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Tag: Hymen
Displacer :: The Face You Deserve (Hymen)
A solid, and aggressive outing of adventurous, forward-thinking, and layered electronic music that deserves attention in 2017 Best Of lists. Displacer, also known as Michael […]
Somatic Responses :: Pattern Seeking (Hymen)
Pattern Seeking continues to unfurl the duo’s (over) 20-yr skill-set and their unique ability to create corrosive experimental machine music. Augmented by energetic melodic jolts and […]
Hecq :: Chansons de Geste (Hymen)
A hauntingly cinematic, plaintive, solemn, reflective, and existential ambient work that will ravish fans of static and expressive drones of William Basinski, Philip Jeck and […]
Somatic Responses :: 109ResCloud (Photon Emissions)
Gritty, flickering, atmospheric haze is in full effect—dystopian and replete with wide open spaces, vacant echoes and rusty shards—109ResCloud is a dense, industrial-synth/drone album with […]
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2016
While other sites might fight to get 1000s down to 50 or 20, at Igloo HQ we’ve refused to don the hair shirt of reducing […]
Syl Kougai :: ΙΧΘΥΣ Extended (Hymen)
ΙΧΘΥΣ Extended exhibits the freneticism one equates with IDM /electronica. Syl Kougai’s ΙΧΘΥΣ Extended is a puzzler. Is it a re-release of his album ΙΧΘΥΣ (Schematic, […]
Displacer :: Curse of the Black Vinyl (Hymen / Crime League)
The sounds on offer here are rooted in dark drum ‘n’ bass and breakbeat but defy strict categorization as they push into uncharted territory of […]
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2015
So here it is—from ambient drone to post-rock, jazz and modern classical, from IDM to experimental to post-digital microsound; hallucinatory electronics to experimental soundscapery, candy-color […]
Frank Riggio :: Psychexcess II – Futurism (Hymen)
Psychexcess II – Futurism‘s unique vision into a dark world is an excellent record for late night flights both terrestrial and cosmic. Whereas Frank Riggio’s […]
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2014
Here it is, well over 160 releases have been selected by various igloomag.com contributors highlighting some of the finest in an expansive array of music […]
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