Sample Magic announce London Electronic Music Event line up on Sat-Sun 18-19 Feb 2012, 9.30am-9pm, at Alchemea College, London. [Press-Release] Sample Magic has announced the full line-up for the first ever London Electronic Music Event (LEME 2012), with appearances from Ben Watt, Toolroom Records, Dom Betmead (The Nextmen), SoundCloud, Hal Ritson (Dizzee Rascal), DJ Magazine and more. [...]
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Top releases of twenty-eleven
Igloo Magazine’s Contributing Editors pooled together their top releases of 2011 and with 105 titles on display, there’s no real shortage of music to go back and dive into. Also included is an audio sampler of various tracks to entice your ears. ALAN LOCKETT :: 01 Black Swan :: The Quiet Divide (Experimedia) 02 Chihei [...]
Readers poll :: Top 100 releases of 2011
This year igloomag.com invited its readers to cast their nominations and votes for their top releases of 2011 via our Facebook page. With well over 1000 votes over the span of three weeks, here are the results: Readers poll, Top 100 releases :: 01 Plaid :: Scintilli (Warp) 02 Amon Tobin :: ISAM (Ninja Tune) [...]
Phylum Sinter :: Year End Sale (Red Cross Disaster Relief Efforts)
Phylum Sinter offers a year end sale (extended through the end of January) of releases and tracks with proceeds going to the Red Cross Disaster Relief Efforts. “The planet, when you get a good look at it, and see the bottom of the ocean, is one thing. Beyond nations and language, we are all human. [...]
Coppe’ vs. Bit-Phalanx :: Yogurt (Charity album in aid of Japan Tsunami Relief)
[Releases page] Coppe’ has been one of the many pioneering lights of Japanese electronic music for a great many years. She has collaborated with such luminaries as Red Snapper, Plaid, The Orb and literally hundreds of others. She has run her own record label Mango + Sweetrice Records since 1995, and has just been one [...]
Outside Recordings :: Giveaway
Igloo Magazine in conjunction with Outside Recordings are giving away Tropa‘s Love, Songs, and Alibis CD, ADJ’s picture disc, USB Flash drives, Outside Records T-shirts and stickers. Simply leave a comment (related to Outside Recordings) below and we’ll select winners randomly! Giveaway ends 12/12/2011 and packages are to be mailed by 12/19/2011. Tropa :: Love, [...]
Randomform :: “Enfeld Shell” video (High Grade Media)
“Enfeld Shell” video taken from forthcoming album Enfeld, out soon on High Grade Media. Randomform – Enfeld Shell from Charlie V. on Vimeo. Bucharest’s Sorin Paun (aka Randomform) is one of the most prolific electronic music agents to perform on the digital web scene recently. Known for intense releases and extremely moody radio mixes, you [...]
Red Basement Records launch
Red Basement Records L.L.C. launches record label focusing on the best new music from various electronic music subgenres. Retrogramme, Selfish Boy, Force Drift among initial signings Alexandria, VA – Founded by CEO and musician Rob Early, Red Basement Records L.L.C. launched a record label focused on finding the best unknown electronic musicians/producers and bringing their [...]
Hidden Shoal :: CD & Digital giveaway
Igloo Magazine in conjunction with Hidden Shoal Recordings (Australia) are giving away the following releases, both digital and CD listed below. Email editor@igloomag.com with your full name and mailing address to enter and listen to a couple of the Soundcloud streams for some audio teasers! Antonymes & Slow Dancing Society :: We Don’t Look Back… [...]
Pleq & Lauki :: “Anagen” (video)
Video directed by Alan Kępski detailing the exploratory textures of Pleq & Lauki in parallel with the exuberant video-work that captures the essence of human form and crumpled deformation. Director of photography: Maciek Domagalski Designer & model: Coco Mayaki Make up: Paula Dzwigała Music: Bartosz Dziadosz (Pleq) & Mikel Lupus (Lauki) Assistant Director: Monika Małaczewska [...]
V/A :: Sequence1 (Futuresequence.com)
Futuresequence.com launches their 1-year celebration of reviews, interviews and specialty mixes with a forty-two track behemoth of a compilation. [Release page] Futuresequence.com launches their 1-year celebration of reviews, interviews and specialty mixes with a forty-two track behemoth of a compilation. Not only intended as an anniversary release, Futuresequence also commemorates the electronic and experimental scene, [...]
Steve Strange & Detroit Starrz
Detroit Starrzz are set to launch their unique brand of breaks and beats-inspired synth-pop, delivering a sound way fresher than anything else around. Detroit Starrzz is a collective of artists, producers and re-mixers, and showcases the original New Romantic vocalist Steve Strange of Visage and Blitz Kids fame, alongside keyboard wizard Patrick Ruane from the [...]
Plaid :: “35 Summers” video from Scintilli (Warp)
The long-awaited new disc from Plaid (entitled Scintilli) will arrive on September 26, 2011 via Warp Records, available as a double LP or CD. Video, lead track and tour schedule updated 8/18/2011. :::….:.:::….:::::::..:::::…. Plaid live in 2011 :: OCTOBER :: Saturday :: 1st :: Melkweg Amsterdam Holland Monday :: 3rd :: The Railway Winchester [...]
y0t0 :: “They Mostly Come At Night” video (Facture)
Uriarra Road by y0t0 is a Russian novel of Australian rural decay; 14 tracks of densely layered processed guitar, crowd melody, rain noise, electronic manipulation and birdsong (Film by Antonymes). “Inspired by the film In The Winter Dark, Uriarra Road charts the decline of an outback town chasing survival as industry money crawls back to [...]
Undermathic :: “Saiph” video (Tympanik Audio)
A new video for Undermathic‘s “Saiph,” taken from the 10:10PM release on Tympanik Audio, animation by Szymon Skrypoczko. Here’s a snippet from the igloomag.com review written by James Knapman: “…In spite of all this urban intensity, Undermathic knows when to offer the listener the chance to take a breather, affording time and space to regroup, as [...]
Rontronik Presents :: “Radio Rontronik” (DJ Mix Series)
“Radio Rontronik” is the only place where you can find individual sets of Ron’s DJ mixes, complete with innovative themes and awe-inspiring artwork. Bending genres and blending unique melodies, the series goes beyond the typical mixtape circuit and takes listeners to the brink of musical insanity. [Press Release] Featured exclusively on Rontronik‘s official website (rontronik.com) [...]
Melodium :: Coloribus video promo (Abandon Building)
A 20 song collection of mostly 2 minute songs, Coloribus has a great mix-tape feel that jumps all over the place but always maintains a cohesive flow. [Press Release] Coloribus from Melodium has arrived by way of Abandon Building, and it’s a delight. A 20 song collection of mostly 2 minute songs, Coloribus has a [...]
Support victims of Japan’s recent natural disasters
Six independent electronic music labels from across the globe form collective to support victims of Japan’s recent natural disasters. [Press-Release] Six experimental electronic music labels have partnered together to host a fund raising event to support disaster relief for those affected by the recent earthquake in Japan and tsunami throughout the Pacific. The magnitude 9.0 [...]
TomTom Records :: A new electronic music label from Iceland
Introducing TomTom Records, a new electronic music label from Iceland. TomTom Records is a record label started in 2011 by electronic musicians Jóhann Ómarsson (aka Skurken) and Árni Grétar (aka Futuregrapher). TomTom Records is scheduled to release the music of many notable and influential Icelandic electronic artists, among them Skurken, Futuregrapher and Prince Valium. The [...]
Top releases of twenty-ten
With this article, 151 releases and 25 honorable mentions are highlighted as being titles that garnered the extra spins in 2010. These musicians (and associated labels) offered an abundance of quality productions coming from all corners of the globe with an emphasis on releasing music that doesn’t always follow a defined path. [January 2011] Twenty-ten [...]
Igloo Trax Vol.2 :: The Most Music (Igloo Magazine)
“…Igloo Trax Volume 2: The Most Music (a digital download release commemorating Igloo Magazine’s 10-year anniversary) can be described as a vivid cross-section through a multitude of sub-genre’s from experimental dub to cosmic drone, minimal techno-breaks to subdued electro, dub-noise to organic electronics and downbeat mechanical beauty; a smorgasbord of audio delight…” (Igloo Trax Bandcamp [...]
Meat Beat Manifesto Announces U.S. Tour (February 2011)
Meat Beat Manifesto bringing their multimedia onslaught to the (U.S.) masses in February 2011; Jack Dangers and Ben Stokes to deliver audio-visual performance. [Press Release] Seminal electronic band Meat Beat Manifesto (MBM) is gearing up for their U.S. tour supporting the release of Answers Come in Dreams via Metropolis Records (released October 12, 2010). Widely [...]
Peter Martin Christopherson aka “Sleazy” (1955-2010)
Christopherson’s personal legacy and contribution to underground music burns brightly and will live on for long to come. Never one to shy away from controversy and always ready to push boundaries, he was loved and respected by many and influenced countless others. There will never be another Sleazy, or John Balance, that’s for sure. On [...]
Meat Beat Manifesto :: Answers Come in Dreams / Totally Together EP (Metropolis)
(August 2010) Seminal electronic band Meat Beat Manifesto (MBM) is gearing up for the release of its new album Answers Come in Dreams via Metropolis Records on October 12, 2010. Minimal, textural and cinematic in scope, this album follows sound sculptor and music innovator Jack Dangers into more experimental territory. An artist who sees the [...]