IDM Archives - If-Only

Premiere: Cucumb45 – Crying Indian and Laser Horse

November 22, 2019

Of all Bjarki's projects, Cucumb45 finds him at his most outlandish. Though enjoying an occasional toe dip under his primary alias, that pseudonym throws itself headfirst into IDM waters with something approach...

Premiere: luxxuryproblems – Xylit (Phillip Jondo Remix)

Will Butterworth

October 28, 2019

The Phillip Jondo, DJ Brom and Friday Dunard-helmed SPA Recordings first graced our eardrums with a bumper compilation released early 2019. Boasting a sea of heavyweight contributors, including the likes of Ssa...

Premiere: A Psychic Yes – Forest Floor

Jack Anderson

September 6, 2019

Kalahari Oyster Cult is back on the platt with a rich biosphere of planetary building blocks, courtesy of A Psychic Yes, AKA Timothy Crombie. For their sophomore outing, the release finds Berlin-based producer ...

Premiere: URA DUST – Dream

Matt Fear

July 2, 2019

Giving downtempo broken beats a modern balearic twist, the opener from Cosmic Tones compilation Montreal Pleiades comes off sounding not too dissimilar to early Wild Bunch material. The handiwork of URA DUST, a...

Premiere: Karen Gwyer – The Way You Drive

Damien Cummings

June 27, 2019

Each Oscillate Tracks release has the unenviable task of crystallising that fleeting nightclub energy onto wax, and the burgeoning party-turned-record label does just that with a third, sparkling offering. All ...

Premiere: Serwed – Bias

Matt Blair

April 15, 2019

Gost Zvuk label-mates OL and Flaty belong to the wave of experimentally-inclined producers responsible for challenging and changing perceptions surrounding Russian electronic music. Like so many of their compat...

Premiere: Katatonic Silentio – Sub_Versive

Oliver Tindall

March 29, 2019

Incoming on the eponymous label from Milanese multidisciplinary collective Cyberspeak, Katatonic Silentio's Emotional Gun is an example of IDM-charged sonic bricolage. Described by the label as "a sound artist ...

Premiere: Bigeneric – Deltoid

Elliot Stevens

September 24, 2018

Fragrant IDM from the same clutch as the Irresistible Force, B12, Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe, and other Artificial Intelligence; the seventh release from Mélodies Souterraines wanders through a buoyant haze ...

Premiere: Sleep D – Head Flip

Matt Blair

July 24, 2018

If there's one thing tying the Altered States Tapes curation together, besides the Aussie label's undeniably experimental edge, it's a dedication to the austere. Musique concrète, violent maelstroms of techno a...

Premiere: Rhys Celeste (Microlith) – 2016 Untitled 69

Michael Sutton

May 21, 2017

It came as nothing less than an absolute shock to electronic music fans back in February to learn that Rhys Celeste – the Maltese producer who released exceptional productions via his own Bandcamp page and Shef...

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