Skittering, tumbling beats slip and slide past each other, narrowly avoiding collision in an erratic but choreographed dance. Strange, warbling melodies and crackling electrical discharges […]
Author: igloomag
Sedibus :: SETI (Orbscure Recordings)
Sedibus — Alex Paterson + fellow ORB original Andy Falconer to release new album; an epic sail through the sky at night.
Sontag Shogun :: “The Tightrope Session” — Video premiere
Sontag Shogun shares “The Tightrope Session” — a live performance recorded in an industrial lighting design warehouse in Brooklyn.
b0t23 + inoperative system :: Reticle EP (Patterned Media)
This collaboration started the same time as the label in 2021 (during the global pandemic) as we struggled to reconnect with the world around us. Track ideas were started in Spain by inoperative system as simple sketches and finished in the USA by b0t23.
Meat Beat Manifesto & Merzbow :: Extinct (Cold Spring)
Extinct sees the duo take listeners on a transcendental journey, focusing on the dismantling of beat and structure and recycling the result through layers of beautifully crafted noise and feedback loops, giving birth to new rhythms buried deep in the dirt.
Gimmik :: Analog Dream Plants (Wave Function)
Gimmik (Martin Haidinger) has released a new EP containing remixes by Gimmik, Naqara, Moy, and Sound Synthesis, the operator of the Wave Function label. Analog […]
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2023
After covering several hundred releases in 2023, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.
Philippe Blache :: Across the Silence and the Shade (Mahorka)
Sprawling and entrancing walls of sounds, lapping waves of noises, sinuous e-guitar motifs, ruminating drones, processed cathedral-ish chorus, engulfed church organ patterns…