REWOUND :: Volume 2 By TJ Norris

(07.07.05) This review column focuses on past releases that our contributors have dusted off and Rewound for your reading fulfillment. Rewound V.2 features reviews for Collection 1- Opening (Comp.), opensource.code (Comp.), Post Office (Comp.), Brendan Walls, Dan Warburton/Adam Sonderberg/Kevin Shea, Schneider TM, Town and Country, AMP, Scott Arford / Randy H.Y. Yau, Kenneth Atchley, Balligomingo and Frank Bretschneider & Taylor Deupree.

Hurtling Through the Darkness with Himuro

Samuel Stackhouse take s a brief timeout with Yoshiteru Himuro to discuss his new release on Zod Records entitled Mild Fantasy Violence as well as life based in Fukuoaka, Japan. Find out how science fiction movies and Japanese robot animations influenced this producer and how he actually composes the calm, clinical and erratic sounds found in his music.

MICROVIEW :: Volume 22 By TJ Norris

(07.05.05) This review column by TJ NORRIS focuses on the emergence of new international electronic sound-art released in limited editions, special packaging, small run, rare and otherwise hard to find experimental gems. Microview V22 features reviews for Mountains, David Kristian, Like A Stuntman, Taylor Deupree + Kenneth Kirschner, Monolake, Mitchell Akiyama, Violet/Alexei Borisov/Michael Gendreau, Yuichiro Fujimoto, Loren Chasse and jgrzinich.

Flotel :: Wooden Beard (Expanding, CD)

"...Wooden Beard is a flowing, quite serene album with a restrained level of abstraction. Toro's ability to combine carefully gentle melodies with quirky effects and beat structures only intensifies the experience without making it obtrusive."

Monstrum Sepsis :: Movement (WTII, CD)

"...Movement bears ambient, experimental and power noise influences but excels in the area of experimental noise, which is where the origin of the Monstrum Sepsis sound lies. Some of the strongest tracks on the album are loud, furious and industrially influenced..."

MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO :: Live at St. Andrew's Hall 06.25.05 (Detroit)

MBM raises the temperature at St. Andrew's Hall with an explosion of bass-infested audio and mind-altering video footage (Jericho Maxim describes this musical inferno as they storm the stage after a 7-year tour hiatus).

REWOUND :: Volume 1 By TJ Norris

(06.28.05) This review column focuses on past releases that our contributors have dusted off and Rewound for your reading fulfillment. Rewound V.1 features primarily ambient reviews written by TJ NORRIS featuring Birds of Tin + Ene, DACM, Ted Killian, Michael Gendreau, Grand Mal, Hemisphere, Richard Lainhart, Brannan Lane, Pholde, Robert Rich & Ian Boddy + Vir Unis & Saul Stokes.

MICROVIEW :: Volume 21 By TJ Norris

(06.27.05) This review column by TJ NORRIS focuses on the emergence of new international electronic sound-art released in limited editions, special packaging, small run, rare and otherwise hard to find experimental gems. Microview V21 features reviews for Portable, Skipsapiens, Acid Evolution 1988-2003 (V/A), Boca Raton, Tom Heasley, Evgeniy Droomoff / Sound Meccano, Kid 606, Meri von KleinSmid, randomNumber, and Fennesz Sakamoto.

Julien Neto :: Le Fumeur de Ciel (Type, CD)

"...At once beautifully understated and unassuming yet intoxicatingly potent and affecting Le Fumeur de Ciel is an embarrassment of riches, especially for those who share Neto's melancholy and romantic temperament..."

IGLOO TRAX :: Latest MP3 by Zainetica

Igloo's exclusive monthly selection of MP3's from established and up-and-coming musicians. Igloo Trax includes randomly uploaded selections of released and unreleased music featuring abstract electronics and all the digital-to-analog debris in between.

V/A :: Force Majeur (409, CD)

"...The six members represented here offer between two and six tracks each and, while some are but breaths of melody wrapped around a few loops and granular stabs of sound, others unfold with natural grace and beauty that is like a visit to a botanist who caters in rare flowers..."

Polestar :: Metokinetik (Enpeg, MP3)

"...not afraid to wind the listener up in a muted cacophony, and then drop suddenly, sublimely, into a neutral gear..."

V/A :: Det.Und 01 (Detroit Underground, 12")

Mr. Bliss spins the first edition in the Detroit Underground series; a relatively new label spawned by Kero that focuses on quality electronic audio transmissions.

Igloo Discount Store with The Agriculture

Igloo Magazine joins up with The Agriculture Label with a discount store featuring several releases and MP3's.

Who is Mojave? :: Electronica in The ROK

"My true childhood began with my parent's old turntable system. It was in no good condition. Because of the absence of a stylus on the turntable, I borrowed mom's needle, attached it on the tone-arm's head and enjoyed the thin sounds from the vinyl's microgroove when rotated by my hands. It was mom's one and only LP, The Sound of Music." --Soh Mingyu (a.k.a. Mojave)