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Hivern Discs
Review: Ralf Schmidt aka Aera's last outing was on Innervisions and it's not hard to understand why he commands the support of Dixon as well as John Talabot's Hivern. Aera is a gloriously colourful smorgasbord of influences - including house, acid and trance. "Bibimbap" unfolds to metallic, futuristic drums accompanied by trippy acid lines and shiny trance synth. Meanwhile, "Thai Park" sounds like a logical but subtle conclusion to electro house, as Schmidt tweaks and teases a bass that modulates its tone against the backdrop of a rickety rhythm over the course of its eight-minute duration. By contrast, "Rotunde" is far lighter and dreamier: teeming with feather-weight, lullaby melodies and irresistible thumb-clicking percussion, it is nonetheless shot through with a bleeding bass. By the time he gets to the pulsing groove of "Lumen" - also remixed by La Gomera - the sound is tracky but still deliciously tripped out.
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HVN 038
03 Feb 17
Minimal/Tech House
03 Feb 17
Minimal/Tech House
Played by: Alvaro Cabana (Rotten City), Juno Recommends Deep House, Sasha, Markus Schneider / Robot Scientists, Thomass Jackson - August Chart, Larse
Review: Juan Miguel Bassols first pricked our consciousness way back in 2012, when he delivered a fine debut under the JMII moniker on 100% Silk. He's not released all that much since, making this first appearance on Hivern Discs his highest profile EP to date. There's naturally much to admire amongst the three original productions present, from the stripped-back but melodious acid house shuffle of "Thrills", to the wild lead lines and chugging bottom end of the analogue synth-heavy proto-house snap of "Tightbrass". Christian S provides two tasty reworks of that cut, including a dark and seductive "Angry Dub". A woozy, dreamier John Talabot re-edit of "Thrills" completes an excellent package.
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HVN 035
17 Jun 16
Deep House
17 Jun 16
Deep House
Played by: Juno Recommends Electro House, Juno Recommends Minimal Tech, Resident Advisor, Professional Gigolo, Tomasz Guiddo, Sinchi Collective
Review: The latest venture from John Talabot's Hivern Discs label is the Parple project, a seemingly anonymous endeavour that has a lot in common with James Holden and his Border Community label. "Sacred" sees beats double up and shift in and out of time as airy melodies are fused with moody bleeps to create a dense but atmospheric style. "Ritual" sees Parple use a similar method and the wind chimes and tonal frequency shifts sound more compatible. However, on this occasion, despite the groove sounding pulsing and the rhythm more functional, the track's ethereal qualities prevail.
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HVN 033
08 Apr 16
Minimal/Tech House
08 Apr 16
Minimal/Tech House
Played by: Juno Recommends Techno, Alex Niggemann, Audiofly, Resident Advisor, Casino Times, Benjamin Fröhlich, Sinchi Collective, CURSES, Secret School
Review: Alexander Berg has been a busy boy of late. Hot on the heels of his druggy, voodoo-inspired "Time Stretch Totem" 12" comes this expansive album for the consistently impressive Hivern Discs stable. In keeping with both his work and that of the label he's starring on, Irrbloss is hard to place, featuring as it does atmospheric, out-there explorations that variously touch on experimental deep house, IDM, ambient, crystalline techno and throbbing late night wonkiness. Despite the eclecticism, it all makes perfect sense, and comes cloaked in an air of feverish confusion that's never less than beguiling. We shouldn't have expected anything less.
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HVN 034
09 Mar 16
Techno
09 Mar 16
Techno
Review: New Hivern signing Cleveland - AKA up-and-coming producer Andrea Mancini - is living proof that there's more to Luxembourg than tax-dodging corporations and trilingual residents. Certainly, this is an assured label debut, packed full of atmospheric, off-kilter compositions and ear pleasing, analogue-sounding deep house. He begins with the starry synths, bubbly electronics and scattergun drums of the colourful "Shine", before melding electro sounds and breakbeat drum patterns on the similarly melodious "Mercury". He successfully strips back that track on the superb "Early Dub" - think Wolf Mueller on anti-depressants - while "Atlas" sounds like a deep house tribute to vintage Detroit futurism. It's the finest moment on a pleasingly strong EP.
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HVN 032
05 Feb 16
Minimal/Tech House
05 Feb 16
Minimal/Tech House
Review: John Talabot's always interesting Hivern Discs has enjoyed another strong year, with top-notch releases from Red Axes, Marvin & Guy and INIT amongst the highlights. To round off 2015, Talabot has turned to Franc Sayol's Mistakes Are OK project, which was last featured on Hivern Discs back in 2012. "Forgiven" is a wonderfully rich and enjoyable concoction, with headline synth lines, steel drum melodies and Balearic chords riding a rolling, reggae-inspired house rhythm. Edward serves up two reworks on the flip, of which the straight 'Remix' - a late night tech-house throbber complete with alien synth flourishes and rolling, dubwise stabs - is probably the pick.
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HVN 029
27 Nov 15
Deep House
27 Nov 15
Deep House
Review: Spanish techno legend Eduardo de la Calle on John Talabot's Hivern Discs? Yes, he sure is but it somehow finds a fitting home here for this release. A side tracks "Format Times" and "Hope" might be a bit slower and deeper than what you'd usually expect from the Analog Solutions main man, but still have all his trademark hypnotic and droning qualities. On the flip he gets stuck into what he does best; cleverly sampled and restructured DJ tools such as "I Think I Love You" which is totally off the hook; do yourself a favour and listen to this absolute gem. Finally "Passage 2561" which references his love of Detroit so well on this sublime hi tech soul excursion. Brilliant.
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HVN 031
16 Oct 15
Techno
16 Oct 15
Techno
Review: Having first joined forces last year to lend a hand of Massimo Pagliara's collaborative With One Another full-length, Benedikt Frey and Nadia D'Olo present their debut full-length under the Init alias. It's a thoroughly atmospheric, clandestine affair, with the duo delivering a dark-wave opus that tips a hat to early Depeche Mode, minimal wave, Detroit techno and the ambient soundscapes of Brian Eno. D'Olo provides the vocals, though for much of the time they're utilized as textures, rather than the central focus of the duo's shuffling, slowly evolving synth-scapes. As an album, Two Pole Resonance is initially attractive - albeit in a stylized, late night kind of way - but really comes into its' own after repeat listens. It is, though, definitely worth the effort.
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HVNLP 01
09 Oct 15
Experimental/Electronic
09 Oct 15
Experimental/Electronic
Review: Marvin Dan III and Lee "The Black Belt" Guy debut on the excellent Hivern Discs with the Egoista release and bring with them a wealth of knowledge and understanding of what makes a dancefloor tick. Most recently spotted on US label Young Adults, Marvin & Guy are known best for the series of cosmic disco mind benders issued for Let's Get Lost, On The Prowl, and their own eponymous label. That sense of cosmic sprawl is very much in evidence on this three-track release, with the seven minute title cut setting the tone, sounding akin to one of Joakim's more epic productions. The star gazing "Cancion (Para Ti)" has Lena Willikens set-opener written all over it whilst "The Man Who Lost The Hat" adopts a somewhat darker tone, despite the silly title. More great music from the Hivern crew.
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HVN 028
15 Jun 15
Minimal/Tech House
15 Jun 15
Minimal/Tech House
Played by: Alkalino, Juno Recommends Minimal Tech, Jonathan kusuma, Elijah Simmons, RSS Disco, The Black Madonna, Jonas Rathsma, Lancelot
Review: If you've seen Comeme selector Lena Willikens in the dance over the past few months, you will probably have come away wondering what one track in particular is. Reminiscent of a train going full pelt to the sound of a limber xylophone player, the impossibly catchy "Pil Sagol" from Red Axes has been a secret weapon for the Salon Des Amateurs resident for some time, and is finally available for public consumption thanks to Hivern Discs. You should know Dori Sadovnik & Niv Arzi from their work for I'm A Cliche, Highlife Edits, Relish and more but the three tracks here might be their best Red Axes material yet. 12 minute lead track "Todum Todum" is stripped back techno at it's trippiest, especially the mid point deviation into Vangelis territory, whilst "Ma & Abra In Ruanda" presents a breezier, looser side to the Red Axes sound. What else to say about "Pil Sagol" other than it's possibly one of the B sides of the year!
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HVN 030
27 Apr 15
Minimal/Tech House
27 Apr 15
Minimal/Tech House
Review: It's been a long time between drinks for Berlin-based Herzel, whose last releases surfaced way back in 2012. Here he resurfaces on John Talabot's Hivern Discs imprint. Herzel's three original tracks - "Daydreamer", "Closure" and "Shades" - are all superb, with fuzzy melodies, Balearic chords and shuffling beats wrapped in the kind of hissing, atmospheric production that will have the hairs on the back of your neck standing to attention. Of the three, it's the dubby, tumbling, sun-kissed deep house of "Daydreamer" that most impresses. Lobster Theremin regular Palms Trax remixes that cut, delivering two tasty versions; the chugging "Backroom Office Tool" and the impressively breezy, melodious "Nothing But A Dreamer Mix".
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HVN 026
02 Mar 15
Minimal/Tech House
02 Mar 15
Minimal/Tech House
Review: Comprised of Roberto Lobo and Ernesto Avelino, Spanish duo Fasenuova has been releasing CD-R and cassettes of what the duo call "battered free-noise" under the name since 2006, including an album titled A La Quinta Hoguera. Longstanding fans of the duo, Hivern Discs have elected to release 'Cachito Turulo' from that album together with a surprising set of remixes. Keeping in the spirit of the original track's No Wave vocals and motorik rhythms, Marc Pinol takes the track into darkly acidic territory, with a chugging remix whose creeping 303 wraps itself around nightmarish vocals. Meanwhile, Drexciya's Heinrich Mueller places the original's vocals within a crisp electro landscape as stark as anything he's put his name to before, but it's Legowelt's remix that hits all the right buttons, placing mad bleeps and dystopian chords over a rolling bassline that acts as the perfect foil to the ridiculously delayed vocals.
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HVN 017
02 Sep 13
Techno
02 Sep 13
Techno
