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Hivern Discs
Review: Amazingly, 11 years have now passed since Khidja made their debut. Their sound has subtly evolved over the years, getting more hallucinatory and sonically left-of-centre. There's much to set the pulse racing on the Romanian twosome's first Hivern Discs EP for five years, not least dystopian, effects-laden lead cut 'The Future Has Disappeared', which peppers a lo-fi drum machine rhythm with creepy electronics, metallic motifs and paranoid aural textures. They relieve a little of the paranoia on the fluid, tribal-tinged dancefloor psychedelia of 'Back To Vid', which comes accompanied by a superbly spooky and subtly jazz-tinged Azu Tiwaline remix. Elsewhere across the EP, 'Science of Ghosts' and 'Obdissian' both sound like Snivilisation-era Orbital after copious amounts of horse tranquilisers and 'The Exchange' is a chugging shuffle through minor-key melodies.
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HVN 061
30 Sep 22
Funky/Club House
30 Sep 22
Funky/Club House
Played by: Juno Recommends Techno
Review: It's hard to believe that Found Ritual is Absis' first release - it's impressively formed and teems with intuitively hypnotic sensibilities. "Floating Around" and "Break Through Far" start the release with eerie synth lines and ominous bass pulses. Absis then ups the pace for "Search And Find", delivering a multi-layered, throbbing piece of techno that is redolent of producers like Dozzy and Neel. On "Running Uphill", he changes tact again, and drops a broken beat arrangement that resounds to a cacophony of bleeps and tones. Meanwhile, "Dive Inside" reverts to the slower, drawn out approach that prevailed at the start of the release, this time with the added benefit of a layered sub-bass.
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HVN 058
10 Jun 21
Techno
10 Jun 21
Techno
Review: Made in association for a release at this year's Venice Biennale Of Architecture, John Talabot and vocalist Maria Arnal have combined for a new album called ARIA. Presented as a multi-channel sound installation to be played over more than 50 speakers at the Catalonia In Venice: air/aria/aire exhibition, the album's concept draws upon data taken from air quality readings around Barcelona. Released here as a stereo vision of windswept vocals, blustering synths, experimental vocal processing - with percussive touches of filtered drums added to the mix, Hivern Discs release of the album couples it with bonus 'Ethereal' and 'Aerial' versions of its more folkloric number "ARIA III". With a continuous mix of the three originals available as extended listening, ARIA channels a fresh look a urbanism, health and environmental sciences while embracing an unique collaboration between Talabot and Arnal.
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AIRE 01
17 May 21
Experimental/Electronic
17 May 21
Experimental/Electronic
Review: For Hivern Discs first release of 2021 the Spanish label welcomes the electrified and bassline driven sounds of Arnau Obiols, aka Velmondo and Barcelona duo Iro Aka. Both parties debuted their independent projects on Hivern last year, with the threesome combining here to drop something that merges traditional deep Italian techno and similar '90s flavours with touches of exotic folk elements and rhythmic percussion sequences. Graced by touches of acid and goa synth, Les Illes Del Cel pushes hard in tracks like "Left Channel" with a tougher and slower groove implemented in "Altar". Get your slo-mo touches of exotic balearic sounds through "Kyushu" next to some higher frequencies in "Substraction" - with "Wavefold" offering broken-beat drums and spacey atmospheres.
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HVN 059
15 Apr 21
Balearic/Downtempo
15 Apr 21
Balearic/Downtempo
Review: Reintroducing the sounds of Torsten Linds? Andersen to the world again is Hivern Discs with a second release by Rounds. It follows the artist's Glass / Foot single from 2014, with "Days" adding another deep and experimental touch to the glacial output of Round's discography. With yacht-rock like vocals blending with a Trancey '80s sound, "Days" goes deep, synthwise sub-licious in its fusion of genre and style. Hivern Discs boss looks to slow, dubby, tripped out and stripped back sentiments in his 'Skoooldub' next to some OG Detroit electro squelch from Aaron FIT Siegal (tip for the adventurous selector). Optimo's JT goes acid house to the point of didgeridoo in a remix indebted to a life of rave while the Ex-Terrestrial's mix hits the spot in a sweet, ethereal and trip hop version good enough for a release on Warp. Erryday.
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HVN 050
18 Dec 20
Experimental/Electronic
18 Dec 20
Experimental/Electronic
Review: Introducing C.P.I. An almost forgotten project from Capablanca & Marc Pinol granted a full album release via John Talabot's Hivern Discs! Emerging in 2014 with a rare 7" release, Alianza follows a brace of EPs spread across a four year peroid, with this album diving deep into the submersive ambient realms of analogue, machine made music. Full of tension, lo-fi industrialisms and atmospheres that play with themes of giallo italo ("Osera"), and winds of the new age in "Islaalsl", find spiritual spoken word in both "Rasa" and "Epileg", with the latter drifting unnoticed into a haunted cathedral of choirs. For lovers of ambient 4th world music, dub techno noise-floor, crackle and pop ("I/O") and epic space western drone ("Sol"), C.P.I. have arrived.
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HVNLP 02
03 Jul 20
Ambient/Drone
03 Jul 20
Ambient/Drone
Review: The Lost Scripts project returns to follow up 2016's Hiverned #4 EP. Hivern Discs chief John Talabot and the ever reliable Pional now restart a series of releases featuring some of the jams they have been recording during these past years between Barcelona, Madrid and Giske (Norway). Speaking of the latter, the slow motion groove of "Giske" is an utterly hypnotic and mesmerising minimal techno journey deep underwater, while "Mozart" is more upbeat, featuring an abundance of dancefloor dynamics on this evocative and majestic deep house journey - equal parts tension and suspense throughout.
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HVN 055
24 Oct 19
Minimal/Tech House
24 Oct 19
Minimal/Tech House
Review: Although his releases can be frustratingly sporadic, there's no denying that JMII AKA Juan Miguel Bassols not only makes great music, but also seems to be getting better with age. A few have commented that "Modulations" - his first EP for three years and second for Hivern Discs - is Bassols' strongest collection of tracks to date, and we'd tend to agree. For proof, check the deep and psychedelic flex of "Synthesizer", where dub techno style synth stabs and undulating acid lines rise above a locked-in groove, and the mangled late night strut of "Modulation", whose reverb-laden percussion hits and cascading synth lines help to create a a mind-altering mood. There's plenty to set the pulse racing elsewhere on the EP, too, with the skittish drums and dreamy, meandering musical flourishes of "Communication" standing out.
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HVN 053
19 Apr 19
Deep House
19 Apr 19
Deep House
Review: Eva Geist is the alias of Berlin-based Italian Andrea Noce, a singer and synthesist who has released on French imprint Madam Macambo, Mehmet Aslan's Fleeting Wax and Gainesville, FL. cassette imprint Elestial Sound. This new one comes courtesy of John Talabot's Hivern Discs titled Urban Monogamy. Of the name, Geist says "a sort of Pandora's box opened up to offer me, and pretty much everyone around me, a variety of relationship forms..iIt was very confused. I think this represents that confused time." Features the transcendent kosmische tones of opening opus "Green Healing Highness" and the arcane yet seductive new beat groove of the title track. This is followed by the Velvet Season The Hearts Of Gold Remix which has already been played by the emperor of cosmic sleaze himself: DJ Harvey.
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HVN 051
15 Feb 19
Minimal/Tech House
15 Feb 19
Minimal/Tech House
Played by: Juno Recommends Minimal Tech
Review: Berlin's Hugo 'Discos' Capablanca and Spanish homeboy Marc Pinol (of the group Umbral and in Quentin with label boss John Talabot) team up here for the third time on Barcelona based Hivern Discs. From the trippy, heads-down mentalism of "Deine Hand" featuring a rather haunting Germanic dialogue, the hazy and downbeat post-punk experimentation of "Sendero Luminoso" and the very retro, acid house era tribute that is "Masa Y Poder" - the dynamic duo prove thus far that it really is quality not quantity: and their limited output over the last four years is testament to it.
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HVN 046
18 May 18
Minimal/Tech House
18 May 18
Minimal/Tech House
Played by: Kenneth Bager // Musicfordreams, DIONIGI, Markus Schneider / Robot Scientists, Future Bones, Cannibal Ink
Review: Roving Romanians Khidja take us on a trip of a lifetime with "Impossible Holiday"... We take off with the stately, cavernous and slightly fuzzy "Die Wilde Spirale" and land in our improbable destination to the spiked out synth washes and dubby bass palpitations of "Pinnacles". We enjoy all sorts of unperceivable activities to the bouncy, analogue bed and fluttering, head-soothing arpeggios of "Haetrin" then fly home to our comparably dismal existences on the droning, groaning and ever-morphing "Kraftfield". Happy travels.
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HVN 039
03 Mar 17
Minimal/Tech House
03 Mar 17
Minimal/Tech House
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
