Igloo Magazine

Traversable Wormhole :: Vol. 01-05 (CLR)

Reviews 02/22/2011 by Alan Lockett

Its ten tracks are high in homogeneity, though the template may shift now and then from 4-to-the-floor toward something more broken beat or bass, there’s […]

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The One :: Let’s Get It Straight & The Otherside featuring Musa K :: Headless Corpse/Roadblock (Signals)

Reviews 02/21/2011 by Robbie Geoghegan

Based on the Road to Rimini nights it might be fair to assume that Signals would be an electro label, maybe flirting with house and […]

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BLIP DRUMS :: Magenta (Electronic Drum Machine for Ableton Live 8 Suite)

Features 02/20/2011 by Chris Bolszo

Some interesting noise and loops work overall to present a well rounded expressive palette with Magenta. The eclectic library and design flexibility allows for its […]

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MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO :: Visual archive at El Rey Theatre 2/9/2011

Features 02/20/2011 by igloomag

A visual archive of Jack Dangers and Ben Stokes (of Meat Beat Manifesto) performing live at El Rey Theatre (2/9/2011). Not Breathing opened the showcase […]

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Sharps Injury :: Back from the Dead EP (Octofoil)

Reviews 02/20/2011 by Gustave Savy

The relentless rhythms constructed from distorted sounds, and the noisy complex nature of the background soundscape seems to be harking back to much earlier industrial […]

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Radiohead :: The King Of Limbs (XL/Hostess Entertainment)

Reviews 02/20/2011 by Craig Hitchings

If you haven’t already guessed, I have to mention that The King Of Limbs is an intensely personal listening experience, best suited to being played […]

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port-royal :: A decade under the flag of low instinct

Profiles 02/19/2011 by Alex Gibson

Attilio Bruzzone, keyboardist, guitarist, programmer and vocalist, talks Igloo Magazine’s Alex Gibson through some of the guiding principles behind the latest release, their views on […]

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Morphology :: Zirkon Affair (Diametric)

Reviews 02/19/2011 by Robbie Geoghegan

The stripped down, parred back, undiluted sound of real electro is at the core of Morphology. But there is an element of soul embedded within. […]

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Weiss & Thorsten Soltau :: Double review (Electroton)

Reviews 02/19/2011 by Alan Lockett

One of the now increasingly few (unofficial) sons of pioneers Raster Noton and Mille Plateaux, the Nuremberg label’s two latest EPs – 22.38 from Electroton-meister […]

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The Metronomes :: Ballad of the Metronomes 2LP+7″ (Mannequin)

Reviews 02/19/2011 by Robbie Geoghegan

These guys might be in the obscure folder, but their contribution to the development of wave music is unquestionable. Mannequin have done their homework on […]

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