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I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet...

I won't call this a 'best albums' list, but just some things I liked in 2006:
Alex Smoke - Paradolia
Booka Shade - Movements
Ellen Allien and Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
Kettel - My Dogan
Lou Rhodes - Beloved One
Maus - Overwinning
Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
SCSI-9 - The Line of Nine
Squarepusher - Hello Everything
Underworld - Riverrun Project releases
Yagya - Will I Dream During the Process?

Oooh - here goes (in no apparent order)

Kasabian - Empire
Pet Shop Boys - Fundamental
Squarepusher - Hello Everything
David Arnold - Casino Royal Soundtrack
Trentemoller - The Last Resort
The Beatles - Love
The Knive - Silent Shout
Javier Navarrete - Pan's Labyrinth Soundtrack
Jarvis - Jarvis
The Flaming Lips - At War With the Mystics
Hybrid - I Choose Noise
The Lavender Pill Mob - Mike's Bikes


Of course been liking Phil & Paul's stuff as well and loads more that I forget about at this time.

Its 4am and I cant really think

Tool - 10,000 days

Krafty Kuts - Freakshow

Weird Al - Straight outta Lynwood

Tenacious D - Pick of Destiny OST

Breakspool presents Breakfastaz

Stanton Warriors - Stanton session 2

18 Wheeler - free track from the site are rather funky

Madonna - confessions of the dancefloor.

Roll on the new albums of 07

Im hoping for new ::
Plump DJs proper studio album
Lemon Jelly new material
Longrange and Pauls albums SOON !
and some new things to take my fancy.

Okey dokey, not in any particular order:

Massonix - Subtracks
A Guy Called Gerald - Proto Acid: The Berlin Sessions Vol. 1
The Tranist Kings - Living In A Candle, Winking At God
Bent - Intercept!
The Orb - Podcast (okay, not an album as such...!)
Toy - Toy
Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Rodrigo Y Gabriela
V/A - Tom Middleton: The Trip 2
V/A - The Art Of Chill vol. 3 (System 7)
V/A - Triptych promo mix CD (Fred Deakin of Lemon Jelly)

Got for Christmas, but haven't listened to yet...

Hybrid - I Chose Noise
Hot Chip - The Warning
Squarepusher - Hello Everything

Singles:

Paul Hartnoll - Patchwork Guilt
A Guy Called Gerald/David Simpson - Is Man In Danger?
Justice vs Simian - We Are Your Friends
Bent - To Be Loved

(can't think of many more that stood out...)

Awaiting (in 2007):

Long Range - Madness & Me
Paul Hartnoll - The Ideal Condition
808 State - Quadrastate (reissue via Rephlex)
808 State - ZTT Remasters
A Guy Called Gerald - Proto Acid 12" remixes, drum'n'bass reissues, etc
The Orb - new album with Youth
Joy Division - remastered albums with bonus live CD's, new DVD, Control soundtrack, etc
Fred Deakin (Lemon Jelly) - Triptych mix CD
Ulrich Schnauss - eagerly awaited new album!
Amba (Tom Middleton) - album
Simian Mobile Disco - new album
Bent - The Handbrake (single to coincide with Coca Cola advert!)
One Giant Leap - new album

etc

Have to be honest and say i was generally disappointed with the lack of releases this year that got my juices going, so much so that i am actually struggling to pick anything in particular. Since geting my ipod way back in Feb 06 i have been mostly listening to older albums and back cat stuff.

I am however looking forward to the new Nine Inch Nails stuff, new Goldfrapp album, Amon Tobin and hopefully a Plumps studio album.

Shitloads of stuff... Far too much to list here. Fave track of the year is Plump DJs - Electric Disco (D Ramirez remix)

Clark - Body Riddle
Maus - Overwinning
Squarepusher - Hello Everything
Christ - Blue Shift Emissions
Ochre - Lemodie
Biosphere - Dropsonde
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
half of Plaid - Greedy Baby

Loopz wrote: half of Plaid - Greedy Baby

Do you mean you liked half of it or that it was by half of Plaid? I saw this in NYC and was tempted to buy it but thought I'd heard negative things about it on here...?

2006 was a bit of a let down, music wise for me. But I have been getting into older stuff more (Beatles, Stones etc).

As for stuff released in 06...

Beatles - Love
PSB - Fundamental (grew on me)
Bent - Intercept!
Flying White Dots - Staring At The Sky

And to be honest, that's about it!

Rich

tcb2000 wrote: And to be honest, that's about it!

Rich

What about the Toy album?

Oh yeah, forgot about that!

Indeed a smashing album!

that toy album, jellybass (tho i guess that's an album of 2007 really), bent, bt, hybrid, skye, and probably plenty more but my attention span's just expired

usernick wrote:

tcb2000 wrote: And to be honest, that's about it!

Rich

What about the Toy album?

TCB/Usernick:
I dont be posting much these days, but always lurking. You've stirred my curiosity though. Who are Toy???
What they sound like????
Do you have any links for me (to many discogs to figure who you are talking about)?????


cheers,
Ricky

tcb2000 wrote:

Loopz wrote: half of Plaid - Greedy Baby

Do you mean you liked half of it or that it was by half of Plaid? I saw this in NYC and was tempted to buy it but thought I'd heard negative things about it on here...?

half of the album. I'd give it a try before you buy....

I got loads of great tunes last year. Not many albums, to be honest, but there were lots of quality tracks released. Will have to go through them and put together a list at some point.

RickySteamBoat wrote:

usernick wrote:

tcb2000 wrote: And to be honest, that's about it!

Rich

What about the Toy album?

TCB/Usernick:
I dont be posting much these days, but always lurking. You've stirred my curiosity though. Who are Toy???
What they sound like????
Do you have any links for me (to many discogs to figure who you are talking about)?????


cheers,
Ricky

Sure, no problem - here's the discog link

Best place to discover what their music sounds like is on their Myspace page here - fun is how I'd describe it!