After covering several hundred releases in 2022, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged at igloomag.com/features/best-of-2022. 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.

Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2022

Guest mix for Leri Ahel's @mutant-disco Radio Show #389 aired on February 7, 2022.


Rob Mazurek & Emmett Kelly - Of Time Wasted (International Anthem, 2016)
16-17 - Bomba Bomba (Not on label, 1988)
Leo Kupper - Santur et Oscines (Tchahargah) (Sub Rosa, 2016)
Rojin Sharafi - It Made You Blind (Ventil, 2021)
Fetter - Karma (Osàre! Editions, 2021)
Spinal Machine - Do You Like It Here? (Nightshift Records, 1991)
Akira Rabelais - Seduced By The Silence (Samadhisound, 2010)
Bendik Giske - Void (Smalltown Supersound, 2021)
Andras E.G. Csefalvay - Song of Tom (LOM, 2011)
Id M Theft Able - Please Be a Dream (Pogus Productions, 2021)
Bob Ostertag - Say No More (RecRec Music, 1993)
kœnig - HANDROLLS (Feat. Elvin Brandhi) (Ventil, 2020)
Female Wizard - Magic Madness Sadness (MSHR Remix) (Anterograde, 2020)
Society Of Unknowns - Live @ The Invisible College (Addict Records, 2004) 
model home - looking for (Not on label, 2021)
Eduardo Falú e Ernesto Sábato - Poncho Celeste (Irco Video S.R.L, 1991)
Maja Odžaklijevska - Daljine (PGP RTB, 1982)

Edin for Leri Ahel's Mutant Disco Radio Show #389 (2022)

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Gilbert - Are We Alone

Gilbert - Shift The Focus

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A1 Nuron - The Coded Message

Taken from the upcoming 'Nuron + Fugue - DAT Tapes 1993-1994' LP, released 28 October 2022 on De:tuned.

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Stream, download or order 'Ultra Truth' on limited edition double white vinyl, blue cassette or CD: https://ffm.to/ultratruth

Daniel Avery's most ambitious and accomplished studio album to date, 'Ultra Truth', is out now on Phantasy + Mute.

'Ultra Truth' offers a very different listening experience to any of Avery’s previous records. It inhabits its own world of sound, a construct built in Avery’s Thames side studio with collaborative help from a host of friends: the production touch of Ghost Culture and Manni Dee, the vocals of HAAi, Jonnine Standish (HTRK), AK Paul and the voices of Marie Davidson, Kelly Lee Owens, Sherelle and James Massiah.

Ultra Truth

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01.11.2022 Polytope w/ Mars 010C

Faktura is happy to present the first full-length album by Alexander Psoriazov, who releases music under the name Psor.

Sasha is a bedroom producer and music digger from Yekaterinburg. He has blog called Nonames and also he is co-founder of local label called EMUP Label.

Psor has been making music since 2008. In small circles he is known for his passion to search for obscure, unknown and interesting music in the corners of the Internet and especially in ex-USSR countries.
One day morning it's just a collection of successful tracks from last several years. Blend of records tells us story of moods similar to each other, but manifesting themselves at different intervals.

Here's what Sasha says about his album: My music it's kind of diary. I listen to a track and immediately remember what was happening at the moment when I was writing it. It's like situation with smells: once you have smell that very similar to your grandma's apartment you get immersed into memories of your childhood. So, I would recommend you not to look for hidden meanings, but to take a cassette, put it in a deck and sitting in a cozy armchair to immerse yourself in the album, and then come up with your own, innermost meanings.

Deep rough sound with a bit muted high frequencies creates a sense of peace and comfort. Field recordings and occasional conversations, drowned in an endless delay, turn a neatly composed order of musical samples into an ocean of sensations.

https://soundcloud.com/userekb
https://soundcloud.com/faktura_ural

PREMIERE⚡️Psor - Almost Shed A Tear But Suddenly [ФАКТУРА]

Gilbert - Transit Of Venus - MOS Recordings - MOS032

buy: https://mosrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/transit-of-venus
or here: https://www.delsinrecords.com/release/7480/gilbert/transit-of-venus
or here: https://www.rushhour.nl/record/vinyl/transit-venus

a1. High Rising
a2. Reflections
b1. Venus Phase
b2. Building Spaces
b3. Transit Phase

Bristol's Gilbert (@gilbert_sound) turns in a very classy EP of deep and nostalgic housy IDM cuts - just how M>O>S like it!

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Gilbert - Reflections

Gilbert - High Rising

Taken from the album "Photisms", released on Kaer'Uiks

»C Mantle opens the floodgates on Photisms. / … shedding light; especially in the dark, on the exciting new Photisms with Kaer’Uiks. / It’s a whirlwind of creative and mechanical activity that flexes and deforms along the way. / We’re still baffled at C Mantle’s scope of audio work and utterly enjoying this one inside and out!«
(Pietro Da Sacco / Igloo Magazine)

Photisms

Gr nul;te

Gr Nul;te

He was stood on the corner by himself, minding his business as the traffic went swiftly on by. He didn’t have anywhere to go that day so it seemed right and fit to set up shop on the corner with little else but the shoes on his feet and the bang of a drum which echoed from a dusty old speaker that he’d brought alongside.

He took a sip of his drink, lit up a cigarette and began to shuffle slowly in time with the drums. He’d come here quite often, from time to time folk might come watch before they began hustling and bustling on again with their days. He cared little if they stared or not.

This was is happy place and as the music began to grow louder so too did his pace. This was the Sanskrit Body Rock and that’s what he’d give em’.

Marcellus Pittman is set to release a new EP on Acid Test – a raucous record which aligns perfectly with the rough and ready sensibilities best associated with the House music of Detroit and Marcellus’ own roots. This one bumps loud in the club and Marcellus Pittman’s music fits well alongside the heritage of Acid Test as a record label.

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PREMIERE: Marcellus Pittman - Sanskrit Body Rock. [Acid Test]

thinking bout the days

Cycle [Minimal Groove Concept]

Tauche ein in die Welt von BeatBootica – Deep & Chill Vibes.
Dieses Album vereint Deep House und Chill House zu einem über 70-minütigen Klangteppich, der dich von sanften Ambient-Momenten bis hin zu treibenden Club-Grooves begleitet.

Die 15 Tracks sind so arrangiert, dass sie ein nahtloses Hörerlebnis schaffen – perfekt für entspannte Abende, Sonnenuntergänge, lange Autofahrten oder den Dancefloor spät in der Nacht.

Von atmosphärischen Intros wie Silent Shores und Velvet Horizon, über deepe und hypnotische Grooves wie Parallel Dreams oder Lost Frequencies, bis hin zu uplifting Höhepunkten wie Beyond the Clouds – dieses Album erzählt eine musikalische Reise zwischen Ruhe und Energie, zwischen City-Nights und Beach-Vibes.

🔊 Genre: Deep House / Chill House
⏱️ Länge: ca. 71 Minuten
🌌 Empfohlen für: Entspannung, Lounge, Driving, Club Warm-Up & Afterhours

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Night Pulse

Travel just thirty kilometers south from Amsterdam and you’ll find another world where jogging pants are the new cool and people actually feel free to smile when they go out. You have arrived in Utrecht. Call it Little Cornwall if you will, because it was in the South-West corner of England that lads like Aphex Twin, Luke Vibert and Mike Paradinas made their quirky yet emotional electronic music without acting cool as was common practice in the dancemusic scene at the time.
 
It’s exactly this Cornish way of life that appealed to the boys of Utrecht’s dj-collective and recordlabel 030303. Mind you, 030303 are not ashamed of their love for serious IDM and glitch flavoured tunes by contemporary hotshots .But they also enjoy watching the unsure expressions on the faces of their fellow music lovers whilst playing eurotrashy tunes by the likes of Twenty 4 Seven and Quadrophonia in trashy taverns such as Tivoli, Ekko, Melkweg and Kikker.
 
As healthier ways of living came into fashion in the 1980s, acid became more than a mere chemical substance and started to come out of machines as well. Despite their very young age, the 030303 crew became a huge fan of a particular bassline machine made by the Roland corporation and so did other now big names such as Cylob, D’Arcangelo and Ceephax amongst others, all of which come and celebrate the acid bleep at 030303 events around Utrecht and the dandy town of Amsterdam.
 
Being right in the middle of the happening acid-scene, the 030303 crew could not help doing what any other freak would do: they had to start releasing acid-tunes by Braindance veterans as well as by younger musicians. 030303’s chart-toppers range from subtle to bombastic and highly psychedelic, the common denominator always being a very deep bleep.
 
It’s just as fantastic as you’ve just read: 030303 brings a very complete picture that will never be equaled by any other crew. Feel free to rock up at any 030303 event near you but don’t forget to dress up as corny as possible! Aciiiiieeed!!!

Igloo Magazine is an electronic music e’zine publishing articles about current, classic and upcoming music from around the globe. Our mission is to introduce readers to the burgeoning undergrowth of electronic musicians by covering a wide range of genre’s including ambient, experimental, dub, dubstep, shoegaze, electro, techno, drone, IDM, industrial, post-industrial, and all the debris in between. Pulling together a vast tapestry of like-minded contributors, the virtual Igloo doors officially opened December of 2000. We consistently seek to provide coverage for musicians creating left-of-center music that is not necessarily covered in general music media. Igloo Magazine publishes articles in the capacity of Newswires, Reviews, Features and Profiles for artists that wouldn’t normally receive the light of digital ink.

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