After covering several hundred releases in 2023, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged at igloomag.com/features/best-of-2023. 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 2023

Bola - Vespers

Tri Repetae

Dael

Exai

irlite (get 0)

Chiastic Slide

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Cichli

Long time collaborators Meat Beat Manifesto (Jack Dangers) & DHS (Benjamin Stokes) get together on fresh new 12” EP ‘Man From Mantis’. Both artists have rich musical histories, Dangers having released an extensive collection of music as MBM since the late 80s including pre-hardcore/jungle breakbeat touchstones (Helter Skelter/Radio Babylon) & late 90s masterpiece ‘Prime Audio Soup’, released on Trent Reznor’s Nothing Records and recognisable from its use in The Matrix. Stokes on the other hand has a smaller back catalogue but no less influential, having been responsible for all-time-classic foundational techno blueprint ‘House of God’.

Dangers & Stokes have always played around beyond the edges of the familiar and this EP is no different: 4 tracks of breakbeat techno future-sound that live in a world of their own. ‘Pandemic’ opens the EP with squeaky-clean mechanical acid, intentional and direct, tight and well-controlled, underpinned by a revolving, bubbling acid line. ‘Aggressive Mantis Squad’ comes bearing weighted breaks and hinterland bleeps, spanning the past and the future. B-Side opener ‘Automatic Mouth’ is a twisting chugger, occasionally breaking down to reveal a whirring & stuttering machine-spirit before the EP closes with the drum-fest dream sequence of ‘International Sound System’. 

These are lab-grown rhythm bombs, finely tuned off-kilter grooves, razor sharp crucial beats ready for the future, out on Love Love Records, May 2023

Meat Beat Manifesto & DHS - Aggressive Mantis Squad

The Nation's Most Central Location

Just Off The M56 (J12)

This Stolen Country of Mine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Ritual

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Track Mandarin Three by @Kokokei from new EP "Mandarin"

bandcamp and all streamings link
https://mestnostrecords.com/releases/KokokeiMandarin

Kokokei — Mandarin Three

HARD LIKE THAT

Available on all major streaming platforms

Mastered by Mickey Nox https://mickeynox.com/pages/contact

Bookings via https://www.instagram.com/stairwaytoevan_music/

Free DL or Support

Highly Acidic (Free Download)

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Another recording  from madrid , I've played this track a lot in my live sets, coming on my new Rec

Poor recording quality etc etc

Hope you enjoy :)

eUpho-Rave Live Version

Track from the upcoming DE NOR 2020 compilation LP/DL, out on January 11, 2021!

Aaron Dilloway & Lucrecia Dalt : The Monster Of Yesa

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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