Experimental Electronic Music
With a first audition, what jumps out most is the meticulous attention that appears to be given to drum patterns across the board. Individual measures frequently singled out and attentively modulated to inject a great deal of interest into the proceedings.
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.
For the slew of strong releases that come our way from Touched left, right, and center, it’s easy to forget that the label has its roots in the compilation and that it’s something they’re incredibly good at.
What may seem minimalist in parts, is intrinsically woven into a dense yet breathable tapestry in sonic design that seems to play to Macionis’ strengths having worked extensively in television and film.
236 Strings is daring in that it is many things—dissonant, edgy, scary and startling set alongside those powerfully developed qualities of purity to produce the carefully cultivated musical landscape we witness here.
Adykt is representative of the continuous growth of experimental electronic music and where it can take us, the listener. And for all those beautifully disjointed sonic shapes and forms that engulf us, Dyadik remains on the right track.
Patterned Media launches debut compilation Volume 1 Alignment on Friday June 4th — a quintessential collection of like-minded experimental electro, downtempo, bleeps’n breaks, and modular […]
One thing’s for sure though is that the care, talent and sheer outrageous creativity Plaid applies to each one of their remixes hasn’t changed one […]
