Icosagon marks 20 years of IDMforums, bringing together artists from across the community’s history in a two-volume release that reflects its collaborative spirit and evolving sound.
Tag: Electronics
Calx :: Time Vortex (Pulse State)
Time Vortex finds Calx locked into a focused pulse—eight lean tracks where disciplined acid lines, dub space, and crisp electro-techno rhythms move with quiet confidence and purpose.
DEE-KEY :: Wild Flowers (Local Gods)
Wild Flowers finds filmmaker DEE-KEY stepping fully into music, crafting a debut album that blends delicate piano, textured electronics, and cinematic atmosphere into something quietly beautiful and deeply personal.
Mike Cadoo :: Motion, ruin, and sonic truth
In this deep-dive Q&A, Mike Cadoo’s Dryft project returns with Particle, drifting between tension and release to craft a kinetic landscape where motion, ruin, and raw honesty collide in sound. Original interview in Italian, published on SoWhat — a renowned blog exploring boundary-pushing music.
harikuyamaku :: AMBIENTAL -Music For Oriental Hotel Okinawa Resort & Spa- (ato.archives)
Blending classic synth melodies with gentle environmental sounds from Okinawa’s mountain forests, harikuyamaku’s AMBIENTAL -Music For Oriental Hotel Okinawa Resort & Spa- creates an upbeat yet unhurried atmosphere designed to quietly energize the background of a hotel lounge.
WONKS :: Error M3trics (Clean Error) — [concise]
WONKS’ Error M3trics is a nine-track blast of gritty, glitch-driven electronics where fractured beats, warped synths, and mechanical textures collide into a restless, future-leaning soundscape.
V/A :: Algorithmic Art Assembly v3.0 (Highpoint Lowlife)
Algorithmic Art Assembly V3.0 captures the thrilling edge of contemporary electronic sound, where glitch, rhythm, and texture collide into a vibrant, restless sonic world.
Substak :: Abrasive Deluge (ECHØVEIL)
Substak returns with Abrasive Deluge, a stark and immersive dive into eroded ambient textures and haunted sonic debris.
V/A :: Djax-Up-Beats 1990-2005: Volume 1 – The Acid Trip (Delsin)
Once hard to make and harder to find, acid techno’s raw communal spirit is revived in Acid Trip, a deep-dig compilation that reconnects today’s algorithm-lost listeners with the fierce underground legacy of Djax-Up-Beats.
Boards of Canada :: Geogaddi (Warp) — 24 years later
Boards of Canada didn’t just shape how we hear music — they reshaped how we experience reality, and Geogaddi remains their most unsettling proof: a deliberately disorienting, symbol-laced descent where warmth masks dread and mystery is the message.
V/A :: Insects (Dustopian Frequencies)
These musical works are a good antidote to the all too prevalent use of insecticide in our world. Even science fiction books, where the thinking one could hope, would be expansive and kindly towards other forms of life, has alien enemies represented as “buggers” like in Ender’s Game or all the invasion of bugs happening across the galaxy in Starship Troopers.
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Boards of Canada announce Inferno (Warp) — May 29, 2026
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Dragon :: Interlinked EP (Ryu) — [concise]
Cosmic Tribe :: Ancient roots, global reach
Seefeel :: Sol.Hz (Warp)
exm & Roel Funcken :: Cilcit (Touched Music)
The OO-Ray :: Marginals (Beacon Sound)
Heaven Topology :: Some Weird Apples (Ingrown)
Serge Geyzel :: The Way To Go (Pulse State)
