Igloo Magazine

Five questions for Hibernate

Profiles 03/02/2012 by igloomag

Based in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, Hibernate is a micro-independent label “inspired by the unpredictable, momentary and quiet solitary beauty of the Pennine Moors.” Jonathan steps […]

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Human Error :: Finite (CRL Studios)

Reviews 03/02/2012 by igloomag

Displaying more than a mere rehash of aging formulas, the creative audio blurring mixed with faded samples, turbulent bass and colliding melodies keeps the entire […]

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V/A :: Kollektiv Artists Volume Six (Music Kollektiv)

Reviews 03/02/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

Making Russia safe for underground electronica, Music Kollektiv is a burgeoning Moscow – and web-based powerhouse dedicated to “finding unconventional rhythms and telling their stories.” […]

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Kingbastard :: Lost Property (Herb)

Reviews 03/01/2012 by Eric Sorenson

Crackling static, digitally manipulated field recordings of birds, lovely chord progressions played on guitar and piano, and pastoral atmospheres await the Lost Property listener. I […]

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Woebot :: Chunks (Hollow Earth)

Reviews 03/01/2012 by Stephen Fruitman

“Electric guitar music is the true birthright of the White British Middle-class Arty Intellectual,” Woebot stated upon the release of Moanad, but it is on […]

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Tаlоs :: ∞ (Self-Released)

Reviews 02/26/2012 by igloomag

As Talos displays their visual-audio skills through this inaugural release, they’ve not only balanced stunning graphical works in the form of a TDR-styled book, but […]

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UV PØP :: Anyone for Me / Bendy Baby Man (Genetic Music)

Reviews 02/26/2012 by Robbie Geoghegan

For electronic zealots Sheffield is the bastion of UK Techno, Warp Records and Bleep. But, before the town went purple and TDR there was a […]

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LoFeye :: The Road Is A River (Twocircles)

Reviews 02/25/2012 by Gustave Savy

The combination of field recordings, Latin folk, eerie melodic motifs and gloriously melancholy and slightly sinister atmospheres makes this one of the most interesting and […]

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BROKEN20 :: 3View

Reviews 02/25/2012 by Alan Lockett

These three releases (10-20’s Magnet Marsh, Isodyne’s Dreams Torn From The Sky and Nanorhythm’s Beyond the Green Wall) show Broken20’s faculties very much intact in […]

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Atra Aeterna :: Of Fractures And Light EP (Self-Released)

Reviews 02/25/2012 by igloomag

Always one to intersperse emotional tones and frequencies of subtle piano movements, the flickering of digitized crackling and windy harmonies, Zack Mitchell takes a step […]

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