Each year, I draft up a definite list of albums that released in the year in question which I’ve enjoyed. It It’s mainly for personal use as its big fun to look back to previous years and see what made me happy, and also creates structure in the chaos of wishlists, music folders, tracklists of radio shows and all the to-do-listening bookmarks. Although 2024’s end is already near, I still though this little topo2 world would be a great fit for sharing my 2023 recommendations. The list can be find below with quite some embeds in there as well – of course in alphabetic order.
2Morph – 2Morph (TAX FREE)
30drop – Insight Into Mind And Space LP (30D)
33EMYBW – Holes of Sinian (SVBKVLT)
33EMYBW – Symbiosis Codes/Mandala (SVBKVLT)
Accident du Travail – Galéjade [Disques Charivari)
Actress LXXXVIII (Ninja Tune)
African-American Sound Recordings – The Private World Of Correspondence (D.O.T. Audio Arts)
Akhira Sano – Far More Decentralized (33-33)
Alien D – Spiritual World (Lillerne Tapes)
Alpenmarmot – Unheimliche Landschaftsgestaltung (Nightwind)
Andre 3000 – New Blue Sun (Epic)
Anthony Naples – Orbs (ANS)
Anti Anxiety Krew – Dissociation Dancefloor (Avon Terror Corps)
Anton Pieete – Brains (Wake Dream)
Anysia Kym, Jadasea – Pressure Sensitive (10K)
Arovane – Icol Diston (Keplar)
Arovane – Seismograf (Dauw)
Arthur Russell – Picture Of Bunny Rabbit (Audika)
AshTreJinkins – IT’S TRASH NOW (Leaving)
Beau Wanzer – A Dead Person’s Monologue (iDEAL)
Ben Bondy – Spirit Desire (3XL)
Best Available Technology – Untitled (Blundar)
Beta Librae – Daystar (Incienso)
Bianca Scout – The Heart of the Anchoress (First Terrace Records)
bookworms – Bluephoria (self-released)
Bryozone – Eye of Delirious (Muscut)
C Mantle – Photisms (Kaer’Uiks)
Caline with C – New Stone (self-released)
Call Super – Eulo Cramps (can you feel the sun)
Carmen Villain – Music From The Living Monument (Smalltown)
Celia Hollander – 2nd Draft (Leaving)
Colleen – Le Jour et la Nuit du Réel (Thrill Jockey)
crimeboys – very dark past (3XL)
Cristov – Defragmentierte Assoziationen (Abstrakce)
Dania – Foreign Body (Ecstatic)
Dario Zenker – Reflection (Ilian Tape)
De Ambassade – The Fool (Optimo)
De Leon – De Leon (mana)
Deathprod – Compositions (Smalltown)
DJ ojo – oneriec 01 (oneriec)
DJ Trystero – Castillo LP (Incienso)
Duckett – Eight Tits Total (Solar Phenomena)
DYL – Nothing As It Seems (re:st)
emer – sea salt (Lillerne Tapes)
EMV – Voice Bank (self-released)
Eprom – Syntheism (Square)
Esplendor Geométrico + de fabriek – Rooie Disco ∕ Disco Rojo (Unifab)
Eurovisione – V (Jungle Gym)
EYE – Honolulu/Saigon (Knekelhuis)
Gerald Cleaver, Hprizm, Brandon Lopez – In the Wilderness (Positive Elevation)
Giuseppe Ielasi – Down On Darkened Meetings (Black Truffle)
goat (JP) – Joy In Fear (NAKID)
Gooooose – Rudiments (SVBKVLT)
GROUPSHOW – Greatest Hits (Faitiche)
Harald Uunk – Unseen (Omen Wapta)
Hidden Horse – Incorporeal (Holuzam)
Hihats In Trees – Artefacts (Maloca)
HULUBALANG – BUNYI BUNYI TUMBAL (Drowned By Locals)
Inner Most – But, You Are Vol. 2 (self-released)
Intertoto – Thermal Shadow (self-released)
Isabassi – Speaking Things (Super Hexagon)
J Foerster / N Kramer – Habitat II (Leaving)
Jabu – All Undone (do you have peace?)
James Emrick – Actoma (Soda Gong)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Poverty (Disfold)
Johanna Orellana – Las Camelias, Tres Esquinas (Smalltown)
Jonquera – Primitive Sounds of Intermittence LP (Berceuse Heroique)
JTC – Intra.Actae (Bopside)
Kassem Mosse – Workshop 32 (Workshop)
Kirk Barley – Marionette (ODDA)
Klara Lewis, Nik Colk Void – Full-On (Alter)
Klofink – Vakant (Fasaan)
Koshiro Hino – Geist II (NAKID)
Kurvenschreiber – Licht Ausgang (Udacha)
LA-4A – Apparitiana (Delft)
Lamin Fofana – Lamin Fofana And The Doudou Ndiaye Rose Family (Honest Jon’s Records)
Lau Nau – 5 X 4 (Fonal)
Laurel Halo – Atlas (Awe)
Lee Gamble – Models (Hyperdub)
Leeway – Hypoxia (Lost Domain)
Loek Frey – Add Interaction (Omen Wapta)
Lukid – Tilt (Glum)
M42 – Hemdhawaii (Cosima Pitz)
Mark – So You Betrayed The Creative Arts For Your Own Personal Ends (A Colourful Storm)
Material Things – 2015-2020 (12th Isle)
Matthewdavid – Mycelium Music (Leaving)
Mecánica Clásica – Danza Sin Nexo (Abstrakce)
Michael J. Blood & Sockethead – Eating Late (Blood)
MinaeMinae – Räumlichkeit (Marionette)
Minais B – Eats For Bertram (Promesses)
mineral stunting – Ambling Construct (self-released)
Mister Water Wet – Cold Clay From The Middle West (Soda Gong)
MM_KM – Ich sehe Vasen (The Trilogy Tapes)
mu tate – They’re With You Always (3XL/Utter)
Mücha – Hello Caller (Frequency Domain)
N Chambers – Ajax Ensemble (self-released)
n9oc – Memory Allocator (Die Orakel)
NAP & Linear Flux – Aloneptu (Isla)
Natural Wonder Beauty Concept – Natural Wonder Beauty Concept (Mexican Summer)
Nico Georis – Cloud Suites (Leaving)
Nondi_ – Flood City Trax (Planet Mu)
nthng – There is a Place For Me (Transatlantic)
nueen – Link (self-released)
Oceanic – Choral Feeling ( Nous’klaer Audio)
Omen – Wild Sleep (Kashual Plastik)
otomoni – Super U (guides)
Panoram – Keep Looking Where the Light Comes From (Running Back)
Pauline Anna Strom – Echoes, Spaces, Lines (RVNG Intl.)
Philipp Otterbach – The Dahlem Diaries (Music From Memory)
Pmxper – Pmxper (Smalltown)
Polygonia, Popp – Candid (Squama)
Pretty Sneaky – Koldd (Marionette)
Purelink – Signs (peak oil)
Raays – Innervzm II (Leaving)
Rezo Glonti – Subtropics (Muscut)
Rezzett – Meant Like This (Trilogy Tapes)
Rrose – Please Touch (Eaux)
RRUCCULLA – Zeru Freq. (Lapsus)
Sebastiano Carghini – unknown (self-released)
Serwed – Serwed IV (West Mineral)
Slowfoam – Worlding With Earth (mappa)
Spivak – You Win Again (Ecstatic)
ssabæ – Le Roi Est L’Oiseaussabæ (Few Crackles)
SSIEGE – Beautiful Age (Youth)
STATIC CLEANER LOST REWARD – Breathing Under Honey (Low Company)
Strategy – The Wet Room (Community Library)
sun people – joyful discontent (guides)
Tachycardie – Autonomie Minérale (Un Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi)
Teresa Cos – Karnofsky’s Score (Futura Resistenza)
Teresa Winter – Proserpine (Night School)
Tirzah – trip9love (Domino)
TKB – Dream Nightclub (Where To Now?)
TKB – Slow Yamaha (Frustration Jazz]
Tolouse Low Trax – Leave Me Alone (Bureau B)
Ugne & Maria – Healing (Futura Resistenza)
upsammy – Germ in a Population of Buildings (PAN)
usof – Wish You Were Nicer (enmossed & Psychic Liberation)
Vague Imaginaires – L’île Volante (Versatile)
Various Artists – 10 (Music From Memory)
Various Artists – For Palestine (Paralaxe Editions)
Various Artists – Invert Dance (aural conduct)
Various Artists – Pressure Part I & II (M.A.L.)
Various Artists – Seasonal Diary III: Curious Enchantment (Objects & Sounds)
Various Artists – Synthetic Bird Music (mappa)
Various Artists – Terrasonic Vol.1 (A-Biotic)
VC-118A – Waves of Change (Delsin)
Vina Konda – Yromem (TEMƎT Music)
Voice Actor – Fake Sleep (Stroom)
Wolf Eyes – Difficult Messages (Disciples)
XIII – Permanent Rain (Knekelhuis)
xtclvr – blurred days (Pep Gaffe)
Ylia – Ame Agaru (Balmat)
Yosuke Tokunaga – 6 Lengths (Entangled Visions)
Zaumne – Parfum (sferic)
ZelooperZ – Microphone Fiend (self-released)
Zoron – Waiting For The Grid To Go Down (Doo)
Zuli – Digla Dive (live) (Nashazphone)
µ-Ziq – 1977 (Balmat)
