Musumeci – Schwarze Morgen / Zusammen [MNQ042]

November 5, 2013July 17, 2019 hipodromealbum, industrial, mannequin records, minimal synth, musumeciLeave a comment

Mannequin Records presents one of the most rare and unknown Italian Minimal Synth bands from the 80’s. Musumeci were formed in Turin at the beginning of 1985, from an idea of Mauro M. (synthesizers – ex guitar player of Rude Pravo) and Franco G. (programming – ex noise maker of Errata-S-Corrige). The group was founded as a link and expression of various experiences, aimed, at least initially, to highlight the individual personalities of the members. The formation settles after six months of testing with the final entry of Laura G. (ex-keyboardist of Rude Pravo) and Paul C. (voice of K Position). Musumeci were playing several shows, preceded by long monologues in which find space rumorism, electrical scans, voices, screams, etc. Presented here are the two super rare demo tapes that Musumeci recorded in 1985 (“Schwarz Morgen”) and in 1986 (“Zusammen”), on their own label Zeltweg.

Bookworms & Steve Summers – Confused House 3 [CH003]

October 17, 2013August 27, 2026 hipodromebookworms, confused house, industrial, nik dawson, steve summers, technoLeave a comment

Like Seagal, Bookworms and Steve Summers find themselves in dark territory.

Dust – Onset Of Decimation [MNQ039]

October 15, 2013July 17, 2019 hipodromeacid, angela chambers, dust, greem jellyfish, industrial, john barclay, mannequin records, michael sherburn, technoLeave a comment

Widely regarded for their efforts to promote the minimal synth scene in home town Rome, the Mannequin label have always proved themselves capable of looking much farther afield with equally good results. Mannequin return to the States here, but swap coasts landing in NYC to present this excellent release from Brooklyn troupe Dust. Described by the label as “a contemporary ouroboros of acid house, combat techno, and late italo”, Dust are a Bushwick-based music collective whose numbers include avant garde Korean noise goddess Green Jellyfish, psych musician/model Angela Chambers, dungeon wizard/tech genius audio engineer Michael Sherburn and DIY nightlife entrepreneur /DJ John Barclay. So far so Brooklyn you might say, but there’s evidently something special about Dust on the basis of all four tracks on the Onset of Decimation 12?, with final track “I’m Melting” particularly memorable; it feels like the work of Legowelt and Xosar shaken free of any tape dust by the sheer force of the reverberating acid lines that propel matters forward.

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.

Jahiliyya Fields – Pleasure Sentence [LIES032]

September 17, 2013January 29, 2014 hipodromehouse, industrial, jahiliyya fields, l.i.e.s., long island electrical systems, matt morandi, technoLeave a comment

Following last year’s “Unicursal Hexagram” LP Brooklyn producer Jahiliyya Fields enters a new realm with this four track EP. Taking elements from his past industrial fueled efforts and this time expanding upon them with the addition of the kick drum. One can hear a non-traditional and refreshing approach being brought to traditional beat driven electronics with piercingly harsh undertones and creeping melody. This ep explores the vast sonic elements which are designed to affect the body, the mind and the relationship between the two and the music.

The Transhumans – Theory & Practise Of Domination Vol II: Pleasure & Pain [TH005]

August 11, 2013August 9, 2013 hipodromeindustrial, techno, the transhumans, transhuman recordsLeave a comment

Transhumans bring some fresh new techno sounds to the platter. ‘A piece of raw asphyxiated post-industrial techno which explores the duality between two primary stimulus: pleasure and pain…’ “Stimulus 1” is squelchy, acidic, reverberating and narcotic. Tailor made to get dancers vibrating manically next to the speaker stacks come 5AM. Übermensch remixes the track into something equally as narcotic, but utilizing repeating dark synth stabs and darting leads to send the track further down the wormhole. “Stimulus 2” has a bounce that recalls Dave Angel and Sound Enforcer – straight up banging Euro tech. Rolando-esque strings converge on the track as it evolves, making for a pretty spine-tingling excursion. Finally “Stimulus 3” uses futuristic drum patterns and sounds for some cerebral twisting and body eleviation.

Diamond Version – EP5 [12DVMUTE5]

August 11, 2013August 9, 2013 hipodromealva noto, byetone, carsten nicolai, diamond version, drone, electro, industrial, mute, olaf bender, technoLeave a comment

Cover art - Diamond Version: EP 5

Mute presents Carsten Nicolai & Olaf Bender producing some crispy, abstract Electro & Techno cuts under Diamond Version project.

Henning Baer & Milton Bradley – K209 3 [K2093]

August 11, 2013November 1, 2019 hipodromedrone, henning baer, industrial, k209, milton bradley, technoLeave a comment

Cover art - Henning Baer & Milton Bradley: K209 3

Effective, hard stomping, noisy droning Techno EP coming from Henning Baer & Milton Bradley under their K209 collaboration.

Charles Manier – Electrocution [KODE001PROM0]

August 5, 2013August 3, 2021 hipodromecharles manier, industrial, jtc, kode, minimal synth, nation records, tadd mullinixLeave a comment

MANIER, Charles - Electrocution

Preceding the impending release of Charles Manier’s full length double LP Nation have put together this killer 3 track 12” of exclusive tracks to wet your appetites. These songs will never be released anywhere else. While featuring a live version of ‘Waiting for Electrocution’ from the forthcoming LP, the ‘Electrocution’ EP is much more than a preview. We witness a rough and wild take on the song with its fatalist lyrics subjugating listeners to a sweltering, dirty march.

Shxcxchcxsh – Strgths [AVNLP001]

July 25, 2013May 16, 2019 hipodromealbum, avian music, hannes stenstrom, industrial, SHXCXCHCXSH, technoLeave a comment

Cover art - Shxcxchcxsh: Strgths

The enigmatic SHXCXCHCXSH introduced their unique understanding of industrial-leaning techno to Avian with last year’s 12-inch Rjrjrffrjrj. Now Avian announce the Swedish duo’s first full-length album. STRGTHS features 7 scuffed, throbbing industrial tracks. Initiated by the drones of SLVRBBL, the openers’ atmospherics soon give way to the more direct, beat-driven LTTLWLF. RSRRCTN brings dubbier elements into play before leading into LVNGWTR’s searing melody and acidic dynamics. PCTSTSS accelerates up to the record’s zenith, before descending back into the darkness for the cold steel rhythms of WHTLGHT. Closer LLDTMPS evolves over the course of its near-12 minute running time to move from unsettling, disorienting tension to a warmer, contemplative climax.

Morphosis – Dismantle [HJP072]

July 22, 2013November 10, 2017 hipodromeelectronics, honest jon's records, industrial, morphosis, rabih beainiLeave a comment

Dismantle represents Rabih Beaini’s first substantial release as Morphosis since last year’s Tepco Report 12″, and comes in the form of a five track double 12″ release. The first comprises two Morphosis productions obviously aimed at more adventurous DJs, with the title track (in collaboration with Donato Dozzy) comprising subtly rattling percussion and organic tones unfolding over a steady rhythmic pulse, while “Tamrat Version” comes across as more full bodied, with thicker organ textures tied up with pulsing synths. The second 12″ meanwhile is something entirely different, comprising a live score to Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr recorded in Romania; free of rhythm and utilising some outlandish modular sequencing, it’s the producer at his most immersive.

Tevo Howard – Nature of Love Mix

July 21, 2013October 19, 2015 hipodromechicago, cold wave, industrial, synth wave, tevo howardLeave a comment

Mike Parker – Lustrations [PRGLP004]

June 30, 2013June 30, 2013 hipodromealbum, drone, industrial, mike parker, prologue, technoLeave a comment

The Essentials of Techno! It’s been twelve years since the first and last Mike Parker album called “Dispatches”. 12 years later, Prologue is very excited to host the second album from Mike and this time it’s all about techno performed as a kind of ritual. Let us open the secrets of Mike Parker’s “Lustrations”. The title has multiple meanings and stands also for clarity. Clarity is in general the attitude of Mike’s tracks. He has the massive aptitude to bring techno back to the essentials. Mike’s music has clarity in sound structures, bass lines, drums and arrangements. Everything is lead by puristic sound engineering and exactly this kind of unique and authentic Techno can be discovered on “Lustrations”. 12 hypnotic driven tracks designed to be timeless, produced to be played in techno temples in order to set the audience in hypnotism and to clear the mind.

Somaticae – Catharsis [26192]

June 1, 2013May 29, 2013 hipodromealbum, ambient techno, drone, in paradisum, industrial, somaticaeLeave a comment

In 2011, we begin to think about doing a record label. We had been following Somaticae for some time and at this moment he was playing some art and punk gigs with a furious live of electronic improv, on the edge between hypnosis and noise. But Somaticae had already moved forward, and in a matter of a few weeks, he was sending us what quickly and easily took shape as Catharsis, a ten track piece which is to be the first album release on In Paradisum.

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…

Svengalisghost – Vicious Circle [LIES022]

May 8, 2013February 28, 2020 hipodromehouse, industrial, l.i.e.s., long island electrical systems, marquis cooper, svengalisghost, technoLeave a comment

After emerging from years of seclusion below the Chicago underground last year, Marquis Cooper aka Svengalisghost, returns with all new material recorded this winter somewhere between the woods of North Carolina and the streets of NYC. An advocate in creating what he calls the “Anti-Beat”, Cooper takes what he’s learned from the traditional machine experimentation of the early pioneers, reconstructs and retransmits the sounds which lie somewhere in the realm of unhinged synth punk or industrial forward-thinking beat electronics. These tracks are truly the essence of house, and a vicious circle it is.

Especially Good ‎– Foundation [EST83-02]

May 6, 2013February 22, 2018 hipodromealbum, especially good, est.83's records, fit sound, industrial, joe f, julio dominquez, new wave, paul kiry, post punkLeave a comment

“Foundation” is the new EP fromlis’ Especially Good, the most exciting band from Detroit in recent memory. The eight track EP showcases the trios dynamic energy of Julio Dominguez’s vocals, Joe F synthesizers and drum programing and Paul Kiry’s bass – culminating in songs that are equally raw, brutal and honest. The sound of E.G. exists in a space of its own, but one can hear influences of Throbbing Gristle, Factory Records and Detroit Techno in the rhythms and sonic textures throughout “Foundation”. Recorded and mixed in Detroit by Sam Consiglio and Adam Lee Miller (of Adult). Released on Est. 83′ Records, a sub-label of FIT SOUND.