Experimental Electronic Music
The second coming of Vague Lanes (aka Mike Cadoo and Badger McInnes) comes as a moody, dark, and also insanely catchy collection of darkwave tunes. The group nails the one thing I always appreciate when listening to music: the foundations. If your grooves aren’t solid, there’s a good chance the music is going to fall flat.
Highlighting hundreds of releases in 2024 (and allowing December to set in), we’ve compiled a list of our favorites along with links to their corresponding Igloo reviews and release pages. Since the lists are arranged alphabetically by artist—and a snapshot of tracks are featured in our Soundcloud playlist along with selected Bandcamp tracks and random artwork selections—there are, as usual, no winners or runners-up.
The music of The Synthetic Form belies a humanity in its inception that gives it a timeless, powerful sound.
The lads are back after the Christmas break with a show brimming with quality. Every genre under the electronic sun is explored.
Dryft exist in that sweet spot between classic IDM sounds and the more ambient end of the (rhythmic) noise and industrial genres.
It’s absolutely true that the sheer volume of music that falls into the category of Electronica/IDM is so vast that it is daunting if not […]
“I try to take opposing sounds such as a very beautiful piece and mix it on top of gritty heavy beats. Often times I will […]
The emotive push-pull effect of Collapse is very much intact from start to end as strings and drums are effortlessly pushed to extreme levels—a milestone […]
All we can really know is that it’s all about feeling. This is not the time to postulate, discuss, or even dissect the sounds herein, […]
San Francisco’s Mike Wells and Mike Cadoo (a.k.a Gridlock) have set the framework for a new direction of casual chaos on their most recent release […]
