Joachim Spieth’s Blended is a slow-burn study in restraint, where cavernous low-end, suspended atmospheres, and negative space converge into a deeply immersive, late-night listening experience.
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Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2025
Across 2025, hundreds of releases surfaced, with December granted space to settle. From that sweep emerged a carefully shaped collection of favorites, each paired with links to Igloo reviews and release pages. Arrangement follows artist names in alphabetical order, while a snapshot of tracks lives on our Soundcloud playlist, joined by random artwork highlights. No crowns, no rankings, no runners-up—only records that resonated.
Guentner Spieth :: Conversion (Affin)
Markus Guentner and Joachim Spieth reunite for Conversion, their second collaboration on Affin, blending ambient expanses with dub-driven detail through a contemporary lens. Minimalist yet immersive, the album balances rhythmic depth and atmospheric stillness, reflecting the artists’ shared roots in early ambient, dub, and deep techno while continuing their distinctive sonic evolution.
zakè | Spieth | Guentner :: Arcadia (Affin)
If you’re into sonic continuums and slowly evolving, reflective soundscapes, there’s no doubt that Arcadia will satisfy your need for emotional escapism and contemplative journeys.
Markus Guentner :: Black Dahlia (Affin)
Black Dahlia is a relentless sonic departure and nuanced droning record of ominous, ecstatic and sublime fractures that will certainly appear among best albums of the year for lovers of adventurous music with ascending spiritual motifs.
Joachim Spieth :: Tides (Affin)
The entire album has a cool, lush beauty to it, rewarding the listener at any time of day or night with a sonic excursion to other lands.
Joachim Spieth :: Reshape (Affin)
Reshape is a collection of remixed tracks forming an engaging and soothing collection of works. With sources taken from various releases over the last 15 years.
Joachim Spieth :: Terrain (Affin)
There are no sharp edges here, merely rising and falling tones, hillocks and nooks where sound pools and swirls, eddying slowly before being released into the ether.
Techno’s Outer Limits :: July 2018
Latest in a series of emissions from Techno’s Twilight Zone of EPs/12″s and LPs with notes in the margins. Misty pads, diffuse beats, cycling 303s… ’90s ‘ELM’ […]
Alan Lockett :: Dalliance #21 mix
Dalliance #21 is an Ambient Techno mix from igloomag Contributing Editor, Alan Lockett, aka Mistmaxer albient–latest in a series from Techno’s Outer Limits (February 2018 transmission incoming). Twenty first in […]
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