The Best Electronic Music Of 2024
That’s right! It’s that time of the year to share the most incredible music that we enjoyed the most this year! The truth is I don’t know if it’s just me or for real it was a great year of really special new records! So for the first time I made a list of 30 records because it was quite unfair to leave some records out of this subjective list! In fact there were several artists who made more than two amazing records!
It’s also hard to keep up with all the music that comes out in a year, so sometimes there is no time, we can forget or we haven’t discovered any gems out there! So tell me what were your favorite records of this year?
Next year I’ll be busy working on new projects, so don’t mind if I’m a bit absent 🙂 I just want to thank you for listening to our mixes and reading me through the blog
Thank you very much for sharing this journey with me and wish you a happy new year from your amigo: Gerardo.
Les amo ❤️❤️❤️
Esencia
30 – SnP 500 – Aleven [Doo]
Produced by Sentena and DJ Spence in Montreal.
29 – DOC ‘N’ P1LL – RX Prescriptions Volume 1 [Serenity Now Recordings]
RX PRESCRIPTIONS Volume 1 by the Stockholm based duo DOC ‘N’ P1LL (DOC JAY & p1ll).
Prescribing a unique formula through four straight forward stompers that is guaranteed to ignite dance floors and elevate the atmosphere to unprecedented heights.
https://www.discogs.com/release/30337607-DOC-N-P1LL-RX-Prescriptions-Volume-1
28 – Lazy Deejay – The “Self-titled” EP [Cool Underground Music]
Cool Underground Music presents: the lazy deejay EP. four foggy joints, pressed on wax.
Rolling basslines, hypnotic rhythms, familiar echoes from our past, right on time, the deed is done. Warm transmissions have begun with CUM001.
27 – Picasso – Abstract Grooves Vol.1 [Tackle Audio]
Taking reality as the starting point, Picasso exhibits Volume 1 of the Abstract Groove. A sound collage of jazz, dub and electronica by Samuel Andrews.
https://www.discogs.com/release/30758577-Picasso-Abstract-Grooves-Vol1
26 – Fka Boursin – You Just Give In, Giving It All To The Wind [Accidental Meetings]
Atmospheric, laid-back leftfield House floaters.
25 – Fantastic Man – The Axis of People [Axis Of People]
The Axis of People EP, on new label, Axis of People. FM is back with four club cuts, conjured up over the last year, that are so thoroughly road-tested, they practically come with their own mileage report.
24 – C3D-E, Hashman Deejay – Understood [MIDI_bug]
Acting Press cohort C3D-E and Hashman Deejay team up for a two-track release on MIDI_bug. Mastered by Mike Grinser and featuring artwork by Leon Eissermann.
https://www.discogs.com/release/30768147-C3D-E-Hashman-Understood
23 – trickpony – Pillow Talk [Step Ball Chain]
Step Ball Chain’s unconventional prototype band trickpony is the 11th release on the ever evolving imprint. An assortment of sensual cyber jams collaged together by the trio over timezones, birthed in Perth, Australia by Mike Midnight and Roza Terenzi; old friends joined by Helsinki’s visionary songstress Maria Korkeila.
A trinity of alchemy blossomed into an audio rendition of exquisite corpse, layers of each entity glistening through amongst a united cosmos; trip hop atmospherics and downtempo drippings.
22 – SVN – Dub Café [SUED]
Lovely House / Chillout EP
https://www.discogs.com/release/29275453-SVN-Dub-Cafe
21 – L.B. Dub Corp X Burial – Only The Good Times [Dekmantel]
“For me ‘Only the Good Times’ is a deeply emotional track. It’s one of those tracks, that ended up entwined in love and somehow life affirming. My immediate thought was to get Burial to remix it, not only because he is one of the most entrancing producers ever, but also because of our heart felt connection and to get him away from his Playstation for ten seconds. Thank you Arnol, Will and everyone else connecting to the music ♥️”
20 – World Rally Blue – Tales Of The Tarmac [Promise]
The growing legend of World Rally Blue only becomes apparent once the tarmac mirage dissipates. His screeching burnt pneumatic treads ink doppler revelations along the shrapnel-stacked tracks of Northern Indiana’s hallowed speedways.
Few were surprised when World Rally Blue smoked a hotly-contested field at Promise’s inaugural Demo-Listen™ Derby. Tales of the Tarmac is his latest taste of victory.
19 – Head Level – Mirador [Melodykrafter]
By Amauri from Mexico, one of the founders of the label: Melodykrafter.
18 – New Members – ECO 1 [ECO1]
New Members presents ECO 1, an expansive 14-track double LP which includes music recorded in several locations and countries between the years of 2013-2023, some tracks of which have been excavated from saltwater-soaked drives.
The LP presents a mesh of styles which obscure the boundaries between New Age, Ambient and Soundtrack to Country-Inspired Breaks, Vaporwave-Tinted Downtempo, and more. Weather Music is the mood. ECO 1 invites the listener into a strangely-familiar liminal soundscape.
17 – Sansibar – We Rise [No Sistema]
This four-tracker, the first release on Sansibar’s ‘Sin Sistema’ imprint, borrows the best elements of formulas we love, and for a good reason.
16 – Lnrdcroy – Contact-E [Repetitive Rhythm Research] [Clone]
The return of the legend after 14 years with some wonderful ambient techno/IDM blends <3
15 – pondlicker – Soft Focus [NAFF]
Soft Focus, pondlicker’s inaugural album for naff, is a collection of wandering compositions residing somewhere between minimal, ambient, and dub techno.
Composed and written by Adam Feingold
14 – SnPLO – Lastday cookie [Pin]
Outstanding, epically reverberating, minimalist Techno trips
https://www.discogs.com/release/32413806-SnPLO-Lastday-cookie
13 – LT – Verb — 0 [Tech Startup]
Long-time associate, LT, inputs the expected value—supplied in demand.
12 – Fergus Jones – Ephemera [Numbers.]
Ephemera is the debut album by Fergus Jones, the artist formerly known as Perko, an Edinburgh-born, Copenhagen-based producer, DJ and founder of the FELT record label. The nine-track release is out now.
Ephemera was developed with collaborative energy as the creative priority, produced by Jones alongside an extensive list of like-minded musicians, lyricists and vocalists including Huerco S, James K, Koreless, Birthmark, ELDON and Withdrawn of Bristol’s Cold Light crew, Laila Sakini and Lia T. The album embodies Jones’ inner journey as he ranges further than ever sonically and emotionally, emphasising instinct, intensity, tactility and rapture.
11 – Goesun – More Than You Know [Levain]
First release from Goesun, beautiful ambient album.
https://www.discogs.com/release/31161857-Goesun-More-Than-You-Know
10 – Alex Kassian x Mad Professor – E2-E4 – A Reference To E2-E4 By Manuel Göttsching [Test Pressing Recordings]
Test Pressing Recordings are happy to return with this rather lovely cover version of the classic ‘E2–E4’. it has been reworked by Alex Kassian with Mad Professor dubbing it crazy on the mix front. It’s always been a record close to our hearts.
09 – Central – Plask [Help Recordings]
Great year for Central because besides this great record he also released incredible music with his other projects such as Picture and Respite.
https://www.discogs.com/release/31326397-Central-Plask
https://www.discogs.com/release/31326316-Picture-Soft-Rock
https://www.discogs.com/release/30373451-Unknown-Artist-2nd-Respite
08 – C.K – Power Infusion [PRS]
Power Infusion is a mesmerizing collection of tracks that blend house, techno, and ambient genres. It features captivating melodies, pulsating beats, and ethereal soundscapes.
The vinyl release includes nine tracks, including the popular singles Sirens, This Bouncy Beat, and We Share The Skies.
07 – DJ Popup – Efune [NES]
Danish label operated by DJ Popup.
https://www.discogs.com/release/28986919-DJ-Popup-Efune
06 – DJ Sotofett with L.A. 2000, Ronny Nyheim & Zarate_Fix – WANIA mk2 [WANIA]
Classy, driving, widely reverberating Dub Techno jams w/ locked grooves too. Must check out his other record of the year, one of our favorites as well.
Special thanks to Pierre B for the rip <3
https://www.discogs.com/master/3526142-DJ-Sotofett-with-LA-2000-Ronny-Nyheim-Zarate_Fix-WANIA-mk2
https://www.discogs.com/release/31744094-DJ-Sotofett-WANIA-mk1
05 – Mammo – Slows The Pace And Goes Farther [Puddlerunner]
Yes! another gem by one of our favorite producers. Three tracks that range from ambient to dub techno at its best.
04 – Parallelograms – Phylum [Melodykrafter]
Melodykrafter is a Mexican label focused on music from Latin American producers and one of the few Mexican labels that have started to release their music in vinyl format.
The record contains five tracks produced by Erik, one of the label’s founders. Expect some downtempo, ambient-techno and progressive house music with influences from the golden era of the 90s and early 00s.
03 – Florian T M Zeisig – Planet Inc [STROOM.tv]
Recorded and produced during late night sessions from 2019-2022 while re-watching archive episodes of the German TV show Space Night from the late 90s.
02 – Loidis – One Day – [Incienso]
Six years after the release of the “A Parade, In The Place I Sit, The Floating World (& All Its Pleasures)” EP on anno Records, Brian Leeds, aka Huerco S., returns to the Loidis project with his debut album “One Day” on Incienso.
01 – Shinichi Atobe – Ongaku 1 [DDS]
Demdike Stare’s DDS label kicks off a new series of limited edition 12”s with the return of Shinichi Atobe, offering a slow evolution of his inimitable deep house, finely balanced with a new found sub-heavy bias while unlocking extra space in the upper registers.
https://www.discogs.com/master/3611771-Shinichi-Atobe-Ongaku-1
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