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: Glitch
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.
Susumu Yokota :: Laputa: Skintone Edition Vol. 1 (Lo Recordings)
Lo Recordings’ reissue of Susumu Yokota’s Laputa resurrects a long-mythic masterpiece of Japanese electronic music—an uncompromising, genre-dissolving vision that drifts from ambient and electro-acoustic collage to jazz-inflected and ritualistic sound worlds with breathtaking imagination.
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 :: 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.
Spednar / eczem :: .XOR / TXX (Tarantella)
Across two live, fifty-minute transmissions, Spednar and eczem push their machines to the brink, sculpting raw voltage and fractured rhythm into immersive, ever-mutating electronic architecture.
The Horn :: Troglodyte Tracks (Self Released)
Steve Horn returns with Troglodyte Tracks, a taut, hard-hitting set of electro-funk cuts that dig into the roots of machine music while driving it forward with grit and purpose.
John Nap :: C.C.T. (Heterodox)
Across eight meticulously engineered cuts, John Nap’s C.C.T. fuses subterranean bass weight, corroded glitch textures, and restless breakbeat architecture into a sleek, nocturnal system of controlled sonic volatility.
V/A :: CV Freqs: Volume 1 (GOTO)
This debut CV FREQS compilation gathers thirteen artists exploring bold, glitchy, and loop-driven electronic sounds that demand your full attention, with each track shifting unpredictably into new sonic territory.

















