering rhythms, while “Mirrored Palms” creates something more meditative altogether, as a drawn out drone creates images of a scorched wasteland, and “Bergamo” and “The Haze” comes across as more elegiac in their approach, despite their lumbering Emptyset-style rhythms.

Marcel Dettmann – Dettmann II [OSTGUTTONCD028]

September 1, 2013September 15, 2021 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, electronics, emika, experimental, marcel dettmann, ostgut tonLeave a comment

DETTMANN, Marcel - Dettmann II

Marcel Dettmann releases his second full length album on Ostgut Ton. Following the 2010 self-titled debut, Dettmann II combines techno with ambient, experimental and even house influences on an expertly paced album with a carefully rising narrative and wide scope. Also features a collaboration with Emika amongst contributions from other kindred artists and hints at new directions in the Dettmann sound.

Donato Dozzy – Plays Bee Mask [SP029BLACK]

September 1, 2013May 18, 2018 hipodromealbum, ambient, chris madak, donato dozzy, electronics, experimental, spectrum spoolsLeave a comment

The prospect of Donato Dozzy reworking Bee Mask for the Spectrum Spool label is a mouth watering one and this double LP collection, entitled straightforwardly enough Donato Dozzy Plays Bee Mask more than lives up to it’s billing. Originally commissioned to turn in a remix of Bee Mask’s “Vaporware” track from last year’s LP for Room 40, Dozzy apparently felt the track’s inherent beauty merited more than just the one and sent over seven! This decision has resulted in a superb collection of reimaginations from the Voices Of The Lake producer, ranging from calming moments of serenity to bleepish, deep techno explorations.

Marcos Cabral – False Memories [LIES025]

June 4, 2013August 7, 2020 hipodromealbum, experimental, l.i.e.s., long island electrical systems, marcos cabral, technoLeave a comment

A huge departure from his known works, Marcos Cabral appears on L.I.E.S. with his most dynamic and experimental work to date. Compiled from various cassette tape recordings spanning the years of 1998-2000, here we have the early experiments from an accomplished producer, which showcase the unharnessed energy of youth when it crashes head on with the technology of the day. The songs created by Cabral reflect his attempts of the music of the time falling somewhere in between techno, dub techno, IDM, and even noise. An engaging and timeless listen the whole way through.

“I recently found about three hours of my unreleased tracks from 1998-2000 on old cassette tapes. The collection that I set aside for LIES is pretty much all from 1998. During that time, I lived in upstate New York in a 3000 square foot loft with just one other friend. Both being DJ’s we would use our loft for fairly large parties… Cajmere from Chicago definitely being a highlight. I knew nothing about ‘making’ music at this time and was using this fairly primitive wav. looping program called Acid. I just started recording my crappy Roland MC-303 into my computer and would just mash loops together over and over. Listening to these tracks now, I have a really vague memory of making them, and feel that their naive nature and the happy accidents that happened here are pretty exciting to listen to.”

Metasplice – Infratracts [DOSER017LP]

June 1, 2013August 8, 2019 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, experimental, industrial, metasplice, morphine recordsLeave a comment

Rabih Beaini’s Morphine imprint has undergone something of a renaissance in the past year to become one of contemporary techno’s most vital labels thanks to the recent material from Hieroglyphic Being, Container, Upperground Orchestra and Philadelphia duo Metasplice, whose two EPs for the label have provided some of the most alien sounding techno to emerge in recent years. Their debut album Infratracts appeared this week with no prior fanfare; it’s as exciting a journey into the duo’s uniquely desolate sound world as you could imagine; combining skull-shattering rhythms with brain-warping textures, the whole things recalls a seasick version of Container’s noise techno being transmitted via SETI’s long-range radio telescope. Essential wares for lovers of adventurous electronics…

Rabih Beaini ‎– Albidaya [END07]

June 1, 2013November 10, 2017 hipodromealbum, annihaya records, donato dozzy, eko tiger duo, electronics, experimental, folk, jazz, mike huckaby, morphosis, piero bittolo bon, psych rock, rabih beaini, tommaso cappellatoLeave a comment

Exploratory Lebanese imprint Annihaya presents a stunning debut album opus by Rabih Beaini aka Morphosis under his birth name. As Rabih was born in Lebanon it is fitting he shares ‘Albidaya’ – meaning “The Beginning” in Arabic – with a label from his home country, who provide acute context for its mixture of electronics, psych rock, folk and jazz. Impressively it was mostly recorded over the course of one day in 2012, wrangling myriad rhythms, tones and shapes from Rabih’s famous collection of vintage analog synthesizers and sequencers meshed with Eko Tiger Duo organ and guitar, and some assistance from Tommaso Cappellato on drums and Piero Bittolo Bon on woodwind and electronics (with additional credits to both Mike Huckaby and Donato Dozzy), and post-production done in Berlin and Rome.

Gunnar Haslam – Mimesiak [LIES026]

May 31, 2013July 5, 2019 hipodromealbum, experimental, gunnar haslam, house, l.i.e.s., long island electrical systems, technoLeave a comment

Ron Morelli has also become a specialist in finding unknown producer and releasing it to the world with only little informations. The newest addition follow the same rule and comes from “an unknown NYC producer” named Gunnar Haslam with a Double LP called Mimesiak.

Harmonious Thelonious – The Malag EP [MEA010]

May 19, 2013July 4, 2023 hipodromeafrican, elmore judd, experimental, harmonious thelonious, jesse hacket, meakusma, rown park, stefan schwanderLeave a comment

Stefan Schwander has been releasing his heavily processed and sequenced take on African music and American minimalism under his Harmonious Thelonious moniker since 2008. His new EP on meakusma is only the second one on a non-German label. On two tracks, Schwander takes his trademark rhythmically and melodically repetitive sound into straightforward Techno territory, although some heavy phasing gives the raw power and stoic repetition of these tracks an ambientish, post-club feel. Two other tracks further develop his typically eclectic and informed sound, playing live organ on one of them, displaying a jittery and jumpy rhythmic style that looks for a groove that until now did not exist. Jesse Hackett, a.k.a. Elmore Judd, delivers a remix that takes the original firmly into ‘My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts’ territory, giving melody and rhythm a more open sense of space, and layering it with vocal samples to further add to a sense of Funk alienation.

Joalz – Hello Darkness My Friend [SCRIBE001]

May 19, 2013May 17, 2013 hipodromeexperimental, joalz, leon segka, many scribes, mary tsoni, may rooseveltLeave a comment

Two years after the release of Monkshood LP, Joalz returns with new recordings. ‘Hello Darkness My Friend’ it is a four song E.P featuring actress & singer Mary Tsoni, known for her play at the Oscar nominated film ‘Dogtooth’. The band here interferes the psychedelic side of its rock influence from the early Krautrock days of Amon Duul. The Can, Faust & Aphrodite’s Child. A balanced conflict between basses, guitars, electronic analoq synthesis & Mary Tsoni’s theatrical performance, leads to a darker but more extrovert sound. The E.P starts with ‘Oh darlin’ Margaret’, low frequencies scapes, meets guitars drones, while the delusional Mary’s performance accompanied by thereminist May Roosevelt. Keeping the same ingredients in Jay Hawkins ‘ Alligator wine ‘ lyrics cover, Mary Tsoni dares to compete her voodoo hero with a creepy and yet stunning interpretation. Haunted by the words of Daphne Richardson writing ‘ Outspoken you are ‘ it’s a talk-style song. A monster bass & a tight drum set enticingly wanders through Dimitris Zografos guitars. ‘Text 1018’ with a repeated bass, the crawling whispers & a raw guitar melody chained with the ms20 synth, pleasantly shrinks your room.

Traversable Wormhole – Traversable Wormhole Vol 6-10 [CLRCD012]

April 27, 2013July 31, 2019 hipodromeadam mitchell, adam x, album, ambient techno, create learn realize, drone, experimental, traversable wormholeLeave a comment

Traversable Wormhole returns to CLR after a huge success in the techno scene with the digital releases and remixes of volumes 1 – 5. The present offering on CLR contains all songs from volumes 6 – 10, originally released on 12“ vinyl only.

VA – Soundtracks For No Film Vol.1 [ACIDO012]

April 27, 2013November 6, 2023 hipodrome291out, acido records, ambient, doc l junior, dreesvn, experimental, madteo, svnLeave a comment

Soundtracks For No Film Vol. 1 is a rather charming mini album of outer-spatial, conceptual electronics from the always on point Acido Records label, seemingly tasking contributors to deliver arrangements worthy of soundtracking film. Madteo sets the tone with “Science Fiction” a haunting spectral cut with little regard for beat structures that could feasibly sit in alongside his brilliant LP for Sahko last year. Alongside this, the A Side features three short form productions, with 291out’s “Urania (Titoli Di Coda)” the highlight, sounding very much like the music you might hear during the end credits of a forgotten 80s sci-fi drama. Complementing this, sometime Sex Tags Mania artist Doc L Junior is given the whole of the B Side to draw out an expansive, epic synthscapes “Modul 2”.

Cosmin TRG – Gordian [50WEAPONLP013]

April 23, 2013July 14, 2025 hipodrome50 weapons, album, cosmin trg, experimental, romanianLeave a comment

The new album marks something of a new direction for Cosmin, however – it’s a much more intricate affair that deals in plenty of fuzzy texture, percussive energy and his trademark skimming bottom ends, but looks outside the techno world for its influences. “Gordian is as much a document of my past year as it is the beginning of a conversation. The title references an ancient myth, but describes the very contemporary, impossible task of discerning between real and replicated, authentic and contrived. Coping with facts, objects and bodies, the necessity of ‘making it’, fear of failure, fear of ‘not being happy’ are today’s topics, and Gordian is my attempt at an exploration of those issues.” (Cosmin TRG)

The Cyclist – Bones In Motion [LR022]

April 18, 2013November 10, 2017 hipodromealbum, electronics, experimental, house, leaving records, stones throw, techno, the cyclistLeave a comment

“Bones in Motion, the Northern Ireland hailing producer’s latest full-length exercise, is dance music Leaving Records style – thoroughly busted techno for the post-punk demo tape set. On a blurry path between house music’s early analog experiments and astounding vistas in modern digital production, you will hear ghostly wisps of woozy trance, distorted and dazzling, cooing through a thick haze of warbling warmth and soulful, revolving resonance. Propelled rhythmically by a ramshackle assemblage of maimed drum machines and battered samples, Bones in Motion doggedly pedals ahead with no finish line in sight – towards the endless possibilities of electronic music.”