As we always do at the end of a year, we take the chance to thank you, our readers, for your continuous support and we also have a look at what you enjoyed the most on hipodrome. This is a summary of the top 3 albums, compilations and recordings that you liked the most this year. I’m really happy and proud to see that we have very similar taste in music.
We are starting this year’s retrospective with some “musical gifts” we discovered on the net. Music shared for free download / pay-what you want from artists and label we admire.
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Anthony Rother presents his new electro double album, called AI Space. Experience the world of the digital mind and reflect yourself in this artificial construct to gain new information about the basic fundamentals of our reality.
◼️ ALBUM ONE (Title 1-11) breaks away from the classic Boom-Tschak drum sounds, makes massive use of the AR-Textur-Maschine and examines the field of Techno-Pop.
◼️ ALBUM TWO (Title 12-21) explores a dark disturbing world of the Roland TR-808 Drumcomputer in combination with heavy digital effect processing.
DEKATRON is the new album of electro veteran Anthony Rother. The album features 11 tracks and is released on Rother’s bandcamp as a name-your-price download.
Last year I started this section for free/”name your price” music, that people or labels share on bandcamp or other platforms. Here is a selection of free music I came across this year.
Anthony Rother returns to his label PSI49NET with the first EP since 2003. The new four-tracker is another sonic exploration of a twisted electro techno sound that pursues the stripped-down energy of techno while maintaining electro’s eccentricity.
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