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for various reasons, i totally forgot to post this list of albums that hit the spot in 2023.
as you can see it’s full of the same names as before, with a couple of random swerves.
adrian sherwood<\/strong> and his on-u sound<\/strong> label have continued to make the best of the labels revival and released some amazing new music, the black dog<\/strong> too have persisted in making some of the best ambient techno of their career with the release of two excellent machine music albums.
rucksack records<\/strong> put out a couple of excellent old school backpack sample heavy hip hop albums via their spectacular diagnostics<\/strong>, and stik figa\/the expert<\/strong> releases, while jayda g<\/strong> (ninja tune) brought the joy of club music into the home.
flamingosis<\/strong> mixed his downtempo\/lo-fi edits with the vocal by ehiorobo<\/strong> to great effect, and revival season<\/strong> dropped a genre spanning mixtape that soundtracked my summer, and obeah <\/strong>released a wonderful ‘end of season’ finale with his ‘dubstance<\/em>‘ release that combined all the usual elements of the lil obeah<\/strong> sound, i.e. dark dub, spooked out atmospherics, and weird and twisted cover versions.
and yes, the massive swerve is the epic guitars of troller<\/strong>, which soundtracked a mad few weeks with their intense mix of widescreen shoegaze and drones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
spectacular diagnostics – raw lessons
stik figa\/the expert – ritual
african head charge – a trip to bolgatanga
adrian sherwood – space
obeah – dubstance<\/em>
kid acne – hautology codes<\/em>
young fathers – heavy heavy
jayda g – guy
flamingosis\/ehiorobo – bliss station
revival season – outernational mixtape
the black dog – my brutal life
creation rebel – hostile environment
troller – drain<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n