Experimental Electronic Music
After covering several hundred releases in 2023, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.
It’s no surprise that BLAEN (aka John Healy) encapsulates the farthest depths of electrical collisions; he’s been at it for over two decades, honing his skills behind machines and dangling cables.
For the slew of strong releases that come our way from Touched left, right, and center, it’s easy to forget that the label has its roots in the compilation and that it’s something they’re incredibly good at.
More analog and synth-blasted madness from the ever-talented South West Wales, UK-based artist BLAEN (aka John Healy of Somatic Responses).
Auditory Assistance doesn’t rely on any one genre arch, instead, it packs a visceral punch from dark mechanical constructs to lighter IDM bits’n bytes, allowing the imprint to nurture a wide ranging “sound” without pigeonholing itself.
A vivid and surreal collection unfolds at every possible corner—blending ambient, acid, IDM, electro, bass, glitch, downtempo, techno, breaks, bleeps and an assortment of definitive leftfield sounds.
South West Wales, UK-based BLAEN is back with another vivid audio assault titled Semi Lunar Canals—6-tracks that bend, twist and rattle for Bilbao Spain’s Augsmatic […]
In rotation for the past several days/weeks/months, this multi-view column reveals the latest sonic landscape from several talented musicians. Plenty of brittle, glitch, abstract, noisy, […]
