igloomag.com recently got in touch with Richard Borge—being a fan of his unusually organic displays of color, texture and subliminal messages—and in turn what we were able to gather is a snapshot of images spanning over a decade featured in a scrolling image gallery. INDEED you could easily read Richard Borge’s bio page here—an impressive [...]
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SYNCRATICA Mix by missaw of The Centrifuge
“Syncratica” is a mix compiled from tracks featured on The Centrifuge‘s 5th Anniversary Compilation, produced by missaw in London—April 2012. The Centrifuge :: Cutting edge live electronic and electro-acoustic music, audiovisual installations, music PR & consultancy and lecture / seminar sessions. Tracklist :: —Yellow Then Blue :: “Big Dipper” —Eraserhead :: “Cusp” —Rival Consoles :: [...]
COMMUNIKEY FESTIVAL 2012 :: Visual Archive
This gallery features photographs from the fifth year of Communikey Festival, held in Boulder, Colorado. The festival took place in a dozen venues, including Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder Theater, Naropa University, Odd Fellows Lodge, and ATLAS Institute at the University of Colorado. [April 25—29, 2012] The Communikey Festival focuses on electronic music, including a [...]
SYNC 24 :: Cultivated Electronics Promo Mix
New Cultivated Electronics promo mix from CE label head Sync 24 for Igloo Magazine, May 2012. Tracklist :: —Sonar Base :: “The Journey Home” (CE010) —Scape One :: “Time Falls” (CE008) —Morphology :: “Tangent Spaces” (CE009) —Scape One :: “Potent Mutagen” (CE008) —Morphology :: “Information Paradox” (CE009) —Boris Divider :: “Primary Functions” (CE011) —Sonar Base [...]
LUMEN :: Drawn Recordings Mix
An eclectic mix of leftfield, downtempo, dub/step, grit, dark ambient and bass music from UK’s Lumen—courtesy of Drawn Recordings. Sometimes you just have to loosen up and let the grooves take over. This mix by Drawn Recordings resident DJ/VJ Lumen is a syndicated mix for igloomag.com. “…Lumen has been knocking out some cracking sets of [...]
ALAN LOCKETT :: Slings the Wooze Mix
20 exponents of blurred and blissed ambience, washed out synthwave and reverb-drenched electronica selected and strategically slung into a document of daze, a hymn to haze. Slinging the Wooze is Igloo Contributing Editor, Alan Lockett, aka albient for mix-meddle and audio-fiddle. The theme, vaguely programmatically, is of blinking re-emergence from Winter’s stunned chill, bleary peering [...]
Digital::Nimbus Radio #448 Mix
Digital::Nimbus (Electronic Audio Freakquencies)—radio show #448 featured mix. Broadcasting live every Friday night from 10pm-12am (PST, GMT -8) at KUCI 88.9 FM (Irvine, CA. + Streaming Media), Digital::Nimbus—hosted by Pietrobot & Freakquency Modulator—is one of Southern California’s leading experimental electronic music radio shows and has just celebrated their 10th year on the air. In an [...]
London Electronic Music Event 2012 :: Event coverage
Starting something as broad and vast as this will always be a hard, bumpy and evolutionary task with no obvious parameters to work within, but hats off to the Sample Magic and LEME team on very worthy, necessary and sincere debut that has boundless potential from here on. The artists and bedroom producers of 2013 [...]
Production tips for budding electronic music producers
DJ Mojo (aka Joel Semchuck)—Electronic music production, once the realm of the hardcore gear-whore and MIDI magician, has become a much more accessible enterprise with the advent of cheaper, more powerful PCs. The sophistication and performance of both audio interfaces as well as Digital Audio Workstation software has brought the home studio setup within functional [...]
ASYMMETRICAL HEAD :: Digital::Nimbus #442 Mix
A virtual smorgasbord of exp-electronics, techno and ambient deformations. Take a trip through turbulent waters as beats, bass and subdued noise weaves its way into your subconscious courtesy of Asymmetrical Head. Asymmetrical Head delivered a live in-studio performance on Digital::Nimbus radio on January 20th, 2012—a virtual smorgasbord of exp-electronics, techno and ambient deformations—is now available [...]
Fusion Gig Bag & Giveaway
Touted as ‘more than just a gig bag,’ Fusion lives up to its name by offering high-quality DJ bag accessories including various other mobile cases for iPad, laptops, and a wide assortment of instruments. (January 2012) After having DJ’d for over 10-years and running an online magazine, I’ve never really taken further steps to properly [...]
Four nights in Berlin
Berlin. A city of culture and history that holds a well-kept secret, that only the lucky get to discover. The city is host to its own musical culture, and to those who know, it is a Narnia of great music, fantastic DJ’s, and extraordinary non-stop parties. Berlin. A city of culture and history that holds [...]
The great vinyl debate
DJ Mojo (aka Joel Semchuck) “I see the virtues and the pitfalls of both (vinyl and digital mixing platforms), and as such, I think I can offer an objective opinion that respects and appreciates where we’ve come from, but also acknowledges some of the benefits of where we seem to be headed. There are impassioned [...]
DATACRASHROBOT :: Xylogic Technology Crash Mix
Sorin Paun, better known to the electronic music community as the split sonic devices of Datacrashrobot (definitive exp-electro) and Randomform (leftfield DSP contortions) offers up a seamless blend of his DCR moniker on Xylogic Technology Crash Mix. Dive into these gelatinous rhythms as they tear through electro with high-definition beats, bass and creative chaos. DOWNLOAD [...]
DISPLACER :: Renaissance Festival Mix (Re-Edit)
Fresh off of his latest outing with Tympanik Audio (Night Gallery), Displacer (aka Michael Morton) performed live in Montreal, Canada at the Renaissance Festival (November 2011) celebrating 10 years of Ad Noiseam and Chromosome Syndicate. The mix was recently re-edited for Digital::Nimbus radio (Show #438) and now made available to igloomag.com readers. Layers of darkened [...]
KRIS KRAUSE (Mr. Atomic) :: Digital::Nimbus Mix
Kris Krause (aka Mr. Atomic of Outside Records) offers an exclusive mix for Digital::Nimbus (Radio show #437) and now made available at Igloo Magazine. Outside Recordings Bio :: “Since 1992 Residency at the Legendary Park Elevator Club in Charlotte, NC Kris Krause has been instrumental in the development of the Dirty South’s Electronic Music community. [...]
MOOGFEST :: Asheville, NC (2011)
Robert Galbraith summarizes Moogfest 2011 as Thomas Fang (portfolio) offers a visual archive of the festivities. [Moogfest October 28th-30th, 2011] Asheville North Carolina’s annual Moogfest is a three day music festival dedicated to Bob Moog and the wonderful influence that his instruments have had on electronic music. Asheville is the current home of Moog Music [...]
PITCHFORK MUSIC FESTIVAL (Paris 2011)
(October 2011) For the past 15 years, Pitchfork has managed to evolve from a hipster blog, to something of a cultural taste-maker for those who long to be in the know about new and emerging music from a broad spectrum of genres. Their annual music festival in Chicago highlights some of the best emerging talent [...]
ADJ :: Freestyle Electronics Mix
Andy Jaggers of Outside Recordings recently released Beats, Blips & Other Dimensions on UK-based Shameless Toady. Quoting the review, “ADJ’s focus on pure, unadulterated electro sets the bar a little higher than usual as it maneuvers its way across layers of analog-synth tones, emotive pulses, hypnotic waveforms and roughened, head-bobbing experimentation.” This descriptor also applies to his latest exclusive [...]
RADIO:RONTRONIK :: Special Broadcast Mix
Rontronik offers igloomag.com readers a Special Broadcast Mix packed to the gills with funky beats, bass & distortion. Tune in for dub-infiltrated symmetry from start to end on this 43-minute jaunt through time and space. Spread across forty-three minutes you’ll find Rontronik (aka Ron Croudy ~ Audio Controller : Producer : Freaky Deaky Sci-Fi Cinematic [...]
ALL TOMORROW’S PARTIES (2011) :: Visual archive by Thomas Fang
Visual archive photography by Thomas Fang for All Tomorrow’s Parties. [October 2011] This gallery features photographs from the first US installment of I’ll Be Your Mirror, a music festival curated by All Tomorrow’s Parties and Portishead. The festival took place from September 30th to October 2nd, 2011, at several venues in Asbury Park, New Jersey. [...]
Public Enemy :: It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back (Def Jam, 1988)
Public Enemy broke new ground both sonically and in their attitude. They brought a political message to Hip-Hop that was coherent, personal and well reasoned. This had been done before of course, Hip-Hop is a cultural political art form with roots that stretch back to a time when the terrible mis-treatment of fellow human beings [...]
ALAN LOCKETT :: End Summerless Mix
Conspiring with fellow-travellers in ambient-drone and atmospheric electronica, Alan Lockett, Igloo Contributing Editor (aka albient for mixage and audio-scrawl), compiles a document of days. [September 2011] End Summerless: a mix to accompany impressions of a summer now apparently ending, with a strange sense of somehow never having started; not worth talking about perhaps, but listening’s [...]
ROEL FUNCKEN :: September Studio Mix
Certainly dance-floor approved, this sonic brain assault veers from heavily drenched dubstep outskirts to technoid bass, sparkling ambient interludes and a smattering of dirt, grit and mechanical debris. DOWNLOAD (Duration: 36’27″ | 84.0mb) Crystallized bass-lines and manipulated low frequencies form the foundations of Roel Funcken‘s thirty-six minute jaunt through time via his September Studio Mix for igloomag.com. [...]
ALAN LOCKETT :: 20eleven sofar | sogood (igloomag mix)
Alan, known to some as albient for his mix-tricks (and occasional audio-doodle) compiles 15 of driftiest dream-dealers in ambient/drone for 20eleven so far, while for 20eleven sogood he channels another 15 of the movie’n’grooviest techno/dub/idm players. Igloo Magazine Contributing Editor, Alan Lockett’s verdict on 2011’s half-year of music is sofar, sogood, with his picks appearing [...]
ME RAABENSTEIN :: Grey Sky igloomag mix (Nonine)
Filled with saccharine audio bytes, exploratory electrical data, subdued jazz and a tendency to lean on the classic, eccentric side of ambience, this sixty-minute mix represents a tranquil and curious overcast day. ME RAABENSTEIN (nonine label operator and graphic/audio artist) recently sent igloomag.com his Grey Sky mix for our readers to consume. Filled with saccharine [...]