What follows constitutes, for want of time for exhaustive description, a representative sample of some of the year’s rich late harvest…
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Hollan Holmes :: Sacred Places (Spotted Peccary Music)
“Not too dense while remaining always complex and multifaceted, seemingly forever a powerful deep boom marks each cycle explosions and everlasting resistance that in the end sails away on the ocean never to return…”
QphoriQ :: Wonch like Woo (Diffuse Reality)
Wonch like Woo has speaker cones trembling from the needle drop. Employing elements of D&B, electro and even industrial, QphoniQ dowses his productions in low sub to produce a ruffled and textured effect.
Jaufenpass :: Cloud’s Eye (Shimmering Moods)
The album has a journey-like feeling, going from one place to the next, maybe as if crossing a mountain; the higher up, the less air and people, the music condenses, and towards the end, the more melodic aspects pick up again.
Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2023
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.
Music Mondays 007 :: Mahmoud Ahmed
With a brief look at some notables along the road, Chang Terhune’s Music Mondays aims to shed light on both new and old(er) music over a wide spectrum of sound (and vision). This week, Mahmoud Ahmed—Ethiopian vocalist of Gurage descent born May 8, 1941 in the Mercato district of Addis Ababa.
Dissolved :: Skysleep Interference Works (Self Released)
With Skysleep Interference Works, another kaleidoscope of musical color, the psychedelic IDM maestro returns, fusing organic soundscapes, drifting rhythms, and instrumental electronics once more.
EC Underground :: Shaping the electronic music landscape
Serving as a hub for creative exploration and positive self-expression, ECU is the go-to independent record label for international talent, delivering top-tier electronic music worldwide.
Purelink :: Signs (Peak Oil)
Signs captures Purelink’s alchemy at its most liquid and immaterial, mapped in mutations of glitch and glass, rhythm and sound, drum and space by turns subdued and subterranean, elevated and remote.
Cathode Ray Tube :: Infrastrictura EP (Condition:Human)
A whirling patchwork of disconnected sound sources and blips that nevertheless work well together.
Music Mondays 006 :: 2023 Passages
This week, 2023 Passages: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mars Williams (The Psychedelic Furs), Andy Rourke (The Smiths), Sinead O’Conner, Teresa Taylor (Butthole Surfers), Vivian Trimble (Luscious Jackson), Dave Jolicoeur (Trugoy Dove), and Tom Verlaine (Television).
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Marconi Union :: Multiforms: Ambient Transmissions, Volume 3 (Just Music)
Danalogue :: Teleportations (Castles In Space)
Job Karma :: Tschernobyl Vinyl Re-Release (Rope Worm)
Beyond the Clones :: Kerberos Directory System EP (Self Released)
Poppy H :: SICK STREET (Self Released)
comdex :: A Wave Of Alarm (Rainbow Bomb)
Vaag :: Tracker Mini Works (Self Released)
Dragon :: Ouroboros (Evel)
