New and free Porzellan track on DNA Production

For its 2nd anniversary, the great Russian netlabel for Drone, Noise and Ambient Music releases a wonderful (and free) compilation with lovely artists such as Roy-Arne Knutsen, Seetyca and many many others. Porzellan’s exclusive track “Anaximander Gardens” opens the MP3 release. Here’s the link:

http://dna-production.org/releases/dna72/

Published by jonathan, on December 30th, 2009 at 6:37 pm. Filed under: UncategorizedNo Comments

Winter drone mix

Just wanted to share this 50 minute mix of beautiful winter drone lovingly crafted by our good friend Paul. The mix begins with a re-edit of Leyland Kirby rolling into Vangelis, the icy ambience continues with layer upon layer of re-cuts and edits playing over each other and features Relmic Statute, Lunar Temple, Damian Valles, Porzellan, Sub Loam, Simon James French, Matmos + many more.

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Published by jonathan, on December 30th, 2009 at 5:23 pm. Filed under: UncategorizedNo Comments

Relmic Statute Hibernate Mix

Relmic Statute has been kind enough to make a great mix of some favourite tracks released so far. Click the image above to listen :)

Published by jonathan, on December 23rd, 2009 at 8:19 pm. Filed under: UncategorizedNo Comments

December's Newsletter

For those not on the mailing list or following us on twitter, December’s newsletter can be found here.

Published by jonathan, on December 23rd, 2009 at 8:12 pm. Filed under: UncategorizedNo Comments

9 musical releases from 2009 that we can’t live without

Gareth Dickson: Collected recordings

Ian Hawgood – Snow Roads

Konntinent – Degrees, Integers

Mind Over Midi – Habitat

Danny Norbury – Light in August

Pillowdiver – Sleeping Pills

Brian Borcherdt – Torches (the Ward Colorado demos) – Free Download

Heather Woods Broderick – From The Ground

Strom Noir – Luvyoo

Published by jonathan, on December 17th, 2009 at 11:11 am. Filed under: UncategorizedNo Comments

Chihei Hatakeyama: Longing for Nature

An interview with Chihei Hatakeyama where The River amongst other things are discussed is now online at Tokafi:

http://www.tokafi.com/news/chihei-hatakeyama-longing-nature/

Published by jonathan, on December 16th, 2009 at 2:59 pm. Filed under: UncategorizedNo Comments

two new titles in the store

Just a quick note, I’ve added two new titles to the store both come highly recommended …

Keepsakes – Partial to Memory + bonus 3″ cdr and other goodies (listen here)

Ryonkt’s latest on The Land Of… Sunlight and Water, fantastic stuff (listen here)

Published by jonathan, on December 9th, 2009 at 11:48 am. Filed under: UncategorizedNo Comments

2010 Preview on Mixcloud

http://www.mixcloud.com/hibernaterecs/hibernate-recordings-2010-preview/

Track List:

1. Hogo “Kitano Dog”
2. Tom White “Moredon Cooling Towers”
3. Jonathan Read “Road”
4. Relmic Statute “Rejhyou”
5. M.Ostermeier “Overtone”
6. Lexithemie “Scale 4”
7. Warmth Terminal “On That Day”

Published by jonathan, on December 7th, 2009 at 9:51 am. Filed under: UncategorizedNo Comments

Strom Noir – Surgery 91 + Fluid Radio & Databloem December's Top 10

Strom Noir’s Cicada Queen from Sen Zimnej Noci is featured in the current Surgery radio show, click here to listen. Also Sen Zimnej Noci has made it into both Databloem’s & Fluid Radio’s top ten albums for December which is fantastic news and an honour to be amongst so many other great artists.

Published by jonathan, on December 3rd, 2009 at 10:31 am. Filed under: UncategorizedNo Comments

Dead Pilot records

New to the hibernate store, four fantastic releases from Dead Pilot Records – Message to Bears, Stray Ghost, Ekca Liena & Cylon who will be doing the mastering for our next release – Relmic Statute. All come highly recommended.

Published by jonathan, on December 2nd, 2009 at 10:10 pm. Filed under: UncategorizedNo Comments