igloomag
@igloomag.bsky.social
📤 1046
📥 361
📝 1421
Igloo Magazine :: Experimental Electronic Music igloomag.com Established December 2000
pinned post!
V/A :: 25 Years of Igloo Magazine (Evel) ///
evel.bandcamp.com/album/25-yea...
@igloomag.bsky.social
is 25 years old!! Experimental Electronic Music
@evelrecords.bsky.social
is 10 years old!! tWISTED eLECTRONICA /// Artwork:
@richardborge.bsky.social
about 1 year ago
1
20
4
Meat Beat Manifesto :: Subliminal Sandwich — The original 1996 Melody Maker review, revisited 30 years later
igloomag.com/reviews/meat...
loading . . .
Meat Beat Manifesto :: Subliminal Sandwich — The original 1996 Melody Maker review, revisited 30 years later
Originally published in Melody Maker on May 11, 1996, Mark Roland’s review of Meat Beat Manifesto’s Subliminal Sandwich captured the arrival of a record that would go on to become one of electronic mu...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/meat-beat-manifesto-subliminal-sandwich
about 9 hours ago
0
4
1
anthéne :: Air Signs (Dronarivm)
igloomag.com/reviews/anth...
loading . . .
anthéne :: Air Signs (Dronarivm)
Air Signs rests at its distinct sound. Everything is pieced together very well, and all the noises, melodies, and synths are family—they all align track after track. Deschamps has a gift for cohesion....
https://igloomag.com/reviews/anthene-air-signs-dronarivm
1 day ago
0
6
2
whø? :: Riding The Bassline EP (Who Is Paula)
igloomag.com/reviews/who-...
loading . . .
whø? :: Riding The Bassline EP (Who Is Paula)
Broken rhythmic structures, exquisite sub-bass stutters, and destabilized funk mechanics colliding into something gloriously unhinged. It’s machine music with bloodstream heat—tactile, sensual, and ab...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/who-riding-the-bassline-who-is-paula
2 days ago
0
4
0
Boards of Canada :: Inferno Sessions @ Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, Los Angeles May 22, 2026 · 7:30 PM
igloomag.com/features/boa...
loading . . .
Boards of Canada :: Inferno Sessions @ Barnsdall Gallery Theatre, Los Angeles May 22, 2026 · 7:30 PM
After 13 years of silence, Boards of Canada returned not simply with new music, but with a surreal, memory-soaked communion at Barnsdall Gallery Theatre where every fading ray of sunset, whispering pi...
https://igloomag.com/features/boards-of-canada-inferno-sessions-barnsdall-gallery-theatre-los-angeles
2 days ago
0
4
0
reposted by
igloomag
threehz
2 days ago
great to have it out and thankful for the review from a magazine i was definitely reading back then!
0
1
1
whø? :: Riding The Bassline EP (Who Is Paula)
igloomag.com/reviews/who-...
loading . . .
whø? :: Riding The Bassline EP (Who Is Paula)
Broken rhythmic structures, exquisite sub-bass stutters, and destabilized funk mechanics colliding into something gloriously unhinged. It’s machine music with bloodstream heat—tactile, sensual, and ab...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/who-riding-the-bassline-who-is-paula
2 days ago
0
1
0
Meat Beat Manifesto :: Storm The Studio (Sweatbox / Wax Trax!)
igloomag.com/reviews/meat...
loading . . .
Meat Beat Manifesto :: Storm The Studio (Sweatbox / Wax Trax!)
From the way Jack Dangers chose multiple versions of the same song to the unexpected blasts of pure unadulterated distortion, to the chugging beats 10 years ahead of their time.
https://igloomag.com/reviews/meat-beat-manifesto-storm-the-studio
2 days ago
0
4
1
reposted by
igloomag
Unruly Disturbance :: Frisson (Not Yet Remembered)
igloomag.com/reviews/unru...
loading . . .
Unruly Disturbance :: Frisson (Not Yet Remembered)
Frisson is proof that Collingburn's years in the club scene weren't wasted. He knows how to build tension, how to pace a track, how to let moments breathe. But he also knows when to pull back, when to...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/unruly-disturbance-frisson-not-yet-remembered
6 days ago
0
5
2
reposted by
igloomag
Jim O’Rourke & Jos Smolders :: Albumin (Moving Furniture)
igloomag.com/reviews/jim-...
loading . . .
Jim O'Rourke & Jos Smolders :: Albumin (Moving Furniture)
Albumin is limited to 500 copies on vinyl through Moving Furniture Records, and it's exactly the kind of release that rewards deep, focused listening. Put it on, turn it up, and let the textures do th...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/jim-orourke-jos-smolders-albumin-moving-furniture
6 days ago
0
4
1
reposted by
igloomag
Boards of Canada :: Inferno (Warp) — In an Age of Ruin, We Need to Believe
igloomag.com/features/boa...
loading . . .
Boards of Canada :: Inferno (Warp) — In an Age of Ruin, We Need to Believe
What began as speculation over a possible new Boards of Canada release evolved into a meditation on how their rare and mysterious presence awakens a profound collective longing for beauty, unity, and ...
https://igloomag.com/features/boards-of-canada-inferno-we-need-to-believe
4 days ago
0
7
1
reposted by
igloomag
Flint Glass & Ah Cama-Stoz :: The Shadow of the Torturer (Ant-Zen)
igloomag.com/reviews/flin...
loading . . .
Flint Glass & Ah Cama-Stoz :: The Shadow of the Torturer (Ant-Zen)
Drawing inspiration from Gene Wolfe’s monumental The Book of the New Sun, Flint Glass and Ah Cama-Sotz craft a dark and immersive soundscape via The Shadow of the Torturer that evokes the decay, myste...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/flint-glass-ah-cama-stoz-the-shadow-of-the-torturer-ant-zen
3 days ago
0
2
1
reposted by
igloomag
Boards of Canada :: Inferno (Warp)
igloomag.com/reviews/boar...
loading . . .
Boards of Canada :: Inferno (Warp)
I trust BoC to make something interesting and emotionally effective, but when it comes to their music’s meaning, they’re slippery and mysterious. Inferno is a collection of pieces that grapple with sc...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/boards-of-canada-inferno-warp
3 days ago
0
10
1
reposted by
igloomag
Sound Synthesis :: Radical Meditation EP (Analogical Force)
igloomag.com/reviews/soun...
loading . . .
Sound Synthesis :: Radical Meditation EP (Analogical Force)
Analogical Force remains a powerhouse label capable of balancing both forward-facing experimentation and deep respect for established electro and breaks traditions. Both approaches carry immense value...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/sound-synthesis-radical-meditation-analogical-force
3 days ago
0
4
1
threehz :: Archive 97–99 (PPRZ)
igloomag.com/reviews/thre...
loading . . .
threehz :: Archive 97–99 (PPRZ)
Archive 97–99 is a snapshot of someone absorbing that ethos in real time, two decades ago, and the recordings still hold up. Not because they're groundbreaking, but because they're honest documents of...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/threehz-archive-97-99-pprz
2 days ago
1
5
1
Kotra :: Dim Ren EP (Prostir)
igloomag.com/reviews/kotr...
loading . . .
Kotra :: Dim Ren EP (Prostir)
The waters here are torrid. But the result of swimming in them is to emerge somehow richer than before. The sound of subtraction through propulsion: the old and archaic riotously stripped away to leav...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/kotra-dim-ren-prostir
2 days ago
0
3
0
reposted by
igloomag
Moving Furniture Records / Orphax / Sietse
5 days ago
...it’s exactly the kind of release that rewards deep, focused listening. Put it on, turn it up, and let the textures do the work. Jim O'Rourke & Jos Smolders - Albumin reviewed over at Igloo Magazine
igloomag.com/reviews/jim-...
@igloomag.bsky.social
@earlabs.bsky.social
@steamroom.bsky.social
1
11
4
reposted by
igloomag
Folk Police Recordings
3 days ago
Many thanks to Justin Patrick Moore at
@igloomag.bsky.social
for a brilliant review of Plague Dogs by
@heartwood9.bsky.social
igloomag.com/reviews/the-...
loading . . .
The Heartwood Institute :: Plague Dogs (Folk Police Recordings)
Much music is steeped in the history of the place where it was made, and here Jonathan Sharp, the musician behind this project, trawls the borderlands of fiction, imagination, and the real places writ...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/the-heartwood-institute-plague-dogs-folk-police
0
3
2
Sound Synthesis :: Radical Meditation EP (Analogical Force)
igloomag.com/reviews/soun...
loading . . .
Sound Synthesis :: Radical Meditation EP (Analogical Force)
Analogical Force remains a powerhouse label capable of balancing both forward-facing experimentation and deep respect for established electro and breaks traditions. Both approaches carry immense value...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/sound-synthesis-radical-meditation-analogical-force
3 days ago
0
4
1
Gliesse :: Lost Data EP (East Coast Underground)
igloomag.com/reviews/glie...
loading . . .
Gliesse :: Lost Data EP (East Coast Underground)
What really gives Lost Data its sonic force is not all the included excess, but an apparent refusal to settle into the predictable symmetry of four, eight, sixteen bar logic as the expected routine re...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/gliesse-lost-data-ecu
3 days ago
0
3
0
Flint Glass & Ah Cama-Stoz :: The Shadow of the Torturer (Ant-Zen)
igloomag.com/reviews/flin...
loading . . .
Flint Glass & Ah Cama-Stoz :: The Shadow of the Torturer (Ant-Zen)
Drawing inspiration from Gene Wolfe’s monumental The Book of the New Sun, Flint Glass and Ah Cama-Sotz craft a dark and immersive soundscape via The Shadow of the Torturer that evokes the decay, myste...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/flint-glass-ah-cama-stoz-the-shadow-of-the-torturer-ant-zen
3 days ago
0
2
1
Boards of Canada :: Inferno (Warp)
igloomag.com/reviews/boar...
loading . . .
Boards of Canada :: Inferno (Warp)
I trust BoC to make something interesting and emotionally effective, but when it comes to their music’s meaning, they’re slippery and mysterious. Inferno is a collection of pieces that grapple with sc...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/boards-of-canada-inferno-warp
3 days ago
0
10
1
Daniel Mayer :: _Matters_ Traces of Codes from Afar (Cero)
igloomag.com/reviews/dani...
loading . . .
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...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/daniel-mayer-matters-traces-of-codes-from-afar-cero
3 days ago
0
1
0
The Heartwood Institute :: Plague Dogs (Folk Police Recordings)
igloomag.com/reviews/the-...
loading . . .
The Heartwood Institute :: Plague Dogs (Folk Police Recordings)
Much music is steeped in the history of the place where it was made, and here Jonathan Sharp, the musician behind this project, trawls the borderlands of fiction, imagination, and the real places writ...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/the-heartwood-institute-plague-dogs-folk-police
4 days ago
1
4
1
Boards of Canada :: Inferno (Warp) — In an Age of Ruin, We Need to Believe
igloomag.com/features/boa...
loading . . .
Boards of Canada :: Inferno (Warp) — In an Age of Ruin, We Need to Believe
What began as speculation over a possible new Boards of Canada release evolved into a meditation on how their rare and mysterious presence awakens a profound collective longing for beauty, unity, and ...
https://igloomag.com/features/boards-of-canada-inferno-we-need-to-believe
4 days ago
0
7
1
Bernhard Living :: The Future is Not the End of History (Donemus)
igloomag.com/reviews/bern...
loading . . .
Bernhard Living :: The Future is Not the End of History (Donemus)
In Bernhard Living's works, there's almost always a straightforward title to express the context behind each one, and there is always a description paired with the record to fully elaborate on its con...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/bernhard-living-the-future-is-not-the-end-of-history-donemus
4 days ago
0
3
0
Dragon :: Interlinked EP (Ryu) — [concise]
igloomag.com/reviews/drag...
loading . . .
Dragon :: Interlinked EP (Ryu) — [concise]
Mechanical soundscapes surge through Interlinked, a five-piece set by Dragon that offers little in liner note detail, channeling attention instead toward exacting design, brittle glitch-industrial gri...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/dragon-interlinked-ryu
4 days ago
0
4
0
reposted by
igloomag
Ian Boddy
6 days ago
Another excellent review for the new Bluetech album 'Petite Constellations' (DiN96) over
@igloomag.bsky.social
. "All in all, this is a heavily sequenced, playful, light, and textural ambient work that is also melodically evocative".
igloomag.com/reviews/blue...
loading . . .
Bluetech :: Petite Constellations (DiN / Behind The Sky Music)
Petites Constellations develops shifting and subtle soundscapes with a retro-ish feeling, emerging from analog keyboards and vintage electronic equipment. However, it also stands as a thoroughly moder...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/bluetech-petite-constellations
0
6
2
V/A :: Raw Øblations One (Errorgrid)
igloomag.com/reviews/raw-...
loading . . .
V/A :: Raw Øblations One (Errorgrid)
Raw Øblations One condenses the ferocity of Errorgrid’s shadow-forged sonic world into a single, volatile strike—seven essential transmissions and one long-lost Nundale relic fused into a relentless s...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/raw-oblations-one-errorgrid
6 days ago
0
4
0
Appleblim :: Neolithic Neon (Sneaker Social Club)
igloomag.com/reviews/appl...
loading . . .
Appleblim :: Neolithic Neon (Sneaker Social Club)
Portal for his own finely tuned musical frequency, Laurie Osborne returns with the latest Appleblim set, Neolithic Neon, released through hot house Sneaker Social Club. Here Osborne delivers a collect...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/appleblim-neolithic-neon-sneaker-social-club
6 days ago
0
3
0
Jim O’Rourke & Jos Smolders :: Albumin (Moving Furniture)
igloomag.com/reviews/jim-...
loading . . .
Jim O'Rourke & Jos Smolders :: Albumin (Moving Furniture)
Albumin is limited to 500 copies on vinyl through Moving Furniture Records, and it's exactly the kind of release that rewards deep, focused listening. Put it on, turn it up, and let the textures do th...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/jim-orourke-jos-smolders-albumin-moving-furniture
6 days ago
0
4
1
Unruly Disturbance :: Frisson (Not Yet Remembered)
igloomag.com/reviews/unru...
loading . . .
Unruly Disturbance :: Frisson (Not Yet Remembered)
Frisson is proof that Collingburn's years in the club scene weren't wasted. He knows how to build tension, how to pace a track, how to let moments breathe. But he also knows when to pull back, when to...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/unruly-disturbance-frisson-not-yet-remembered
6 days ago
0
5
2
Bluetech :: Petite Constellations (DiN / Behind The Sky Music)
igloomag.com/reviews/blue...
loading . . .
Bluetech :: Petite Constellations (DiN / Behind The Sky Music)
Petites Constellations develops shifting and subtle soundscapes with a retro-ish feeling, emerging from analog keyboards and vintage electronic equipment. However, it also stands as a thoroughly moder...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/bluetech-petite-constellations
7 days ago
0
4
0
migloJE :: 303 (Self Released)
igloomag.com/reviews/migl...
loading . . .
migloJE :: 303 (Self Released)
Here then lay a rich eleven-track homage to the enduring cultural and sonic impact of the Roland TB-303, blending acid house traditions with contemporary consciousness. Superb work.
https://igloomag.com/reviews/migloje-303
7 days ago
0
3
0
threehz :: Archive 97–99 (PPRZ)
igloomag.com/reviews/thre...
loading . . .
threehz :: Archive 97–99 (PPRZ)
Archive 97–99 is a snapshot of someone absorbing that ethos in real time, two decades ago, and the recordings still hold up. Not because they're groundbreaking, but because they're honest documents of...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/threehz-archive-97-99-pprz
7 days ago
0
5
0
Caldon Glover :: Bird Machine (Self Released)
igloomag.com/reviews/cald...
loading . . .
Caldon Glover :: Bird Machine (Self Released)
Five tracks of somewhat dark atmospheric exposures, ranging from just over five minutes to almost eleven minutes in duration. Most of the action is perhaps within the realm of atmospheric drone arts b...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/caldon-glover-bird-machine
7 days ago
0
3
0
reposted by
igloomag
BOARDS OF CANADA
7 days ago
TOMORROW
18
559
157
Marat Koshkin :: Echoloto (Soak)
igloomag.com/reviews/mara...
loading . . .
Marat Koshkin :: Echoloto (Soak)
Each chopped rhythm feels tethered by fragile harmonic strands, giving Echoloto its identity as a multidimensional collection of fuzzy glitch-hop abstraction, steeped in grit, grain, and faded sonic r...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/marat-koshkin-echoloto-soak
7 days ago
0
2
0
V/A :: ZEROTHREE EP (Black Shapes)
igloomag.com/reviews/zero...
loading . . .
V/A :: ZEROTHREE EP (Black Shapes)
Changing shape for their third outing, ZEROTHREE from Rome’s Black Shapes shifts away from the straight four-to-the-floor techno of the previous release m into something way deeper and more essentiall...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/zerothree-black-shapes
7 days ago
0
3
0
Boards of Canada :: Inferno (Warp) — In an Age of Ruin, We Need to Believe
igloomag.com/features/boa...
loading . . .
Boards of Canada :: Inferno (Warp) — In an Age of Ruin, We Need to Believe
What began as speculation over a possible new Boards of Canada release evolved into a meditation on how their rare and mysterious presence awakens a profound collective longing for beauty, unity, and ...
https://igloomag.com/features/boards-of-canada-inferno-we-need-to-believe
8 days ago
0
11
3
reposted by
igloomag
DgoHn :: Tessares (Planet Mu)
igloomag.com/reviews/dgoh...
loading . . .
DgoHn :: Tessares (Planet Mu)
The dubbed-out vocals, the melodic fills, the use of unusual time signatures, these aren't just technical tricks, they're emotional tools. The album feels exploratory without getting lost, complex wit...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/dgohn-tessares-planet-mu
10 days ago
0
9
3
reposted by
igloomag
Everyday Dust
9 days ago
Check the album here:
everydaydust.bandcamp.com/album/assemb...
loading . . .
Assemblance X Sessions, by Everyday Dust
6 track album
https://everydaydust.bandcamp.com/album/assemblance-x-sessions
0
1
1
reposted by
igloomag
Everyday Dust
9 days ago
Huge thanks to Justin Patrick Moore writing for the ever awesome
@igloomag.bsky.social
for this wonderful review of Assemblance X Sessions, released earlier this year on
@dustopianfreqs.bsky.social
🙏🩶
igloomag.com/reviews/ever...
#experimentalmusic
#musiqueconcrète
#electroacoustic
1
4
2
reposted by
igloomag
Exit Chamber
10 days ago
Delighted with this amazing review of
@passedrecordings.bsky.social
's latest compilation. 31
#ambient
,
#drone
and
#experimental
tracks, all in C with 50% of sales going to MSF (Doctors Without Borders).
add a skeleton here at some point
0
5
1
reposted by
igloomag
Planet Mu Records
10 days ago
The 4th LP by
@dgohn.bsky.social
reviewed thanks to
@igloomag.bsky.social
igloomag.com/reviews/dgoh...
loading . . .
DgoHn :: Tessares (Planet Mu)
The dubbed-out vocals, the melodic fills, the use of unusual time signatures, these aren't just technical tricks, they're emotional tools. The album feels exploratory without getting lost, complex wit...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/dgohn-tessares-planet-mu
0
11
5
reposted by
igloomag
BGC5000
10 days ago
Thanks to
@igloomag.bsky.social
for this lovely article + always s/o to the great folks at
@passedrecordings.bsky.social
for having me on a great compilation of artist 💜
loading . . .
V/A :: 130.81 (Passed Recordings)
Passed Recordings thus signs one of its most mature operations: a collective, contemplative, rigorous work, capable of transforming C3 into a small sonic homeland, fragile and vast, familiar and remot...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/130-81-passed-recordings
0
4
1
V/A :: soak vol 2 (Soak)
igloomag.com/features/soa...
loading . . .
V/A :: soak vol 2 (Soak)
soak vol 2 unfolds like a damaged transmission from somewhere intimate and unplaceable—32 fractured, emotional, and strangely beautiful pieces stitched together from the outer edges of contemporary el...
https://igloomag.com/features/soak-vol-2
9 days ago
0
1
0
RL Huber :: Sea Legs (Self Released)
igloomag.com/reviews/rl-h...
loading . . .
RL Huber :: Sea Legs (Self Released)
RL Huber of Eureka Springs, Arkansas has an orchestral sound, with abundant strings and pianos, and a classical-drone crossover feeling that is complex and subtle.
https://igloomag.com/reviews/rl-huber-sea-legs
9 days ago
0
2
0
Robert Thurman :: Cicadas: Broods XIX and XIII (Self Released)
igloomag.com/reviews/robe...
loading . . .
Robert Thurman :: Cicadas: Broods XIX and XIII (Self Released)
Cicadas does a beautiful job using an experimental musical lens to help focus our attention on an often overlooked yet fascinating creature who lives in a world completely different from ours, yet tha...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/robert-thurman-cicadas-broods-xix-and-xii
9 days ago
0
2
0
V/A :: 130.81 (Passed Recordings)
igloomag.com/reviews/130-...
loading . . .
V/A :: 130.81 (Passed Recordings)
Passed Recordings thus signs one of its most mature operations: a collective, contemplative, rigorous work, capable of transforming C3 into a small sonic homeland, fragile and vast, familiar and remot...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/130-81-passed-recordings
10 days ago
1
4
2
DgoHn :: Tessares (Planet Mu)
igloomag.com/reviews/dgoh...
loading . . .
DgoHn :: Tessares (Planet Mu)
The dubbed-out vocals, the melodic fills, the use of unusual time signatures, these aren't just technical tricks, they're emotional tools. The album feels exploratory without getting lost, complex wit...
https://igloomag.com/reviews/dgohn-tessares-planet-mu
10 days ago
0
9
3
Load more
feeds!
log in
