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V/A :: Frag’mnts (Enig’matik)
Taking yet another step forward into a dense patchwork of polished electronics and visual stimuli, Frag’mnts captures the essence of the imprint as it slices through genre confines and allows the...
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Blakbody vs C. Mantle :: In The Mouth Of The Syndrome (Acre)
Taken as a whole, it’ll take a few listens to extrapolate the layers of debris on this extended player as both artists blur the edges of glitch and abstraction. Blakbody vs C. Mantle ‘In The Mouth Of...
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Skytree :: Sacred Singularity EP (Fractal Branch)
As descriptions of Sacred Singularity may include references to spheres of light, positive energy, upper level consciousness, radiant rhythmic loops and an amalgamation of clip-hop-ambience, an...
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Photek :: KU:PALM (Photek Productions)
Photek is in a tricky position of managing mainstream appeal whilst still clinging on to the underground he flourished so successfully within. Consciousness of this has perhaps splintered KU:PALM into...
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Altered:Carbon :: Questasian (Mitoma Industries)
Re-mastered with additional remixes, both Andy Paterson and Tam Ferrans collectively create an ambiguous flow of de-constructed electronic hip-hop that permeates within early-era Merck, Chocolate...
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Cain :: Gathering EP (Crackling Claps)
There is a sense of balance on Gathering, a literal gathering of ideas presented in a flash which is focused on chiseled tribal-electronic hip-hop and fuzzy rhythm bursts. Cain ‘Gathering’ [Release...
View ArticleSwarm Intelligence :: Surveillance EP (Acroplane)
Get ready for some more blistering heavy duty electro/techno/bass bangers from Ireland’s Acroplane label. [Release page] Swarm Intelligence’s Surveillance EP opens with “Execute”—a brutalist work-out...
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Marjen :: When a skin is dead, it must be shed (Self-Released)
Lightly doused in discrete downtempo, Marjen takes elements from hip-hop and decomposes them into quaint, minimized textures. [Release page] Lightly doused in discrete downtempo, Marjen takes elements...
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Ewan Hoozami :: Fire In Me EP (Self-Released)
A good hip-hop based release from one of the stalwarts of the Bristol scene, delivering exactly what anyone who knows about him would expect, and if you haven’t heard of Ewan Hoozami, get to know. Ewan...
View ArticleSOMATIC RESPONSES :: Fly-By EP digital Giveaway (Acroplane)
Ireland’s Acroplane offers igloomag.com an exclusive giveaway for the latest Fly-By EP by the prolific duo of Somatic Responses featuring a barrage of leftfield, exploratory electronics, broken electro...
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MUJUICE :: Elements of unpredictability
Mujuice has managed to replicate his studio electronics whilst incorporating an element of unpredictability and improvisation more often associated with live bands. RUSSIA is perhaps not the first...
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Dizraeli And The Small Gods :: Moving In The Dark (ECC)
It’s not pretentious, intimidating or self-congratulatory, as can sometimes be the case, nor is it retro cool groovy funky non progressive lame funk hop, which is a trap fallen into all too often. No,...
View ArticleMateria :: Atlas (Slime)
Swedish born UK dwelling producer Materia has a full length album due to drop on May 20th on the Slime label. It’s called Atlas and will be available on vinyl, CD and digitally. It promises on initial...
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V/A :: Sampler Vol. 2 (Architects + Heroes)
If you are looking for a smorgasbord of music to tide you down for about an hour or if you want to pin down a particular musical strain, snap up Sampler Vol. 2 to find out where each unique musician...
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Cuttooth :: Cuttooth LP (4 Lux)
This self-titled sophomore outing is equal parts downtempo electronics and simmering inner-city echoes. A tangled hip-hop web shimmies into fragrant click-hop on Cuttooth‘s follow-up to Elements...
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Mojo Rising :: On The Horizon (Cold Busted)
Via an astute ear for electrons fluttering in downtempo streams, On The Horizon reinvigorates vintage synths, bass guitars, funk and good old-school electronics and ignites these frequencies with a...
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QBLA :: Where The Girls Are Green and the Grass Is Pretty (Architects + Heroes)
QBLA is on a powerful mission to invade hip hop and transform its underground trajectory. Southern California’s William Rosario has quite a few tricks in his audio arsenal. Having produced under the...
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Shigeto :: No Better Time Than Now (Ghostly International)
In these strange times, when technology provides musicians surgical accuracy and shiny polished sound, but simultaneously in many cases sucks the soul, the human touch out of the music, Shigeto finds...
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Kode9 :: Rinse: 22 (Rinse)
British beat and bass avantgarde and head of touchstone Hyperdub label, is notably partial to its darker, miry side, and despite opening with an exemplary track by poster-boy Burial, feeds out...
View ArticleBeastie Boys :: Intergalactic (Benji Boko Remix)
A free download of this remix by the remix crazy Benji Boko is available to you, for free, right now. Well, it’s free but via dropify, which demands a Facebook login before you can receive the...
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