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.
The scene is full of muted blips and bleeps hidden beneath a multitude of waves that gently rise and fall, occasionally dipping into distant echoes of light and evolving drone tones.
A window to the past; D-Fried captures unusual transmissions in saturated strands where found sounds sizzle, snap, and ping their way through the mist.
Bright and bubbling, turbulent and treacherous, cascading and colliding, each piece dives into rhythmic transformations, somehow linking to form flexible electrical connectors that we continue to gravitate towards.
Belarus-based People Can Listen push forward with their Listen series, and the Eleventh assortment features 17 cutting-edge tracks spanning multiple levels of the experimental electronic spectrum.
Filled to the brim with effervescent ambient trails, SFCP aligns itself with flickering IDM pulsars of the late 90s and early 00s.
Tenth Listen is behemoth of a compilation that unfolds sparkling sound sculptures and showcases clearly that IDM is alive and well.
Clean Error delivers on their promise of intramural dynamics, and we wholeheartedly agree. EV2 is an auditory backdrop that is equal parts abstract strands and […]
