Igloo Magazine

Electric Light Orchestra :: Time (1981)—Retrospective

Reviews 02/03/2021 by Tom Herdman

Just on the border of your waking mind. There lies another time where darkness and light are one. And as you tread the halls of […]

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Tim Koch :: Tourbillon EP (Central Processing Unit)

Reviews 02/02/2021 by Chang Terhune

Tourbillon is a solid piece of IDM work destined to be held up as an example of great electronic music. Get it, feel it, hear […]

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Ethereal_Interface :: Dream_Logs (Circuit Church)

Reviews 02/02/2021 by Pietro Da Sacco

A dizzying and blissful array of soundscapes and soundtracks to a time period that is personal to those that let it in. In as much […]

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Christian Kleine :: Touch & Fuse (A Strangely Isolated Place)

Reviews 02/01/2021 by Evan Snyder

It’s IDM, from a certain point of view—instrumental electronica with a decidedly old school sentiment, whose tube crushed digital 80s synth melodies, analog warmth and […]

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Dead Circuits :: COSMONAUTS (Self Released)

Reviews 02/01/2021 by Chang Terhune

COSMONAUTS is highly recommended for fans of dark hip-hop/techno, weird electronics and cinematic music or anyone looking for the soundtrack to a dark cold night […]

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Luke Lund :: Hopium (Ohm Resistance)

Reviews 02/01/2021 by Chang Terhune

Luke Lund’s Hopium (released June, 2020) is a juggernaut of heavy tones and beats pressed against the wall like riot cops on protesters. A juggernaut […]

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Solypsis :: Anthropocene (Component)

Reviews 02/01/2021 by Pietro Da Sacco

Solypsis continues to ravage extreme broken beats, distorted acid, glitch, dark-hop, post-industrial warfare, and a propulsive technoid backbone. Decimating eroded rhythms in swift and semi-coherent […]

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Actual Sounds + Artwork :: Richard Borge’s Meat Beat Manifesto illustrations

Features 01/31/2021 by Pietro Da Sacco

Continuing from our Richard Borge Visual Archive (from 2012)—fast forward nine years and here we are again celebrating the organic displays of color, texture and […]

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V/A :: Compiler – Level 3 (Xephem)

Reviews 01/31/2021 by Pietro Da Sacco

Reminiscent of early Skam, Warp, Rephlex, Schematic, Neo Ouija compilations we’ve all come to associate with burgeoning sonic machinists of abstract electronic music from the […]

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Mathieu St-Pierre :: Online Messages in Cardboard Boxes (Mahorka)

Reviews 01/31/2021 by Pietro Da Sacco

A sophomore album that delivers highly textured and darkened cyberspace compositions—expanding, contracting and ultimately unfolding the interwebs’ strange sonic universe. Constructed by scavenging the net […]

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Robert Rich :: Neurogenesis (Soundscape Productions)

Reviews 01/30/2021 by Darren Bergstein

Neurogenesis sits atop a biospheric chassis upon which astride beautifully attenuated sequencer vectors, subtle phasic shifts, and a surfeit of bright starshine poking through the […]

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