In a world drowning in ambient droning, Alex Cobb’s methods may be familiar, his materials no more than the tropes of the territory, but outcomes […]
Tag: Ambient
Marihiko Hara & Hideki Umezawa :: Jigokuhen (Wist Rec.)
The “sound report” composed in tandem by Marihiko Hara and Hideki Umezawa, multimedia artists from Kyoto and Tokyo, respectively, is quiet and scraggly, just as […]
Pinklogik :: Random Access Memory (Section 27)
While not entirely focused on complex electronic sparks, Pinklogik rests somewhere in between ambient fizzle versus experimental drizzle and adheres to a calming foray of melodic attractions. […]
ALAN LOCKETT :: 21 for 12 mix
Igloo Contributing Editor, Alan Lockett, aka albient for mix-meddle and audio-fiddle, brings 21 for 12. Published 12-21-12, commemorating 2012’s 12 years of igloomag operations, 21 […]
V/A :: ... and darkness came (Headphone Commute)
… and darkness came is a colossal yet stunning collection of cinematic and emotive music—showcasing artists new and established at a very reasonable price and […]
V/A :: Fall Is A House Of Gold And Rain (VoxxoV)
Predominately ambient with vivid doses of current IDM fluctuations and downtempo structures are brought forward with a sense of careful balance and order. [Release page] […]
Erstlaub :: Marconi’s Shipwreck DVD (Broken20)
Marconi’s Shipwreck emerges a tour de force of drone-scape shape-shift that defies possible imputations of longform legginess and single-take unkemptness to convince of its compositional […]
Rec_Overflow :: Unemployed (Crazy Language)
Unemployed is a pleasantly euphoric album of tranquilized electronic music saturated with crisp percussive bubbles, stretched vocal strands and subdued digital-to-analog mutations. Seemingly experimental but […]
Cain :: Gathering EP (Crackling Claps)
There is a sense of balance on Gathering, a literal gathering of ideas presented in a flash which is focused on chiseled tribal-electronic hip-hop and […]
Five Elements Music & Contemplatron :: Double review
The region where Hinduism and Buddhism circle round one another both warily and enrichingly can be entered either by undertaking an actual journey or by […]
AES Dana :: Pollen (Ultimae)
Darkly seductive yet luminous and uplifting, Pollen will definitely work on the more intelligent and eccentric dance floors out there, but will be even more effective and […]















