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 last year.
This is a 2025 retrospective with “musical gifts” discovered on bandcamp. The music here is shared as name-your-price by artists and labels we admire. You can download the music for free, but please support the artists.
The mystic SB&C, laying low amongst the stone circles of the Scottish Highlands send a message out to the cosmos with remixes from Orgue Electronique and Legowelt.
Somewhere around 1993 or ’94, a quietly profound landmark in deep house emerged: The Relics E.P. by Austin Bascom, better known as Abacus, originally released on Chicago’s Prescription Records. Now, three Decades later, Clone Classic Cuts present a fully remastered edition, including previously unreleased material from the same recording sessions.
First Transmission Compilation is the very first compilation released by Meteors Recordings and the opening signal of its return for 2026. After stepping back to reshape its identity and welcoming new members into the team, the label re-emerges with a renewed vision and a sharper artistic direction. Bringing together artists who explore the edges of electro, EBM and darker experimental territories, this compilation lays the foundation of Meteors’ singular universe: raw, tense, and deeply atmospheric. Each track acts like a fragment of a message broadcast into the night: a true first transmission.
Mannequin Records present a special release that bridges two generations of electronic body music: DAF’s iconic track “El Que” reimagined by French techno and EBM pioneer Terence Fixmer.
Sudd WAX is the vinyl only label of Sudd Records. Legend from Chicago, Gene Hunt comes up with classic and basic roots from acid, house and deep sounds, original from Chi-town. Energetic and versatile EP, playable full set time.
Whodamanny has been releasing colorful and evocative club compositions as part of his Periodica sublabel Biloba, and now, with ‘Onda Biloba’, the dynamic DJ and producer expands on these sounds with a full length exploration that overflows with vibrant textures of world dance exotica and paradise pop balearica, resulting in one of his most ambitious and adventurous releases so far. Recorded at his Biloba studio, the album is a sunburst bounty of groove, with downtempo jams alive with searing fuzz leads, expressive vocal interplay and seascape synth solos giving way to deviant disco in a dayglo dreamscape. Loved up lyrical spells play against Hi-NRG hedonism while sunburnt saxophones scream, and subtropical nights are soundtracked by amalgamations of sultry summer samba and blazing funk fusion. Equatorial house beats move the body beneath a pan-cultural carnival parade and fantasy flutes fly over stretches of slow dubby dream balladry while elsewhere flashes of sax, drum, and piano create a body burning fire of sweat, movement, and motion.