Igloo Magazine

ALTERN 8 (Mark Archer) :: Armageddon Remixes (Balkan Vinyl)

Newswires 06/29/2013 by Andy Gillham

RAVE ARMAGEDDON ALERT! Don your Hazmat suit, fix your protective mask! Mark Archer, Balkan Vinyl and a host of remixers invite you to fight the […]

Continue Reading →

Pleq & Hakobune :: 0.0 (Murmur)

Reviews 06/29/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Its four parts are music for a fifth season, when the mind is in an autumnal fugue state in the middle of a bright, rainless […]

Continue Reading →

Martin Schulte :: Slow Beauty (Lantern)

Reviews 06/29/2013 by Alan Lockett

A closing serving suggestion might be that Slow Beauty is best consumed less in full-on focused home listening mode than in expansive semi-distracted mix dosage. Dub Techno. […]

Continue Reading →

[.que] :: Drama (Schole)

Reviews 06/29/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Coltish beats gallivant with comely melodies played briskly on piano and acoustic guitar and scrubbed vigorously with bubbly electronics. [.que] is Nao Kakimoto, a twenty-five-year-old […]

Continue Reading →

Fabio Orsi :: Glowing Echoes (Analogpath)

Reviews 06/29/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Cradling an electric guitar run through filters and effects, its two parts, approximately twenty-four and seventeen minutes long, respectively, are simple, smooth and enchanting. Glowing […]

Continue Reading →

Markus Mehr :: Off (Hidden Shoal)

Reviews 06/26/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Mehr begins his sortie with an impeccably woven ambient tapestry, braiding threads from the two previous releases into an utterly transportive synthesizer line shrouded with […]

Continue Reading →

Ex Confusion :: With Love (n5MD)

Reviews 06/26/2013 by Philippe Blache

Beautifully reflective sound miniatures reveal astonishing angelic-elegiac moments with an infinite sense of quietness and romantic pathos. Atsuhito Omori debuted his work as Ex Confusion […]

Continue Reading →

Stroon :: Triple Farewell (Exitab)

Reviews 06/26/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Bouncing around this Manichean soundworld are Stroon’s diminutive melodies, played on vibraphone and tinkly-tronics. Stroon’s Triple Farewell is a peculiar juxtaposition of waves of soft, […]

Continue Reading →

Docetism :: Endura (Bunkier Productions)

Reviews 06/26/2013 by Stephen Fruitman

Endura breathes, sighs, sinks its feet into the sand, fills its mind with sublunary profundity. Docetism is a project inspired by some of the earliest […]

Continue Reading →

Magic Panda :: Temple of a Thousand Lights (Tigerbeat6)

Reviews 06/26/2013 by Andy Gillham

Swirling arpeggios provide backbone to a number of the tracks and there’s no holding back when it comes to deploying a big melodic lead line or deft […]

Continue Reading →