2022 Best Albums

March 9, 2023March 8, 2023 hipodromealonzo, athens of the north, bare hands, bungalo disco, childhood intelligence, cultivated electronics, curtis electronix, dekmantel records, detriti records, dip shim, electro records, filmmaker, furthur electronix, gated recordings, gravity waves, italo brutalo, jeroen search, key vinyl, klasse wrecks, linkwood, luca lozano, lvrin, marcel dettmann, miss kittin, mutant beat dance, nation records, nobody's bizzness, obergman, pariter, pinkman records, sedvs, skudge, sound synthesis, sour, tartarus records, the hacker, the hipodrome of music, the nightstalker, transpac, venom vampires, zodiak commune recordsLeave a comment

Our favorite albums from 2022 compiled in chronological order.

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Miss Kittin & The Hacker – Third Album [NBLP003]

May 25, 2022March 2, 2023 hipodromealbum, electro, michel amato, miss kittin, nobody's bizzness, the hackerLeave a comment

As one of the iconic partnerships from the electroclash era, Miss Kittin & The Hacker helped define seedy synth tackle at the turn of the century. Given the prevalence of minimal wave in this day and age, it feels like the perfect time for them to come back with a new album. Teetering between pop nous and the darkest of deviant nighttime dreams, this is everything you would want from a return of the Grenoble greats. Listening to ‘Purist’ and they could easily be taking on the charts, while a trip into ‘La Cave’ is like donning your finest leathers and sliding into the dungeon.

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Miss Kittin & The Hacker – Lost Tracks Vol. 2 [DE216]

June 22, 2018June 20, 2018 hipodromedark entries records, electro, michel amato, miss kittin, synth pop, the hackerLeave a comment

Miss Kittin & The Hacker are the electro duo of Caroline Hervé and Michel Amato from Grenoble, France. The pair met during the early 90s at a rave and soon after bought turntables and began DJing. In 1996, they started writing music heavily influenced by 1980s synthpop and post-punk bands, as well as Italo Disco. Lost Tracks Vol. 2′ contains 4 previously unreleased demos recorded between 1997 and 1999. The duo fused 80’s European New Wave/Italo Disco with 90’s Detroit Electro, by utilizing verse-chorus structures, they playfully shook up the loop based hard techno and electro that was popular at the time. The songs are direct, spontaneous, seemingly improvised in places. Miss Kittin sings about falling in love in the new millennium, snuff movies and controlling the unknown trip to death, all in her cheekily derisive French accent.

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The Hacker – Le Théâtre Des Opérations [DE184]

November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 hipodromealbum, dark entries records, electro, michel amato, miss kittin, techno, the hackerLeave a comment

Dark Entries announce the latest album from Michel Amato aka The Hacker, ‘Le Théâtre des Opérations’. Michel’s new live project sees the enigmatic artist go back to his roots, performing a 100% analogue set directly inspired by his first true loves of New Wave and dark, powerful techno. ‘Le Théâtre des Opérations’ features 8 new tracks spread evenly across 2×12’s cut at 45rpm for maximum sound quality and DJ utility. The title comes from a metaphysical journal by French-born Canadian science fiction writer Maurice G Dantec. Passionate about avant-garde techno, The Hacker has taken his influences and crafted a potent homage to the power of the synthesizer. Songs veer from gritty, raw EBM to dark, subterranean electro, effortlessly channeling the strains of the Michel’s musical DNA. The only vocal track features an appearance by longtime friend and collaborator Miss Kittin, named Time X’ after the French science fiction television series Temps X.

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Miss Kittin & The Hacker – Lost Tracks Vol. 1 [DE098]

July 29, 2015February 5, 2018 hipodromedark entries records, electro, michel amato, miss kittin, the hackerLeave a comment

The Dark Entries label presents some previously unheard archive material by Caroline “Miss Kittin” Herve and Michel “The Hacker” Amato. Four tracks recorded between 1997 and ’99 – when their production partnership was in its’ infancy – The Lost Tracks Volume 1 contains a number of fuzzy, stylish, floor-friendly bangers, from the S&M-themed madness of opener “Leather Forever” and stripped-back electro gem “Nightlife”, to the high-tempo acid-loaded freakishness of “Loving The Alien”.

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2022 Best Albums

Miss Kittin & The Hacker – Third Album [NBLP003]

Miss Kittin & The Hacker – Lost Tracks Vol. 2 [DE216]

The Hacker – Le Théâtre Des Opérations [DE184]

Miss Kittin & The Hacker – Lost Tracks Vol. 1 [DE098]

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