Experimental Electronic Music
The 23 tracks that make up IDM Collection 21-25 / The Structure of Silence create a sonic fortress of shadow and light, featuring many rooms with complex infrastructure and sharp angles. There are geometric rhythms throughout, like gears that wind up, dismantle and reconfigure themselves, warmed by vapors of tone that slip through the cracks. As a sound designer and producer, Miyashita displays a masterful understanding of space.
Yaporigami and Smany’s debut as vvhy on Detroit Underground crafts a world of glitch-infused intimacy and spectral emotion. Through fractured beats and haunting vocals, the duo shape an enigmatic soundscape that feels both meticulously constructed and beautifully intangible.
On this two-tracker for Adepta Editions, Yaporigami (aka Yu Miyashita), a master sound sculptor, wraps distressed melodic landscapes with such strongly engulfing electronic structures that decompose before our very eyes.
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.
Walls sees a diversification with its lean towards IDM in this release that again makes the label champions of representing the undergrounds best.
With a consistency for high calibre productions and inventively homaged compositions yet with a contemporary spin, this 5-tracker from Yaporigami feels right at home alongside their peers and is very much on brief for a release with the label.
IDMMXXI-R flexes all manner of sound sources—broken, shattered, and retrofitted with a dense consistency.
While there are many well-executed sonic ideas spread throughout, these are truly blissful IDM’esque passages worth adding to your catalog, coming from a sound sculptor […]
In rotation for the past several weeks/months, this multi-view reveals the latest sonic landscape from several talented musicians. Plenty of brittle, glitch, abstract, noisy, mechanical […]
We Dance Alone breathes life—once again—into the ever-expanding exp-electronic music genre. Fans of Kaer’Uiks, Touched Music, and Central Processing Unit should easily find a slot […]
The common thread is sonic exploration, aggressive and dark vibes blended seamlessly with bright optimism, an intense focus on technical sophistication, and trying not to […]
