A strong collection of lightly dusted stray tracks of heavy bass, beats and astute sound design. Fans waiting for Gescom to get back together for their infrequent ventures in the studio will be comforted by Ignatius‘ knack for creating parallel distortions of submerged exp-electro—a strong collection of lightly dusted stray tracks of heavy bass, beats [...]
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Release your ears 3.0
A list of some recent, current and forthcoming titles that are piquing our ears lately—it’s our attempt to point you to some notable releases worth investigating regardless of genre. As musicians continue to explore new worlds of digital to analog frequencies, igloomag.com seeks to digest, write and publish what these sounds look like. We’re hoping [...]
Proqxis :: Wave Exploit Lens (Buried In Time)
Balancing a curiosity for experimental sound design wrapped around minimal color tones, Wave Exploit Lens challenges the ears with its fuzzy electrical contours and maintains composure from its bumpy start to graceful end. [Release page] In our attempt to decipher the code buried in Proqxis‘ database of randomized digital flux featured on Parallax Utopia (March [...]
Müd :: Designer Merkin (Buried In Time)
As Designer Merkin reveals its rubberized experimental mystique, these forty-minutes of liquid logarithms are far from lost at sea and rather close to the shores where its audience can digest their diluted structures. [Release page] Müd’s latest for Buried In Time is Designer Merkin which pushes boundaries even further than its furry cover art may [...]
Five questions for Buried In Time
Steve Westbrook, creative sound director for Portland, OR-based Buried In Time, answered five questions and reveals to its audience the means, methods and madness involved with getting their leftfield electro-experiments off the ground. Igloo Magazine :: When did Buried In Time start up and what was your inspiration? Steve Westbrook / Buried In Time :: [...]
Exeisms :: Problem Locket (Buried In Time)
A mysterious void of muddy bass that trickles around loosely tied electro signatures. Subdued and often calm from start to end, each piece taps into the electronic noise arena with a presence that is mechanically rich in texture and soul. [Listen | Purchase] The oscillation between experimenting with instruments and software should always be a [...]
Bogmon :: A Scream In The Void EP (Buried In Time)
Full of twisted steel and liquid oscillation, Bogmon manifests smoothed electro arrangements next to cascading instrumental moments keeping this thirty-six minute epoch perfectly paced from start-to-end. [Listen | Purchase] Ambiguity may be the best description for Bogmon’s alias of fine tuned audio artwork. Keeping peculiar dub-strands sizzling underneath a bed of subtle guitar plucking A [...]
Ignatius :: The 2EPs LP (Buried In Time)
It’s almost as if Ignatius has indirectly catapulted himself into his own world surrounded by vintage noise machines while curating an orchestra of muddy electronic fluctuations. [Listen | Purchase] Like a long-lost Funckarma cousin, Ignatius (aka Steve Westbrook) digs through a burrow of high energy rhythms and distorted tweaking to display a subliminal masterpiece on [...]
Proqxis :: Parallax Utopia (Buried In Time)
An intensely cerebral album, full of cryptic beats and arcane melodies, abruptly issuing its message in a perplexing dialect. [Listen | Purchase] Full disclosure: I judged this album by its cover. From the artwork to the unpronounceable “Proqxis” to the even less pronounceable track names, I immediately assumed I was getting into some strain of [...]
V/A :: Habituation EP (Buried In Time)
An admirable 4-track EP of crunchy electro excursions, but it’s a shame it might get lost among the noise of all the other great releases the past few years have offered. Here’s a question: If a producer makes a track, but no one is around to hear it, does it really matter what the track [...]