Experimental Electronic Music
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.
Neurophosis casts shadows that extend beyond the limits of vision, attempting to occupy a soothing area where kaleidoscopic textures coexist in harmony.
Sprawling and entrancing walls of sounds, lapping waves of noises, sinuous e-guitar motifs, ruminating drones, processed cathedral-ish chorus, engulfed church organ patterns…
After years of honing their craft, Bulgaria’s Mahorka releases their debut vinyl Dawlat Lībiyyā, produced by Abu Ama + BedouinDrone.
All in all a composite, convoluted and plural electronic album dedicated to mysterious, suspenseful and uncanny textures.
Both albums reveal abstract electronics and downtempo layers with Abdicant and Pandacetamol remixing tracks on 4T Thieves’ album.
A beautifully crafted minimal ambient album, impactful and which creates enough emotions, enveloping textures, and calmly embalming melodies to seduce avid listeners of quiet and lush atmospheric music.
Impacted by broken modular transmissions where tangled machines communicate (and even perhaps argue) with each other, this album dives full-throttle into the darkest recesses of the mind.
The Dubnihilist’s latest half-dozen for Dystopian Dub Discotheque is fully charged with subtle dub-techno strands combined with minimal dub-techno extrusions and are deftly handled with sonic precision.
Neau records tranquil surroundings, filled with birds and a bit of water, which he combines into soundscapes. He superimposes the material, and along with that, he adds some electronics.
