Experimental Electronic Music
A veteran of groundbreaking music-video and visual collaborations, Ben Stokes puts his most personal stamp on Dimensional Holophonic Sound (DHS), his singular project blending acid electronics, old-school analog imagery, and experimental video production. Simultaneously, Stokes has built a distinctive career at the intersection of sound, art, technology, and visuals.
This is a meticulously crafted, forward-driving collection—an expertly executed display of machine soul and rhythm science. Luke’s Anger, it seems, is sharply dialed in.
After covering several hundred releases in 2023, 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.
From the drum funk’n bass of dgoHn to Badun’s meandering abstract jazz infiltration, Talk To The Planets is a seriously splendid collection that doesn’t slow down.
Explosive right from the start, Jack Dangers and Ben Stokes need no introduction. Their footprint in the breaks, bass, and baffling bleep techno/electro scene has inspired a whole generation of enthusiasts trying to catch up.
Shoulder rubbing with the labels tagline of “High quality unfamiliar music.” Love Love and dgoHn have enlisted creative contemporaries from varying corners of the electronic sub-genre spectrum.
Undesignated Remixes is an expansive project containing 12 remixes of tracks from dgoHn’s iconic 2020 full-length by some choice artists from in and around the Love Love sphere.
In rotation for the past several weeks, this multi-view reveals the latest sonic landscape from 7 talented musicians. Plenty of brittle, glitch, abstract, noisy, mechanical […]
400 Million Pieces of You is four tracks seemingly destined for the darker dance-floors while giving the casual listener a bit more to chew on than […]
Ranging from electro breaks, to acid techno—the album is highly danceable and features incredible melodies that you will most likely be humming to yourself after […]
In 2017 Igloo Magazine celebrated seventeen years of online presence covering several hundred releases from creative musicians around the globe this year alone. Our dedicated […]
