Another end of the year – another Trommel top-100 selection. It’s a great tradition already. As of every year, in 2023 we monitored most of the records released and selected a bunch with a methodology that takes into account both objective stats taken from our website, Instagram, Soundcloud, and YouTube. Together with subjective parameters from most of the wider Trommel team (7 people), without limits ourselves on what has been premiered or promoted at Trommel. This year it was, as usual – around 300 tracks on the long list, around 110 on the shortlist, and then – hard and painful choices about who’s going to be cut last (the worst part of this selection, to be honest, but we must deliver that number of 100).
Who we can highlight – probably, Sweely, it seems, that this year he gave us the most submissions and got the most tracks in the final selection. Like Man/ipulate in 2022, DJOKO/Kolter in 2021 or Alec Falconer in 2020. Of course, it’s only our choice, but in case, some stat heads are reading us right now…
So, the final selection is below. Stay safe and we’ll see you in the next year. At the parties or in our comments section. As usual.
- UN:PHAZED – 2101 [UNPHAZED2101]
- Qzzaargh – Abuse Team [DTL001]
- Jive Talk – Action Vest [GRECS002]
- Inner Lakes – Amnesia [AOD018]
- Jamie Clarke – Angor Animi (Barac Remix) [EIT004]
- IT Guys – Baile Delito [NQ002]
- Admo – Bathtub Rendezvous [TSOL009]
- Olga Korol & Per Hammar – Beshket [DH009]
- Fantastic Man – Beyond Control [SCR-017]
- Boulderhead – Bread, Butter, Noodles, Spice (feat. Overnite Oates) [TSOL006]
- Kolter – Bust A Beat [KOX01]
- HearThug – Buzz! Look An Alien (Oh No-No Mix) [SEXTAPE004]
- Sweely – Chi-Town Shuffle [GS002]
- Unknown Artist – Chicos, Chicas [TCR002]
- The Ghostbusters – Clown [CLR005V]
- Data Memory Access – Cypher [MW006]
- Otis – D-D-D-D-Dope [DDC001]
- Olsvanger – Darkroom Dubz [OYSTER44]
- Yaroslav M – Daydreaming [HPNHS005]
- Derek Carr – Destiny (Yossi Amoyal Remastered Edit) [PRTR24]
- sshadess – Discoteka [domesticated006]
- Aldonna – Divine Time [SEXTAPE003]
- Munir Nadir – Dream Team [OTP04]
- iO (Mulen) – Ecstasy [MULENV024]
- Cristian Sarde – Feel The Funk [RDC001]
- Sweely – Feel Like A Star [AF002]
- Lepaya – Freeway [MOR004]
- Sweely – Gedup (And Move Your Butt) [TSOLLP2]
- Roma Khropko – Great Feelings [CV08]
- Gabriel Belabbas – Good Times [PF003]
- Antraum – Hachi [OMAKASE002]
- Chris Korda – Have A Good One [BBB]
- Lucretio & Omar Akhrif – Heartgirls [WB028]
- Elissa Suckdog – History Will Condemn Me [DOG002]
- Sally C – Hit It [BSC003]
- Henriku & Alexander Skancke – I Wanna Party [QRK009]
- Edward – I’ll Take You There [glg2023]
- Ricardo Villalobos – I’m Broken (Mix 1) [BQDTRX202]
- Jucid – Ice Cave [EYA024]
- Abdul Raeva – Invasive Overdrive Track [HIPS001]
- Richer – La Reina De La Noche (Night Mix) [OPIA013]
- Nikol – Leon [MASS001]
- Subb-an – Life Cycles [SS001]
- The Magic Olives – Love Machine [GETTRAUM009]
- Hulu – Magic Circle [PTENSE001]
- Levon Vincent – Medium Is The Message II (Long Mix) [NS-40]
- Matthew Dexter – Mercurial [AOP008]
- Jacopo Latini – Motherboard [ALT009]
- Tunik – New Dawn Fades [DKMTL096]
- Unknown Artist – Nuit [SISU003]
- Dan Andrei – Oddity [arpiar017]
- NTFO – Ongoing Wushu [AKU022]
- Grant Dell & Adam Collins – Out West [DAMN001]
- Charonne – Overload [VS001]
- Riku Sugimoto – Part Of Reality [10/X]
- Desert Sound Colony – Pickle Power [SOCK05]
- S.A.M. – Project050 (Studio Version) [DELAPHINE011]
- Cojoc – Prosecco [CARPATHIAN01]
- Levat – Re-Merge [MR-07]
- Pedro Goya – Reaction [YOY014]
- Christian AB – Red Tears [LNDD002]
- Z@p – Reminiscencia [MOJ18]
- Pancratio – Romantic Wave [OTTA7]
- Kamasutra – Running Away (Gene On Earth Remix) [WFR003MX]
- Brent – S.O.M. [G001]
- Komponente – Sanctuary [TVIR010]
- Aline Umber – Short Message Service [TWWR002]
- Petre Inspirescu – Si [DISDAT006]
- Toke – Sia [GRFF010]
- Sohrab – Silk Road [OYSTER40]
- Eversines – Simple Honesty [SL037]
- Fio Fa – Slyclops Is Back [SUNSET002]
- Badmango – So A [GIABR005]
- JNJS – So Sick And Tired [SVDR3]
- Christian AB – Sound II [TL11]
- Giralda & Sepp – Spacer (Tent 4 Re-Edit) [GIR002V]
- Mad.Again – Steppin’ [HMGRWN003]
- Unknown Artist – Supamen [SUPA001]
- B.AI – Take It Back [FRESH002]
- Juaan – Talt [PF005]
- Los Bastoneros – Testdrive [KPTV01]
- Rupert Ellis – The Animator [ITWD001]
- Man/ipulate – The Gain [PPR005]
- Alex Pervukhin – The GB Track (Goodbye Mix) [MR.B005]
- Martyné – The Life [TRAFFIC020]
- Arno & Radatz – The People002 [PTX030]
- Lamalice – The Purge [PLT001]
- Occibel – Thriller [HOARD024]
- Guy From Downstairs – Time Is Short And Love Is [RAWAX-S023]
- Voodoos And Taboos – Tokyo Synthetica [V&T004]
- Aline Umber & Maxime dB – Tribute to Malibu [AF003]
- DJ Gamba – UFO (Paolo Mosca Remix) [CUPULA003]
- Unknown Artist – Untitled A1 [TELUM011]
- Unknown Artist – Untitled A2 [CHIVALRY002]
- Unknown Artist – Untitled AB [HOSTOM007]
- Trent Voyage & Elena Moroder – Viola, Rosa, Blu [QRK008]
- Juaan – Voluntad 2 [22247003]
- Eric OS – Watch Me [ST003]
- Sweely – Waves After Waves [LMBG13]
- BOSS – Wonder (Markus Nikolai Remix) [SIC025]
DISCLAIMER. Please note that this section is a collection of 100 tracks that the team at Trommel enjoyed most in the passing year. It should not be intended as a ranking or chart/classification in any form, and the list of tracks is made following track name in A-Z order. It also reflects the subjective taste of the team components from their personal but limited knowledge of what has been released during 2023.
You can also check our previous selections from 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
ALSO. This article was written in Ukraine. Ukraine is in the middle of the war with Russia right now. Would be great if you could donate to the biggest Ukrainian volunteer fund here. Also, you can pick any music initiative, that is also trying to help from our list here. We’ll be stronger together.
