GPR012&13 - Icosagon - OUT NOW!

glitchpulser · March 30, 2026, 1:52am

Today we’re proud to release Icosagon.

This project marks 20 years of IDMForums. A community that began in 2006 as a space for producers to share experimental electronic music, ideas, and feedback, and has continued to evolve ever since.

Icosagon brings together artists from across that history…spanning the full spectrum of sounds that have lived on the forum over two decades.

Read more on Igloo Magazine: V/A :: Icosagon (Glitchpulse) — IDMforums at 20: A community chronicle – Igloo Magazine

The release is presented as two volumes:

Volume One
Breakcore, glitch, drum & bass, and rhythm-driven experimentation.

https://too.fm/icosagon1

Track List:

Daed - Intrinsic Belief
Christopher Lombardo - Grainsines_Struct4
Metaside - Anybody Out There
Jazzyspoon - Time is Unreal
Nick Manton - Emergence
noisebuam - floating on acetone
Liife - Evnt Hrzn
±vMcÇ - ΨOrb¹(Dₘ)
Vaag - Lake Door
Morpion - Hatch
tuneboxii - Desperate For Attention
XVF - Glitch In The Bro Code

Volume Two
Downtempo IDM, atmosphere, and more contemplative electronic work.

https://too.fm/icosagon2

Track List:

SUBQUiRE - Straggler
Aaron King - Clarity
Bitbasic - Orders
RFJ - My Friend Matt
Aaron Goodwyn - Are You Feeling It
Pipedreamer - Hypnopompiac
Manton x Jazzyspoon - Absence (Manton Remix)
Circus of Mind - Somnivorae-9
IG88 - The Great Gasping
Grids/Units/Planes - Someone Else’s Memories
LFO Juice - Analemma
Nailbite - Burn
Vlantis - Sound Particle
Zainetica - Vượn Cam
Zygadenus - Amyou (Abridged Version)

Across both volumes, the compilation reflects the diversity, experimentation, and shared curiosity that have defined IDMForums over the years.

This release also represents a new chapter under Glitchpulse Records, building on the forum’s history while establishing a foundation for what comes next.

To everyone who has contributed to the forum, whether through music, discussion, collaboration, or support…thank you. This project exists because of you.

Thank You

@RFJ and @wayne for your continued support
@drewwest912 for making this a possibility
Supporters & listeners of the label
The idmforums.com community

Credits:

GPR012: Icosagon Volume One
Executive Producer - Nick Manton
Artists and Repertoire - Wayne T baker
Composed, Produced and Mixed by Various Artists
Mastering by Darren Ziesing at Millennium Mastering
Artwork by Retroreflektor
Published by Glitchpulse Records

GPR013: Icosagon Volume Two
Executive Producer - Nick Manton
Artists and Repertoire - Wayne T baker
Composed, Produced and Mixed by Various Artists
Mastering by Darren Ziesing at Millennium Mastering
Artwork by Retroreflektor
Published by Glitchpulse Records

Icosagon Merch: shop.glitchpulser.com

Videos by Retroreflektor:

wayne · March 30, 2026, 5:42am

Sick! So awesome. Thank you @Manton for all of your incredible hard work on this. Darren for the mastering. Artists for coming together. This is a stellar release.

bfk · March 30, 2026, 12:30pm

Awesome look forward to listening after work.

White_Noise · March 30, 2026, 1:37pm

Maybe I’m missing it, but I don’t see the option to order vinyl. Is that coming later?

metaside · March 30, 2026, 2:43pm

Manton · March 30, 2026, 6:22pm

The Vinyl is coming later, sorry I should have put a note in the main post. The intent was to have it ready for the public by now, but:

I want the artists on the record to have a chance to get a copy first.
Since this is made to order, they need to order it themselves.
Since the store doesn’t utilize coupon codes, the only way for them to buy it at cost is for us to have it listed at cost price.
Once all the artists that want a copy have purchased theirs then I will revert the price to normal and promote the link to the vinyl store.
The service will have a Bandcamp integration at some point but that is not ready. So, buy the vinyl first, when it comes available and when I see the order come through, I’ll send you a Bandcamp code for the digital copy. (no need to buy twice). @White_Noise I will send you a Bandcamp code now anyway.

bfk · March 30, 2026, 7:56pm

Wow. This definitely beats boards of Canada by a lot.

Great work everyone…our trading tips and techniques with each other over the years really shows, considering how we all have progressed and made each other better musically.

This is so awesome.

Manton · March 30, 2026, 11:24pm

Just wanted to also add that

Aaron King - ‘Clarity’ and Bitbasic - ‘Orders’ are also singles from upcoming albums, releasing with GPR later this year!

Amongst other exciting releases

LFO.juice · March 31, 2026, 9:00am

Absolutely awesome!

Just oozes quality.

I am very proud to be part of this. Great work community - all your hard work has really paid off.

C.

metaside · April 20, 2026, 4:41pm

Wanted to comment on this sooner and in more detail, but have been on a family vacation and coming back of course I found myself completely overloaded with work. Anyways, awesome work everybody, really proud to be a part of this. Now waiting for the vinyl to arrive to drop it on the turntables of some old DJ friends. Time to get my mixer fixed and check if my turntables are still working

After listening to this a few times, I’m really enjoying all tracks and finding new favs with every listen. Just some more comments on some of my favs at the moment:

Jazzyspoon - Time is unreal: just phenomenal work on the melodic parts
both the Vaag and XVF tracks have awesome glitching, the butter-smooth randomness is perfect for my grey matter to find some relaxtion
Subquire - Straggler: Both the orginal track and the Jazzyspoon remix are really awesome (remix is not on this release, just thought I mention it too), looking forward to the separate EP release of this!
Morpion - Hatch: really digging the Oldschool jungle vibes with an IDM twist in this
Vlantis - great work as always especially on the vocals

A comment about the Bandcamp upload: the files have the artist names before the track number and no track number metadata in my wav files, makes it a bit hard to listen to the tracks in the intended order, or am I missing something?

Manton · April 20, 2026, 7:47pm

If you download any Bandcamp release it will be delivered in the same way because Bandcamp changes the Metadata of the tracks into their own format. I put a support ticket in with them in May 2024 about it and they were useless. Just said that it is the way it is!

"I'm afraid there isn't a way to customize your metadata. 
We automatically apply the album title, release date, lyrics, 
track titles and numbers, and artist name. 
All other metadata is stripped from your files before uploading.

Unfortunately, as adding a track-specific artist automatically 
adds the name to the track title when viewing or downloading 
the full album, this can affect the order of the tracks as you described. 
I'll pass along that feedback to the rest of the team here.

Best,
Zak // Bandcamp"

Time to ditch Bandcamp and get on Subvert

White_Noise · April 20, 2026, 8:23pm

It’s been a while since I did an upload to bandcamp, but can you encode this in the file names by naming them something like “01. artist - track”? That’s how I organize things for myself and with a basic alphabetic sort any file system can keep that in order.

EDIT - I see this has something to do with adding an individual artist to each track, which I have no experience with. So it might not be possible.

Manton · April 20, 2026, 8:43pm

Doesn’t matter what you name the files, Bandcamp changes them once downloaded. The only way to do it is to add the track number here:

but then it looks like this and that looks bad visually for the majority of listeners who stream and don’t download:

Vlantis · April 21, 2026, 4:41am

I plan on reformatting it to the way I would upload the album if it was me:

Artist - Glitchpulse Records

Album - Icosagon

Regular track order with artist name first

This is coming from somebody who still uses an ipod lol! That being said, this isn’t the norm from my experiences with music downloads, just stuff I edit later.

Haven’t listened to the album yet, I’m waiting until I can take the vinyl to my friend’s house.

EDIT: fixed Glitchpulse Records spelling

metaside · April 21, 2026, 7:25am

Thanks for the info @Manton! That’s crazy. I think I saw that thing with the track number in the title information a few times and didn’t think much about it. Now it makes a lot of sense of course.

I still like Bandcamp, but one would think that it would be relatively simple to fix something like that….