2008-07-23T18:10:54-06:00 http://www.igloomag.com/ Toshoklabs RSS Agent Editoreditor@igloomag.com Igloo Mag 2000 - 2005 http://www.igloomag.com/igloo_logo-rss-144.jpg Abstract Electronic Music Coverage http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1727&category=reviews

"...Störung produced a work in 1983 that was far ahead of its time, the duo created a sound that not only pushed the concepts of traditional instruments but employed new machines to make music that had never been heard by anyone before..."

2008-07-20T00:00:20-05:00 2008-07-20T00:00:20-05:00 2008-07-20T00:00:20-05:00 Robbie Geoghegan http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1728&category=reviews

"...The duo of Gab.Gato and XBeat offer up some sinister electro action, they also give some 90's style UK techno as well as some faster and slower material..."

2008-07-20T00:00:20-05:00 2008-07-20T00:00:20-05:00 2008-07-20T00:00:20-05:00 Robbie Geoghegan http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1726&category=reviews

"...Flexx are not just throwing out poor gummy sounding reprints, they are re-issuing tracks from a golden time with great sound quality whilst throwing a remix and edit into the ring..."

2008-07-13T00:00:13-05:00 2008-07-13T00:00:13-05:00 2008-07-13T00:00:13-05:00 Robbie Geoghegan http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1725&category=reviews

"...Full of aggressive, no compromises industrial music with dark ambient undercurrents, <b>Origins</b> recognises the early Daft, Ant-Zen and Hymen releases that inspired its creation..."

2008-07-10T00:00:10-05:00 2008-07-10T00:00:10-05:00 2008-07-10T00:00:10-05:00 Paul Lloyd http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1723&category=profiles

Bazooka Joe interviews Dave Heckman, the founder of Metropolis Records and unearths the distinctive industrial fragments of the labels roots and progression.

2008-07-09T00:00:09-05:00 2008-07-09T00:00:09-05:00 2008-07-09T00:00:09-05:00 Bazooka Joe http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1724&category=profiles

Bazooka Joe takes a few minutes to speak with Chris Corner of IAMX (ex-Sneaker Pimps member).

2008-07-09T00:00:09-05:00 2008-07-09T00:00:09-05:00 2008-07-09T00:00:09-05:00 Bazooka Joe http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1719&category=reviews

"...The Minimal Wave sound is an analogue one that borders the line of warm and clinical, where lyrics are dead pan but filled with emotion, where elation and sorrow lie..."

2008-07-08T00:00:08-05:00 2008-07-08T00:00:08-05:00 2008-07-08T00:00:08-05:00 Robbie Geoghegan http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1720&category=reviews

"...though <b>Sand</b> doesn't have a ready-made programme to patch itself into, it seems similarly disposed to explore the semiotics of damaged and/or aged sources, as it pushes ever further in its ethnography of evanescence into a multi-layered polytimbral in-between..."

2008-07-08T00:00:08-05:00 2008-07-08T00:00:08-05:00 2008-07-08T00:00:08-05:00 Alan Lockett http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1721&category=reviews

"... In terms of sub-genre, Quantec does not seek to re-invent, more to refine and deepen, and lend a different colour and texture, making ambiance the area where his take on dub-techno finds more of a voice of its own..."

2008-07-08T00:00:08-05:00 2008-07-08T00:00:08-05:00 2008-07-08T00:00:08-05:00 Alan Lockett http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1722&category=reviews

"...<b>Like A Slow River</b> is, ultimately, not so much an ambient album in the Eno tradition, but rather a softer reined-in extension of the industrial power electronics tradition, its sounds at times liminal, at times subsonic, almost tailor made to the motivating philosophy behind the doom-laden drift of Glacial Movements..."

2008-07-08T00:00:08-05:00 2008-07-08T00:00:08-05:00 2008-07-08T00:00:08-05:00 Alan Lockett http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1718&category=reviews

"...Odd nods along the way too --let's say Drexciya, Chocolate Industries/Schematic and Pete Namlook, to name but several, illustrating Rontronik's allegiance to and creative continuation of a line from '80s electro to '90s ambient and the IDM crossover..."

2008-06-14T00:00:14-05:00 2008-06-14T00:00:14-05:00 2008-06-14T00:00:14-05:00 Alan Lockett http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1717&category=reviews

"...I'm all for experimentation. Bands evolve, try new sounds, keep things fresh. But for Portishead, this seems more like a regression..."

2008-06-12T00:00:12-05:00 2008-06-12T00:00:12-05:00 2008-06-12T00:00:12-05:00 Victoria Morehead http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1715&category=features

"...Portishead live is rawer and slightly rougher around the edges but better realised than their recorded output might suggest. Beth Gibbons is perhaps an unlikely front woman but watching her is enthralling; she gets lost in her art and her ability to perform with such beautiful intensity is captivating..."

2008-06-08T00:00:08-05:00 2008-06-08T00:00:08-05:00 2008-06-08T00:00:08-05:00 Paul Lloyd http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1716&category=reviews

"...<b>Filtered Light</b> all but the most intrepid of listening explorers will likely find themselves "engaged with issues" of their own in the face of such musically challenging - and challenged - work... <b>Long Distance</b> (is) delicately teeming with pulse and fibrillation and roamed under by a resonant hum from the deep, the sound field slowly opens out its architectures to an incoming fog of something new..."

2008-06-08T00:00:08-05:00 2008-06-08T00:00:08-05:00 2008-06-08T00:00:08-05:00 Alan Lockett http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1714&category=reviews

"...a fitting document, providing as it does an exhibit of the State of the Art of 12k and its ambit; its organic environments, "real" instruments, and relatively 'natural' sonic architectures at one end, through to the more heavily digital domain, with its 'virtual' instrumentation..."

2008-06-01T00:00:01-05:00 2008-06-01T00:00:01-05:00 2008-06-01T00:00:01-05:00 Alan Lockett http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1713&category=reviews

"...Despite the minimal nature of the source materials and digital manipulation used on <b>Strings</b>, the whole has an expectedly lush and involving sound..."

2008-05-31T00:00:31-05:00 2008-05-31T00:00:31-05:00 2008-05-31T00:00:31-05:00 James Knapman http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1712&category=reviews

"...English Electric has graphed a new age feel to the works of Vagelis, Moroder and Carpenter whilst blending it with European electro slants to make a personal and deep sound..."

2008-05-27T00:00:27-05:00 2008-05-27T00:00:27-05:00 2008-05-27T00:00:27-05:00 Robbie Geoghegan http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1711&category=reviews

"...Instead, with his love for the retro-futurist sound of analogue synthesizers, bleeps and wibbles, washes and wooshes, and big drums and drum machines, it's more the likes of EU (remember them?), Novel 23, and Ambidextrous who are in Voudouris's sights..."

2008-05-26T00:00:26-05:00 2008-05-26T00:00:26-05:00 2008-05-26T00:00:26-05:00 Alan Lockett http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1710&category=reviews

This synopsis of new release coverage was broadcast on Digital::Nimbus <a href="http://digitalnimbus.com/playlists/dn_playlist.php?ShowID=286">Playlist #286</a> dated May 17, 2008. Label coverage includes Toshoklabs, Tympanik Audio, Aliens Production, Spectraliquid, Native State, The Itch Incident, Somnia, Force of Nature, Resonant, Controne and a self-release by Combustion.

2008-05-24T00:00:24-05:00 2008-05-24T00:00:24-05:00 2008-05-24T00:00:24-05:00 Pietrobot http://igloomag.com/doc.php?task=view&id=1709&category=reviews

"...Rankin Scroo's challenge is to make you lose yourself in that message, to coax your spirit out of its hiding place, to - for lack of a more elegant word - inspire you..."

2008-05-24T00:00:24-05:00 2008-05-24T00:00:24-05:00 2008-05-24T00:00:24-05:00 SelfText