#igloomag Likes

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

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

MOZYK022

OddlyMerged is a final composition of seven tracks which have been developed specifically with the intention of being combined for this release. Each piece has its own experience in the way rhythms and percussions interact with one another.

The tracks are a combination of modifications and fusion of various melodic and drum ideas. Each piece, from deep basslines to experimental synths, is a study of sound and texture. The elaborately designed melodies, which are interlaced with the percussion components, add to the music's intricacy.

From start to finish, the listener is taken on a musical journey, with each track building on the one before it to create a seamless soundscape. The concept of contrast serves as the foundation for the final three tunes. They experiment with the notion of combining two unique sounds to make something new.

The album is an investigation of the limits of music production. It is evidence of the ability of imagination to produce something fresh and original. Oddly enough, the songs all mesh together in an engaging and fascinating way.

https://cleanmyerror.com

OddlyMerged

MOZYK022 - Enabl.ed - OddlyMerged EP  / / /

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

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Just Off The M56 (J12)

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

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15 Billion Elektrovolt

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Alberta Balsam - 15 Billion Elektrovolt - DUB050

This Stolen Country of Mine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Ritual

Pentagrams of Discordia Side A

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

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

Kokokei — Mandarin Three

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

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

Boutique label for glitch electronic music. Releasing on audio cassettes and CDs. Focusing on melodic and complex-structured compositions. 
Home of https://soundcloud.com/anorak ,  http://soundcloud.com/the-ghost-of-3-13 , https://soundcloud.com/nh_supaia , https://soundcloud.com/otherr111 , https://soundcloud.com/ghost-life4land, https://soundcloud.com/daed , https://soundcloud.com/pioter, https://soundcloud.com/synthamesk , https://soundcloud.com/marcanta , https://soundcloud.com/blaerg, https://soundcloud.com/unseenmachine , https://soundcloud.com/umi-o , https://soundcloud.com/tuskle and many others

MOZYK022 - Enabl.ed - OddlyMerged EP / / /

Mozyk