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

Preghost - Seeker

arovane - scrai-n

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

Coming 25.11.2013
Brainstormlab

Additional production by A.Paterson, P.Daniels and Re-Arbeiten.
Art by Theresa Silver.

Iso:Forms [Album Teaser]

Jilk - 'Come In Spiders'

Taken from the debut album, 'Retreat To Sleep'
Available now on Bit-Phalanx Music - Deluxe CD / Download
(Bit-Phalanx Music - BITP012CD)

01. Don't Carry On
02. Sonder
03. Come In Spiders
04. All We Ever See
05. Winter Blue's In Robbie's Room
06. I Put Your Tape On
07. Hymn Of Intent
08. Giggleupz
09. Sympathy For The City (feat. Coppe')
10. Fat Feet Away, Check For Bones Everyday

Buy the deluxe physical (with bonus 'Demonstration' album), and Digital:
- Bit-Phalanx Store: http://bit.ly/1bUIvJ7

Standard Digital available:
- iTunes: http://bit.ly/17gJGPK
- Amazon: http://amzn.to/1eSOKhN
- Bleep.com: http://bit.ly/16X4sAC

Buy Deluxe CD / DL

Jilk - 'Come In Spiders'

Order meadow:watt in The Ghostly Store: http://www.theghostlystore.com/collections/music/products/kiln-meadow-watt

KILN - Roil

Skweee vs Electro Funk vs IDM vs Beatmaking vs Break vs Glitch Hop

French Canadian artist Simon Girard aka Fade Runner starts like a dragster with this 1st Lp on Bedroom Research. Crystal clear sounding Electro Funk with a strong Skweee background and post dubstep bassploitation for a result sweeter than maple syrup.

Everything sounds fluid, smooth, in place, genuine, obvious and even strangely familiar while remaining odd and personal... a set of qualities you can feel when you listen to artists like Luke Vibert or Eero Johannes that Fade Runner surely shares a passion for Funk with.

Artwork by PIRATIO - Mastering by Matt Subjex

>>  OUT NOW  <<

https://bedroomresearch.bandcamp.com/album/fade-runner

www.bedroomresearch.com

DOWNLOAD

Fade Runner's debut album Preview (BR053)

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

Pattern Behavior - December

Vincent I. Watson - ‘Serene’ - Pyramids of Mars 002
Release Date : 
Genre : Ambient / Classical / Experimental / Electronica


Press Release:

Once in a while, something comes along that really grabs your attention...makes you take notice and after a time you grow to love it. Very rarely does something come along that you can call a Masterpiece.

Lets start at the beginning.

Producer Vince Watson has been releasing very high quality dance music on a consistent basis for a long time. There has been quite a few classics amongst them, but circa late 2012 and ‘Serene’, the artists 8th studio album, presents itself like the opening sequence of a long awaited sci-fi movie.

It is the birth of a new species in this enigmatic versatile producers career, and one which announces the arrival of music for TV and film under his full name, Vincent I. Watson.

And so, to that opening sequence.

After 60 seconds of ‘Hidden Behind The Eyes’, you know your into something special. The emotional deep content that Vince is already acclaimed for is there from the start, but its on a new level of detail. ‘Placid’ smoothes things out nicely before the very powerful ‘Sagitaria’ hits like a wall of unleashed beauty. Stunning...’Re-contact’ then bends things into a new reality with some beautifully crafted dub style efx which bring a level of intensity and energy into the journey towards the next 3 tracks, which are jaw droppingly inspiring. 

Title track ‘Serene’ is one of those tracks you could listen to for days..its such a powerful piece of music. ‘Out of Reach’ bridges the gap before what is the album’s crowning glory, ‘Celtic Beauty’. With its rising Violin’s and high-octane strings, its anthemic chords and synth lines opitimise the high standard of this album perfectly. ‘Continuum’ sets the tone nicely after such a dramatic burst before the remaining 2 tracks take us somewhat darker and deeper into outer space. ‘Abyss’ is not the kind of track you want to listen to on headphones alone..its more like entering a black hole than deep space, spine tingling stuff but worth the ticket alone....then we come to the final track, which is the only track on the album with any reference to a beat. ‘Open Your Eyes’...is the title suggesting its all been a dream?, or a journey during which you didnt want to see reality?

The album then ends with what can only be described as the moment when you wake up first thing in the morning and see for the first time..as the music rises and rises only to disappears in an instant..very cleverly done. Deafened by silence would be a nice metaphor to use.

Many will compare this work to the likes of Steve Reich, Philip Glass or even Hans Zimmer at times, which is no small credentials to gain, but there is also something elegantly modern and unique about the unavoidable journey it takes you on. 

‘Serene’ is not only a highly impressive piece of contemporary electronic music, its also a very important one...as it confirms Watson to be one of the great modern composers/producers in electronic music today.
Not many of his fellow DJ peers on the clubscene today could create something so organic yet so utterly gripping whilst managing to blend Piano’s and deep dark spaces into one powerful yet co-hesive story. 

Many words will be used to describe this album - sometimes there are never enough superlatives, but Masterpiece is rarely so fitting as it is here..because that is exactly what ‘Serene’ is.

It is, in fact...a work of art.

Tracklisting:
1 Hidden Behind The Eyes
2 Placid
3 Sagitaria
4 Re-Contact
5 Serene
6 Out of Reach
7 Celtic Beauty
8 Continuum
9 Abyss
10 Open Your Eyes

Written, Produced and Conceived by Vincent I. Watson.
Recorded at Biocom 7.0, Amsterdam 2011-2012
Published by Westbury Music Ltd / Spherecom Music.
Cat No. POMCD002

Hidden Behind the Eyes - Sleep

12" 300 copies edition e.p. (100 white vinyl limited)

A1. A Newcomer From Taurus
A2. The Gamma-Ray Children
B1. Aeon
B2. Rings Of The Seventh Planet

All tracks written and produced by B. Divider
release available on Drivecom records.
Digital format exclusively at www.drivecom.bandcamp.com/

Boris Divider | Aeon | DCOM014

uexkull - hormad

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

The Black Dog have been gathering their thoughts, passions and anger, reflecting it into their music, sometimes as part of a larger picture or concept, sometimes just focusing on one subject.

"Tranklements is such a great Sheffield word, it means a collection of objects, often precious to the owner. Everyone has a collection of Tranklements somewhere! These are ours.

Tranklements is a body of work created as 16 unique and individual tracks. Each one is its own little object, something we've created to externalise, explain and express the world we find ourselves in. It encompasses many thoughts, emotions and desires from the last eighteen months. There is an individual story and internal message behind each. They've all been discussed and fought for. However, we really don’t want to explain them, we don't expect those personal rationals to translate to others. We’d rather you gazed upon the objects yourself and come to your own conclusions. Nobody likes to be told what to think.

In many ways our work with the eSC (http://www.electronicsupperclub.tv) project has helped us to reconnect with many things and each other. The creative talent and desires of the younger generation have never gone away. The real underground is still as vibrant as ever, not lost to false values, over-sized egos and ladder climbing brands. We've always respected that energy and individuality that exists beyond the bland compliant mainstream.

The truth is we've always felt like the awkward outsiders."

Available to pre-order now at DustStore.com:
* Limited edition, only 300 units
* 3 x 12" on heavy weight 180gsm vinyl
* Free digital download of the album from DustStoreDigital.com
* Two free bonus tracks as digital downloads exclusive to DustStore.com

The Black Dog - Tranklements Preview

[p*dis] distribution sampler for June 2013

John Lemke - People Do - When We Could (Denovali)

a sample track from the debut diamat album 'being is the sum of appearing'. 

learn more about diamat: 
http://n5md.com/artist/diamat
https://soundcloud.com/diamatband

diamat - misunderstood pt. 2

YM013 Scanone_Scenes_Vox Eight

Out 5th August on vinyl & digital.

YM013 Scanone Scenes Vox Eight

Ambot - "A"  |   [ETA-CD 023]

“A” is the beginning. Inspired by the classic releases of electronic music which a lot of people still like to listen to, recorded between 2007 and 2009. Ambot’s first album “A” is finally released by ETALABEL. This album is a trip back to the 90’s so if you loved early albums of Autechre, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, u-Ziq or Cylob - you should definetly check it out.

Ambot is a duo of two electronic musicians: Paul Ryttel (aka Xlorite) & Piotr Michałowski (aka Nmls). Their solo work greatly differs from each other but when they start to work together they somehow find a common language. Paul takes care of the beats and fx, Piotr makes all of the mellodies and textures but sometimes they switch their roles a bit. They started to cooperate in 2007 and their first album “A” was released by ETALABEL in July 2013, 4 years after it was finished. They still have a lot of music to release so you may expect upcoming albums, though they won’t sound like the first one as the creative methods and inspirations in Ambot are always evolving and are reaching new musical dimensions.

Tracklist:
1. Alvnlok
2. α-Pinen
3. Ameridium
4. Arese
5. Azmol Cevz
6. Airo Locui

Composed & produced by: Paul Ryttel & Piotr Michałowski
2007-2009
Mixed & mastered by: Ryttel Mastering
Cover art concept by: Paul Ryttel & Piotr Michałowski
Cover design by: Mateusz Bąkała

© 2013 | published by www.etalabel.com
ETA-CD 023 | limited edition: 100

Ambot - A (album preview)

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.