After covering several hundred releases in 2021, many notables—including links to their respective Igloo reviews or release pages—are cataloged at https://igloomag.com/features/best-of-2021. 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 2021

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HANUT MUNSON | Zoopraxiscopy EP  - Out Now!

YELLOW MACHINES
YM018
BLE-EP

6 TRACK VINYL COMPILATION 

Harking back to the early 90’s Bleep & Bass era, Yellow Machines brings you six tracks of the finest breaks, bleeps & bass tunes, This one is not to be missed.

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SOUND SCIENCE_aka JACK SMOOTH_ENERGY (Copyright Sound Entity 91)
MIKE ASH_GALAXY JP
JEROME HILL_WE ARE NOT ALONE

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SCANONE_VISUAL 8128
MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO_BO BOTS
HOOVERIAN BLUR_WHAT I AM

Vinyl will be available on the Yellow Machines bandcamp and in all good stores distributed by UTR.
Digital versions will be available on the YM Bandcamp only.
http://yellow-machines.bandcamp.com

YM018_BLE-EP_6 Track vinyl compilation

VINYL → https://bit.ly/3gzmXcj
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)

Limited 12'' Lathe Cut handmade.

All vinyl orders include two Diffuse Reality stickers and digital downloads of the full release.
www.diffusereality.net

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

!!! Mike Paradinas first album of new material since 2013, written in some rare downtime in the Gower (Wales) during the summer 2020 lockdown. There’s a strange sense of the old and new in Scurlage, the sentimental and utopia. Dive into Paradinas world, yesterday, today and forever.
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PREORDER 2x12" TURQUOISE VINYL + DIGITAL: https://bit.ly/3urgapd
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CAT: AF038LP
ARTIST: µ-Ziq
TITTLE: SCURLAGE  
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A1   BLAKERS LOOP                                  04:32  
A2   PRESTON MELODICS                              04:00
A3   MURKER                                        02:54

B1   SLADE TREACHER                                05:47 
B2   CLEANING                                      05:31

C1   OXWICH & PENRICE                              05:31  
C2   BLAUWASSER                                    04:34

D1   SKETTY                                        04:05 
D2   BENTLEY                                       03:17
D3   STRAWBERRY AERO                               05:16
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©+Ⓟ Analogical Force 2021. Copyright Control
Written, produced and mixed by Michael Paradinas in UK 
Published by Planet Mu Publishing
Mastering by Carlos Koschitzky at Koschitzky Studio, Gijón
Design by Acid Hazel, Berlin
Distributed by Clone, Rotterdam 
www.clone.nl
www.analogicalforce.com

Buy Now

[AF038LP] µ​-​Ziq 'SCURLAGE' [2021]

Check out full track previews and pre-order the release now!
Exclusively through Igloomag and our bandcamp page!
https://igloomag.com/newswire/patterned-media-v1-alignment


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
@303

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

From the EP 'Fame is an addiction' released on Mahorka, July 2021

Cascades

VA - Eleventh  Listen Teaser [2021]

Serge Geyzel and Karsten Pflum are old friends, with a common musical ground and passion. Since 2020 they have been collaborating prolifically - focusing their energy and effort on dance-oriented electro, with strong acid, breakbeat, and IDM vibes. 
“EP 2” is a five tracker, displaying a palette of funky, tight, deep, and quirky excursions into their acid galaxy.

Written and Produced by Geyzel & Pflum
Mastered by Bob Humid
Artwork by Roganski Genetik
©Specimenrecords_2021

Serge Geyzel & Karsten Pflum - EP2 Snippets

Preorder and Listen : https://k7.lnk.to/E2-XO

XO 4 (Wolf 1061c) is taken from the upcoming album E2-XO by GCOM.
Tom Middleton is focused on the future yet clearly present in mindset. His new alias GCOM is an all-new, 21st century redesign of his original Global Communication concept and collaboration with Mark Pritchard. This is Galactic Communication.

GCOM - XO 4 (Wolf 1061c)

Fifty Years of October

Pros and Contras

Taken from the album Soft Power.

I created this musical project in 2018 with the idea of bringing together my experiences, my memories, my encounters and to feed my compositions. In addition to reorganizing my ideas, I have also reorganized my creative space by orienting myself towards tools and instruments that also represent my feelings.

And I'm talking about my studio because it's a central part of this album. This is where I went regularly for 3 years, once a week, to have a special time, time for exploration and introspection. The rules were not to think about the composition, on the contrary. Focusing on a single instrument, experimenting with different recording processes (even absurd, utopian, aberrant), using the cassettes of my recordings as a child, immersing myself in a modular synthesizer patch, developing a plugin, trying to play the guitar,… Each session was an opportunity to discover things, to be amazed at the result of my trial and error, to let oneself be lulled by infinite sound loops.

Soft Power

Memory Scale - Islandis

Blue Ridge

Ibex

https://clocolan.bandcamp.com/album/o-p-e-r-r-a-t-a

op+errata

1.self

Compiler - Level 4 by Xephem Records @xephem-records
CATXCL4 - NIKE VOMITA - snd/wrm Brk V2
Mastered by Jake Fields

Xephem Records presents the "Compiler" series; A collection of short compilations featuring various artists from the Braindance community.

Compiler Level 4

NIKE VOMITA - snd/wrm Brk V2

Taken from "Six Circuits" Compilation celebrating 6 years of Kaer'Uiks Label

Tcaresset

Traces Set

1 -Raison D'être

🔈🔈🤖Arkada records is excited to announce our 3rd release - forthcoming split EP featuring the sounds of Phausis and JFrank.

ლ(`ᴥ`ლ) ☆ﾟ.*We are very happy to present the first part of the EP and the sounds of one of a kind underground producer Phausis.
Born in London and raised on a mix of electronica and Detroit techno, Phausis doesn't put his head above ground to release music very often. With the occasional release on Earthlings compilation, acre recordings, Subgrade and the Anti- The Social Network here he presents two rare tracks of electro/acid especially brewed for Arkada records.
http://acrerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/makoto
http://anti-social-network.bandcamp.com/track/id3nt1fy
http://soundcloud.com/phausis

Second part of our EP presents the music of the Rome based most talanted electronic music producer JFrank.
Co-founder and Generalissimo at brainstormlab, and master General at Distant Future with well over 10 years of live gigs under his belt, JFrank is well known for his late night dancefloor breaks and has played everywhere from the arthouse to the doghouse – London warehouses and Berlin basements to Spanish squats and Roman ruins – with his special brand of space-age electronics. Along with a broad portfolio of releases, he currently has vinyl out on Pyramid Transmissions, Kaer'Uiks and The Irrational Media Society
On the second chapter of Arkada003 - 2 outstanding Electro/Glitch tracks of Julien which were also produced especially for the release.

http://soundcloud.com/julianfrank
http://jfrank.bandcamp.com/
http://brainstormlab.org/

Pre masters of the release are kindly made by Andy Jaggers 
Arkada artwork design made by Lawrence Clift
<3

https://arkadarecords.com/releases/
https://arkadarecords.com/artists/

More info to come soon!!

Phausis - Java 
Phausis - Rai
JFrank - El Rudo
JFrank - El Tecnico

Arkada 003

Arkada003

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For this 24th Premiere of 2021, we have a track by the Electronic music producer based in Rome, Italy "T/Error" (aka Bob Arctor) entitled ‘Gravitational Field’ from the first release "Rindler Horizon" LP [LDI001] on the Dutch newcomer label : LDI Records.

Tracklistings is very honored to premiere the very first LDI track ever !!!

LDI Records is a Dutch record label specialized in moody, dark and atmospheric electro. The name comes from the abbreviation of Lloyd’s Dark Imperium.
The label was created in 2021 by Erik Griffioen aka Lloyd Stellar with a focus on vinyl (Clone Distribution), but LDI will also be represented in the digital world.

"T/Error - Rindler Horizon" will be available from March 29, 2021 in 12" Vinyl (300 Copies) & Digital.

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Release Info :

T/Error - Rindler Horizon [LDI Records - LDI001]

Artist: T/Error
Title: Rindler Horizon
Label: LDI Records
Release Date: 29/03/2021
Format: 12” Vinyl (300) / Digital
Cat No: LDI 001

Tracklist :
A1. Tachyonic Antitelephone
A2. FutureVision
A3. All the Clocks in the World
B1. Gravitational Field
B2. Soylent Green
B3. Ultraviolet Storm Radiations
B4. Rindler Coordinates

Dutch Newcomer label, LDI Records mark their first release as experimental electro artist
T/Error steps up with the incredible Rindler Horizon LP. A project focussed on experimentation
and research within electro with releases on the likes of Bass Agenda, Electro Records,
Stilleben and many more, now T/Error dives deep into explorations of present and future
dystopia, digging the through dark depths of human vs. machine behaviour.

The Rindler Horizon is a hypothetical zone over the light speed, where time and space take on
a different meaning than we know. An enigmatic place where any physical exchange of
information beyond the line is impossible, all tracks on Rindler Horizon LP are set there.
Brought to life across 7 tracks spanning brooding, introspective and glitchy electro, other-worldly
ambient and pacey, anxious sounds, Rindler Horizon soundtracks an extra-terrestrial
experience.

Specialising in moody, atmospheric electro, LDI Records (Lloyd’s Dark Imperium) are an
essential label to watch. Distributed worldwide by Clone Distribution, while the Dutch label’s main
focus is on vinyl releases, available in selected record shops across the globe, releases will also
be available digitally.

Mastering: Temudo
Artwork: Autograph
Distribution: Clone Distribution
Pre-order: https://clone.nl/item63210.html

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Follow T/error :
Discogs : www.discogs.com/fr/artist/3368823-TError
Facebook : www.facebook.com/terror333
SoundCloud : www.soundcloud.com/t-error-5

Follow LDI Records : 
Facebook : www.facebook.com/LDIRecords
Instagram : www.instagram.com/ldirecords
SoundCloud : soundcloud.com/ldirecords
Website : www.ldirecords.com

Rindler Horizon

Gravitational Field

TL PREMIERE : T/Error - Gravitational Field [LDI Records]

Decayed

We Are All We Have

In one sense Central Processing Unit is familiar territory for London Modular Alliance - group members Pip Williams (Phil Ventre) and Koova (Gavin Pkyerman) have both dropped EPs through the Sheffield label in the past, the former offering outer-space street-soul on 2017's Outer Limits after Koova had channelled Drexciya for 2015's This Is Not My Future. However, the Cracked Dice EP represents the first time that the trio have come through on CPU in full force, with Simon Lynch completing the lineup alongside Koova and Williams here. Cracked Dice finds them on top form, blending broken-beat machine-funk grooves with latent house and rave tendencies to thrilling effect.

Cracked Dice is ushered in by the weightless atmospherics of its title-track. The combination of synth washes and gurgling electronics here sounds so alien that it could pass for a piece of incidental music from 'The X-Files', but things don't stay that way for long - the track soon snaps into a stargazing club joint in the Detroit mode, one in which spaceship synth wobbles are pushed onwards by lithe, rumbling sub-bass. The combo comes off like an interstellar throwdown between the Midwestern masters of old and modern practitioners of UK soundsystem techno stylings - Lurka, Batu and the like. Following number 'Head Of The Keeper' maintains the energy of its predecessor, warping junglist archetypes around a breakbeat stomp in a manner reminiscent of Special Request.

London Modular Alliance's brand of electro has always been marked out by its playfulness, a feature derived from how snappy drum and synth programming anchor the group's off-the-cuff improvisation. That sensibility is apparent throughout the entirety of this EP, but perhaps nowhere more so than on first B-side cut 'Chemical Peel'. 'Chemical Peel' is at once stiff-necked and rubbery, the hissing hats and old-skool breaks phasing in and out of a boinging bassline which is pure Mr. Fingers goodness. That machine-funk scuttle carries through to closing track 'Lemon Mishap', a piece of insectoid acid-funk so gnarly it will have the crowd convinced that they're hearing the DJ receive an alien transmission in real time.

Cracked Dice sees esteemed electro dons London Modular Alliance whip up machine-funk, junglism and Midwestern house/techno into a quartet of club tools which are as sleek and futuristic as a lazerbeam.

FFO: Baby T, Batu, Jensen Interceptor, Mr. Fingers, Special Request

London Modular Alliance - Cracked Dice

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