Experimental Electronic Music
These multi-talented musicians easily fall into the scope of exp-electronics we embed ourselves within each and every day, while Mitoma’s distinctive remodeling gives these already potent recordings an additional level of reconstruction, or fragments.
Each track maintains a strong synth infusion gone awry with rough electro, breaks, and rhythmic distortion at the foreground.
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.
You might even draw parallels to the early works of Mouse On Mars, Autechre (“Gantz Graf” era), or even Richard Devine’s industrial-leaning sandblasted synthesizer techniques.
Here, isolation and cooperation coexist within the confines of dark electronics as lighter shapes and shades lurk in the background.
This collaboration started the same time as the label in 2021 (during the global pandemic) as we struggled to reconnect with the world around us. Track ideas were started in Spain by inoperative system as simple sketches and finished in the USA by b0t23.
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.
With ambient synth swells, hardened glitch-mechanics, crunchy and ethereal soundscapes’n scrapes, Island Flux Remixes continues to be a magnetically charged giant drifting on IDM waters.
