Experimental Electronic Music
Clean Error have consistently been at the top of the heap; releasing experimental, glitch, ambient, and abstract IDM as the Errormatic series, which is now on volume 3, reveals an 11-track exploration while also acting as its own unique sphere of influence.
The tiniest particles and granular rhythms here are seductive and as abstract as ever, but it’s the evenly dispersed ambient threads that hold the disparate parts together so effectively.
The Artist Showcase series offers a community of like-minded sonic sculptors a platform to present their enigmatic but perplexing structures for the world to interpret.
Each musician displays their own knack for agitated electrical mayhem, some dive into grittier industrial spaces, while others venture into modular fizz-fuzz acrobatics.
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.
Hexalyne has mountaineered IDM’s varied peaks and valleys, standing apart as one of the leaders in the experimental electronic scene, and one we continue to look forward to discovering.
Point Source Electronic Arts continue to expand their sonic reach with well-curated compilations displaying a knack for abstract electronics in all of its wonderfully skewed shapes and forms.
Acroplane continues to rattle the underground electronic scene with pummeling sound-escapes.
As Hexalyne, his latest outfit, the prolific Romanian shakes off the past for a more polished glitch-industrial sheen for none other than our favorite record label, Kaer’Uiks.
Kaer’Uiks carefully solders Six Circuits into a smorgasbord of shape shifted sonic tapestry, celebrating its sixth spin around the Sun and gaining momentum.
