With contributions from Alan Lockett, Chris Amell, James Knapman, Philippe Blache, Pietro Da Sacco, and Robbie Geoghegan, Igloo Magazine has compiled an extensive list of our favorite releases from the past 12-months spanning many genres and sub-genres. Having covered hundreds of releases in 2019, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews and/or release pages—are cataloged in this article. As usual, there are no winners or runners-up as the lists are alphabetized by artist, and a randomized track selection on Soundcloud is available to immerse yourselves even further. As Igloo heads into its 20th year, we’re looking forward to another round of experimental electronic music consumption from around the globe. Thanks for reading!
LONG PLAYERS ::
36 :: Fade To Grey (A Strangely Isolated Place)
4T Thieves :: Hauntology (Mahorka)
Achievement:: Dundayin Jurisdiction (Schematic Music Company)
Alessandro Cortini :: Volume Massimo (Mute)
Al Vomano :: Over The White Phantoms (Self-Released)
Autechre :: AE_LIVE (Second Phase) (Warp)
Amon Tobin :: Fear in a Handful of Dust (Nomark)
Andy Stott :: It Should Be Us (Modern Love)
ASC :: The Waves (Silent Season)
As One :: Communion (De:tuned)
A Winged Victory for the Sullen :: The Undivided Five (Ninja Tune)
BAKGROUND :: Memory Card (Pure Life)
Benoît Pioulard :: Sylva (Morr Music)
BLAEN :: #1 & #2 (Welsh Modular Alliance)
BLN :: Multiverse (Touched Music)
Bluetech :: Holotrope (Behind The Sky)
Bochum Welt :: Seafire (Central Processing Unit)
Broken Haze :: Generated (Detroit Underground)
Carbinax :: Above And Beyond (Touched Music)
Cathode Ray Tube :: High Cube Drifter (M-Tronic)
Celer :: Xièxie (Two Acorns)
Chihei Hatakeyama :: Forgotten Hill (Room40)
Comit :: Remote Viewing (A Strangely Isolated Place)
Dalham :: Heat Death (Castles In Space)
Darkswoon :: BIND (Icy Cold)
Darren McClure :: On Opposites (Neotantra)
Datach’i :: Bones (Timesig / Planet Mu)
Data Rebel :: Retrospective (Sun Sea Sky)
Drifting In Silence :: Away (Labile)
E.R.P. :: Exomoon (Forgotten Future)
Eskostatic :: Serpentines & Valleys (Ultimae)
Everyday Dust & [MIIIIM] :: Terra Ephemera (Sparkwood)
Fennesz :: Agora (Touch)
Forest Management :: Passageways (Whited Sepulchre)
Gamardah Fungus :: Natural Storm (Hidden Vibes)
Gideon Wolf :: Replicas (Fluid Audio)
Guenter Schlienz :: Know Your New Age (Zoharum)
Hotel Neon :: Vanishing Forms (Archives)
Huron :: In The Range Of Imagination (Self-Released)
Hyboid :: Strange Signals (Astro Chicken)
Ian Boddy & Nigel Mullaney :: Schemes & Ruses (DiN)
Ilkae :: Formal Format (Inpuj)
Isaac Helsen :: Remnants Series Vol. I-VIII (Past Inside the Present)
ISAN :: Lamenting Machine (Morr Music)
Jake Mandell :: Magnetic Resonance (Schematic Music Company)
James Murrary & Francis M Gri :: Remote Redux (Ultimae)
KiloWatts :: Sympathetic Vibrations (KiloWatts Music)
Kyle Bobby Dunn :: From Here to Eternity (Past Inside the Present)
Loscil :: Equivalents (Kranky)
Lyrus :: Found In (Touched Music)
Max Würden :: Format (A Strangely Isolated Place)
Meat Beat Manifesto :: Opaque Couché (Flexidisc)
Meat Load :: Glitchmania (People Can Listen)
Michael Valentine West :: All Because Of You (Kaer’Uiks)
Milieu :: Sunbather’s Pharmacopeia Volume 1 (Touched Music)
Monocube :: Substratum (Malignant / Cyclic Law)
Moss Covered Technology :: Southern Points (Hibernate)
Motionfield :: Always There (Databloem)
NonZero! :: Matrix Equation (Touchin’ Bass)
Noumen :: Obscurium (Central Processing Unit)
Nseven :: Overcast (Self-Released)
Olaf Wempe :: Anomaliac (Self-Released)
Olan Mill :: Sacred Geometry (Dronarivm)
oliviaway :: Blueberry Hill (Self-Released)
O Yuki Conjugate :: Sleepwalker (Auf Abwegen)
PEAKS :: Topographic (High Grade Media)
Plaid :: Polymer (Warp)
poemme :: Frozen Passages (Stereoscenic)
Proem :: Until Here for Years (n5MD)
Pushkin :: Sertra Line (Touched Music)
Pye Corner Audio :: Hollow Earth (Ghost Box)
r84d :: So Verand Apart (Self-Released)
r beny :: Echo’s Verse (Dauw)
Rime Trails :: Dusk Embers (Self-Released)
Rolando Simmons :: Human Touch (030303)
RX-101 :: Dopamine (Suction)
Scorn :: Café Mor (Ohm Resistance)
secretflowers :: secretflowers (High Grade Media)
Shrine :: Quintessence (Cryo Chamber)
Signalstoerung :: UU (Hymen)
Solipsis :: Hybrids (Component)
Steve Hauschildt :: Nonlin (Ghostly)
Sunao Inami :: Albums 1-6 (Electr-ohm)
Suumhow :: Secuund (n5MD)
TæT Music :: Icer (TruthTable)
Telefon Tel Aviv :: Dreams Are Not Enough (Ghostly International)
The Caretaker :: Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 6 (History Always Favours The Winners)
The Caretaker :: Everywhere, An Empty Bliss (History Always Favours The Winners)
Topdown Dialectic :: Vol. 2 (Peak Oil)
Valance Drakes :: An Angel In Alliance With Falsehood (Amek)
Velum Break :: Bench Manoeuvres (Touched Music)
Visions :: Temples (Cyclic Law)
VIUL :: Bright Decline (Disques d’Honoré)
Von Tesla :: Ganzfeld (Boring Machines)
William Basinski :: On Time Out of Time (Temporary Residence)
William Bolton :: Surface Reflections (Sound In Silence)
Yagya :: Stormur (A Strangely Isolated Place)
Yaporigami :: We Dance Alone (Detroit Underground)
zakè (扎克) :: S/T (Past Inside the Present)
EXTENDED PLAYERS ::
ADJ :: Street Life Part 2 EP (Pyramid Transmissions)
Ard Bit :: Six Scores One EP (Self-Released)
Atiq & EnK :: Paradigm EP (Mindtrick)
Bot1500 :: Matrix EP (Analogical Force)
Cathode Ray Tube :: Splitsingle EP (Condition Human)
Carl Y. Scheele :: Element #8 EP (YUYAY)
EBE-2 :: Waves of Time EP (Noise To Meet You)
Eldorado Omega :: Out of the Cloud-World EP (Self-Released)
Exhausted Modern | CCO :: Interaction Nr 1: Internal Reflection (Electronic Leatherette)
exm :: 01411635 (Kaer’Uiks)
Faex Optim :: Adventures In Nature EP (Magic Square)
Ignatius :: Orange Corner EP / Tethered EP (Buried In Time)
Illektrolab :: Paranoid Android EP (brokntoys)
Junq :: Altered State EP (Furthur Electronix)
Junq :: COG003 (Art Mechanical)
Kero & Valance Drakes :: Abstract Thought EP (Detroit Underground)
Kord :: Statement EP (Femur)
Mause :: Ubal EP (Analogical Force)
M GUN :: The Nerve EP (Futurepast)
Mihail P :: Omniverse EP (Distant Worlds)
Mtch :: Obligate Variants EP (Future Disorder)
Oberman Knocks :: Remhex Coyles EP (Aperture)
Ork Man :: Nature EP (Acroplane)
PERA STA ORI :: Iskios EP (Yellow Machines)
Poborsk :: 11 116 EP (Crazy Language)
Quench :: Greyhound EP (Touched Music)
Roel Funcken :: Semtinal Convex EP (MethLab)
Ruby My Dear :: Phlegm EP (Analogical Force)
Scanone meets Meat Beat Manifesto :: ONE (Yellow Machines)
Si Begg :: 400 Million Pieces of You EP (Love Love)
Stephen Lopkin :: The Imitator EP (Distant Worlds)
Stormfield & Nonima :: Expanse EP (Combat)
Torrent :: ++^.x^-_-___ EP (Schrödinger’s Box)
Valance Drakes + Qebo :: Hidden Darkness At Their Innermost Layer EP (Kaer’Uiks)
Varum :: Shadow Copy EP (Pulse Drift)
Venderstrooik :: BAR04 EP (Bar)
Wayne Robert Thomas :: Well Now You Know, Unfurled (Healing Sound Propagandist)
COMPILATIONS ::
Applied Sociolinguistics (Kaer‘Uiks)
10 Years of De:tuned – DE:10.01-10.10 (De:tuned)
10 Years of De:tuned series (De:tuned)
Cheers from Italy 250mg (Proper Line)
Clear Memory 001 (Clear Memory)
Clockwork Manor: Cottage Industries 9 (Neo Ouija)
Furthur Journeys Into Electronix 2 (Furthur Electronix)
Hemlock EP (Edited Arts)
Nagual 5 (…TXT)
Place Language (Fluid Audio)
Rico Casazza :: Vapor Pad Remixes (Loose Lips)
S27-X (Section 27)
Through Worlds and Centuries (Distant Worlds)
Tone Science Module No.3 Cosines and Tangents (DiN)
Touched By Silence (Touched Music)
Touched Electronix 001 (Touched Electronix)
VV.AA_320 (Waste-Editions)
Weldroid & Friends :: Maneuvers (Kaer’Uiks)
REISSUES ::
0belisc :: Edikt (Reissue) (High Grade Media)
Esem :: ikae (Remastered) (Self-Released)
Jake Mandell :: Parallel Processes Plus (Bedroom Research)
Signalform :: Private Channel (Touched Music)
Stephan Mathieu :: Radioland (Schwebung)
Vladislav Delay :: Untitled Circa 2014 (Detroit Underground)
BEST OF 2019 SOUNDCLOUD SELECTIONS ::
FEATURE IMAGE ::
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