exm & Roel Funcken :: Cilcit (Touched Music) Touched Music has been doing this for over a decade now, and they've built a reputation for curating compilations and releases that sit at the top tier of contemporary IDM. Cilcit is no exception. Thi...

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The OO-Ray :: Marginals (Beacon Sound) An album that stands apart through its simplicity and its willingness to be open. In a time saturated with noise and urgency, The OO-Ray has created something patient and enduring. Marginals is a work...

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Heaven Topology :: Some Weird Apples (Ingrown) Across eleven brief, bright passages, Some Weird Apples sketches a world of riotous melody and lightly broken funk, where playful ideas arrive quickly, bloom, and vanish before overstaying their welco...

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Serge Geyzel :: The Way To Go (Pulse State) The Way To Go is an album you must listen to closely in order to process all that it offers. It's not background music. It's intentional, detailed, and structured in a way that feels both loose and pr...

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Def try to give Andrew’s new one a listen

And now we wait. Again.

Gangster Computer God :: Gangster Computer God (Heterodox) — [concise] This assemblage travels across broad terrain yet retains cohesion, even with slightly uneven edges, resulting in a record that ultimately mirrors its own namesake.

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Shine Grooves :: Free Waltz (Artificial Owl Recordings) Free Waltz drifts through jazzy musique concrète, dubby techno, and ambient improvisation, capturing Andrey Kurokhtin’s rare gift for turning analog experiments and fleeting studio jams into a vivid, ...

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b0t23 + inoperative system :: Synonym EP (Science Cult) — [concise] Synonym carves a sharp path through bruising low-end sound design, relentless electro fragments, and pixelated bleep modulations, never easing its grip across five kaleidoscopic cuts.

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keyosc :: Echo Parent (Self Released) — [concise] Echo Parent ultimately feels like a culmination—years of craft distilled into a cohesive vision, bridging disparate IDM and braindance threads shaped between 2024 and 2026. What emerges is a roughened...

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Andrew Anderson :: Thresholds (Elevator Bath) Thresholds is an album that stays with you. It subtly alters the way you listen. It opens a door into a liminal space where sound becomes memory, and memory becomes atmosphere. In doing so, Andrew And...

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V/A :: The Sound of Dreams (Inspired by Breathing) The Sound of Dreams is everything I like about anthologies, a collection of very diverse personalities and idiosyncrasies expressing themselves in short performances, with plenty of guitars, strange b...

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Euan Alexander Millar-McMeeken :: Soundtracking the quiet years Euan grew up in a mostly quiet, non-musical household where records were scarce and music lived mainly in car rides soundtracked by Fleetwood Mac and Whitney Houston—until a childhood Walkman and Lion...

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Sajge :: Forming (Self Released) Forming drifts and surges through a rich confluence of electronic abstraction, acoustic intimacy, jazz-adjacent phrasing, and bass-driven undercurrents. There’s a tactile quality to it all—textures br...

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BlackHazr :: BlackHazr (Mahorka) This new project follows a stylistic inclination inspired by primordial resonances and natural manifestations from peripheral zones deserted by humanity.

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WE FORFEIT :: Radio Relativa (Dani Wais + Mora) For our fourth booth link-up with Asturian selector Mora and a first-time session with Mexico’s Dani Wais, we recorded a two-hour, genre-spanning b2b2b live at Radio Relativa.

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Ian Boddy :: Serge Works (DiN) In a year already rich with strong releases, Serge Works stands out for its clarity of vision and depth of execution. It rewards patience, revealing new details with each listen, and invites the liste...

Fabulous review @igloomag.bsky.social for Serge Works.
It's so good to see someone who truly "gets" what I'm trying to do here.
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"It rewards patience, revealing new details with each listen, and invites the listener into a space where time, texture, and tone intertwine".

®adår :: Radish Square (Xephem) — [concise] Radish Square hits like a surge of fractured memory—®adår bending breakbeat grit and IDM drift into nine tense, flickering cuts that feel constantly on the verge of collapse. Grown from deeply...

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Boards of Canada :: Geogaddi (Warp) — 24 years later Boards of Canada didn’t just shape how we hear music — they reshaped how we experience reality, and Geogaddi remains their most unsettling proof: a deliberately disorienting, symbol-laced descent wher...

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Franck Vigroux :: Sonnailles (Raster) Sonnailles moves from restraint into release, but never fully lets go. It maintains the precision associated with Raster while leaning more into physicality and motion. The influence of rhythm and mov...

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pray4Manta :: Alteredzone EP (Self Released) pray4Manta drops four savage electro chops into the pool and lets the radiant ripples spread widely—tight, coiled movements of machine funk and dancefloor mischief radiating outward in neat concentric...

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Jilk :: Tetsou II (Bricolage) Mature art in this instance has done its job beautifully, reaching beyond words to linger subtly, resonating deeply, and leaving lasting traces of memory and feeling. Every note, texture, and quiet de...

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Lovely review of Tetsuo II from @igloomag.bsky.social

“Retrospective futurism blooms digitally and organically, worldly and fecund.”

Much love to @igloomag.bsky.social for the awesome review of the @jilk.bsky.social “Tetsuo II” album.

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Hatchback :: Phaser For The Ocean, Chorus For The Moon (Lo Recordings) Lo Recordings proves once more its ability to extend the field of modern-day electronic experimentation, always bringing to the fore a community of talented sound artists with broader visions in terms...

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syringeee :: Plateau: Bonus Treats EP (Weirdrum) — [concise] Late 2025 marked arrival of Plateau, introduced as an EP surging across six abstract, timbre-rich sound sculptures. A few months on, a set of bonus treats emerges—four new pieces extending that journe...

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Ian Boddy :: Serge Works (DiN) In a year already rich with strong releases, Serge Works stands out for its clarity of vision and depth of execution. It rewards patience, revealing new details with each listen, and invites the liste...

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Cloutpics :: Switch Manual EP (Renraku) Cloutpics come on strong and hard with some dirty, filthy, son-of-a-gun low-end theories. Four neatly distressed ricochets, none over three minutes.

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Chronotope Project :: Kaleidoscope (Spotted Peccary Music) Kaleidoscope reveals more hidden dimensions and interpretations of the marvelous world around us, an autobiographical journey through the creative life itself, cyclical rather than linear in form. The...

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pray4Manta :: Alteredzone EP (Self Released) pray4Manta drops four savage electro chops into the pool and lets the radiant ripples spread widely—tight, coiled movements of machine funk and dancefloor mischief radiating outward in neat concentric...

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