“[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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Bob Chance & Suns of Arqa :: Double review (Emotional Rescue & Emotional Response)
This is but a small sample of a fledgling label. Bob Chance rings with intensity and grit, a precursor of a sound that would be taken up by EBM and New Beat. Suns of Arqa comes from a different tradition, that of disco, dub and spiraling sounds. Despite the grim economic forecasts there are some [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Axxess :: Novels for the Moon (Medical)
The album is pure synthesizer, from beginning to end. Mimran takes Barhardt’s machine and test drives it to the limit. Melodies are poured from one speaker to another, counter rhythms rushing forth and accelerating past tapered beats. Axxess traverses a gamut of sounds, cornering ambience whilst pursuing a new electronic destination. [Buy at Amazon] You’ve [...]
Stephen Hummel :: Meld (Self-Released)
With a handful of genres lapped over each other, Meld is an adventurous foray of raw electronics melded to lyrical lava flows that trickle into the subconscious with ease, simplicity and style. A well-oiled release that will surely agree with fans of Bitcrush, Tobias Lilja, Syntax and even mid-80s Depeche Mode for that matter. [Release [...]
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 [...]
Qebrus :: Exophobia (Bedroom Research)
As loyalists wait for Booth’n Brown to assimilate their frequency interrupts, now would be the time to digest Exophobia‘s gelatinous beat crunching rhythms as they consistently scrape against the grain. [Release page] On the outside Exophobia appears as foreign electronic mayhem—a deluge of sonic architecture gone awry. And with this hypothesis perhaps Qebrus’ intent was [...]
Jeff Pils :: Useless (Digital Gadget)
Useless dives headfirst into subtle fusions of electro, ambient and light melodies without being overtly in your face. Slithering around loosely crafted bells, pops, cracks, plunks and shades of emotion, each piece doesn’t rely solely on twisting itself around tangled data bursts. Jeff Pils’ self-released Useless sheds light on the uncompacted soil of electro, its [...]
Celestino :: Protector’s Tea (Love All Day)
Six very ecumenical, very clear, consecrated spaces. Just about every belief system has very simply criteria for the creation of sacred space anywhere, anytime—by convening a quorum, smudging the air, or drawing a circle on the ground. The solo debut of Gabe Celestino, an American in Korea, is a meticulously crafted set of six ambient [...]
4Play :: The microsound of Line
The four latest updates come from an impressively august roster led by post-industrial pioneer, Asmus Tietchens, and Lord of lowercase, Steve Roden, with luminaries Stephan Mathieu (+ Caro Mikalef), and France Jobin in strong support. Over the last decade Line has become synonymous with leading edge inquiry at the interface between digital minimalism and microsound. [...]
Chinese Man :: Remix with the Sun (Chinese Man)
Chinese Man is a French trio at its core that prioritizes dub, ragga and hip-hop, but that’s just the box out of which they burst. With their eclectic cinematic tastes, they manage to create a new kind of showcase—beat making as three-ring circus with go-go dancers, Arab orchestras and old-time preaching. With its full-length debut [...]
hosmOz :: Vulva EP (Bedroom Research / Detroit Underground)
As this EP sheds its plethora of mechanical eruptions, rest assured that hosmOz exhibits finesse and controlled chaos from start to end. The challenging art of technical electronics bleeds rhythmic flows that may or may not hit the sweet spot for its audience. It’s unfortunate but sometimes sound design remains sound design unless the human [...]
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 [...]
UNOIKI :: International artist collective
Establishing themselves at the border between music, design, art, thinking, film, their main area is electronic, abstract music that is somewhere in the field between club, experiment, pop, jazz and leftfield—the landscape is quite open and the only rule is being open to ideas. UNOIKI is an independently working international collective of musicians, producers, designers [...]
Clark :: Iradelphic (Warp)
Three years of traveling around the world, learning new instruments and his first real collaborations with more conventional vocalists have all gone into the rich tapestry of Iradelphic, and have truly bought Clark’s sound back down to earth with a rich self awareness and an audible hunger to really explore new things. It’s always a [...]
Kid606 :: Ejaculazer Tag EP (Tigerbeat6)
Tigerbeat6, the label that has continued to crank out audio gems for the past 13 years, continues its tradition of giving you more than you could have predicted that you wanted. In what seems to be a resurgence in output from the label, and the artist, Kid606 dropped the precursor an upcoming full-length, called Ejaculazer [...]
FURS :: Anti-Node EP (Detroit Underground / eBoy)
Overall an enjoyable EP that segues from quaint electronics to well-oiled rhythm blocks while retaining its bright lit canvass of melodic shuffles. The smothered 8-bit audio bubbles of the early 00′s rings in the air on FURS‘ extended player with dBoy (a collaborative effort between Detroit Underground and the German graphic design group eBoy). The [...]
Nachtliche :: Full Moon (Cytown)
Korgs, strings and drum machine. Nachtliche adhere to the tried and true formula of cold electronics. Angst ridden vocals, bald strings, pared synths and a wholly anti-disposition. [Buy at Juno] The only guarantee you’ve got from one day to the next is, time will pass. Fierce misanthropic stuff, ah not really. But the years do [...]
Shawn O Sullivan, Below Underground, Steve Moore :: 3View (L.I.E.S.)
Every time the label dives into the vast oceans of house, techno and electronics it resurfaces with another pearl from the depths. Function, form and flawless execution. Ron Morelli’s L.I.E.S. label has only been on the go for two years, but has been receiving serious acclaim from DJ’s and electronic zealots across the world. Do latest [...]
Coppe’ + Nikakoi :: Rays (Mango + Sweetrice)
It’s basically all here and out in the open—an album that passes through just about every genre without losing its stimulating vision. Drum’n bass mingles with atmospheric glitch, vocal snippets frolic among crisp electrons and what’s left is an album that simply defies categorization. [Release page] Press releases usually offer decent media tools to navigate [...]
Tomoroh Hidari :: The Black Star Variations (Laridae)
Energized minimalism balanced across a heady mix of bass-thumps and tribal transformation keeps this veritable dose of electrons en route. Variations are the spice of life. The endless pursuit of re-creating, adjusting, mutating, altering and fine tuning form the basis for this extended (remix) player, a fractured yet beautiful foray into exp-electronics. Rather than remixing [...]
Mitoma :: Satellite Hive (Daddy Tank)
Letting this one unfold its rugged charm and subliminal forces may just be the link between post-industrial and raw electronic data blasting. [Release page] The second album from this Scottish duo sees them turning off the lights and casting shadows on industrialized bass-electronics. With plenty of albums to sift through these days, it’s a welcome [...]
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 [...]