Best of 2006

Looking back on 2006, I guess it was another pretty good year for music. I like doing lists like this because it makes me resurrect cd's that I haven't listened to recently. Like the fabulous RF - Views of Distant Towns. I had almost forgotten that it came out in 2006.

I've noticed as the years have gone by, that my "best of" lists contain less and less ambient music. Now, a lot of the releases on this list have ambient qualities, but are not exactly ambient music per se. This year Scott Solter, Andrew Chalk & Forest Fang fill my traditional ambient quota in the list.

There was no way I could keep the list to a top ten. So here is my list, in no particular order, of the best of 2006(I reserve the right to add to it whenever I feel like it).
Please add your own lists in the comments section.

1. Rf - Views of Distant Towns
2. Christopher Willits - Surf Boundries
3. Burial - st
4. Scott Solter - One River
5. Yellow 6 - The Beautiful Season has Past
6. Triosk - The Headlight Serenade
7. Forest Fang & Carl Weingarten - Invisibilty
8. Helios - Eingya
9. Andrew Chalk - Goldfall
10. Clint Mansell & Mogwai - The Fountain Soundtrack
11. The Necks - Chemist
12. Svalastog - Woodwork
13. Ceptual - Shifts Personal
14. Halma - Back to Pascal
15. Johann Johannsson - IBM 1401
16. Loscil - Plume
17. Marsen Jules - Les Fluers
18. Ryan Teague - Coins & Crosses
19. Loren Connors - Night Through, singles & collected works
20. The Gentleman Losers - st
21. Paul Simon - Surprise
22. Joanna Newsom - Ys
23. Sufjan Stevens - Avalanche
    
24. Deaf Center - Levende
25. Taylor Deupree - Northern
26. North Sea & Rameses III - Night of the Ankou
27. Adrian Klumpes - Be Still
28. Phelan Sheppard - Harps Old Master
29. Hammock - Raising Your Voice...
30. Greg Haines - Slumber Tides
31. Boxhead Ensemble - Nocturnes
32. Green Kingdom - Lucky Bamboo