Igloo :: Electronic Music Magazine

Atiq & EnK :: Embracing The Unknown (Mindtrick)

Reviews 04/11/2014 by James Knapman

Embracing The Unknown features enough inventive and complementary material to make it a must for those who really got into Fear Of The Unknown. Embracing […]

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Brett Naucke :: Seed (Spectrum Spools)

Reviews 04/09/2014 by Andy Gillham

Naucke is an expert at corralling the organic tumbling output of his modular experiments into a cohesive whole. Modular synths are unwieldy beasts to control. The […]

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Boreal & Lnrdcroy :: FP-003 (Forbidden Planet)

Reviews 04/09/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

Stirring sounds are subtly built, expressive tones painted with tender touches and full drum patterns. Montreal’s Forbidden Planet has had more than an impressive start. […]

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Ákos Garai :: The Imagined River (Kaon)

Reviews 04/09/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Evoking the fog of ghosts hovering over the pale grey fields of asphodel, the realm of dreams. With its nineteenth recording, “La Rivière” keeps on […]

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Tlön :: Truth In The 13th (Birkhouse)

Reviews 04/06/2014 by Alan Lockett

A whirred world of kinetic scree slopes with synthetic colourings. ‘Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius’ (1962) is a Jorge Luis Borges parable, in which an article about […]

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Teppana :: Hento (Somehow)

Reviews 04/05/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

For their debut EP, Finland’s Teppana opens small and politely, a Baroque music box nestled among curly fallen leaves playing for an audience perched on […]

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Anklebiter :: Weight of a Pronoun (The Crime League)

Reviews 04/04/2014 by Eric Sorenson

Portland, Oregon based Tanner Volz, aka Anklebiter, wants you to know that without his collaborators, Weight of a Pronoun wouldn’t have happened. “I doubt I […]

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Costelloe :: Solar Code (Signal Code)

Reviews 04/04/2014 by Robbie Geoghegan

Costelloe gazes back to the 1990s. Within the traditions of Warp, GPR and New Electronica, Solar Code takes an emotive and soulful view of machine […]

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Francesco Giannico & Theo Allegretti :: Flow Signs (Oak Editions/Monkey)

Reviews 04/02/2014 by Stephen Fruitman

Allegretti improvises a soothing melody up against Giannico’s quietly soaring guitar. Francesco Giannico and Theo Allegretti pose the “riddle of the mood” (as their final […]

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KiloWatts :: Seven Succulents (KiloWatts Music)

Reviews 04/02/2014 by James Knapman

Seven Succulents is probably KiloWatts’ most accomplished work to date, an impressive achievement given his uniformly excellent back catalog. Imagine, if you will, that you’re […]

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