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

Austin Powers is a passionate vinyl digger who runs around Prague city to catch the hottest disco and electronic finds. When you experience him spinning decks and fusing melodies, you most likely find yourself falling into his kind of fiery energy and enthusiasm. Austin’s rad and unique dance moves behind the mix manifest the golden heart of the bonny man who he is.

@lepergole

ĒTER Podcast #36 Austin Powers

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

Pentagrams of Discordia Side A

Aprilheights-The Last Dat EP////Knaster

Apartment [Seventeen] Belacqua - Dropped Balls (feat. Marshall Applewhite rmx)
The debut 12" from Galway's Belacqua; imagine Sound Hack travelling back in time to early 80s NYC and letting rip on the machines. 

A1 - Gunnish
A2 - Davish
A3 - Youngish
B1 - Gunnish (Marshall Applewhite rmx)
B2 - Tenish

Release: October 2023.
Distributed by Dbh Music
Pre-orders coming soon...

souncloud.com/galwegianbelacqua

Apartment [Seventeen] Belacqua - Dropped Balls (feat. Marshall Applewhite rmx)

COAL & ASH CIRCUIT w/A-Tweed #35 ⚗️🔄💎⚙️
on @radioalhara راديو الحارة ⚡️⚡️⚡️
[17th September 2023]

Tracklist

COAL & ASH CIRCUIT w/A-Tweed #35 @ Radio Alhara [17th September 2023]

Mike Tansella Jr - Mutants broadcast from Zweiners (berlin) [17.09.2023]

First upload in a while! Great to be doing so with last weekend's b2b with Paris' https://soundcloud.com/jackyjeane on https://soundcloud.com/noodsradio

As I mention at the beginning of the show, JJ and I met at Sonic Rites earlier this year in April and had an 3hr-ish impromptu b2b together. We had such a vibe going (very different to this particular upload) and instantly gelled with our particular crossover of sounds, genres and tempos...

A couple of weeks ago we met up ahead of the Transmissions from Hackney (https://soundcloud.com/nic-415814190) takeover to have another mix but this time to use it for this month's show, and JJ's Noods debut. We mixed for a couple of hours, crossing various styles in the process, and chose this hour as the one to use...

Hope you enjoy!

Originally broadcast on Noods Radio 21st October 2023

Broken Borders w/ Tramma b2b Jacky Jeane

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

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

Kokokei — Mandarin Three

METHODS OF DANCE w. Chris and Jamie Paton [11.11.2023]

BUY BEAT

GOLDEN | J Cole Type Beat

Asphalt

My Goldenness (Liquid DnB Rework Instrumental)

Label started by Anil Lal, Jay Lal and (Majkel Graphic Designer.) Set to release acid based electronix on limited pressings of 200.

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.

Pentagrams of Discordia Side A

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