VA – Cititrax: Tracks Volume One [CITI017]

July 8, 2015May 24, 2023 hipodromeamato, an-i, broken english club, cititrax, doug lee, industrial, lee douglas, minimal wave records, techno, tzusingLeave a comment

Cititrax presents the first in a series of 4 song samplers showcasing the talents of some of the most innovative producers of the moment. Cititrax: Tracks Volume One features Amato, an edgy new project brought to you by The Hacker, Tzusing, a young producer from China known for his hard-hitting L.I.E.S. releases, Berlin based former New Yorker An-i, and Oliver Ho’s stunning Broken English Club. The overall sound can be described as modern, uncompromising and guttural. Each artist reinvents dance music by bringing their own unique vision to the floor.

VA – KHCC001 [KHCC001]

June 23, 2015October 9, 2023 hipodromebeau wanzer, cassette, experimental, industrial, knekelhuis, maekkot, parrish smith, sge bythos, techno, volition immanentLeave a comment

Knekelhuis presents a cassette featuring a selection of six industrial/EBM tracks from Beau Wanzer, Parrish Smith, Maekkot, Sige Bythos and Volition Immanent. The tapes are housed in a black library case clear front black back.

Smersh – Super Heavy Solid Waste [DE090]

June 23, 2015June 12, 2024 hipodromealbum, chris shepard, dark entries records, industrial, mike mangino, smersh, technoLeave a comment

Dark Entries returns to the New Jersey basement studio to unearth another compilation cassette recordings by Smersh titled Super Heavy Solid Waste. Smersh was the duo of Mike Mangino and Chris Shepard, who began making music together in the late 70s. They were uninterested in traditional notions of songwriting or live performance. Smershs sound is a lush hybrid of techno, industrial, dance, and experimental. Sometimes easy, sometime not. Most songs revolve around driving EBM style beats, intricate industrial noise manipulation and synth melodies. The Smersh sound has so many faces it doesn’t fall into any one category. For Super Heavy Solid Waste we have selected 8 songs, focusing on the harder, harsher, rhythmic side of Smersh’s vast discography.

Alexey Volkov – Issue No Seven [JG007]

June 23, 2015February 5, 2018 hipodromealexey volkov, industrial, jealous god, technoLeave a comment

Jealous God present Issue Number 7, the latest missive from Planete Rouge regular Alexey Volkov, and a record likely to cause bouts of overwhelming paranoia in listeners of a nervous disposition. There’s something undeniably uncomfortable about the horror-fixated electronics, dystopian textures and spine-chilling freestyle vocals of “A Snake Falling To Pieces”. The more upbeat and metallic “Never” is a little less bloodcurdling, with metallic hits clustered round a modular synthesizer groove. Perhaps the standout moment – though it’s an all-round excellent excursion – is flipside “Ruins”, which adeptly combines both approaches on an undulating, skin-crawling techno thruster.

J Tijn – MOR [BDN005]

June 23, 2015February 13, 2018 hipodromebedouin records, industrial, j. tijn, jesse kuye, technoLeave a comment

Hard techno advocate J Tijn is next up to supply Bedouin with a heavy hitting package of industrially charged techno entitled MOR. Lead track “Kanon VIP” best typifies that approach, a dense bassline throbs away unpredictably like an agitated wasp as Kuye lays down the drum machine pain. The title cut seems inspired by the Rotterdam school of sewer techno whilst “Shy” is anything but with Kuye going full speed ahead on the dirty synths and raw beats.

Life’s Track – Smell Of Sanctity [BOPW002]

June 16, 2015January 10, 2024 hipodromeblack opal, industrial, life's track, opal tapes, technoLeave a comment

Five tracks-worth of low-down heavy funky sound by Life’s Track on this new 12” EP. Smell of Sanctity bounces along powerfully with thick, irresistible beats that sound like they are kept on a short leash.

VA – Events At The Fatal Party EP [CY002]

June 11, 2015December 2, 2021 hipodromeacid, contort yourself records, die form, fallbeil, i.b.m., industrial, slugbug, technoLeave a comment

FALLBEIL/DIE FORM/SLUGBUG - Events At The Fatal Party EP

Contort Yourself returns with “Events at the Fatal Party” which comes over more as a description than a title, brimming with a bubbling sense of tension and fear. Hamburg duo Fallbeil kick things off in impressive style with a crunchy acid monster which twists and turns followed by two killer proto-techno cuts from legendary French industrial band Die Form from their 1985 tape Hurt. Here we find ourselves in a unsettling scenario with metallic voices scowling over clanging machines and guitar feedback in an unhinged way. The mysterious Slugbug starts the flip with “Goback”, a creeping acidic beast moving unstoppably forward as a reverberating voice ripples throughout. Any calm is then shattered by IBM a.k.a. Jamal Moss whose remix of Die Form hammers home a tough seven minutes of mangled synths, bubbling acid and thundering drums.

Unknown – Wargames 122 [WAR122]

June 1, 2015May 29, 2015 hipodromeindustrial, techno, unknown artist, wargamesLeave a comment

New release from Wargames with 3 tracks of wonked out techno electronics.

The KVB – Mirror Being [INV147]

May 26, 2015June 16, 2025 hipodromealbum, cold wave, dark wave, industrial, invada records, kat day, nicholas wood, post punk, psychedelic, the kvbLeave a comment

Now Berlin-based duo The KVB land on Geoff Barrow’s Invada label for the first in a series of releases. Mirror Being differs from most releases from The KVB as the pair’s deep set vocals, a key component of their sound, are largely absent from the 10 tracks but their reverb soaked mastery of guitars and analogue gear is still very much evident throughout.

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No More – A Rose Is A Rose [DE084]

May 21, 2015November 24, 2021 hipodromealbum, cold wave, dark entries records, industrial, no more, post punk, re-release, reissueLeave a comment

NO MORE - A Rose Is A Rose

No More are a band from Kiel, Germany, founded in the summer of 1979. Their music is rooted in early Post Punk / No Wave. No More began as a quartet with Andy A. Schwarz (vocals, guitar, bass), Tina Sanudakura (synthesizers), Christian Darc (drums, vocals) and Thomas Welz (bass, vocals). In 1982 No More released the mini-album “A Rose Is A Rose’ on 10′. Songs on this mini-LP convey the desolate and bleak attitude of German youth in the early 1980s. This reissue compiles all 8 tracks from the mini-LP, both tracks from the Suicide Commando’ 7′ plus 3 demos from 1982.

Carlos Peron – Dirty Songs [DE092]

May 21, 2015November 8, 2017 hipodromecarlos peron, dark entries records, industrial, techno, yelloLeave a comment

4-track EP by Swiss musician Carlos Peron, founding member of Yello. ‘Dirty Songs’ is a collection of songs from Carlos Peron recorded between 1980 and 1986. The recordings were made with the core set up of an ARP 2600, Rolands Drumatix, TB-303 and TR-808.

Musumeci – Harry Batasuna (An-I edit) [MNQ066]

May 21, 2015July 19, 2023 hipodromean-i, doug lee, edits, industrial, lee douglas, mannequin records, minimal synth, musumeciLeave a comment

Mannequin continue to deliver the brutal sound of the Italian industrial/ebm electronic band Musumeci, this time with 2 killer edits from Lee Douglas / An-i.

Mick Wills @ Save Festival, ARMA17 (Moscow) 07.03.2015 – Arma Podcast 145

May 18, 2015May 18, 2015 hipodromearma 17, industrial, mick wills, minimal synth, podcast, save festival, technoLeave a comment

Daniele Ciullini – Domestic Exile: Collected Works 82-86 [ELP009]

March 29, 2015February 1, 2023 hipodromealbum, daniele ciullini, ecstatic recordings, electro, industrial, minimal synth, post punkLeave a comment

Hailing from Florence, Daniele Ciullini was part of the forward-thinking TRAX collective, whose pan european art/music collaboration network acted as a proto-social network decades in advance of the internet. This compilation collects Ciullini’s self released ‘Domestic Exile’ cassette (1983) as well as selections from a series of other compilations(1982 to 1986).

The Soft Moon – Deeper [CT218LP]

March 29, 2015February 14, 2019 hipodromealbum, captured tracks, industrial, luis vasquez, post punk, synth pop, the soft moonLeave a comment

Captured Tracks present ‘Deeper’, the third full-length studio recording from American post-punk band The Soft Moon.

51717 & Silent Servant – Jealous God 6 [JEL006]

March 20, 2015March 1, 2022 hipodrome51717, industrial, jason polastri, jealous god, juan mendez, lili schulder, nihar bahatt, silent servantLeave a comment

A gripping split 12” from Jealous God. 51717 a.k.a Lili Schulder takes up the A-side with a stonking three tracks, whilst Silent Servant lets loose with a couple of slippery urchins on the flipside. Out on vinyl 12” with postcard and mix CD from Nihar Bahatt and Jason Polastri of Surface Tension on Jealous God.

Alessandro Adriani – PHNCST197

March 16, 2015March 14, 2015 hipodromeacid, alessandro adriani, industrial, mannequin records, minimal synth, phonographe corp, podcast, technoLeave a comment

Vatican Shadow – Death Is Unity With God [LOVE100]

March 15, 2015June 19, 2024 hipodromealbum, ambient, dominick fernow, hospital productions, industrial, modern love, vatican shadowLeave a comment

This double LP album arrives through Modern Love and features a handpicked selection of tracks from the Death Is Unity With God cassette box set Dominick Fernow aka Vatican Shadow issued on his own Hospital Productions label last year. 12 tracks featured here are a balanced blend of broken, ice-cold techno and finely calibrated drone pieces backed by subtle percussive patterns. There’s also plenty of his more raucous beat thrashing and even a few moments of nostalgia.

L’estasi Dell’oro – I Look Upon Nature While I Live in a Steel City [FIELD014]

March 15, 2015May 26, 2023 hipodromealbum, ambient, christopher ernst, field records, industrial, l'estasi dell'oro, technoLeave a comment

Dutch label Field is back with another album project, this time from American producer Christopher Ernst, aka L’estasi Dell’oro, who also records as Penalune and is co-founder of the Voodoo Down label. Before now, Ernst has proved himself to be adept at crafting deep and atmospheric, excellently ambient techno on a range of labels. Varying his tempos and textures, he does acid, raw stuff, tough beats and more industrial grooves. Across this new 8-track album, all this and more is explored in captivating fashion. This is an expressive and expansive modern techno album from L’estasi Dell’oro that is perfectly at home on the always interesting Field label.

Area – One Less Me [SEQ012]

March 15, 2015March 1, 2022 hipodromeambient, area, industrial, m50, sequenciasLeave a comment

Sequencias first release for 2015 comes from Chicagoan, Area. He has melded elements from bass music, industrial, electroacoustic, spoken-word and techno into 3 tracks that distill their influences into something greater than the sum of its parts. Opener “Circadian” is built on a two-chord refrain to a stepping rhythm amidst a dank warehouse atmosphere. Spoken-word interlude, “One Less Me,” is little more than a female voice processed and cleverly twisted over crisp electronic filigree. The EP closes with “XXeXX” (Crushkilled Version), which sounds like the remnants of the opening track after being drop-forged and scattered to the breeze—long peals of reverberating melodic feedback straining under a dense bank of static fog—breaking free every few measures to expand into the light, then crushed. “One Less Me” is the beginning of a new relationship that we look forward to see flourish in the future, and of course, to share it with you.