After covering several hundred releases in 2023, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged here. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist and selected tracks are featured on our Soundcloud playlist.
Tag: Planet Mu
NOT_MDK :: The 140 Album (Wémè)
For this renaissance name, the style has changed: Steady 70/140BPM grime beats now meet IDM and evocative breaks.
Ital Tek :: Timeproof (Planet Mu)
Timeproof simply functions as a gloomy and spacious soundtrack to lost planets thanks to the static fizz-fuzz sounds and bewitching textures that Ital Tek carefully extracts from his machines.
µ-Ziq :: 1977 (Balmat)
Paradinas taps into some early memories for the basis of this new collection of tracks, and it somehow plays out like the score to a narrative born from these memories.
Richard Devine :: Algoraves, IDM, and COVID-19
An interview with Richard Devine by Wilder Gonzales Agreda from April 2020. Reprinted with permission (Vanguardia Peruana). Complex rhythms, ultrasonic, and brainy psychedelia Richard Devineis […]
Meemo Comma :: Loverboy (Planet Mu)
Loverboy, sees the artist pivot from the experimental back-catalog and dive-deep into a fully-fledged euphoria of bass’n breaks. Perhaps to describe in one word: Energy.