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: Best of 2023
Darqhorse :: Digital Dawn (Diffuse Reality)
Featuring a wide range of breaks, electro, techno, and rhythmic swirls among a deluge of strong beats, bass, and wicked distortion, mile-long soundscapes and panoramas are punctuated by its upbeat attitude and acidic surges.
Life As Sleep :: Don’t Do Anything (Schematic)
Featuring raw/minimal electro and a smattering of old-school breaks, bass, dub, and technoid patterns…
Oberman Knocks :: Rhemunvhurse Optikonn EP (Detroit Underground)
With Rhemunvhurse Optikonn, a half-dozen tracks chopped and diced with enough blips and bleeps beauty to last us to the end of the decade, Truswell dives even further into the abyss for Detroit Underground.
Nonima + Dissolved :: Neurophosis (Mahorka)
Neurophosis casts shadows that extend beyond the limits of vision, attempting to occupy a soothing area where kaleidoscopic textures coexist in harmony.
Frank Riggio :: gy (Hymen)
Through this seductive audio journey, hundreds of intertwined pieces make their way through in a captivatingly bizarre and masterfully balanced collection.
Hexalyne :: Exivvaves (Point Source Electronic Arts)
With characteristic rhythmic splutters reminiscent of alien transmissions, Exivvaves skillfully entwines hundreds of layers, blips, bleeps, and crunchy melodic strands.
Heogen :: Inantiphsea (Touched Music)
There is wonderful fusion is styles and influences under the Heogen moniker, fusing the complex and surreal composition style of exm (aka Jeroen Bax) with the melodic and rhythmical style.