I dont think too many more albums will be coming out in the next week so how about we reflect on the year that's past? List top 5, 10, or do whatever you like. I suppose we could have some way of scoring them and come up with a consensus, but who wants to be official anyway?

i'm slowly getting my list together as we speak. I will probably come up with a top 25 or so...thanks for starting this thread

I'll make a complete list later but "Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding" is definitely one of them.

Einstürzende Neubauten - "Perpetuum Mobile"
Venetian Snares - "Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding"
Pan Sonic - "Kesto (234.48:4)"
Keef Baker - "The Widnes Years"
Damn, I have to get more electronic music. Most of the electronic I have that isn't ambient is kinda old I guess. I will probably check out some of the albums on other people's lists in this thread.

Well, I decided to do a top 40 list. The first 10 are my top 10 of the year (I think ), while 11-40 being really in no sequential order...

1. Bitcrush- Enarc
2. Pixel- Display
3. Aoki Takemasa- Simply Funk
4. Enduser- From Zero
5. Andrew Deutsch- Loops Over Land
6. Max Richter - The blue notebooks
7. Pan Sonic - Kesto (234:48:4)
8. Keef Baker- The Widnes Years
9. Biosphere- Autour de la Lune
10. Fennesz- Venice
11. Lars Horntveth- Pooka
12. Photophob - Your Majesty Machine
13. Helios- Unomia
14. Proem- Socially Inept
15. Arovane- Lilies
16. eDIT- Crying over Pros for no Reason
17. OOO- Upon Cycles
18. Hervé Boghossian- Mouvements
19. Secret Frequency Crew - Forest Of The Echo Downs
20. Mr. 76ix - Hits Of 76ix
21. Skalpel- Skalpel
22. Squarepusher- Ultravisitor
23. Jason Forrest- The Unrelenting Songs Of The 1979 Post Disco Crash
24. End- The Sounds of Disaster
25. Kattoo- Places
26. I:gor - Barwy Kolorow
27. Mothboy - The Fears
28. Squaremeter – Aswad
29. Ten and Tracer- Companion
30. Fourcolor- Air Curtain
31. Jóhann Jóhannsson - Virðulegu Forsetar
32. Mitchell Akiyama - If Night Is A Weed And Day Grows Less
33. The Boats- Songs by the Sea
34. The Dead Texan- The Dead Texan
35. Boc Scadet - temporary oceans
36. Scanner - The Radiance of a Thousand Suns Burst Forth at Once
37. Zegunder - Distant Birds? Thought They Were Leaves..
38. Akufen / Freeform / Rip-Off Artist - Blu TribunL
39. Erast- Goodair/Minimizing
40. Deadbeat - Something Borrowed, Something Blue
(tie) The Flashbulb- Red Extensions of Me

Sweet Jesus man! I guess I have my work cut out for me, it's a good thing I have a week off...

well, i've listened to a lot this year. Those were just the highlights (in my opinion)

Greetings from Florida. i am just checking in on you guys. found that my grades were sufficient to my liking. i have achieved a 3.4 GPA so i guess im happy. anyhow, back to the list. i have been checking out a lot of older material..especially Ulrich Schnaus' "Isolated Strange Place" album. i love it. but i must say that's quite a list there Josh. mine would be a bit different though. i am going to think on my toes here..i haven't really compiled anything over time. so here it goes..
(i know this will be similar to my previous post on the 2004 releases but a few choices have changed)

1. Helios - Unomia
2. Milanese - 1 Up
3. 3Tronik - Mirror (sutemos)
4. Proem - Socially Inept
5. Ilkae - Stained Glass Confetti EP (monotonik)
6. Team Shadetek - Burnerism
7. Erast - Goodair/Minimissing

my time is out on this compuer..it automatically shuts down...friggin

I believe that I have heard a good bit of those, at least once.

To be more accurate, one or both of my daughters were playing them around me. I think, that they think, they are attempting some sort of underground revolution. I can't call it a subliminal revolution, with the volumes they listen to them.


However, the Ancient One was the one that hipped them to, Fennesz. You have no idea, just how much it bugs my kids when I hip them to things, which are supposed to be from their generation.

well, if they have a copy of Andrew Deutsch's "loops over land", i'll be more than happy to buy it from them