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Best of 2006 [2007-01-19]Another year passed which saw many releases again. Personally I haven't been attending all too well this time: I chose to take a step back to look into the past. With the vast amount of superb music already there that's not yet heard by me I sometimes wonder why there's still artists finding the courage to try and add to that. This of course is my personal observation, which is reflected in my top 3, which contains only old music in which I found more fire than in any new release this year. My fellow writers prove to be more in tune with these times, musically. Enjoy!Duncan Simpson
- Triosk - The headlight serenade
- Max Richter - Songsa from before
- Thom Yorke - The Eraser
- Current 93 - Black ships ate the sky
- Mono - You are there
- John Zorn - Moonchild
- Joanna Newsom - Ys
- Leafcutter John - The forest and the sea
- Feu Therese - S/T
- Sigmarsson, Haynes Faulhaber, Waldron, Stapleton - The Sleeping Moustache
- Andrew Liles - Mother Goose's Melody or Sonnets for the Cradle
- Luc Ferrari - Far west news
- Susumu Yokota/Rothko - The distant sounds of summer
- Ryan Teague - Coins and Crosses
- Adrian Klumpes - Be Still
- The Necks - Chemist
- Thighpaulsandra - Chamber Music
- Jan Jelinek - Tierbeobachtungen
New Discoveries
- Miles Davis
- Do Make Say Think
- Fly Pan am
- Herbie Hancock
- Max Richter
- Sun Ra
- Sigur Rós (ignoring the hype for five years turned out not to be the right choice)
Films
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Casino Royal
- Angela
- Memoirs of a Geisha
Events
- Anthony and the Johnsons with Charles atlas - Turning, at the London Barbican, November
- John Zorn Tribute to Derek Bailey and Moonchild - London Barbican, June
- Otomo Yoshihides Anode - ICA London, December
- Evan Parker's electro acoustic ensemble - Queen elizabeth hall London, November
- Katatonia - London mean fiddler, April
Roger Batty
- Slomo - The Creep
- Merzbow - Houjoue
- Matinee Orchestra - Matinee Orchestra
- Taylor Deupree - Northern
- Hwyl Nofio - Hounded by Fury
- Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession
- Volcano The Bear - Classic Erasmus Fusion
- Nina Nastasia - On Leaving
- Circle - Miljard
- Scott Walker - The Drift
- Andy Ortmann & John Wiese - Recorder out of tune
- Ruhr Hunter - Moss & Memory
- My Cat is an Alien - Cosmic light of the third Millennium
- Boduf Songs - Lion Devours the sun
- The Residents - Tweedles
- Black Boned Angel - Bliss & Void Inseprable
- Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky
- Oxbow - Love That's Last
- Merzbow - F.I.D
- John Maus - Songs
- Flim - Ohne Titel, 1916
- Xela - The Dead Sea
- Celtic Frost - Monotheist
- Boris - Pink
- The Rita - Thousands of dead Gods
- Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
- Herr - Vondel's Lucifer- First Movement
- Merzbow - Minazo Vol 1
- Jesu - Silver
- To Live and shave in LA - Horóscopo: Sanatorio de Molière
- Head Control System - Murder Nature
- The Cherry Point - Night of the Bloody tapes
- Phil Niblock - Touch Three
- Where - Wererat
- WhiteHouse - Asceticists 2006
- Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton - Black Vomit
- Gerritt & John Wiese - The Disappearing Act Ep
- Agnivolok - Cherries
- Jacob Kirkegaard - 4 Rooms
- Goatvargr - Goatvargr
- Marcus Fjellström - Gebrauchsmusik
Reissues
- This Heat - Out of Cold Storage (boxset)
- Sissy Spacek - s/t
- Ike Yard - 1980-82 collected
- Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
- Popol Vuh - Cobra Verde
- Aube - Comet
- Stelvio Cipriani - Mario Bava Original Soundtracks Anthology Vol 3
New discoverys
- Miles Davis
- My Cat is an Alien
- Electric Wizard
- Re-finding folk music
Films
- The Innocent
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
- When a Stranger Calls
- Mission Impossible 3
- Hostel
- Miami Vice
- Click
Martijn Busink
- Googoosh - Golden Songs vols 1 & 2 and 40 Golden Hits
- Dona Dumitru Siminică - Sounds From A Bygone Age, volume 3
- Willie Nelson - Crazy: The Demo Sessions
- OSI - Free
- Zombi - Surface To Air
- Susanna And The Magical Orchestra - Melody Mountain
- Opgezwolle - Eigen Wereld
- Sunn0)))&Boris - Altar
- The Haunted - The Dead Eye
- Keiji Haino & Sitaar Tah! - Animamima
- Om - Conference Of The Birds
- Squarepusher - Hello Everything
- Romica Puceanu & The Gore Bros - Sounds From A Bygone Age, volume 2
- Beyond Twilight - For The Love Of Art And The Making
- Darkthrone - The Cult Is Alive
- Killing Joke - Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell
- Ikuinen Kaamos - The Forlorn
- v/a - Radio Algeria
- Jóhann Jóhannsson - IBM 1401 - A user´s manual
- Buckethead & Travis Dickerson - Chicken Noodles
- Kultur Shock - We Are Coming To Take Your Jobs Away
- Khlyst - Chaos Is My Name
- Estradasphere - Palace Of Mirrors
- Track Addicts - RockStarFunk
- Enslaved - Ruun
- Slayer - Christ Illusion
- v/a - Radio Thailand
- Mor Ve Ötesi - Büyük Düşler
- Keiji Haino - Reveal’d to none as yet - an expedience to utterly vanish conscienceness while still alive
- Ice Cube - Laugh Now, Cry Later
Concerts
- Sunn0))), Earth & Richard Bishop - Tegentonen, Amsterdam
- Sunn0))) Moog Ceremony - Brussels, Belgium
- Zombi - Amsterdam
- Mansour & Ebi - Amsterdam
- Taksim Trio - Amsterdam
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