I have some misgivings about publishing year end lists. But I do find that I gather great suggestions from other peoples lists. There is simply too much great music being made and never enough time to research it all. So with that, I hope that I may introduce some new work to others from my past years collection. I think I have finally narrowed my “Best Of” to 15. Strangely there was no stand out release this year. Plenty of incredible work, but nothing that seemed to deserve a special place at the top apart from the others. So the following are in no particular order.
Novaya Zemlya
Thomas Köner
The Expanding Universe
Laurie Spiegel
The Oram Tapes: Volume One
Daphne Oram
Contrail
Kane Ikin
The Decline Effect
Jim Haynes
Selected Ambient Works Vol. II Vinyl Reissue
Aphex Twin
Above All and Beyond
Helm
Flux
Robert Turman
Particle Language
Matt Carlson
12 Stationer VI
Akos Rozmann
Merciless
Mike Shiflet
Modern Jester
Aaron Dilloway
FE₃O₄ – Magnetite
Mika Vainio
DTI
Lee Gamble
Persuasive Barrier
Three Legged Race
Christopher Bissonnette 