Best of 2006

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

1. Slomo - The Creep
   
2. Merzbow - Houjoue
   
3. Matinee Orchestra - Matinee Orchestra
   
4. Taylor Deupree - Northern
   
5. Hwyl Nofio - Hounded by Fury
   
6. Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession
   
7. Volcano The Bear - Classic Erasmus Fusion
   
8. Nina Nastasia - On Leaving
   
9. Circle - Miljard
   
10. Scott Walker - The Drift
    
11. Andy Ortmann & John Wiese - Recorder out of tune
    
12. Ruhr Hunter - Moss & Memory
    
13. My Cat is an Alien - Cosmic light of the third Millennium
    
14. Boduf Songs - Lion Devours the sun
    
15. The Residents - Tweedles
    
16. Black Boned Angel - Bliss & Void Inseprable
    
17. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate The Sky
    
18. Oxbow - Love That's Last
    
19. Merzbow - F.I.D
    
20. John Maus - Songs
    
21. Flim - Ohne Titel, 1916
    
22. Xela - The Dead Sea
    
23. Celtic Frost - Monotheist
    
24. Boris - Pink
    
25. The Rita - Thousands of dead Gods
    
26. Satyricon - Now, Diabolical
    
27. Herr - Vondel's Lucifer- First Movement
    
28. Merzbow - Minazo Vol 1
    
29. Jesu - Silver
    
30. To Live and shave in LA - Horóscopo: Sanatorio de Molière
    
31. Head Control System - Murder Nature
    
32. The Cherry Point - Night of the Bloody tapes
    
33. Phil Niblock - Touch Three
    
34. Where - Wererat
    
35. WhiteHouse - Asceticists 2006
    
36. Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton - Black Vomit
    
37. Gerritt & John Wiese - The Disappearing Act Ep
    
38. Agnivolok - Cherries
    
39. Jacob Kirkegaard - 4 Rooms
    
40. Goatvargr - Goatvargr
    
41. Marcus Fjellström - Gebrauchsmusik

Reissues

1. This Heat - Out of Cold Storage (boxset)
   
2. Sissy Spacek - s/t
   
3. Ike Yard - 1980-82 collected
   
4. Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
   
5. Popol Vuh - Cobra Verde
   
6. Aube - Comet
   
7. 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

1. Googoosh - Golden Songs vols 1 & 2 and 40 Golden Hits
   
2. Dona Dumitru Siminică - Sounds From A Bygone Age, volume 3
   
3. Willie Nelson - Crazy: The Demo Sessions
   
4. OSI - Free
   
5. Zombi - Surface To Air
   
6. Susanna And The Magical Orchestra - Melody Mountain
   
7. Opgezwolle - Eigen Wereld
   
8. Sunn0)))&Boris - Altar
   
9. The Haunted - The Dead Eye
   
10. Keiji Haino & Sitaar Tah! - Animamima
    
11. Om - Conference Of The Birds
    
12. Squarepusher - Hello Everything
    
13. Romica Puceanu & The Gore Bros - Sounds From A Bygone Age, volume 2
    
14. Beyond Twilight - For The Love Of Art And The Making
    
15. Darkthrone - The Cult Is Alive
    
16. Killing Joke - Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell
    
17. Ikuinen Kaamos - The Forlorn
    
18. v/a - Radio Algeria
    
19. Jóhann Jóhannsson - IBM 1401 - A user´s manual
    
20. Buckethead & Travis Dickerson - Chicken Noodles
    
21. Kultur Shock - We Are Coming To Take Your Jobs Away
    
22. Khlyst - Chaos Is My Name
    
23. Estradasphere - Palace Of Mirrors
    
24. Track Addicts - RockStarFunk
    
25. Enslaved - Ruun
    
26. Slayer - Christ Illusion
    
27. v/a - Radio Thailand
    
28. Mor Ve Ötesi - Büyük Düşler
    
29. Keiji Haino - Reveal’d to none as yet - an expedience to utterly vanish conscienceness while still alive
    
30. 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