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03. Reflective Cognition

Drone

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

герыч под пах

ambient

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'']

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 debut album "Interstellar" by 
Terminus Void.

About Terminus Void: 
Founded in 2021, Terminus Void is the ambient space music project of Seattle based independant electronic music composer J. Ronald Smith. 

If you enjoy the music of Terminus Void, please consider following Terminus Void and sharing this soundtrack.

Interstellar

Distant World

Buy Track

Distant World(Ambient Space)

Title track from the debut album "Interstellar" by 
Terminus Void.

About Terminus Void: 
Founded in 2021, Terminus Void is the ambient space music project of Seattle based independant electronic music composer J. Ronald Smith. 

If you enjoy the music of Terminus Void, please consider following Terminus Void and sharing this soundtrack.

Interstellar (Ambient Space)

The second album release from Terminus Void, Origins Unknown, available now on Bandcamp and your favorite streaming service.

To purchase this album: https://terminusvoid.bandcamp.com/album/origins-unknown

Follow Terminus Void:

▪ www.terminusvoid.com
▪ http://www.youtube.com/terminusvoid
▪ https://terminusvoid.bandcamp.com
▪ https://open.spotify.com/artist/4sFGFbJT64mn7tbnodKRM8
▪ https://www.instagram.com/terminus_void/
▪ https://twitter.com/terminus_void

#ambientmusic #spaceambient #cosmicambient #cinematicambient #darkambient #downtempo

Ambient Space Cosmic Cinematic Dark Downtempo Music

Origins Unknown

03 - Terminus Void - Origins Unknown

In February of 2022, as Storm Eunice worked its way across the UK, two people, namely Greig Baird and his partner Susie Baird set out for a rare weekend away on the North Coast of Devon. The weather was rough, but life affirming. The North Devon coast spectacular and dramatic; made more so by the waning storm. 

This collection is a set of sonified memories; moments in a particular location at a particular time. A creative recalling. A set of sound postcards if you will. 

For Susie. As always, thank you. I love you. 

Special thank you to Uma Baird. 

Thank you to Brad Deschamps and Polar Seas Recordings. 

Also a big thank you to James Bernard. 

written and produced by Greig Baird 
mastered by James Bernard at Ambient Mountain House 
photography, design and layout by Greig Baird 

psr-066

A Shared Place

Travelling by Night

'Travelling by Night' - A Shared Place - [Polar Seas Recordings, 2023]

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)

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

Order vinyl: 
https://clone.nl/item71758.html

Follow us here:
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https://t.me/s/CloneRecords

https://clone.nl
https://clone-records.bandcamp.com/

15 Billion Elektrovolt

Order@clone.nl

Alberta Balsam - 15 Billion Elektrovolt - DUB050

This Stolen Country of Mine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Ritual

track 2 from Willoweald by Loneward (aka Altus)

https://stereoscenic.com/loneward-willoweald

Willoweald

Loneward - Light Blossom

track 1 from Willoweald by Loneward (aka Altus)

https://stereoscenic.com/loneward-willoweald

Loneward - Grey Fading

Consisting of three tracks that reinterpret each other, my EP showcases the limitless potential of a single sound source - a simple Guitar Drone.

Support

Sun - Part 1 - Fusion

Pentagrams of Discordia Side A

From the EP 'Cacophony of Notes in a Silent World'.

The Uninhabited Heart

Liquid Oxygen

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

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

Kokokei — Mandarin Three

Sphere

Arabesque 2

Gloucestershire, UK based artist Andrew Heath returns to Whitelabrecs, following up on his album ‘Quiet Noise’ (2022) and collaborations with Simon McCorry ‘A Is For Autumn’ (2022) and Anne Chris Bakker ‘How To Breathe Like A Stone’ (2021). Andrew has also released music on labels including Fluid Audio, Disco Gecko, Audiobulb, Dronarivm, Shimmering Moods and more, through his solo output and collaborations with other artists.

Charting a lighter more open sound than recent albums, The Cloud Machine returns to and explores one of Andrew’s constant themes - his continuing fascination with and the depiction of, the simple innocence of his own childhood. In this case, a sound painting of light, radiance and naive joy through the metaphor of clouds and of a gaze drawn to the skies. From the ethereal beauty of The Cloud Machines and The Age of Enlightenment, to the memories of racing the shadows of clouds blown by the wind across fields as a young boy in Chasing Clouds, there is the ever present feel of blissful, innocence and wonderment at the beauty of the natural world around and above us.

The album explores these themes through Andrew’s use of his much loved piano and guitar and balancing them against constantly shifting, delicate and fragile electronic tones and textures. Using a lighter, more transparent tonal palette, The Cloud Machine has a gentle, blissful tone as though touching the drifting clouds overhead.

Written, Produced and Mastered by Andrew Heath
Artwork (Ghost Mills) by Zoë Heath
Art and Design by Andrew Heath

The Cloud Machine

wlr157 Andrew Heath - The Cloud Machine

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.

Follow Homemade Weapons: https://soundcloud.com/homemadeweapons
Follow Voidloss: https://soundcloud.com/voidloss

Homemade Weapons & Voidloss - Bloodlillies In The Moonlight

Spontaneously improvised this at the last night. Enjoy!

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3ZT6CL1pYRz20xt5BEhJpL
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/ashot-danielyan/551761240

Ashot Danielyan in the social media:
» Telegram: https://t.me/ashotdanielyancomposer
» VK: https://vk.com/club219373443
» Instagram: https://instagram.com/ashot_danielyan_composer?igshid=YTQwZjQ0NmI0OA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
» YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ashotdanielyan
» Facebook: www.facebook.com/ashot.danielyan.composer

All Ashot Danielyan Albums: https://ashotdanielyan.bandcamp.com/

» Ashot Danielyan Royalty Free Music: https://audiojungle.net/user/ashot-danielyan-composer/portfolio

Composer: DANIELYAN ASHOT MAKICHEVICH (IPI NAME 00855552512), UNITED STATES BMI.

Spontaneous Compassion (Improvisation 11.25.2024)

Spotify

Ashot Danielyan - Spontaneous Compassion (Improvisation 11.25.2024)

Jane 9

Dulcima Dulcima

LIVE - Queen Elizabeth Hall - 1987

~ LAAPS 044 ~ [SEQ.06 - LP44]

artist : Aiko Takahashi
album : The Grass Harp
duration : 41.11 mn
date : June 09th, 2025

edition :
-  vinyl : limited to 200 copies / apricot LP / selective UV varnish (front+back) / hand numbered 
- cd : limited to 150 copies / pantone / hand numbered + handcrafted, sealed

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Piano, Tape Loops, Drones recorded by Aiko between March and November 2024 in Aiko's former studio, a secluded spot near the River Isonzo, between Gorizia and Nova Gorica.

Mastered by Taylor Deupree
Artwork by Thomas Ratt
Design by Sprflxgrfzm
 
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Links :
https://laaps-records.com/
https://www.instagram.com/iikki_laaps/
https://aikotakahashi.bandcamp.com/
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℗ & © 2 0 2 5 - L A A P S - L A A P S 0 4 4

Aiko Takahashi - Vases À Iris

#1
Track list:
- R.J. Stefanski - Approaching Blue Heron Lagoon [edited for Shimmering Moods]
- Nikita Bondarev - Siberian Ruins, part 1 (Klammklang)
- Å Asher- Yates - Intro (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Embers Below Zero - Forget About Me La Mer Profonde (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Gareth Davis & Machinefabriek - Theme Part I (White Paddy Mountain)
- Timedog - The Pilgrimage (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Viewfound - Triptych (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Offthesky - Form Light (eilean rec.)
- Gideon Wolf - Hunger (Fluid Audio)
- Embers Below Zero - The Ashes Of Our Past (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Å Asher- Yates - (Rain) (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
-  Å Asher- Yates - Breeze In The Sun (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Viewfound - Lukewarm (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Benjamin Finger - The Woods Are Not What They Seem (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Adzuki - In one's fading consciousness (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Aleks - Shimmering (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Aleks - Dark Chords & Dreamscapes (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Arkadelphia - Untitled 22 (Shimmering Moods Records)
- Ard - Her Eyes Over The Ancient Castle (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
- Parallelism - 03 Untitled (Shimmering Moods Records)
- ISM - Vertical Order (forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)

Get lost in sound:
Shimmering Moods will host a new series of radio shows on 
Resonance Extra , UK's most creative independent radio station. Every month at https://extra.resonance.fm, this is the first show from Wednesday 20th July at 20:00-22:00 BST/21:00-23:00 CET
Experimental-Ambient-Electronics-Soundscapes-Drones-Field Recordings-Outsider Techno-Noise-Acoustics & more … released, unreleased, exclusives tracks from various labels & artists around the globe. 
Dates for the rest of the year:
Wednesday 17th August at 8pm
Wednesday 7th September at 8pm
Wednesday 2nd November at 8pm
Wednesday 7th December at 8pm
Next to this we will continue our monthly radio shows on Red Light Radio, next RLR show: 22.8 14:00-16:00 CET.

About Resonance Extra:
Resonance Extra is a pioneering new digital radio platform launched in December 2015, available on DAB to listeners in Central Brighton and online to the rest of the world. Dedicated foremost to the global artistic community and with a focus on long–form international music programming and sonic experimentation, Resonance Extra exists to mobilise diverse and emergent communities of sound artists, musicians, broadcasters, academics and expert curators.




Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #1 (20.7.2016)

Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #3

Imaginational, soft tones, distant noises and 
other ambient explorations and experiments…..

1. Midori Takada - Mr. Henri Rousseau's Dream (RCA Red Seal)
2. Leigh Toro + Miguel Isaza - Phase Serendipity (Eilean Rec/Dauw)
3. Richard Ginns - Leaves On The Lake (Dauw)
4. The Boats - The Ballad Of The Malting Floor (Our Small Ideas)
5. Stars Of The Lid - Hiberner Toujours (Kranky)
6. Duncan Ó Ceallaigh - Scapa Flow (Audio Gourmet)
7. Vincent Gallo - Lonely Boy (Warp)
8. The Caretaker - All you are going to want to do is get back there (History Always Favours The Winners)
9. Leigh Toro - Ringstone Round (Eilean Rec)
10. Legiac - Troven Briangular (Dronarivm)
11. The Boats - The Ballad Of Omission (Our Small Ideas)
12. The Caretaker - Libet's Delay (History Always Favours The Winners)
13. Viewfound - Den ( Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
14. Robert Lippok - Close (Raster-Noton)
15. Phil Tomsett - Midnight Furnace (Fluid Audio)
16. Ard - Spring of no regret (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
17. D.Å.R.F.D.H.S.- Svältåren (Northern Electronics)
18. Hummingbird - Thoughts in the Head (Cassiopea) (Facture)
19. Koen Holtkamp - Scene 1 (Umor Rex)
20. Monadh - Boira (Further)
21. Rezo Glonti - Meter Meter (Time Released Sound)
22. Olga Wojciechowska - The White Spaces (Time Released Sound)
23. The Boats - The Ballad Of Failure (12k)
24. Benoît Pioulard - Alogia (Serein)
25. Vienna Orchestra - Verließ (Where To Now?)

Shimmering Moods @ Resonance Extra #3

Shimmering Moods @ Red Light Radio 30.1.2017

1. ຄ່ໍາຄວນ - Hazy Montagne Mystique (Jeunesse Cosmique)
2. The heat of the day escaping out towards the late evening sky, a high blue haze over the drifting hills, the soil of a path underfoot, cracked a little, brushed by dry grasses, walking back across moors in the ancient light - Sub Loam (Dissolving Records)
3. Canyon Sequence 3 - Macheteoxidado (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
4. Alba - Å Asher-Yates (Shimmering Moods Records)
5. Agua Santa Limpia Me pt. 1 - Macheteoxidado (Shimmering Moods Records)
6. Baranquillo - Balsam (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
7. LesLang - Jan Jelinek & Masayoshi Fujita (Faitiche)
8. Spirit In Prison - Yves Tumor (PAN)
9. Part 1 - Post Global Trio (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
10. Dreaming of You - KWC 92 (LIES)
11. Anthropocene - Loscil (Kranky)
12. Guided Body Scan - Aleks (Forthcoming Shimmering Moods Records)
13. Headlights - Dravier (Always Human Tapes)
14. Mountain - Donnacha Costello (Not On Label - Band Camp)
15. into the wild - x.y.r.(not not fun records)
16. SEQ - Aleks (Unreleased / Forthcoming Lonely Planets)
17. Exotic World - x.y.r.(not not fun records)
18. Special thanks to Guidance - DJ Sports (YIELD)
19. After the rain - Aquarium (New Information)
20. Glossy Amoog (Original Mix) - Cass. (Emotional Response)
21. Blossoms in Rain - Donnacha Costello (Not On Label - Band Camp)

Shimmering Moods @ Red Light Radio 30.1.2017

track 4 from “On the Sorrow of Firn” by @Hilyard
https://hilyard.bandcamp.com/album/on-the-sorrow-of-firn

On the Sorrow of Firn

Hilyard - Morning Vapor

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

'Travelling by Night' - A Shared Place - [Polar Seas Recordings, 2023]

Moss Covered Technology