Release your ears 4.0
A list of some recent, current and forthcoming titles that are piquing our ears lately—it’s our attempt to point you to some notable releases worth investigating regardless of genre. Our staff at...
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ESA :: Themes Of Carnal Empowerment Pt. 1: Lust (Tympanik Audio)
It doesn’t disappoint either, and as you may come to expect, it’s immensely energetic, awash with static rough-edged stabs of soundtrack—a laser gun surely capable of slicing its way effortlessly...
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Anklebiter :: Raintree (Tympanik Audio)
A certain calm among the flutter of coherent noise and classical constructs keeps Raintree in a field of contemplative and inspired moods. Anklebiter ‘Raintree’ A flurry of organic audio crumbles are...
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Roel Funcken :: Mercury Retrograde (Schematic Music Company)
As the experimental envelop is torn to shreds, Roel Funken offers the Schematic team a futuristic balance of primed electronics tied to leftfield dub extracts and leaves listeners to decipher for...
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ANODYNE :: Exclusive Studio Mix
Anodyne offers igloomag.com an exclusive mix packed with an abundance of current and classic forms of electro, bass, noise, glitch, electronics and all the creative meanderings of this skilled sonic...
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r.roo :: mgnovenie (Tympanik Audio)
The dominant emotion on display in the album is a contemplative moodiness—most tracks are led by acoustic piano melodies, which often interweave with subtly manipulated violin and cello arrangements....
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Tineidae :: Lights (Tympanik Audio)
Listened to start to finish, through headphones and at volume on speakers, there’s not a track out of place, nor, to Tineidae’s credit, is there filler that ought to have been relegated to a remix EP....
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Displacer :: Foundation (Hymen)
A mixture of solids, liquids and opaque gases, each piece rattles effortlessly as a series of ingredients melt together in a fuzzy subatomic layer. Submerging ambience, rugged beats and smoldering...
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V/A :: Accretion (Tympanik Audio, 5-year Anniversary Compilation)
For fifteen dollars, the price of cappuccinos and pastry for two, you get half a gigabyte of high-quality MP3s, which amount to nearly four hours of music if you played them end to end. V/A ‘Accretion’...
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Top releases of twenty-twelve
Well over 180 releases have been selected by various igloomag.com contributors highlighting some of the finest in an expansive array of electronic music featuring ambient, dub, bass, glitch,...
View ArticleATIQ & ENK :: Fear Of The Unknown (Video preview)
Watch a genuinely eerie new video of the stunning “Sim One” by Atiq & EnK from their forthcoming Fear Of The Unknown album. Guido Van Den Brink, owner of Mindtrick Records, and Pim Arnoldus began...
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Undermathic :: Indistinct Face (Tympanik Audio)
Undermathic’s Indistinct Face combines the organic sound of his debut album with the exquisite sound design of 10:10PM but substitutes earthiness and vigour with vibrant, crystalline and zen-like...
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Atiq & EnK :: Fear Of The Unknown (Tympanik Audio / Mindtrick)
A swirling mix of electronic, classical, trip-hop, dubstep and breakbeat influences permeate Fear of the Unknown, creating a wonderfully cerebral and intriguing experience. Listening to Atiq &...
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Comaduster :: Hollow Worlds (Tympanik Audio)
That Hollow Worlds is Cardinal’s debut LP is nothing short of miraculous. Little wonder, then, that it has been such a hotly anticipated release, as there are precious few artists out there capable of...
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Totakeke & Disharmony :: Double review (Tympanik Audio)
Totakeke’s latest release Digital Exorcist, his fifth on the label, resting squarely at your eleven-o-clock, and Disharmony’s sophomore album Room 78 so far over to the right you have to crane your...
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Zinovia :: The Gift Of Affliction (Tympanik Audio)
The Gift Of Affliction exudes a kind of noirish, Mediterranean cool, Zinovia’s love of the piano working in perfect harmony with rich synth strings, smoky fx, jazz influences and the ingenious and...
View ArticleSYNDRÔM :: Distant Thoughts mix
Pavillon36 label-head Syndrôm delivers a cross-sectional mix of abstract electronics and manifests a hybrid of genres from some of the finest sonic sculptors this circular cosmic spot has to offer. ##....
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Top releases of 2013
Well over 150 releases have been selected by various igloomag.com contributors highlighting some of the finest in an expansive array of electronic music featuring ambient, dub, bass, glitch,...
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COMADUSTER :: igloomix
Exclusively for Igloo Magazine, Comaduster crushes old and new school dubstep, fuses glitched out IDM and rewires intense ambient electronic strands into this compellingly crafted new hybrid mix that...
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Anklebiter :: Weight of a Pronoun (The Crime League)
Portland, Oregon based Tanner Volz, aka Anklebiter, wants you to know that without his collaborators, Weight of a Pronoun wouldn’t have happened. “I doubt I would have made another album without those...
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