Hu Vibrational – Vibe Ride [ND015]

November 30, 2025November 27, 2025 hipodromeadam rudolph, album, ambient, experimental, hu vibrational, jazz, new dawn, rush hourLeave a comment

‘Vibe Ride’ is the sixth release of Adam Rudolph’s Hu Vibrational project and marks his 60th release as a leader or co-leader. “With every record, the goal is to explore new creative territory,” explains Rudolph. Vibe Ride continues a deeper exploration of a trance-like groove and a conceptual framework known as Sonic Mandala. This album marks the most complete realization of that idea, partly due to the group’s experience touring beforehand. That time on the road helped to refine ideas and strengthen musical chemistry. The recording process unfolded organically—likely due to the long-standing collaboration within ensembles like Go: Organic Orchestra and Moving Pictures, where the musicians have developed a deep familiarity with the shared musical language.”

Rude Futures – Acid Reaction [RH-STOREJAMS029]

November 14, 2025November 14, 2025 hipodromedanilo plessow, house, rude futures, rush hour, rush hour store jamsLeave a comment

„Acid Reaction“ is the first in a series of new releases by Danilo Plessow (MCDE). After having recently spent a lot of studio time recording bands for his disco-focused label Space Grapes, this marks a return to electronic music. The title Rude Futures serves as a meta commentary on the realities of the modern digital age, the dawn of AI and its impact on art and society. Musically, it’s a darker, more twisted turn to Danilo’s studio experiments – with a nod to early house and techno.

VA – Club Coco: New Dimensions In Latin Music [CC001]

September 28, 2025September 25, 2025 hipodromecharlie chimi, club coco, coco maria, compilation, cumbia, el dragon criollo, funk, latin music, outernational, pinchado, qap band, rush hour, swin batuka, tribilin sound, whodamannyLeave a comment

Club Coco: New Dimensions in Latin Music compilation, curated by Coco María, marks the first release on her own label and serves as a sonic portrait of what Latin music can become when it’s guided by intuition rather than labels. Eleven tracks open the windows and cross continents as effortlessly as changing a song. Here, Neapolitan synthesizers coexist with digital cumbias, voices whisper from within the groove, and rhythms invite movement – without urgency or pretense. This selection isn’t defined by a genre but by a feeling: that of someone dancing with an open heart and keen ears. Each track is a postcard from a corner of the world, and also a love letter to rhythm and the emotions it stirs. From Bogotá to Naples, passing through Lima, Amsterdam, and New York, this compilation offers a journey where past and future brush against each other in the present moment. Club Coco doesn’t aim to define a sonic truth, but to invite listeners to discover new ways of hearing and feeling.

Ron Trent – Lift Off LP [RHMC006]

May 31, 2025May 27, 2025 hipodromealbum, deep house, detroit house, ron trent, rush hourLeave a comment

Arriving almost 35 years since he wowed the world with his game-changing debut, the Afterlife EP, Lift Off was inspired by Trent’s desire to ‘let the imagination speak for itself’ while exploring the diverse influences that have shaped his unique musical perspective. A departure from his previous album, 2022’s downtempo masterpiece as Warm, What Do The Stars Say To You, the 10-track set features a mixture of epic instrumentals, inspired collaborations and vocal cuts whose music was written with certain singers in mind. While it features music that ripples with the experienced producer’s familiar aural trademarks – rich rhythms, warm chords, impeccable instrumentation, inspired arrangements, and lashings of heady hand percussion – it also consciously explores a variety of sounds and tempos, in the process blurring the lines between dance music’s past, present and future. It’s a vision, in his words, of what dance music can become.

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Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers – The Gospel Of Jesamy LP [CW007]

March 29, 2025March 28, 2025 hipodromealbum, arp frique, colorful world, disco, funk, gospel, rush hour, the perpetual singersLeave a comment

Whether or not you’re a believer, the Gospel stands for the good news. ‘The Gospel Of Jesamy’ by Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers is a personal good news journey ignited by the birth of a girl named Jesamy, Arp Frique’s daughter. The Amsterdam-based multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer returns with a new record full of gospel funk inspired by his offspring. The lesson is simple and universal: we are all in need of love, unconditional love. This new album is a deep journey in 7 tracks, where Arp Frique channels his love for organic, funk-based music full of obscure synths, bubbly basslines and swirling guitars to bring a new-old hybrid which could be described as P-funk meets gospel-disco. Legendary vocalists abound in this Gospel: Dennis Bovell channels his inner funkadelic on ‘Look Up Johnny’; diva Muriel Blijd takes a solo feature on ‘Father Father’; and longtime Arp-collaborator Mariseya joins the vocal squad throughout.

The Rah Band – Messages From The Stars [RHRSS38]

February 22, 2025February 20, 2025 hipodromedisco, funk, re-release, reissue, rush hour, the rah bandLeave a comment

Reissue of the 1983’s classic ‘Messages From The Stars’ by British Electronic Funk outfit, The Rah Band AKA multi-instrumentalist and producer Richard Anthony Hewson. The song has been rediscovered and revered as a cult classic, transcending time and generations. This reissue celebrates The RAH Band’s pioneering sound and the track’s unexpected rise from obscurity to international acclaim, largely thanks to devoted selectors and fans who never let it fade away.

2024 Best Tracks part 8 (of 10)

December 28, 2024January 9, 2025 hipodromealtinbas, best tracks 2024, cititrax, daniel monaco, disctechno, electronic emergencies records, fabio monesi, frappe records, fuse imprint, lukas lyrestam, mark grusane, mystic freaks, op-art, rush hour, saucy lady, shades of blur, simoncino, skylax records, sneaker, szop, the black lodge, tom carruthers, wilson records9 Comments

We start presenting our favorite tracks from 2024. More or less in a chronological order we present here the eight set of tracks.

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2024 Best Tracks part 7 (of 10)

December 26, 2024January 9, 2025 hipodromealpha sect, andres, arp frique, best tracks 2024, black dot, deeptrax records, disctechno, dry feel, eric schwab, gt flips, ian martin, italo moderni, konstant, mainrecords, mark grusane, matthias schildger, oraculo records, orlando voorn, rush hour, shipwrec records, soil records, subject to restrictions discs, the perpetual singers8 Comments

We start presenting our favorite tracks from 2024. More or less in a chronological order we present here the seventh set of tracks.

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2024 Best Tracks part. 5 (of 10)

December 19, 2024January 9, 2025 hipodromealan harman, all nice records, aspecto humano, best tracks 2024, ct kidobo, discognosis, dj soch, florida cancer, l.i.e.s., lake haze, mr. g, mystery zone records, ndatl muzik, neuma records, nu groove records, precious bloom, rush hour, stefan braatz, steve moore, the italian stallion, unrealistic expectations3 Comments

We start presenting our favorite tracks from 2024. More or less in a chronological order we present here the fifth set of tracks.

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Gigi Testa – Sichuan [RH-STOREJAMS026]

November 8, 2024November 6, 2024 hipodromedisco, gigi testa, house, rush hour, rush hour store jamsLeave a comment

Napoli based Gigi Testa brings the heat yet again on his third Rush Hour Store Jams release with some spicey Sichuan flavours, straight from the Dragon Temple.

Daniel Monaco – Mamela [RH-STOREJAMS028]

October 21, 2024October 29, 2024 hipodromeafrobeat, daniel monaco, disco, funk, italo-disco, rush hour, rush hour store jamsLeave a comment

Daniel Monaco returns on the Rush Hour Store Jams imprint with another disco heavy two tracker, with vocals from TK daMonza.

Zenana – Witches [RHRSS37]

August 28, 2024September 18, 2024 hipodromebedmo disco, house, prm, re-release, reissue, rush hour, rush hour reissues series, synth pop, zenanaLeave a comment

Originally released on seven-inch by the tiny PRM label in 1986, ‘Witches’ was the product of a sister-brother songwriting team whose music was mostly recorded in the front room of a terraced house in Nanpean, a small industrial village in Cornwall, England’s most south-westerly county. While the single was infectious, impeccably produced and dancefloor-ready, it sold in limited quantities at the time. It comes backed by a brand-new extended ‘spell of love’ courtesy of Bristol duo Bedmo Disco, AKA music journalist Matt Anniss and DJ/production partner Gareth Morgan.

Precious Bloom – Flashlight [RHSTOREJAMS027]

June 21, 2024June 19, 2024 hipodromedisco, outernational, precious bloom, rush hour, rush hour store jamsLeave a comment

Two-tracker from Indonesian group Precious Bloom. ‘Flashlight’ on the A side is inspired by Euro disco with a touch of Indonesian city pop. The track ‘Mojo’ on the B-side explores a rhyme of witchery…

VA – 1st Unit: Underpass Records EP [RH-STOREJPN12]

April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 hipodromehouse, junichi soma, katsuya sano, rush hour, rush hour store jams, shuji wadaLeave a comment

All musical movements require a spark to set them alight; in the case of Japanese house music, that spark was provided by the forward-thinking resident DJs of The Bank in Roppongi, Tokyo. In 1989, to celebrate the ground-breaking club’s first birthday, the venue released a 12” EP featuring first-time productions from three of its DJs, Junichi Soma, Shuji Wada and Strong Katsuya AKS Katsuya Sano. Widely considered to be one of the first ever EP of house music produced in Japan, 1st Unit was never officially released. Instead, 500 of the 1000 copies pressed were given away at The Bank’s first birthday party, with the rest initially being sold not in local record stores, but rather the venue’s own in-house shop. Three decades on, the 12” is finally set to get its first worldwide release via Rush Hour’s Store JPN Series.

Kamma & Masalo – Brighter Days [RHMC007]

December 20, 2023December 19, 2023 hipodromecompilation, disco, discotheque, haroumi hosono, house, hugh bullen, kamma, masalo, mr. fingers, peffa, rush hour, yasuhiko teradaLeave a comment

Since 2014, Brighter Days has been a part of the rich tapestry of Amsterdam nightlife – a semi-regular party promoting positivity and inclusiveness run by resident DJs Kamma and Masalo. On the back of the platform provided by the party, the duo has notched up a string of memorable club and festival appearances, a regular Brighter Days show on Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide FM, and a memorable Boiler Room set streamed live from Dekmantel Festival. Now Kamma and Masalo have taken the next step and curated a Brighter Days compilation for Rush Hour, a collection that does a terrific job in offering up slept-on and unreleased gems – including a clutch of their own tried-and-tested re-edits – while also accurately representing the sound, style and ethos of the event that inspired it.

Miles Spilsbury – Light Manoeuvres [ND012]

November 26, 2023November 27, 2023 hipodromealbum, carlos nino, jazz, milespilsbury, new dawn, rush hourLeave a comment

Debut album from UK jazz saxophonist and composer Miles Spilsbury, featuring Carlos Niño. ‘Light Manoeuvres’ is about warmth, generosity and openness. The music which would become Light Manoeuvres was sketched in fragments, but began to take shape in earnest during a period of living under the Marseille haze in the South of France. The specific character and opacity of the light in Marseille inspired the album title which imagines the movement of light passing over different subjects and spaces in intricate motion. Sand blows over from the Sahara on the Sirocco wind and is whipped up by the Mistral, the Marseille sky becomes golden and vapoured, then intermittently pastel blue. That image stuck while shaping this body of work, and became integral to the function of the compositions – which act as jumping off points for the players and myself, vehicles for improvisation and gateways to something else entirely.

Bang The Party – I Feel Good All Over [RHRSS32]

November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 hipodromebang the party, chicago house, house, re-release, reissue, rush hour, rush hour reissues seriesLeave a comment

Before British house and techno found its’ distinctive groove at the turn of the 1990s, one act led the way: Bang The Party, a trio who emerged from London’s vibrant underground party scene in the mid 1980s and proved, beyond any doubt, that UK producers could make music every bit as magical as the pioneering productions put forward by their counterparts in Chicago, Detroit and New York. By the time long-running DJs and party promoters Kid Batchelor and Leslie Lawrence joined forces with trained engineer Keith Franklin at legendary North-West London reggae studio Addis Ababa in 1987, they’d spent years as DIY dance music activists in Britain’s capital city. They channelled these experiences and their love of imported house and techno sounds into a new project, Bang The Party. The latest Rush Hour Reissue Series release offers a snapshot of some of the numerous gems nestled in the Bang The Party catalogue, delivering a much-deserved celebration of one of Britain’s most significant early acid house collectives. It features four fully remastered cuts recorded and released between 1987 and 1990 – on-point and far-sighted club workouts that sound as fresh and timeless now as they did when Britain was sweltering under its infamous ‘second summer of love’.

Manabu Nagayama – Light And Shadow [RH-STOREJPN11]

October 13, 2023October 11, 2023 hipodromehouse, manabu nagayama, masalo, rush hour, rush hour store jamsLeave a comment

Manabu Nagayama’s ‘Light & Shadow’ was released back in 2015 but never really got picked up. Rush Hour co-founder Antal Heitlager knew it had more potential than it had shown so asked Masalo to remix it. He elevates the track to new levels with subtle tweaks of the arrangement.

Djosa – Botanica Obscura [RH-STOREJAMS020]

July 15, 2023July 13, 2023 hipodromeafrobeat, disco, djosa, house, ronald snijders, rush hour, rush hour store jamsLeave a comment

Amsterdam based musician/producer Djosa (long time band member of Arp Frique & The Family) joins the Rush Hour Store Jams imprint with two uplifting songs. The legendary Ronald Snijders is featured on ”Vampiro” with whom he (together with Arp Frique) made the documentary Easy Man and the album The Nelson & Djosa Sessions.

Daniel Monaco – Life Lessons EP [RH-STOREJAMS023]

July 3, 2023July 3, 2023 hipodromeafrobeat, daniel monaco, disco, house, rush hour, rush hour store jamsLeave a comment

Amsterdam and Naples based bassist Daniel Monaco (bass player for Nu Genea, Mystic Jungle & Capinera) joins the Rush Hour Store Jams imprint. A strong disco heavy two tracker featuring vocals from Mame N’Diack Seck Thiam and a wink to Cerrone, including instrumental versions. Released in conjunction with Utopia records London.