Experimental Electronic Music
Aura leans more toward the hip-hop beat era than straight IDM, experimental in spirit, with enough left-field nuance that it resists being filed simply as instrumental hip-hop. It’s a document of a producer figuring out his own DNA in real time, two decades before anyone thought to look back and call it influential.
After covering several hundred releases in 2022, 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.
Daedelus works in the fringes of genres, taking what works at the limits and pushing the boundaries just a bit more. What is the beat […]
The festival utilized local venues around downtown Asheville but not the main civic center auditorium used in past years, making the festival feel more intimate […]
Located in a small city in the South of Netherlands, Eat Concrete—established as a radio show in 2005 and turned label in 2006—continues to cultivate […]
This is a compilation that has its finger on the pulse of a local scene with a global influence and repercussions that are far reaching. […]
