See the full list here: http://igloomag.com/features/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, industrial, IDM, electro, synth and various other sonic contortions.

Top releases of 2013

Belgium’s Erratic - a.k.a. Jan Robbe - drops a wonderful five tracker on Acre Recordings. Robbe, whose own label Entity specialises in intricate IDM-fused downtempo work, has presented us with a perfectly realised vision of his own: Downward Echoes. This is sublime glitched-out electronica, infused with coruscating microscopic rhythms, yet which is ameliorated by the heavy and present dub-inspired bass lines. Atomic sounds vie for attention with a suffusion of lush pads and haunting alien soundscapes, creating satisfying and highly visual tensions. This interplay between the micro and the macro is deeply beguiling but this isn’t chin-strokey IDM. Rather it is warm, undeniably welcoming and just a little bit catchy! This is sterling music for the synaesthetic.

Erratic – Downward Echoes

Thanks to all the artists for this material:
-Hålbå
-Exome
-Øperat
-Turvia 
-Lethal Frame
-Opake
-Conjecture
-Sectra
-Mina Lord
-Swaerm

Hålbå - Digital Massacre x Brutal Forms

Check out
http://componentrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/pattern-behavior 
if you like this.

Pattern Behavior - December

[FSH005] DJ Rat

Part of the compilation "Keep the Children Save" released by @industrialcoast in support for Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP UK). www.map.org.uk

Get your copy at https://industrialcoast.bandcamp.com/album/keep-the-children-safe

Cassette availability split between bandcamp and Big Cartel store

Cease Fire Now | Stop the Genocide | Free Palestine | Fight Apartheid

75 Years

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@o0one8 is collab, @user-485730640, administration des ventes x @time-consumers + @nadjasky

GE

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Released in 2021 via Station 14. 
Limited cassette edition of 25 hand-numbered copies.
Unmarked black cassette shell. Housed in a glossy, full color 8.5" x 4.5" four-sided resealable folding poly bag with mini promotional insert.
Made to coincide with one-off Chicago live performance. Remaining copies were distributed via the Small Mercies webstore.

Key Of Life

Crown of Cerberus - Chinning, Sometimes Even Bunnies Fight

Track B1 from “Burning Grip” c14. Life Of Sensation 3, 2024. Email lifeofsensation@gmail.com for copies.

Mixing My Bastards (Reactive Edit) (2024)

Silent bodies

Electric Landscape

Lost Contact

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@zovv-312880002
zovv.bandcamp.com
beerbirdrecords.bandcamp.com
cologne, DE

179-2024-03-23

Талос - реактор 4 Preview

Taken from A Fatherless Child EP: Dedicated to Kenneth Knight

A fatherless child

Unknown Tone are pleased to share an early preview of the title track
for "Being Empty" by Maps and Diagrams (Tim Diagram). "Being Empty" is
Maps and Diagrams first full length album for Unknown Tone and will be
out in an edition of 100 limited edition CDs // Summer 2013 //
www.unknowntonerecords.com

Maps and Diagrams - Being Empty

Led by heavy wobbly basslines and pulsing synth pads, Atiq & EnK‘s debut album ‘Fear of the Unknown‘ exhibits a dark yet airy approach to beat-driven electronic music, injecting each song with an unmistakable groove and flow. Striking atmospheric breakdowns facilitate transitions among the infectious beat movements, while subtle glitches and echoing snares accentuate the overall flow of each song. Sometimes brooding, sometimes wondrous, ‘Fear of the Unknown‘ manages to hold the listener’s attention throughout with a steady and cohesive tapestry of expansive beatwork, contorted melodies, and enveloping atmospheres that all seem effortless and natural to these talented new Dutch sound designers. A remarkable and impressive debut, ‘Fear of the Unknown‘ burrows deep into the subconscious and ascends into an unknown inner universe. Are you afraid of the unknown, or will you embrace it?

2 Atiq & EnK - Moonlit Tea Party

Acre Recordings is based in Scotland and is run by C Mantle. The label puts out digital and occasional physical releases across various genre, the aim of supporting the less well known underground artists.  Demos are welcome for digital releases.

Igloo Magazine is an electronic music e’zine publishing articles about current, classic and upcoming music from around the globe. Our mission is to introduce readers to the burgeoning undergrowth of electronic musicians by covering a wide range of genre’s including ambient, experimental, dub, dubstep, shoegaze, electro, techno, drone, IDM, industrial, post-industrial, and all the debris in between. Pulling together a vast tapestry of like-minded contributors, the virtual Igloo doors officially opened December of 2000. We consistently seek to provide coverage for musicians creating left-of-center music that is not necessarily covered in general music media. Igloo Magazine publishes articles in the capacity of Newswires, Reviews, Features and Profiles for artists that wouldn’t normally receive the light of digital ink.

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