“[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 [...]
Category: "Profiles"
Five questions for RecordLabelRecords
RecordLabelRecords‘ own Robbie Martin (aka Fluorescent Grey) takes the Five questions spotlight to new levels with an in-depth historical overview of the label and its spawning. Central RLR theme’s generally hover around “layers of custom-cut sounds, derailed electronics, distorted audio warfare and a virtual smorgasbord of unique electro-acoustic fragments.” Igloo Magazine :: When did RecordLabelRecords [...]
DUB MAFIA :: Dangers at breakneck speed
Since forming just two years ago, Bristol based Dub Mafia have become one of the most formidable acts in the UK dance scene and beyond. The seven-piece band are synonymous with blending drum and bass, dub, dubstep, breakbeat and world music to create their own unique sound. And, with a strict policy of ‘no backing [...]
Five questions for Lagunamuch
Described as “…an experimental music label, based in Moscow, Russia and was formed in 2004. We are not interested in boxed music made to fit into IDM, post-rock, techno, ambient frames. Our interest is music with a deep trip outside the reality.” Willy Winky responds to our Five questions profile to give a glimpse into [...]
The rare and intriguing talent of Rachel Ellektra
Rachel Ellektra is a rare and intriguing talent. She’s been playing keyboards since the age of five, ventured into violin at age seven, and took up the guitar aged just eight. Her musical virtuosity didn’t stop there and she would later progress into DJ’ing, as well as experimenting in bands. Today, she runs Axis Trax, [...]
Five questions with Acre
“Acre is an Edinburgh-based label that laments the hole left in the electronic genre by Warp. Acre are audiophiles and vinyl junkies, putting out well-mastered and well-pressed dynamic records for the love of it.” Igloo Magazine :: When did Acre start up and what was your inspiration? Acre :: There are two of us behind [...]
Five questions for Enpeg
“The music label has become synonymous with technology, every year the old model becomes extinct, so continual reinvention of ourselves, as humble as our methods may be, is a necessity for our survival. To understand this lessens the possibility of failure.” Dustin Craig (of Enpeg) gives igloomag.com readers the ins & outs of running an [...]
Five questions for Home Normal
Ian Hawgood of Home Normal stopped by the virtual doors to respond to igloomag.com’s Five questions profile. Learn more about this multi-faceted, independent label as it branched from its photographic inspiration. Igloo Magazine :: When did Home Normal start up and what was your inspiration? Home Normal (Ian Hawgood) :: Home Normal was formed around [...]
Five questions for Time Released Sound
As Colin Herick states, Time Released Sound is “basically a beatless label focusing on ambient, drone, neo-classical IDM and pseudo-eccentric foltronica.” Find out more about this audio-visual boutique via our Five questions profile. Igloo :: When did Time Released Sound start up and what was your inspiration? Time Released Sound (Colin) :: I started working [...]
Five questions for Hibernate
Based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, Hibernate is a micro-independent label “inspired by the unpredictable, momentary and quiet solitary beauty of the Pennine Moors.” Jonathan steps away to respond to igloomag.com’s Five questions. Igloo :: When did Hibernate start up and what was your inspiration? Hibernate (Jonathan) :: Inspired by the unpredictable, momentary and quiet solitary [...]
Five questions for Cartesian Binary
Cartesian Binary Recordings offers Electro-Acoustic, Downtempo, Hobo Nouveau, Electronica, Ambient, Deep Ambient Soundscapes, all curated by multi-instrumentalist and sound engineer Rena Jones who recently sat down to answer our Five questions. Igloo Magazine :: When did Cartesian Binary Recordings start up and what was your inspiration? Rena (Cartesian Binary) :: When Native State folded, I [...]
Five questions for Audiobulb
Known for their astute attention to detail in all manner of electronics, Audiobulb have etched a consistent path that enables their roster to evolve in both audio and visual projections. Nurturing exploratory creations since 2003, David Newman sat down to respond to igloomag.com’s Five questions and disseminates how the process began and where it seems [...]
Five questions for Atra Aeterna
Zack Mitchell (aka Atra Aeterna) replied to our Five questions and explains his musical origins, current projects and the methods he utilizes to break new ground. Igloo :: When did Atra Aeterna start up and what was your inspiration? Atra Aeterna :: In the winter of 2004 I came across an excellent website called OverClocked Remix, [...]
Five questions for High Grade Media
Atlanta-based High Grade Media takes a few moments to reply to igloomag.com’s Five questions. Learn more about this highly motivated record label, its beginnings and the directions they’ll take with sound design in 2012. Igloo Magazine :: When did High Grade Media start up and what was your inspiration? High Grade Media :: The love [...]
Five questions for From A Tree
Greece-based From A Tree responds to igloomag.com’s Five questions profile. Learn more about the imprint, their starting points and where they intend to take electronic music. [Shop] Igloo Magazine :: When did From A Tree start up and what was your inspiration? From A Tree :: From A Tree began in 2008 and it’s a project from Anastasios Papalias, [...]
Five questions for The Centrifuge
“As the project gained momentum an ancillary goal emerged which was to play our part in engendering an attitude change to free music, having long been considered inferior to commercially released music.” Wassim—of The Centrifuge—replies to igloomag.com’s Five questions. Igloo Magazine :: When did The Centrifuge start up and what was your inspiration? The Centrifuge [...]
Five questions for Drawn Recordings
Bristol’s Drawn Recordings have carved a niche for themselves among a myriad of electronic music imprints. What sets them apart is their persistent sifting of high-quality & low-rumbling excursions that touch the extreme edges of experimentation without falling off into the abyss. Igloo Magazine :: When did Drawn Recordings start up and what was your [...]
Five questions for Neo Ouija
Martin Hirsch, current Neo Ouija label operator, takes some time to answer Five questions for igloomag.com. Learn more about the assent, descent and rebirth of this multifaceted imprint. Igloo Magazine :: When did Plastic Sound Supply start up and what was your inspiration? Neo Ouija (Martin) :: Originally, Lee Anthony Norris and his three alter egos Norken, Nacht Plank and Metamatics [...]
MAURIZIO BIANCHI :: Only one collage, creativity
With over 100 recordings to his name under numerous imprints, now in his latter 50′s, Bianchi is the sort of composer to be reckoned with only now gaining a mysterious second wind with output growing exponentially in the last few years. (December 2011) MAURIZIO BIANCHI, the enigmatic Milanese sound composer (considered by many as the [...]
About our Contributing Editors
We thought it was time (after eleven years of service) to inform our readers of the integral mechanics keeping igloomag.com afloat so here’s a window into the backgrounds of our Contributing Editors. ALAN R. LOCKETT :: I do reviews and commentary mainly on ambient/drone, but also operate within a beat-driven triangle whose coordinates are the more [...]
RUDE AUDIO :: That Dirty Echo
I love the idea of a whole load of people all piling in to a project and it actually working. Music should be a communal thing sometimes, it’s one of the best things about it, a sense of connection through music. Rude Audio are a collective based in London who are about to release their [...]
Five questions for Plastic Sound Supply
“Plastic Sound Supply is really just a tight-knit group of good people making original music with amazing design to wrap it up and present to the public. It may surprise people elsewhere, but Colorado (Denver, especially) has a vibrant and healthy music scene.” Igloo Magazine :: When did Plastic Sound Supply start up and what [...]
Desire Records :: Vive la différence
Diversity runs hand in hand with Desire, the label explores a spread of sounds. Shoegaze follows industrial, electro follows ambient, indie follows synthwave. Just when you think you’ve got this label figured everything changes, and that piece of reserved synth pop is followed by some house centered piece. It would be reasonable to think that [...]
Five questions for spa.RK
Five questions with Barcelona-based spa.RK. Discover the sparks, challenges and triumphs of this decade young imprint that continues to etch a groove for the next generation of sonic explorers. Igloo Magazine :: When did spa.RK start up and what was your inspiration? spa.RK :: spa.RK began in 2001 and the main inspiration was the small [...]
AC Records does Electro
AC Records is a label that stands for real Electro. Their records, to date, are true to a sound that has quite strict parameters. A distance is maintained whilst just the right degree of warmth is allowed to dissect the sterility. AC showcases both established and fresh talent, knows what it wants and delivers. [October 2011] [...]
SCHMORGASBORD :: Curating collaborations on wax
Schmorgasbord is one of the most interesting new labels to emerge from the Bristol (UK) electronic dance music scene of late. Bristol is a city with a long and rich history of musical trail blazing; from the reggae and sound system scene to Massive Attack, trip-hop, Roni Size and in the last few years the [...]