Jean-Michel Jarre shares with us the new goals to be achieved for this congress, between the promotion of niche music and the role of technological advances.
Recent Posts
Sk’p :: Mercurius (Clean Error)
The subtle melodic bits and tinier sonic elements that pierce through each track feel as if they’ve been carefully nurtured and curated for our attentive ears to consume.
From A Harbour Softly Drawn & Andrew Wild :: EP (4th Ward Private Press)
This is art, something to listen to, not something for just relaxing or for exercising, or sleeping. This is a compelling listen because the darnedest […]
Philippe Blache :: The Ever Sounding Sea Of Grief (GH)
A slow moving, contemplative, dark and sustained, thrilling and colossal poetical/musical drama of overwhelming expressive intensity with hints of hidden cathedral organs holding each listener up to the sky above their wearisome moments and extending the illustrative emotional mood.
Tomoyoshi Date :: 438Hz As It Is, As You Are (laaps)
Tomoyoshi Date is a musician who knows how to make warm music from a cold laptop. To that end, he uses recordings from a Diapason upright piano in the house of his maternal grandmother’s sister.
Bart Hawkins :: Bell’s Theorem (Self Released)
Hawkins elicits increasing clearly defined tones from his modular synth, with bright ambience and traces of an improvisatory concert of lofty circles in the air, like entangled particles dancing in their contemplative and transcendent harmonic existence.
V/A :: 36 (Spotted Peccary Music)
The tracks assembled for this annual aural treasury are all highly crafted ambient electronic instrumentals, each illuminated and uplifting, with an evident deep moral seriousness and an artistry which expresses a very conscious and deliberate assumption of spiritual ecstasy in which our mind is suspended.
Philippe Neau :: A Quiet Place (Mahorka)
Neau records tranquil surroundings, filled with birds and a bit of water, which he combines into soundscapes. He superimposes the material, and along with that, he adds some electronics.
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2022
After covering several hundred releases in 2022, 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.
Francois Dillinger :: -40.715921 EP (EC Underground)
Francois Dillinger’s overarching ability to redefine electro-nics is astounding and -40.715921 is a workout on the ears and body. Delivering next-level sonic transmissions from a distant galaxy…
Golden Donna :: The Truth About Love (Expanded Edition) (Mighty Force)
The album is replete with melodic moments and beautiful synth washes that have the slightest tinge of melancholy which gives the album some extra depth and emotionally expressive motifs.
Recent Posts
Build Buildings x Molly Gochman :: Continuum (Unending Loop)
Netherworld :: The Hermit (Glacial Movements)
Bitbasic :: The Cosmological Constant (Glitchpulse)
rheom :: _ 729.root (Polygon Network)
Yu Miyashita / Yaporigami :: IDM Collection 21-25 / The Structure of Silence (The Collection Artaud)
Morphtables :: Absurdance (Mestnost)
Vijunns :: 1991 (Hyperreal Projects)
S. Salter :: Ara EP (Plusha)
