Atiq & EnK :: Embracing The Unknown (Mindtrick)
Embracing The Unknown features enough inventive and complementary material to make it a must for those who really got into Fear Of The Unknown. Embracing The Unknown is an extensive collection of...
View ArticleKnown Rebel :: Ocelo EP (Mindtrick)
Slowly creeping back and forth in a rhythmic shadowy abyss, the Ocelo EP is a deep-seated electronic billow that doesn’t let up. Known Rebel follows up from the release of Hollow (Typmanik Audio, 2012)...
View ArticleTangent :: Transience (Tympanik Audio)
Tangent combines dense musical forces that compliment the circular cosmic spot we all inhabit. We wrote about Tangent’s debut 1mk2 (Mindtrick, 2013) described as “…a slice of cosmic detail, broken into...
View ArticleChase Dobson :: Parallel Lines (The Crime League)
Are you less concerned with musical genre and formula than with emotion and compositional skill? Is it dark outside? Are you sitting comfortably? Are your speakers and amplifier capable of reproducing...
View ArticleV/A :: Emerging Organisms Vol. 5 (Tympanik Audio)
The selection here follows previous editions’ time-tested mixture of big names and newcomers, blending originals with remixes and collaborations to take the listener on a diverse journey through the...
View ArticleDirk Geiger :: Connected Worlds (Tympanik Audio)
Meticulous ambient decay and refined audio sculptures for the midnight hour. Defying space and time, a surreal blur of sound and vision wisps by like a cool desert breeze over eroded granules of sand....
View ArticleIgloo Magazine :: Best of 2014
Here it is, well over 160 releases have been selected by various igloomag.com contributors highlighting some of the finest in an expansive array of music featuring ambient, dub, bass, glitch,...
View ArticlePoordream :: Ninetynine (Tympanik Audio)
Breakbeat electronica and speeding rhythms with ambient-psychedelic undertones, Ninetynine is romantic and sublime at the core. A beam of light in a vast space of darkness, Ninetynine—from the native...
View ArticleLegiac :: The Faex Has Decimated (Tympanik Audio)
It hits so hard and sounds so ear-ticklingly right… There was a time when it seemed like the Funcken brothers released a new album monthly. Under one of their many aliases (Quench, Funckarma, Cane),...
View ArticleIgloo Magazine :: Best of 2015
So here it is—from ambient drone to post-rock, jazz and modern classical, from IDM to experimental to post-digital microsound; hallucinatory electronics to experimental soundscapery, candy-color...
View ArticleLegiac :: The Voynich Manuscript (Dronarivm)
Legiac leave behind their beat-driven past and evolve into pure ambience. Legiac have put together a lovely release on the Russian Dronarivm label, which finds Roel Funcken and Cor Bolten leaving...
View ArticleTapage :: Chrome Fragments (LoMechanik)
Despite its minimalist sound architecture Chrome Fragments is a tremendously imaginative and originally conceived album that will ravish fans of obscure dubstep, and evocative ambient soundscapes from...
View ArticleTapage :: Recover (Point Source Electronic Arts)
It’s always something of a risk to pick up an abandoned project and see it through to a logical conclusion, but in this case, it’s a lucky break that the hard drive booted, the files were recoverable,...
View ArticleTineidae :: Mothership (Cryo Chamber)
The spaced-out crystalline sequences, aerial swirling sounds and imaginative body of lysergic effects guarantee an immersive but also a continuously accessible and enjoyable experience. Textured...
View ArticleChase Dobson :: The Mechanics of Time Travel (Young Heavy Souls)
A mind bending and surreal sonic adventure, capturing the voltage of analog machines and casting them into the sunshine. The essence of life through modular synths Finding the essence of life through...
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