A "best of 2023" grab-bag mix.... definitely a year in which I didn't get anywhere close to scraping up so much of the cool new music out there. These are just fun, unique, worthwhile cuts that I happened to pick up in my travels, since clearly I spent the majority of my energy in 2023 picking up rather older records.
| Artist | Title | Album | Label |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beta Librae | Mammoth Melting Sugar | Daystar | Incienso |
| Planet People | Subsurface Nature | Planet People | |
| Anoesis | Moving Jumping | Supercade | Cosmic Soup |
| Jackson Ryland | Boosted | Peach Discs | |
| Hermeth | Berlin Sunrise | Acid Explorations | Eudemonia |
| C.K. | 99 Bass Tones | PRS | |
| Ryan Clover | We Love (We Feel) | My Light, My World | Ecstatic Editions |
| Seb Wildblood | Re-location.zip | Vitara 3000 | Oath |
| Forte | Flip (DJ Popup Remix) | NES | |
| Brian Kage | 909 Nights | Michigander Music | |
| DJ Central | Person | NES | |
| Javier Drada | Pa Los Santos De New Orleans | Phosaglot | Discovery Records |
| Affie x Leila Yusuf | Dublovr | We're Going Deep | |
| Furtive | Intrepid Smiles (Golden) | Muscles Hug Your Bones | Psychic Relief |
| Ciel | Le Fleuve | Ecstatic Editions | |
| Mammo | Variable | Nduja | |
| James Holden | Common Land | Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities | Border Community |
| SPF 50 | Iris (Bad Water Version) | Bliss Point | |
| PLO Man | fig. 003 | anonymousmaterial | Acting PressS |
| Pulso | Talking Skin | Kimochi Sound | |
| Strategy | Numeros | The Wet Room | Community Library |
| Purelink | Blue | Signs | Peak Oil |
| Mikkel Rev | Nothing So Hidden | The Art Of Levitation | A Strangely Isolated Place |
| Martinou | Take Me There | Chiral | Nous'klaer Audio |