At the edges small flurries crepitate, then fade away and radiate. Mercurial layers spin out in slow motion from centre point, while new tones upwell […]
Author: Alan Lockett
Alan Lockett’s Tops of 2011 :: So Far (So Good)
Igloo Magazine Contributing Editor, Alan Lockett’s verdict on 2011’s half-year of music is sofar, sogood, with his picks appearing on two Top lists here. To […]
ALAN LOCKETT :: 20eleven sofar | sogood (igloomag mix)
Alan, known to some as albient for his mix-tricks (and occasional audio-doodle) compiles 15 of driftiest dream-dealers in ambient/drone for 20eleven so far, while for […]
Audiokonstrukte :: City Echoes (Fürni)
An ear-pleasing array of synthetic pads and washes, bleeps and wibbles consort with sprightly beats and kinetic bass motifs, the production finely tooled for clarity […]
Tommy Four Seven :: Primate (CLR)
Primate seems neither as conceptually crafty nor sonically savvy. That said, Tommy Four Seven perhaps has his sights set on simpler aims, and undoubtedly deploys […]
V/A :: Tasogare: Live in Tokyo (12k)
The serene, almost reverential, music issuing from within these Japanese temples is no doubt site-specific, its context of capture preserving a highly particular atmosphere distinguishing […]
Netherworld :: Over the Summit (Glacial Movements)
Notwithstanding the odd section of auto-pilot sound design, and with the sure hand of his mystic mate, Gigi Gasparetti at the mastering helm, Netherworld does […]
Keith Berry, Bible & Henry :: Double review (Infraction)
For some years now Infraction Records has been doing us proud with a series of reissues of obscure objects of desire – some limited editions […]
Cory Allen :: Pearls (Quiet Design)
Its delicate gossamer sound-design is balanced by an endowment of something weightier; accretions of subtle microsounds are offset with a certain liminal dissonance, a sense […]
6APPEAL :: Dragon’s Eye Recordings
A focus on the human side of artistic enterprise over narrow in-house style requirements has resulted in a catalogue that’s a veritable cornucopia of process […]
Aquarelle :: Slow Circles (Rest + Noise)
Though this is the first full Aquarelle release, its five electro-acoustic ambient-drone domains are populated with the panache and poise of a veteran. Working instruments […]
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