Top Albums 2023

Die Wilde Jagd 'Ophio' (Bureau B)
Föllakzoid 'V' (Sacred Bones)
I:Cube 'Eye Cube' (Versatile)
Isolée 'Resort Island' (Resort Island)
Surgeon 'Crash Recoil' (Tresor)
The Black Dog 'The Grey Album' (Dust Science)
The Future Sound Of London 'Environment 7.003' (fsoldigital.com)
The Orb 'Prism' (Cooking Vinyl)
The Woodleigh Research Facility 'Phonox Nights' (Facility 4)
Various 'Remix Anthology Vol. 1-4 2002-2022' (Smalltown Supersound)

[December 2023] Masks and Archetypes

Soft Cell 'Memorabillia (German Edition)' (Vertigo) 01/12/23 (Single)

Clark 'Cave Dog' (Throttle) 01/12/23 (Limited Album)

Plastikman 'Sheet One (30th Anniversary Edition)' (NovaMute) 01/12/23 (Reissue)

Wolfgang Voigt 'Mit Maschinen Sprechen' (Profan) 01/12/23 (Limited Reissue)

Wolfgang Voigt / Various 'Earquake 1999' (Profan) 01/12/23 (Limited Reissue)

Wolfgang Voigt / Various 'Profan 50 - Earquake Box' (Profan) 01/12/23 (Limited Box Set)

Yancey Boys 'Sunset Blvd' (KingUnderground / Delicious Vinyl) 01/12/23 (Reissue)

Yancey Boys 'Sunset Blvd (Instrumentals)' (KingUnderground / Delicious Vinyl) 01/12/23 (Reissue)

Silent Servant 'In Memoriam' (Tresor) 04/12/23 (EP)

DJ Hell / Wassermann 'Speicher 130' (Kompakt Extra) 08/12/23 (Single)

Depeche Mode 'Strange / Strange Too' (Mute / Sony) 08/12/23 (Blu-ray/DVD)

Daniel Avery 'Drone Logic (10th Anniversary Edition)' (Phantasy Sound / Because) 08/12/23 (Reissue)

Holger Hiller 'Ein Bündel Fäulnis In Der Grube' (Bureau B) 08/12/23 (Reissue)

Moebius Plank Neumeier 'Zero Set (40th Anniversary Edition)' (Bureau B) 08/12/23 (Limited Reissue)

Throbbing Gristle 'Mutant TG' (Mute) 08/12/23 (Reissue)

Sleaford Mods 'West End Girls' (Rough Trade) 15/12/23 (Single)

[November 2023] Late Check Out

Earth 'Earth 2.23 Special Lower Frequency Mix' (Sub Pop) 03/11/23 (Limited Album)
Earth 'Earth 2' (Sub Pop) 03/11/23 (Reissue)
Bill Butt/The KLF '23 Seconds To Eternity' (BFI) 06/11/23 (Blu-ray)

Nightmares On Wax 'CLUB E.A.S.E. - #1' (Warp) 10/11/23 (EP)
Moritz Von Oswald 'Silencio' (Tresor) 10/11/23 (Album)
F.U.S.E. 'Dimension Intrusion' (Warp) 10/11/23 (Limited Reissue)
New Order 'Substance' (Warner) 10/11/23 (Reissue)
Speedy J 'Ginger' (Warp) 10/11/23 (Limited Reissue)

VHS Head 'Phasia' (Skam) 13/11/23 (Album)
Vince Clarke 'Songs Of Silence' (Mute) 17/11/23 (Album)
Various '20 Years Of Phonica' (Phonica) 17/11/23 (Compilation)
Move D / Pete Namlook 'Reissued 003' (Away Music) 20/11/23 (Reissue)

The Woodleigh Research Facility 'Phonox Nights' (Facility 4) 23/11/23 (Album)
Pole 'Tempus Remixes' (Mute) 24/11/23 (Limited Single)

Biosphere 'Inland Delta' (Biophon) 24/11/23 (Album)
Gusgus 'DanceOrama' (Oroom) 24/11/23 (Album)

Cheyenne Clementi & Valentina Morandi 'Never Alone 1997-2004, Raving In Europe' (Union Editions) 25/11/23 (Book)

[October 2023] Style Mentors

Indo Tribe / The Future Sound Of London 'The Pulse EP' (Jumpin' & Pumpin') 03/10/23 (Reissue)

Creation Rebel 'Hostile Environment' (On-U Sound) 06/10/23 (Album)
Depeche Mode 'Delta Machine - 12" Singles' (Mute / Sony) 06/10/23 (Box Set)
Channel One 'Technicolor' (Metroplex) 06/10/23 (Reissue)
Jon Hopkins 'Immunity' (Domino) 06/10/23 (Reissue)
Liars 'WIXIW' (Mute) 06/10/23 (Limited Reissue)
Cybotron 'Maintain The Golden Ratio' (Tresor) 13/10/23 (Single)

The Black Dog 'My Brutal Life' (Dust Science) 13/10/23 (Album)
Various 'Velvet Desert Music Vol. 3' (Kompakt) 13/10/23 (Compilation)
Front 242 'Tyranny For You' (RRE) 13/10/23 (Reissue)
Sleaford Mods 'MORE UK GRIM' (Rough Trade) 20/10/23 (EP)
Crime & The City Solution 'the killer' (Mute) 20/10/23 (Album)
Hauschka 'Philanthropy' (City Slang) 20/10/23 (Album)
Curses 'Next Wave Acid Punk Deux: Chapter 1' (Eskimo) 20/10/23 (Compilation)
Curses 'Next Wave Acid Punk Deux: Chapter 2' (Eskimo) 20/10/23 (Compilation)
Curses 'Next Wave Acid Punk Deux: Chapter 3' (Eskimo) 20/10/23 (Compilation)
Brendan Perry 'Eye Of The Hunter / Live At The I.C.A.' (4AD) 20/10/23 (Reissue)
Model 500 'Classics' (Metroplex) 20/10/23 (Reissue)

Throbbing Gristle '1st Annual Report' (Survival Research) 20/10/23 (Reissue)

Baby Ford & The Ifach Collective 'Sacred Machine' (Ifach) 23/10/23 (Reissue)
Model 500 'Starlight' (Metroplex) 24/10/23 (Reissue)

The Future Sound Of London 'Environment 7003' (FSOL Digital) 26/10/23 (Album)
Elkka 'DJ Friendly' (Ninja Tune) 27/10/23 (EP)
Tosca 'Mirage: The OSAM Remixes' (!K7) 27/10/23 (Album)
Ricardo Villalobos 'Alcachofa' (Perlon) 27/10/23 (Reissue)

[September 2023] Fight The Hits

Slowdive 'Everything Is Alive' (Dead Oceans) 01/09/23 (Album)
Various 'Brum As Fuck' (House Of God) 01/09/23 (Compilation)
Various 'Total 23' (Kompakt) 01/09/23 (Compilation)
Age Of Love 'The Age Of Love (Remastered)' (Diki) 01/09/23 (Limited Reissue)
Nurse With Wound 'Alice The Goon' (BFE) 01/09/23 (Limited Reissue)
The Cinematic Orchestra 'Man With A Movie Camera (20th Anniversary Edition)' (Ninja Tune) 01/09/23 (Reissue)
Timothy J Fairplay 'Why Are They Here?' (Archaic Future Sounds) 04/09/23 (EP)
Róisín Murphy 'Hit Parade' (Ninja Tune) 08/09/23 (Album)
Yann Tiersen 'Kerber Complete' (Mute) 15/09/23 (Album)
Jaga Jazzist 'The Stix (Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition)' (Ninja Tune) 15/09/23 (Reissue)
A Certain Ratio '2023' (Mute) 22/09/23 (Limited EP)
Consolidated 'PIAS 40' (PIAS) 22/09/23 (Single)
The Young Gods 'PIAS 40' (PIAS) 22/09/23 (Single)
Tiga 'PIAS 40' (PIAS) 22/09/23 (Single)

Föllakzoid 'V' (Sacred Bones) 22/09/23 (Album)
Mouse On Mars 'Bilk' (Sonig) 22/09/23 (Album)
Russell Haswell 'Reality Therapy' (Diagonal) 22/09/23 (Album)

Front 242 'Official Version' (RRE) 22/09/23 (Reissue)
Nurse With Wound 'The Little Dipper Minus Two Plus (Echo Poeme Sequences)' (ICR) 22/09/23 (Reissue)
Snog 'Lies Inc. (30th Anniversary Remastered Edition)' (Lightarmour Editions) 22/09/23 (Reissue)
Vladislav Delay 'Multila' (Keplar) 22/09/23 (Limited Reissue)
Vladislav Delay 'Entain (2023 Remaster)' (Keplar) 22/09/23 (Reissue)
Sensorama 'Where The Rabbit Sleeps' (Bureau B) 29/09/23 (Compilation)
The Orb feat. David Gilmour 'Metallic Spheres In Colour' (Sony) 29/09/23 (Album)
Ash Ra Tempel 'Ash Ra Tempel (50th Anniversary Edition)' (MG.ART) 29/09/23 (Reissue)

[August 2023] Tower Twenty Three

DJ Koze 'Wespennest' (Pampa) 02/08/23 (Single)
Cristian Vogel 'Fase Montuno' (Mille Plateaux) 02/08/23 (Album)
The Rootsman vs Muslimgauze 'Return To The City Of Djinn' (Via Parigi) 02/08/23 (Reissue)
Diamanda Galas 'Broken Gargoyles' (Intravenal Sound Operations) 03/08/23 (Album)
Ed Gillett 'Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain' (Picador) 03/08/23 (Book)
Depeche Mode 'Sounds Of The Universe - 12" Singles' (Mute / Sony) 04/08/23 (Box Set)
Black Dog Productions 'Bytes' (Warp) 04/08/23 (Reissue)
The Black Dog 'Spanners' (Warp) 04/08/23 (Reissue)
Luis Manuel Garcia-Mispireta 'Together, Somehow: Music, Affect, and Intimacy on the Dancefloor' (Duke University Press) 04/08/23 (Book)
Various 'Gespensterland' (Bureau B) 18/08/23 (Compilation)
Bonobo 'Dial 'M' For Monkey (Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition)' (Ninja Tune) 18/08/23 (Reissue)
Barker 'Unfixed' (Smalltown Supersound) 25/08/23 (EP)
Drab Majesty 'An Object In Motion' (Dais) 25/08/23 (Single)

Orbital 'The Pentaverate (Original Soundtrack)' (Invada) 25/08/23 (Album)

B.W.H. 'Livin' Up / Stop' (Best) 25/08/23 (Reissue)

[July 2023] Dizzy Drift Mix

King Geedorah 'Take Me To Your Leader' (Big Dada) 03/07/23 (Reissue)
African Head Charge 'A Trip To Bolgatanga' (On-U Sound) 07/07/23 (Album)
Underground Resistance 'World 2 World' (Underground Resistance) 11/07/23 (Reissue)

Lindstrøm 'Everyone Else Is A Stranger' (Smalltown Supersound) 13/07/23 (Limited Album)
Various 'Klar!80' (Bureau B) 14/07/23 (Compilation)
Swayzak 'Snowboarding In Argentina (25th Anniversary Edition)' (Lapsus) 14/07/23 (Reissue)

Sons Of Slough Vs Primal Scream 'Running Out Of Time' (tici taci) 17/07/23 (Single)
Kode9 & Burial 'Infirmary / Unknown Summer' (Fabric) 21/07/23 (Single)

Baby Ford & The Ifach Collective 'The Healing EP' (Ifach) 24/07/23 (Reissue)
Aphex Twin 'Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760' (Warp) 28/07/23 (Single)
hackedepicciotto 'Keepsakes' (Mute) 28/07/23 (Album)
Mr Scruff 'Trouser Jazz (Deluxe 20th Anniversary Edition)' (Ninja Tune) 28/07/23 (Reissue)
Shawn Reynaldo 'First Floor Volume 1 - Reflections on Electronic Music Culture' (Velocity Press) 28/07/23 (Book)

[June 2023] Product Of The Environment

Humanoid 'Sweet Acid Sound' (De:tuned) 01/06/23 (Single)
Dominik Eulberg 'Avichrom Remixes' (!K7) 02/06/23 (EP)
Si Begg 'Energie Electrique (Central Processing Unit) 02/06/23 (Single)
Meat Beat Manifesto / DHS 'Man From Mantis' (Love Love) 09/06/23 (Single)
Richard Sen 'Dream The Dream (UK Techno, Breakbeat And House 1990-1994)' (Ransom Note) 09/06/23 (Compilation)

Various 'Silberland Vol 2: The Driving Side Of Kosmische Musik 1974-1984' (Bureau B) 15/06/23 (Compilation)
Muslimgauze 'Emak Bakia' (Other Voices Records) 16/06/23 (Reissue)
Muslimgauze 'Khan Younis' (Other Voices Records) 16/06/23 (Reissue)
Muslimgauze 'Lo-Fi India Abuse' (Other Voices Records) 16/06/23 (Reissue)
Muslimgauze 'Uzi' (Other Voices Records) 16/06/23 (Reissue)

Timothy J. Fairplay 'Hot Night For Slum Lord' (Italo Moderni) 19/06/23 (Single)

Kirk Field 'Rave New World: Confessions Of A Raving Reporter' (Nine Eight Books) 22/06/23 (Book)
New Fast Automatic Daffodils 'PIAS 40' (PIAS) 23/06/23 (Single)
Raxon 'Robotalia' (Cocoon) 23/06/23 (Single)
Skinny Puppy 'PIAS 40' (PIAS) 23/06/23 (Single)
The Neon Judgement 'PIAS 40' (PIAS) 23/06/23 (Single)
The Cassandra Complex 'PIAS 40' (PIAS) 23/06/23 (Single)
Swans 'The Beggar' (Mute) 23/06/23 (Album)

Funki Porcini 'Incredible Vinyl' (Ampoule) 23/06/23 (Compilation)
Autechre / The Hafler Trio '³oæh' (Vinyl On Demand) 23/06/23 (Box Set)

Luciano 'Hakuna Matata' (Rawax) 30/06/23 (Single)
Laibach 'Iron Sky: The Coming Race' (Mute) 30/06/23 (Album)
Muslimgauze 'Martyr Shrapnel' (I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free) 30/06/23 (Reissue)

[May 2023] Input Gate

The Future Sound Of London 'Life In Moments' (FSOL Digital) 02/05/23 (Reissue)

Various 'In Order To Dance 4.0' (R&S) 05/05/23 (Compilation)
IAMX 'Fault Lines' (Orphic) 12/05/23 (Album)
James Ellis Ford 'The Hum' (Warp) 12/05/23 (Album)
The Black Dog 'The Grey Album' (Dust Science) 12/05/23 (Album)
Dominik Eulberg 'Heimische Gefilde' (Traum) 12/05/23 (Reissue)
Isolée 'Resort Island' (Resort Island) 19/05/23 (Album)
Tinariwen 'Amatssou' (Wedge) 19/05/23 (Album)

Current 93 'Great Aleph Lies Dreaming' (Cashen's Gap) 25/05/23 (Limited Album)

Current 93 'Night At The Four Winds Bar Maldoror' (Cashen's Gap) 25/05/23 (Limited Album)

Clark 'Sus Dog' (Throttle) 26/05/23 (Album)
Matthew Herbert 'The Horse' (Modern / BMG) 26/05/23 (Album)

Beau Waddell 'Aphex Twin On Track: Every Album, Every Song' (Sonicbond) 26/05/23 (Book)
Monolake 'Hongkong' (Field) 26/05/23 (Reissue)
The Vision 'Waveform Transmission Vol. 2' (Tresor) 26/05/23 (Reissue)

[April 2023] From Across The Room

Kraftwerk 'Tribal Gathering - The 1997 Festival Broadcast' (Gimme) 06/04/23 (Live Album)
µ-Ziq '1977' (Balmat) 07/04/23 (Album)
VHS Head 'Phocus' (Skam) 07/04/23 (Album)
Various 'Bleeps, Breaks + Bass' (Musique Pour La Danse) 07/04/23 (Compilation)
Telex 'Telex Vinyl Box Set' (Mute) 14/04/23 (Box Set)
Jürgen Paape 'Kompilation' (Kompakt Exklusiv) 14/04/23 (Compilation)
Various 'Happy Land' (Above Board Projects) 14/04/23 (Compilation)
Various 'Remix Anthology Vol. 1​-​4 2002​-​2022' (Smalltown Supersound) 14/04/23 (Compilation)

Liars 'Sisterworld' (Mute) 21/04/23 (Limited Reissue)
Snapped Ankles 'Blurtations' (The Leaf Label) 22/04/23 (EP)
Leftfield 'This Is What We Do (Version Excursion)' (Virgin) 22/04/23 (Album)
The Orb Feat. Lee 'Scratch' Perry 'The Upsetter At The Starhouse Sessions' (Cooking Vinyl) 22/04/23 (Album)
Amorphous Androgynous 'Tales Of Ephidrina' (UMC/Virgin) 22/04/23 (Reissue)
Ed Rush & Optical 'Wormhole' (Virus) 22/04/23 (Limited Box Set)
Laibach 'Nova Akropola' (Cherry Red) 22/04/23 (Reissue)
A'Grumh 'PIAS 40' (PIAS) 28/04/23 (EP)
Borghesia 'PIAS 40' (PIAS) 28/04/23 (EP)
Meat Beat Manifesto 'PIAS 40' (PIAS) 28/04/23 (EP)
The Weathermen 'PIAS 40' (PIAS) 28/04/23 (EP)
The Orb 'Prism' (Cooking Vinyl) 28/04/23 (Album)
Various 'Yet' (Tresor) 28/04/23 (Compilation)

[March 2023] Return To Return

Isolée 'Rumour' (Resort Island) 02/03/23 (Single)

I:Cube 'Eye Cube' (Versatile) 03/03/23 (Album)

Jerome Hill 'Flow Mechanics' (Hypercolour) 03/03/23 (Album)

Luke Vibert 'Machine Funk' (De:tuned) 03/03/23 (Album)

LoSoul 'Urban Works' (Rawax) 03/03/23 (Reissue)

Sleaford Mods 'UK Grim' (Rough Trade) 10/03/23 (Album)

Faust 'Momentaufnahme I' (Bureau B) 10/03/23 (Reissue)

Faust 'Momentaufnahme II' (Bureau B) 10/03/23 (Reissue)

The Orb 'The Dream' (Liquid Sound Design) 14/03/23 (Reissue)

Depeche Mode 'Memento Mori' (Columbia / Sony) 17/03/23 (Album)

Moderat 'EVEN MORE D4TA' (Monkeytown) 17/03/23 (Album)

Surgeon 'Crash Recoil' (Tresor) 17/03/23 (Album)

Genesis P-Orridge And The Hafler Trio 'Dream Less Suite' (Cortizona) 24/03/23 (Album)

James Ruskin 'Point 2' (Tresor) 24/03/23 (Reissue)

Four Tet 'Pink' (Text) 28/03/23 (Limited Reissue)

A Certain Ratio '1982' (Mute) 31/03/23 (Album)

James Holden 'Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities' (Border Community) 31/03/23 (Album)

Paul St. Hilaire 'Tikiman Vol​.​1' (Kynant) 31/03/23 (Album)

Shifted Phases 'The Cosmic Memoirs Of The Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope' (Tresor) 31/03/23 (Reissue)

Tosca 'Dehli9' (!K7) 31/03/23 (Reissue)

[February 2023] Things Today

Speedy & Steve 'Speedy & Steve' (Mote Evolver) 03/02/23 (Single)

Sven Väth 'What I Used To Play' (Cocoon) 03/02/23 (Compilation)

Kelly Lee Owens 'LP.8.2' (Smalltown Supersound) 10/02/23 (EP)

Liars 'Liars' (Mute) 10/02/23 (Limited Reissue)

Transllusion 'The Opening Of The Cerebral Gate' (Tresor) 10/02/23 (Reissue)

Doyle Wesley 'Conform To Deform: The Weird And Wonderful World Of Some Bizzare' (Jawbone) 14/02/23 (Book)

Orbital 'Optical Delusion' (London) 17/02/23 (Album)

Sunroof 'Electronic Music Improvisations Volume 2' (Parallel Series) 17/02/23 (Limited Album)

Die Wilde Jagd 'ophio' (Bureau B) 24/02/23 (Album)

Various 'Running Back Mastermix: Wild Pitch Club By Ata & nd_baumecker' (Running Back) 24/02/23 (Compilation)

Autechre 'Confield' (Warp) 24/02/23 (Reissue)

Autechre 'Draft 7.30' (Warp) 24/02/23 (Reissue)

Crime & The City Solution 'Shine' (Mute) 24/02/23 (Limited Reissue)

Crime & The City Solution 'The Bride Ship' (Mute) 24/02/23 (Limited Reissue)

Crime & The City Solution 'Paradise Discotheque' (Mute) 24/02/23 (Limited Reissue)

Underground Resistance 'Nation 2 Nation' (Underground Resistance) 27/02/23 (Reissue)

[January 2023] Flow State

Muslimgauze 'Turn On Arabic American Radio' (Staalplaat) 11/01/23 (Reissue)
Giant Swan 'Fantasy Food' (KECK) 13/01/23 (EP)
Coil 'Queens Of The Circulating Library' (Dais) 13/01/23 (Reissue)
Cosmic Jokers 'Planeten Sit In' (Die Kosmischen Kuriere) 17/01/23 (Reissue)
Cosmic Jokers 'Sci Fi Party' (Die Kosmischen Kuriere) 17/01/23 (Reissue)

Information Society 'Peace & Love Inc (30th Anniversary Edition)' (Tommy Boy) 19/01/23 (Reissue)
Raxon 'Speicher 124' (Kompakt Extra) 20/01/23 (Single)
The Black Dog 'Music For Real Airports' (Dust Science) 20/01/23 (Reissue)

New Order 'Shellshock' (Warner) 26/01/23 (Reissue)

New Order 'Sub Culture' (Warner) 26/01/23 (Reissue)

New Order 'The Perfect Kiss' (Warner) 26/01/23 (Reissue)

New Order 'Low-Life (Definitive Edition)' (Warner) 26/01/23 (Box Set)

Burial 'Streetlands' (Hyperdub) 27/01/23 (EP)

DJ Shufflemaster 'EXP' (Tresor) 27/01/23 (Reissue)