Editorial

Do it with others
In conversation with Traumburg and artists from the festival’s ‘23 edition, we unpack what it means to DIWO in an increasingly demanding festival climate.
![Artwork of Searching [DLEP08] by Human Space Machine on De Lichting.](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/626247fd776b77414c8dcfc0/65c4a1c1f16532e876a14ceb_600x600.webp)
Premiere: Human Space Machine - SP4C3
Human Space Machine proves a solid sonic point with ‘Searching’, a gloomy four-old of effective yet deeply heady pieces of club music released on Amsterdam's label De Lichting.

Vica Pacheco
Pacheco intricately weaves multiple art practices exploring the mystical realms of human and non-human relations through the lens of Mesoamerican roots.
![Artwork of Reciprocate [HbF-9] by Intellagama on Amniote Editions.](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/626247fd776b77414c8dcfc0/65bb6bca0b8c8011c7f73dac_600x600.webp)
Premiere: Intellagama - Stretch Bollard
Australian forerunner, Hasvat Informant, returns to the Amniote Editions imprint with the Reciprocate EP under his Intellagama alias.

Musings on worldbuilding
A deepdive into the worldbuilding experiment of Waking Life; a multi-dimensional community project around music, arts and ecology in eastern Portugal.

Premiere: Zambezi Moon - Hearth
Zambezi Moon promises a brooding exploration into the regions of psytrance, DnB and trance on his latest self-released offering ‘Hearth’.

A rave review
From a bird’s eye view, Bogomir Doringer studies partygoers’ collective and individual behavioural patterns and movements within a broader socio-political framework.
![Artwork of SENSE001 [SENSE001] by Alan Backdrop on Sense Code.](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/626247fd776b77414c8dcfc0/65a90146d5f5624ed1c381d5_Alan-Backdrop_Artwork_SC.jpg)
Premiere: Alan Backdrop - Nezera
New imprint on the block, Sense Code, enlists sounds from deep within the Italian underground.

Premiere: Polar Inertia - Arctic Horizon
After 8 years of silence, the enigmatic Polar Inertia project returns on Anthony Linell’s Northern Electronics label.
![Artwork of Oblique Lovers (Moisk Remix) by Grischerr on Blue Gem Cavalcade [TERRAM008]](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/626247fd776b77414c8dcfc0/659fc5c1038e8db944be7a69_-%20copy.jpg)
Premiere: Grischerr - Oblique Lovers (Moisk Remix)
In an ode to earthly mountain magic, Terra Magica Rec. delivers their latest release 'Blue Gem Cavalcade'.
![Artwork of Oblique Lovers (Moisk Remix) by Grischerr on Blue Gem Cavalcade [TERRAM008]](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/626247fd776b77414c8dcfc0/659fc5c1038e8db944be7a69_-%20copy.jpg)
Premiere: Grischerr - Oblique Lovers (Moisk Remix)
![Artwork of Kahakai (ft Malie) by Sindh on Andaman [ABT001]](https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/626247fd776b77414c8dcfc0/65950f7f412c6c0e2f2713c0_cover%202.png)
Premiere: Sindh - Kahakai (ft. Malie)
A-biotic continues its nascent chronicle with 'Andaman,' an incantatory IDM offering by Sindh

Best albums of 2023
Another year, another list. Find out about our favourite albums of 2023.