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Highlighting hundreds of releases in 2024 (and allowing December to set in), we’ve compiled a list of our favorites along with links to their corresponding Igloo reviews and release pages. Since the lists are arranged alphabetically by artist—and a snapshot of tracks are featured in our Soundcloud playlist along with selected Bandcamp tracks and random artwork selections—there are, as usual, no winners or runners-up.

Igloo Magazine :: Best of 2024

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Artist: Pollux Rose
Title: Transience: Flow Process
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 ⅓ RPM
Catalogue: DRC2
Artwork: Jantus
Tracklist:
A1.2ndGmni (vinyl)
A2.Nwsltter (vinyl)
A3.Intsr (vinyl)
B1.X-90ne-j (vinyl)
B2.Lvriomating (vinyl)
B3.Snow Window Winter Session (vinyl)
DI1.BdBoy (dig. only)
DI2.Gemini Wltxz (dig.  only)
DI3.Forest Glsses (dig. only)

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Pollux Rose - Transience: Flow Process [Vinyl, 12'']

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1 - Señor  Frio - Bippo 
Carlo Pearson out of Portland, Oregon
Previous releases on Digital Distortions, Pyramid Transmissions, Earthlings comps and remixes of tracks by Si Begg, 214, Ion Driver

2 - logreybeam - turingsketch020517
Gabe Morley out of Los Angeles, California
Previous releases on Type records, Camomile records, and was part of the group Yasume.
https://logreybeam.bandcamp.com/

3 - ben milstein - rempb001
Out Portland, OR
Member of music collective the Experimental Liquor Museum with previous releases on Outside Recordings, Pyramid Transmissions, Touchin’ Bass
https://benmilstein.bandcamp.com/

4 - Inoperative System - 111lleejjhblost
Diego Francisco Ruiz Bandera out of Malaga, Spain
https://monarecords.bandcamp.com/album/loopser-cadmium-inert-lp  
https://peoplecanlisten.bandcamp.com/album/pcllp009-synchronized-disorder

5 - Trichome - Jacob’s Step Ladder
Barry Hewitt out of Los Angeles, California
Member of music collective the Experimental Liquor Museum with new releases on legendary Schematic Records
https://schematicmusiccompany.bandcamp.com/album/mind-body-complexing
https://schematicmusiccompany.bandcamp.com/album/cognitive-dissonance

6 - Justin Maxwell - Johnsarc
Out of SF Bay Area, CA, USA
1/2 of electro destroyers Volsoc, collaborations with John Tejada, with music on Palette, Poker Flat, Traum, Acid Camp, Touched, Touchin' Bass, and Pretension
https://code404.com
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7 - Limit B - Triaxial
Collaboration from Beau Crouch aka b0t23 out of Portland, Oregon and Christ Bartek out of Los Angeles, California
Bartek is an accomplished dj in the southern california scene and is part of the Moontribe collective and the music group Quade with release son Muti music and Ball of Wax.

8 - Camino Acid - 2HI REbootXL
Collaboration of Senor Frio and Sci Fi Sol 
Sci Fi Sol has a recent release on Detroit Underground and is a versatile vocalist and producer
http://www.scifisol.net/
https://scifisol.bandcamp.com/
https://detroitunderground.net/artists/scifisol/
https://detund.bandcamp.com/album/alien-tung

9 - ADJ - Circles on the Earth
Andy Jaggers out of London, England
Heads the label Pyramid Transmissions and has been a feature in the electro scene for decades. Releases on Pyramid Transmission, Touchin bass, Ai, Cultivated Electronics, and Tensor Norm out of Spain with Sigma Algebra.
https://pyramidtransmissions.bandcamp.com/
https://tensornorm.bandcamp.com/album/delta-ring-ep

10 - Rec_Overflow - Assignflow
 Luis Fernando Parra Expósito out of Zaragoza, Spain
Releases on spa.RK, Crazy Language, Detroit Underground, Miga, and more. Prolific producer under a few monikers.
https://detund.bandcamp.com/album/ready
https://soundcloud.com/recoverflow

11 - Cyanwave - Crystal Canyon
Justin Byrnes & Keith Kelley out of Seattle, Washington
Affiliated with EWYC Music  
https://ewyc.bandcamp.com/

12 - Proqxis - Xarope Extractum
Zac Chia out of Portland, Oregon
Previous release on Buried in Time records as well as solo releases.
https://resonantlocus.bandcamp.com/



13 - Ignatius - Metalepsis
Out of Portland, Oregon
Runs the Buried in Time label and has releases on 
http://www.ignatiusmusic.com/
https://buriedintime.bandcamp.com/
https://buriedintimecompilations.bandcamp.com/

Mastering done by Dennis Bunton aka Ion Driver https://iondriver.bandcamp.com/music
Artwork and Logo by Deon Staffelbach http://www.d30n.com/

PatternedMedia - Vol1 - Alignment- PromoMedley

This was the pre-master before being released by EC Undeground on The Sonic Landscapes Mission [ECU005]

get it here 
https://ecunderground.bandcamp.com/track/dtack-smooth-and-silent

and here
https://open.spotify.com/track/3oT1awwz4X0im5jq8smsIk?si=448a0ea6713d4888

Smooth And Silent

Intuitive analog Electronix by the by Alberta Balsam, one of Rotterdams upcoming talents.

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Parallel Worlds Fragmented DiN83

Release date 16th February 2024
Limited to 200 copies Digipak CD

Greek synthesist Bakis Sirros who records under the name of Parallel Worlds has become a familiar name to followers of the DiN label. His debut release was “Obsessive Surrealism” (DiN26) back in 2007 and since then he has released two further solo albums, “Shade” (DiN32) and “Plector” (DiN76), as well as several collaborative albums with different artists including DiN label boss Ian Boddy & Node guru Dave Bessell.

This fourth sonic journey from Sirros on the DiN imprint sees him focusing in on his modular synthesiser systems, especially the Eurorack format with some able support from Buchla. These massive constructed patches live and breath like a crepuscular organism waking from its slumber. Indeed “Fragmented” is bookended by two wonderfully deep, textural tracks appropriately titled “Dawning” and “Sunset”. With the exception of the organ-like drone soundscape of “Time Flow” the remaining seven tracks encapsulate everything we have come to expect from this unique artist, namely dark, menacing bass lines overlaid with glitchy percussive patterns and beguiling, floating melody lines. It has certainly be noted before, but is worth reiterating, that there is a certain John Carpenter like soundtrack quality to the music of Sirros. Seemingly simplistic they shroud a wealth of detail and beauty that is revealed over repeated listening.

Lovers of Electronica, Dark Techno, Downtempo & IDM will find much to admire in “Fragmented” and this new album once again showcases the unique talent of this highly individual musician.

01 Dawning   04:43
02 Moments   05:38
03 Fragmented   05:55
04 For A While   07:48
05 Timeflow   06:10
06 Twilight   05:08
07 Source   04:58
08 Failure   05:37
09 Vactrol Engine   07:19
10 Sunset   06:10

Total Time :  59:46

Fragmented

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CHARLIEQ - LOCO

From "MARIA" album released on Touched Music / UK on February 23, 2024. https://linktr.ee/andrey_kiritchenko_maria

Fairy Bird–Peacock

GloRilla, Megan Thee Stallion - Wanna Be (Jersey Club Remix)

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OA298: Homemade Weapons & Voidloss - Bloodlillies In The Moonlight

Homemade Weapons and Voidloss converge in a storm of mechanical chaos, crafting a dark soundscape where precision meets industrial aggression.
"Bloodlilies in the Moonlight" blooms like a cursed flower in a barren expanse—a death march etched in militant percussion, fractured rave stabs, and spectral whispers.
Homemade Weapons’ reimagining of "A Clattering of Hooves" is a shuffling, lumbering specter that shakes the earth like the thunder of an ancient cavalry.
A masterclass in layered sound design, weaving obscure atmospheres into heavyweight breakbeat artillery.

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Homemade Weapons & Voidloss - Bloodlillies In The Moonlight

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Patch Notes:

This was a patch experiment using the new Mutable Instruments Rings/Clouds Modules, and trying to create strumming/plucking guitar like sounds within a patch. The inspiration came from playing around with the Clouds Parasites 1.3 alternate firmware running in the Resonator mode highlighting the "scatter" (or strum) function. The master clock was the Tiptop Circadian Rhythms module, taking the first 4 outputs into my Nord Drum 2 for the Kick, snare, closed and open hi-hats. From there the clock output from the CR was multiplied and then sent to the Modcan Touch Sequencer. First row output from the TS was sent to the intellijel Shapeshifter creating a two note baseline sequence that comes in at 1:58. The second sequence Row2 output from the TS was sent to the "ALM Akemie's Castle" module OSC A output using the chord function, that comes in at 25 seconds. The gates from the modcan where set to a 16th's pulse sequence. Modulation from the synthesis technology E102 Quad Temporal Shifter output 1 modulating the Multiplier input on Operator 1. The 2, 3 and 4 outputs from the E102 where also modulating the Operator 2, 3, and 4 inputs on the Akemie's Castle. This was creating the harmonic timbre changing as the sequence was playing.

The slowly evolving sweeping noise textures that come in at 1:09 is from the Music Thing Radio Music module. The sample was a white noise sampled lightly filtered and then sent to the intellijel HexVCA with the amplitude CV control via a Intellijel Dixie modulating from slow to high rates (free running). The Make Noise Rene was being externally clocked from the Circadian Rhythm, and was sending out a quantized output to the Mutable Instruments Clouds pitch input creating the chord guitar sequence. The strum sounds on Clouds was played by the 4ms QCD running in 32th division output into the Trigger input. The freeze input was also triggered by a Ladik R-110 Random clock module. The combination of the two created the trill chord like strums.

The bass guitar tone sound that comes in at 1:24 are from the MakeNoise Mysteron, that is being sequenced by the Modcan Touch Sequencer, Row Output 3 was programmed in the same key but a lower octave. The "Rings" module was creating slow attack soft high pitched chords in reverb that come around 2:50. There was additional processing of the Clouds output that was sent into the Tiptop ZDSP module running the "Halls of Vahalla" card program 8 "Ginnungagap" creating the high pitch octave deep reverb shimmer effects. The harmonic slow swells that come in at 3:30 where created using another intellijel Dixie oscillator sine output running into an Strymon "Big Sky" pedal being harmonically controlled by an intellijel µScale V1. The output was being played slowly then processed using the "Choral" mode, creating the slow shimmer swells. The entire mix was sent into the Eventide Space pedal using the "Corridors" patch.

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Clouds Parasites firmware: mqtthiqs.github.io/parasites/clouds.html

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Imbued Vagary - Captured Moments 2

Release Notes:
In categorizing ones own projects, a template of sorts begins to emerge. One of those is this series. Imbued Vagary is proud to present to you a collection of musicians as well as a collection of “captured moments”. In this case, the second in a series. Just as the name implies, these are moments of raw electronic improvisation, complete with all the “imperfections” one would expect from such an endeavor. Concepts thought up and run with on the spur of the moment. Captured moments of time in an overall fabric of synthesized space.

Credits:
releases February 26, 2021 

The Imbued Vagary Collective 2021: 
Dan “The Man” 
Guillermo Pizarro 
Ho Magos 
James Krabiel 
LTJTHC 
Mary Mary 
mC2p4 
Paul Doppelganga 
Steve O Man 
Thee Sub One Genius 
Ttam Troll 

All live improvisations performed and recorded by Imbued Vagary at Floating Fish Studios II 

Mastered by Tommy T Rapisardi at DSBP Records 

Copyright ©2021 Floating Fish Music

Imbued Vagary - Caddo Issaquah

Taqbir - Aisha Qandisha (3xOJ Remix)

Ian Boddy has been at the forefront of the UK electronic music scene since 1983 when he both performed at the very first UK Electronica Festival in Milton Keynes and released his first vinyl album The Climb.

In the 4 years preceding this event he had been experimenting at an Arts Council funded studio in Newcastle whilst at University. His early work resulted in 3 cassette only releases on the Mirage label as well as several local concerts. These early tapes showed Boddy gradually forming his own style through a long self teaching process in the techniques of analogue synthesis and tape manipulation.

After the success of 1983 he went on to release another 2 vinyl albums, Spirits and Phoenix, as well as performing several concerts throughout the UK. However it wasn't until 1989 that his first CD release, Odyssey, came out on the EM label Surreal to Real. After Drive, his second release on the Surreal label Boddy formed his own record label, Something Else Records , through which he released a further 4 solo albums as well as reissuing his 3 early vinyl albums and the cassette only release Jade on CD. Furthermore he released three collaborative CD releases with some of Europes finest exponents of EM, namely Andy Pickford, Ron Boots and Mark Shreeve.

He continued to expand his concert appearences which have now surpassed over 100 events with concerts in the UK ( including several more UK Electronica appearances, two shows at the Jodrell Bank Planetarium & two at the National Space Centre), Holland ( five festival appearances ), Germany and three shows in Philadelphia, USA.

Alongside these mainstream EM activities Boddy has also built for himself a formidable reputuation as a sound designer having produced a series of sample CD's & virtual instruments for sampling specialists Time & Space. In late 2008 Boddy set up his own downloadable sample CD company with the Waveforms series of sample packs. Furthermore he is also involved in library music having composed 11 such CD's for the publishing company deWolfe as well as producing some music for a computer games company.

Thus we come up to the present with the formation of his DiN label in 1999. Unlike his private Something Else Records the DiN label was set up to allow Boddy to actively form different collaborations with a wide variety of musicians as well as release other artists music. DiN has achieved widespread critical acclaim for it's adventurous outlook at the world of EM and has seen 39 releases with Boddy being involved in 21 of these ( five solo and sixteen collaborative projects ). 

In 2008 DiN expanded it's catalogue with a series of download only releases featuring Boddy in concert both as a solo performer and with other DiN artists. 

Fragmented by Parallel Worlds (DiN83) Demo Mix

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