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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Five questions for Enig’matik
“[Enig’matik Records] explores rich soundscapes that often have deep emotional content, bringing music that really shines in a personal environment and invokes past memories with interesting and abstract visions.” Jake (aka Sun In Aquarius and Enig’matik director) connects with igloomag.com’s Five questions. Igloo Magazine :: When did Enig’matik Records start up and what was your [...]
Crisopa :: Biodance (n5MD)
While its exterior may shed elements of sun-soaked shoegaze balanced perfectly with lively electronics, Biodance is an abundant kaleidoscope of feel-good ear candy that will surely settle on many a top list for 2012.. n5MD continue their growth into powerful forays of emotion-filled audio extraction—but what’s astounding is when you can physically hear it buried [...]
Posthuman :: Nebula EP & Remixes (Acroplane)
Continuing a musical style inhabiting acidic sci-fi techno and dark-side Detroit leanings, Posthuman return with the five track Nebula EP on Acroplane plus a follow up remix selection from Datasette, Kirk Degiorgio, Nightwave and Boxcutter (under Planet Mu pseudonym The Host). With a discography going back to 2000, a rave CV that covers club nights [...]
Derek Piotr :: Airing (Bitsquare)
Carefully processed, minimal and manipulated layers of various instruments, beats, clicks, field recordings and his own vocals are lowered down from above and slotted together with the delicate precision but contradictory force of an industrial crane, placing steel girders into concrete foundations and often leaving you in the centre his own musical construction site. The [...]
Dub Mentor :: Versions (EnT-T)
Dub Mentor’s warm, peeled-down arrangements, comprised of loping drum loops, chocolatey bass and treated field recordings for texture, lend these tunes the intimacy of late-evening jazz. In its pursuit of optimal clarity of sound, Tel Aviv label EnT-T has been compared favourably with ECM. The Manfred Eicher of this operation is Lior Suliman and his [...]
Funckarma vs. Onionboy :: Rusty Kokon EP (Shipwrec)
Funckarma (the Funcken brothers) and Darko Esser’s Onionboy project combine to creatively sinter a four-track compilation and remix EP, (Rusty Kokon) on the Netherland’s Shipwrec label. Funckarma (the Funcken brothers) and Darko Esser’s Onionboy project combine to creatively sinter a four-track compilation and remix EP, (Rusty Kokon) on the Netherland’s Shipwrec label. Musically, each track [...]
Asonat :: Love In Times Of Repetition (n5MD)
A very picturesque musical journey through introverted winter-like soundscapes which deliberately bring to the fore a certain sense of mysteriousness and sentimental brilliance. [n5Mailorder] Love In Times Of Repetition is the first full-length release of a dream pop / electro ambient duo newly formed by two musicians from Island. This astonishing and deeply moving collection [...]
(val)Liam :: Dissolving Archetypes (Beats & Pieces)
Surpassing the limited confines of classification, Dissolving Archetypes bubbles in a mist of soothing percussive textures, tranquil atmospheric notes and wilting melodic layers. It’s inevitable that a series of adjectives will likely embed themselves in reviews of Dissolving Archetypes, (val)Liam’s third album released on Israel-based Beats & Pieces. Chill, downtempo, ambient, electronica and dub immediately [...]
Zygote :: 00/10 (Architects + Heroes)
What’s been excavated on 00/10 are microscopic fractures of armchair electronics—sprinkles of chimes, pulses, acid, bass, clunks and textured synth noise falls from every edge. [Bandcamp] A collection of untitled tracks has been packaged up from Southern California’s busy Architects + Heroes‘ main detailer Stephen Ruiz (aka Zygote). After having combed through several hours of [...]