Mixtape #68 : Best Albums of 2023

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In usual fashion, i’m starting the year with a mixtape celebrating each of my best albums of 2023. Here’s the tracklisting in full, together with the approximate start time for each track; links to buy the music can be found via the previous two days’ articles.

• 00:00:00 light.box & Emil Karlsen – Loosing The Shot Pt. 1 (from The Undanced Dance)
• 00:03:34 Oh Land – I’d Rather Sing (from Loop Soup)
• 00:07:08 Natasha Barrett – Presence / Nærvær (from Reconfiguring the Landscape)
• 00:10:24 Toru Takemitsu – Twill By Twilight (from Spectral Canticle)
• 00:13:54 Erlend Apneseth Trio with Maja Ratkje – Tre Vegar (from Collage)
• 00:20:21 Per Nørgård – Symphony No. 8 – I. Tempo giusto (from Symphony No. 8 / 3 Nocturnal Movements / Lysning)
• 00:25:03 Moyka – Rear View (from Movies, Cars & Heartbreak)
• 00:28:11 Coppice – Rotations in Refractor (Simulated Diffusion in the Likeness of the Yerkes Observatory) (from Draw Agreement)
• 00:32:36 Elis Hallik – Like a Swan (from Born in Waves)
• 00:36:27 Alison Goldfrapp – Fever (This Is the Real Thing) (from The Love Invention)
• 00:41:00 Éliane Radigue – Occam Delta XV [2021-11-09] (from Occam Delta XV [Quatuor Bozzini])
• 00:44:46 Colin Andrew Sheffield – Eclipse (from Images)
• 00:48:36 Synne Sanden – Firewood (from Unfold)
• 00:51:48 Alex Paxton – Od Ody Pink’d (from Happy Music for Orchestra)
• 00:56:30 Jacob Mühlrad – REMS (from REMS)
• 01:00:20 Tim Hecker – Execution (from Infinity Pool (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack))
• 01:04:01 Lotta Wennäkoski – Sigla: I. Sigla (from Sigla / Flounce / Sedecim)
• 01:07:06 IAMX – In Bondage (from Fault Lines¹)
• 01:11:25 Vitolo, Buoninfante, De Rosa – iv (from 171115-203145)
• 01:16:40 Enno Poppe – Prozession – VII. Takt 502 ff (from Prozession)
• 01:21:23 Unsuk Chin – Le silence des Sirènes (from Berlin Philharmonic – The Unsuk Chin Edition)
• 01:25:21 Kali Malone – Does Spring Hide Its Joy v2 (from Does Spring Hide Its Joy)
• 01:29:44 György Ligeti – Études, Book 3 – 17. À bout de souffle (from Études / Capriccios [Han Chen])
• 01:31:51 Gérard Grisey – Mégalithes v.7 – 180″ (from Mégalithes [NyNorsk Messingkvintett / Rønning])
• 01:34:47 Autechre – AE_LIVE_MILAN_010722 (from AE_LIVE 2022)
• 01:39:38 Bára Gísladóttir – SILVA (from SILVA)
• 01:43:34 Śniedź – ziemisty uchrobak ▫ earthy earworm (from Zero Prawdy)
• 01:48:45 Liza Lim – Annunciation Triptych (2019-22): Sappho / Bioluminescence (from Annunciation Triptych)
• 01:53:35 Katie Gately – Brute (from Fawn / Brute)
• 01:57:28 Dieter Ammann – Core (from Core – Turn – Boost & Unbalanced Instability)

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