Igloo Magazine :: Kid Bucle :: Memorabilia EP (Isness/Analogical Force)

Isness, the label's sister imprint focused on more atmospheric and introspective electronics, arrives at its third release with Memorabilia EP, introducing Kid Bucle—the new alias of Ibrah PM, previou...

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Igloo Magazine :: Ocoeur :: Greener Grass, Clearer Water (n5MD)

Since first joining the n5MD roster in 2013, Zaragoza has consistently expanded the artistic possibilities of the Ocoeur project. Greener Grass, Clearer Water represents another significant step forwa...

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Igloo Magazine :: Cosmos in Collision :: Unwound EP (Sun Sea Sky)

Cosmos in Collision's Unwound arrives two years after The Passage of Time and confirms the direction of an ever-evolving project, capable of building dense and cinematic atmospheres. The cover artwork...

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Igloo Magazine :: Somatic Responses :: Operational Ambivalence (Self Released)

Somatic Responses and John Healy, specifically on this release, have spent over three decades refining the specific space between force and sweetness that their catalog occupies. Operational Ambivalen...

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Igloo Magazine :: Roel Funcken :: Kine 3 (EC Underground)

Kine 3 is a newer sound built off the classic. Roel Funcken has described the Kine series as emerging from a need to process a large body of work—dividing material into categories, finding what felt r...

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Igloo Magazine :: The Jaffa Kid :: AE-16 (Adepta Editions)

Adepta Editions have found a kindred spirit in Daniel Pringle. The label’s pursuit of emotive electronics with contortionist rhythms is part of The Jaffa Kid’s DNA. A superb pairing of pieces, two tha...

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Igloo Magazine :: Novel 23 :: Biogenes Resources (Art-Tek)

Biogenes Resources is a testament to what a new generation of Russian electronic artists would do. The hope and whimsy that permeate the album hark back to a time of potential, where possibilities str...

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Igloo Magazine :: V/A :: FSOLdigital Presents Mind Maps 7 (Touched Music)

Mind Maps 7 stands as another richly rewarding chapter in an extraordinary body of electronic music—one that continues to push gently at the boundaries of ambient, downtempo and sample-based compositi...

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Igloo Magazine :: Jessica Roch :: Human Music: Live Improvisations I (Past Inside the Present)

Human Music: Live Improvisations I serves as both a statement and a philosophy. What I hear is a collection of live performance recordings, each about 6-7 minutes long, one player/performer using laye...

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Igloo Magazine :: Kid Bucle :: Memorabilia EP (Isness/Analogical Force)

Isness, the label's sister imprint focused on more atmospheric and introspective electronics, arrives at its third release with Memorabilia EP, introducing Kid Bucle—the new alias of Ibrah PM, previou...

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Igloo Magazine :: Six Missing :: drift, sway (Nettwerk)

Austin-based composer/sound designer TJ Dumser (Six Missing) returned to roots for drift, sway—eschewing scale for intimacy in a minimal set mixing guitar loops and vintage synths with tactile timbres...

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Igloo Magazine :: mōshonsensu :: The World In Layers (Self Released)

Rooted in tranquil flora and fauna, mōshonsensu captivates not only through dissolving ambient currents, but also downtempo fragments, distant voices, and darker tendrils that surface in subtle, measu...

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Igloo Magazine :: Kyo Na :: Sound Waves EP (Wol)

Across five neat pieces evoking introductions, mountains, flow, waves and threads of home, Kyo Na conjures conceptual atmospheres that remain suggestive rather than literal.Across five neat pieces evo...

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Igloo Magazine :: Sleep Underwriter :: The Hexadecimal Era (Aduaine)

With The Hexadecimal Era, Sleep Underwriter delivers an album that celebrates electronic music's past with joy and aplomb while sounding completely alive to the present moment. Here, then, is another ...

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Igloo Magazine :: Parallel Worlds :: Explorer (Neo Ouija)

Explorer is a richly detailed journey through melodic ambient electronics and progressive textures, where Parallel Worlds transforms the mystery, beauty, and endless motion of deep space into nine imm...

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Igloo Magazine :: Christophe Bailleau O’Farrell :: Romantic, Visceral (Mahorka)

Romantic, Visceral is highly recommended for those who enjoy challenging music with semi-classical overtones and chilling stylistic pathways dominated by energetic electronic textures. Without neglect...

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Igloo Magazine :: Sleep Underwriter :: The Hexadecimal Era (Aduaine)

With The Hexadecimal Era, Sleep Underwriter delivers an album that celebrates electronic music's past with joy and aplomb while sounding completely alive to the present moment. Here, then, is another ...

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Igloo Magazine :: FRKSE :: Through The Slow Dusk (Iron Lung)

If hope is absent, there remains at least the desire for hope, and in that uneasy space Iron Lung and FRKSE offer an erstwhile companion as the trade winds of failing systems continue to buffet the hu...

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Igloo Magazine :: Enrico Coniglio :: 13/19/32 A Catalogue of Delays (Elm)

Coniglio has made an album that honors the craft of earlier soundscape practice while carrying it into a private, contemporary meditation on cause, chance and presence. It is beautiful, grave, lucid, ...

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Igloo Magazine :: LoMo :: 29526 (Neo Ouija)

29526 is a return under another name and, at the same time, a departure. LoMo delivers to Neo Ouija an album capable of conversing with the ambient techno tradition and with the more introspective sen...

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Igloo Magazine :: Daniel Mayer :: _Matters_ Traces of Codes from Afar (Cero)

This succinct observation offers a glimpse into a language in which Mayer seems uniquely at ease. Through gathering otherworldly effects and artifacts that might otherwise be dismissed as errors, Matt...

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Igloo Magazine :: Kid Bucle :: Memorabilia EP (Isness/Analogical Force)

Isness, the label's sister imprint focused on more atmospheric and introspective electronics, arrives at its third release with Memorabilia EP, introducing Kid Bucle—the new alias of Ibrah PM, previou...

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Igloo Magazine :: Digitonal :: The Night Album (Just Music)

There is a sense of parring back with The Night Album. Electronic elements are present, but they are employed subtly and without over elaboration. Instead, it is the Dobson’s own interaction with stri...

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Igloo Magazine :: The Bug / Dis Fig :: Ladybug 1 EP (Pressure)

The finest quality of Ladybug 1 comes from its ability to treat dub as an art of emotional memory. Each return of the theme seems to erase something and make it more vivid at the same time. In the lea...

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Igloo Magazine :: fydhws :: oд почеток? EP (stotrojka)

fydhws captures brittleness within these sonic artifacts with remarkable clarity. While the liner notes illuminate the narrative, sound speaks just as powerfully on its own, mesmerizing through collap...

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Igloo Magazine :: Minimal Audio x EPROM :: Memory Rites

EPROM's Memory Rites distills his unmistakable approach to sound design into an accessible new plugin format, giving producers a direct entry point into one of electronic music's most influential soni...

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Igloo Magazine :: rRine :: Beautiful Mutation (Self Released)

Beautiful Mutation earns its title in the most understated way possible. Nothing here announces itself as beautiful and nothing announces itself as mutated, but somewhere in the combination of degrade...

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Igloo Magazine :: Caural :: Aura (Prism92)

Aura leans more toward the hip-hop beat era than straight IDM, experimental in spirit, with enough left-field nuance that it resists being filed simply as instrumental hip-hop. It's a document of a pr...

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