Bringing a mainstream appeal to obtuse variations of house, techno and disco music, John Talabolt’s Hivern Discs has no fear when it comes to leftfield, ambient and experimental either. Home to an extra special array of productions by the likes Red Axes, Marie Davidson, and Roman Flugel, Hivern Discs has in the process helped spur along the projects of INIT, Marvin & Guy and Dorisburg, alongside others like Lawrence Le Doux and Andrea Mancini’s Cleveland project. With concepts like ARIA and other Talabot collaborations coming through in Talaboman (with Young Marco) and Lost Scripts (with Pional), Hivern Discs continually adds to a top shelf of underground electronic music that shimmers just above the surface.
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.
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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