Igloo Magazine

3VIEW :: Tomonari Nozaki (forwind)

Reviews 05/01/2016 by Alan Lockett

The whole is re-imagined into a dish fit to set before Basinski buffs and Hecker checkers. The series’ sheer sweep sees Nozaki’s sound gather in sono-dramatic force, cementing detail, […]

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V/A :: Mid Atlantic Death (Great Circles)

Reviews 05/01/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

A compilation of contrasts set in the rust clad cast of Great Circles. If you wanted to crack this Philadelphia label, sample its metallic taste […]

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Sophus Y. Lie :: Endomorphism (YUYAY)

Reviews 05/01/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

Diverse strands of sounds are effortlessly woven together whilst Lie remains true to the terser side of machine music. Developed, soulful and different; a fair […]

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Gavin Russom / Bruno Belluomini :: Double review (Lux Rec./MRT)

Reviews 05/01/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

Lux is exploring some of the darker elements of electronic music at the moment. Moody Sunday misery, the anxieties of the unwanted, the raw horror […]

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Posthuman :: Back to Acid (Balkan Vinyl)

Reviews 04/24/2016 by Andy Gillham

Acid loving Posthuman serve up a 12 track digital album packed to the gills with 303 drenched club workouts. The versatility of the 303 as a dance […]

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exm :: Overscore EP (Touched)

Reviews 04/24/2016 by Chang Terhune

While Autechre long ago left this planet in search of the most alien of rhythms and melodies, exm hews to a more earthly path finding […]

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2 8 1 4 :: 新しい日の誕生 (Dream Catalogue)

Reviews 04/24/2016 by James Knapman

新しい日の誕生 (Birth of a New Day) isn’t an album that begins, it’s one you arrive at, as if slowly waking from a fever dream in […]

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Emiliano Romanelli :: Tabulatura (Terziruolo)

Reviews 04/24/2016 by Alan Lockett

Though little of Tabulatura may strike the outside ear as new, the inner will likely not have heard it so before—with indeterminacy’s agency laying the grain of […]

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Techno mischief-makers SHXCXCHCXSH return soon with a new LP on Avian. A follow-up to 2014’s Linear S Decoded, SsS… has the pron.-challenging Swedes revisit signature stop-mo percussion and hypertensile synthesis […]

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Beneath the surface of Blackwater :: Interview and Mix

Profiles 04/24/2016 by Robbie Geoghegan

And what is that sound? Techno I would say. Not specific enough? Add some of the following and you’ll get a picture. Black. Psychological. Industrial. […]

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