Hot City Orchestra deliver the debut album ‘I Almost Danced’ via their own Internet Is Over imprint this September, comprising three parts to make up the collective LP which traverses through downtempo, ambient, glitch, dub and more.

Hot City Orchestra is the collaborative guise of Arno Volker, label boss of Pressure Traxx and La Peña, and his long-time friend Simon Birkenfeld. In February of 2021 the duo inaugurated this new project and new imprint, Internet Is Over, with their debut EP ‘The Planet’. This material found the duo utilising modular synthesis and field recordings, taking inspiration from both nature and city life and fusing an amalgamation of influences into something uniquely theirs. Here Hot City Orchestra return once again to showcase more of their idiosyncratic sounds with a debut album.

Part one of three from the ‘I Almost Danced’ LP is made up of four cuts featuring pianist Nicolas Engel.
Our premiere for today, ‘It Ain’t Over Yet,’ embraces an early 2000’s IDM aesthetic, laid out across fifteen minutes with a minimalistic rhythm, winding subs, ethereal synth textures and dubbed-out piano licks.