Josdigital’s favorite albums of 2006

I know I should’ve done this around New Year, but I was still too busy discovering new music. You see, the internet was a gold mine for discovering new music and movies at that time cause every blogger came out with their “Best of 2006″ list and so am I.

This isn’t what I feel is the best of 2006, cause I know I’ve been missing out on a lot of underground hiphop, I’ll pick up on that later on. But what I find interesting is that I discovered a lot of new styles and genres this year, and I think that has partially to do with the online music service Last.fm that I’ve been using for the last year or so.
I used to listen to mostly hiphop, instrumental or down-tempo, but since I’ve been using Last.fm I got to know genres like post-rock, electronica, indie rock, ambient and others. BTW this is not an ad for Last.fm :-).

I know I’m a little late but here are my most memorable albums of 2006, in no particular order:

• “Hello Everything” Squarepusher
• “Mr. Beast” Mogwai
  
• “The Eraser” Thom Yorke
• “Days to Come” Bonobo
  
• “The Mouse and the Mask” Danger Doom
• “A Piece of Strange” Cunninlynguists
• “Donuts” J Dilla
  
• “Eigen Wereld” Opgezwolle
• “The Soft Machine” Ozark Henry
• “Swallowed by the Machines” Goddamn Electric Bill
• “The Audience’s Listening” Cut Chemist
• “Return to Cookie Mountain” TV on the Radio
• “Remixes” Four Tet
• “The Information” Beck

Honorable mentions: “Into the Blue Again” The Album Leaf, “So This Is Goodbye” Junior Boys, “The Crane Wife” The Decemberists, “The Garden” Zero 7, “Everything All the Time” Band of Horses