Experimental Electronic Music
A sweeping double-length release, Exposure Fields pairs nine original tracks with eleven transformative reworks to extend Dissolved’s singular IDM vision—fractured rhythms, ethereal atmospheres, and luminous melodic detail—into a deeply immersive statement shaped as much by collaboration as by the artist’s own enduring voice.
Phase Memory arrives as an eleven-track colossus of emotive IDM, where sleek transmissions and subtle electronic inflections converge into a vividly colored sonic gradient. Nostalgia shimmers at its edges, refracting motion, resonance, sweetness, and glitch into a crystalline rhythmic world.
Their previous album—FUTURISM (Section 27, 2022—was billed as “exploring the farthest reaches of sandblasted electronics,” and Like Phantoms is a smooth progression forward. Despite being “underground” since 2009, Section 27’s releases consistently push IDM and experimental electronic boundaries, inching closer and closer to the surface.
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.
Neurophosis casts shadows that extend beyond the limits of vision, attempting to occupy a soothing area where kaleidoscopic textures coexist in harmony.
Two artists treading the lines between darker industrial tropes and emotive electronic passages.
The raw energy and dynamism of modern technology simply becomes tangible as each audible slice explores the farthest reaches of sandblasted electronics.
exm manages to dive into blissful sound design elements that at once sound mechanical and arcane but somehow also exude emotivly magnetic attractions.
exm (aka Jeroen Bax) rarely ceases to amaze. The maze of extraterrestrial electronics, organic sound structures, exploratory glitch bytes and disjointed rhythms are the soundtrack […]
In rotation for the past several days/weeks/months, this multi-view column reveals the latest sonic landscape from several talented musicians. Plenty of brittle, glitch, abstract, noisy, […]
