Experimental Electronic Music
The mighty label Errorgrid is host to an incredible stable of artists working in a wide variety of genres, modes and formats but all reminiscent of “a darker sound of a present future” as the label motto goes. Their Quantized Realities – Technology compilation is a perfect record of the label’s roster and sound.
Errorgrid, who keep putting out darker sounds of the present future, opens UK-based Nigel Truswell’s account under his Oberman Knocks moniker. Khaptop Arc Phore then takes the imprints theme a step further with a four-track blackened IDM flood of distilled soundscapes.
Malarki’s full length album for Errorgrid titled Asunder is full of bursting and brittle electrical fields, delivering an impacting sonic punch of soundtrack behemoths and shuffling industrial textures.
Offset One wraps things up in just over 30 minutes, yet it has enough energy to fuel an entire album.
Eric Schlappi’s Raw Øblations 4: Contaminated, which lasts just over 26 minutes, provides even more glitch-electronic warfare.
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 semi-tribal ambient-industrial and glitch manifests KORTIKO extracts from his machines on Course Interference is an utterly intense experience.
Dragon (aka Peter Adjobia, founder of Ryu) continues to impact the experimental electronic scene, shattering ambient motifs with expansive noise constructs.
Six tracks of artists brought together from differing sonic styles might sound like a recipe for disaster, but this collection shows that new ideas can come from different sources.
For a 4-song EP, Standing In Ruin bowls in and punches like a double album by Dimmu Borgir.
