We wrote down our favourites albums, songs, live artists, newcomers and artists of 2006. No order within the lists below.

Published: January 12, 2006

 

Previous lists:

1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004

"1998" also contains the Swedish Electronic Music Awards and the readers' foreign poll.




Mikael Kahrle

Albums
Qntal: "IV Ozymandias"
Nine Inch Nails: "With Teeth"
Ladytron: "Witching Hour"
Kent: "Du & jag döden"
Kraftwerk: "Minimum Maximum"
Birthday Massacre: "Violet"
Coil: "The Ape of Naples"
Depeche Mode: "Playing the Angel"
Deine Lakaien: "April Skies"
Combichrist: "Everybody Hates You"

Songs
Röyksopp: "What Else Is There?"
Nine Inch Nails: "Only"
VNV Nation: "Perpetual"
Billy Corgan: "Mina Loy (M.O.H.)"
Andy Bell: "Crazy"

Live artists
Rammstein
Kent
U2

Newcomers
Mr Jones Machine
Necro Facility
Andy Bell

Artists
Dead Can Dance
Leæther Strip
Kent



Kristoffer Noheden

Albums
Coil: “The Ape of Naples”
Foetus: “Love”
Antony and the Johnsons: “I Am a Bird Now”
Mick Harvey: “One Man’s Treasure”
Boards of Canada: “The Campfire Headphase”
Mu: “Out of Breach (Manchester’s Revenge)”
Coil: “…And the Ambulance Died in His Arms”
LCD Soundsystem: “LCD Soundsystem”
Brian Eno: “Another Day on Earth”
Xlover: “Pleasure & Romance”

Songs
Pig: “On the Slaughterfront”
The Young Gods: “Secret”
Thåström: “Ingen sjunger blues som Jeffrey Lee Pierce”
Einstürzende Neubauten: ”Springtime”
Nine Inch Nails: “All the Love in the World”

Live artists
Fixmer/McCarthy
Le Tigre
Acid Mothers Temple SWR

Newcomers
Porn Sword Tobacco
M.I.A.

Artists
Coil (R.I.P.)
Kazuki Tomokawa
The Young Gods



Mattias Huss

Albums
CocoRosie: "Noah’s Ark"
Sigur Ros: "Takk"
Midaircondo: "Shopping for Images"
Nine Horses: "Snow Borne Sorrow"
DK7: "Disarmed"
Björk: "Drawing Restraint 9"
Tujiko Noriko: "Blurred in My Mirror"
El Perro del Mar: "Look! It's El Perro Del Mar!"
Depeche Mode: "Playing the Angel"
Jenny Wilson: "Love & Youth"

Songs
Architecture in Helsinki: "Do the Whirlwind"
Le Sport: "Your Brother is My Only Hope
Regina: "Pidä varasi, tyttö!"
Bear Quartet: "Birds are Singing Singing Deep Within the Greenery"

Live artists
Hidria Spacefolk
22 Pistepirkko
Jori Hulkkonen

Newcomers
DK7
Le Sport

Artists
Shinjuku Thief
Jori Hulkkonen



Niklas Forsberg

Albums
Final Selection: "Meridian"
Depeche Mode: "Playing the Angel"
Mind.in.a.box: "Dreamweb"
Thermostatic: "Joy-toy"
Rupesh Cartel: "Mainland"
Kent: "Du & jag döden"
Fusspils 11: "Elektro-polizei - Alarm für Fusspils 11!"
Erasure: "Nightbird"
Deine Lakaien: "April Skies"
Vector Lovers: "Capsule for One"

Songs
Apoptygma Berzerk: "Lost in Translation"
Depeche Mode: "Precious"
Colony 5: "Misery"
Mr. Jones Machine: "Winter Stays on"
Melotron: "Wenn wir wollten"

Live artists
Howard Jones
Thermostatic

Newcomers
Thermostatic
Rupesh Cartel
Reactivate

Artists
Depeche Mode
Kent



Johan Carlsson

Albums
Kent: ”Du & jag döden”
Noise Unit: “Voyeur”
Depeche Mode: ”Playing the Angel”
Rammstein: “Rosenrot”
Foo Fighters: “In Your Honor”
Howard Jones: “Revolution of the Heart”
Conjure One: “Extraordinary Ways”
Melotron: “Cliché”
Mind.in.a.box: “Dreamweb”
Erasure: "Nightbird"

Songs
Kent: “Mannen i den vita hatten (16 år senare)”
Noise Unit: ”Submerged”
Erasure: "Here I Go Impossible Again"
Melotron: ”Stirb für mich”
Howard Jones: "Another Chance"

Live artists
Kent
Howard Jones
Die Krupps

Newcomers
Thermostatic
Mr Jones Machine

Artists
Howard Jones
Kent
Depeche Mode

 

 

 


Sussi Pettersson

Albums
Depeche Mode "Playing the Angel"
Nine Inch Nails "With Teeth"
Seven Ark: "Noise of the New"
Low: "The Great Destroyer"
Jenny Wilson: "Love & Youth"
[brus]: "Slow Emotions EP"
Coil: "The Ape of Naples"
Boards of Canada: "The Campfire Headphase"
Beef Terminal: "Anger Do Not Enter"
Anders Ilar: "Nightwidth EP"

Songs
Nine Inch Nails: "Right Where It Belongs"
Depeche Mode: "Free"
Röyksopp: "What Else Is There?"
Mr Jones Machine: "Winter Stays on"
Annie: "Heartbeat"

Live artists
Deine Lakaien
DAF

Newcomers
Midaircondo

Artists
Depeche Mode
Coil
Nine Inch Nails



Alex Veronac

Albums
Daft Punk: "Human after All"
Belladonnkillz: "Perverted and Proud"
The Arcade Fire: "Funeral"
KMFDM: "Hau Ruck"
Depeche Mode: "Playing the Angel"
Rammstein: "Rosenrot"
Wumpscut: "Evoke"
Re_agent: "Abscond: The Abandon Remixes"
Psyche: "The 11th Hour"

Songs
Belladonnkillz: "Kill Bella Donna"
The Arcade Fire: "Neighbourhood#3 (Lies)"
Metric: "Dead Disco"
T.Raumschmiere: "Sick like Me"
Daft Punk: "Technologic"

Live artists
Front 242
Skinny Puppy
Meat Beat Manifesto

Newcomers
Soman
Fractured

Artists
Front 242
Skinny Puppy
Fixmer/McCarthy



Peter Marks

Albums
Coil: "The Ape of Naples"
Aural Float: "Beautiful Someday"
Deine Lakaien: "April Skies"
Hecq: "Bad Karma"
Kattoo: "Megrim"
Peter Bjargo & Gustaf Hilderbrand: "Out of the Darkling Light Into the Bright Shadow"
Klinik & Vidna Obmana: "Gluttony"
ABBA: "The Complete Studio Recordings"
Architect: "The Analysis of Noise Trading"
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: "B-Sides and Rarities"

Songs
Leæther Strip: "Death Is Walking Next to Me"
Portion Control: "Blood Rushed to the Head"
Fields of the Nephilim: "Requiem (Le Veilleur Silencieux)"
Mind.in.a.box: "Lament for Lost Dreams"
Conjure One: "Extraordinary Way"

Live artists
Dead Can Dance
Peter Murphy
Will Sergeant

Newcomers
Depressive Disorder
Mind Map
Frozen Rabbit

Artists
Leæther Strip
Ataraxia
Coil



Mike Whyte

Albums
Prefuse 73: “Surrounded by Silence”
Sophie Rimheden: “Sophie Rimheden”
Lo-Fi FNK: “(…and the JFG?)”
Alec Empire: “Futurist”
Boards of Canada: “The Campfire Headphase”
Melnyk: “Silence”
Rezonance: “Black Filters”

Songs
Tongari Kids: “Tongari Kids 1”
Rezonance: "Mono Love (Intergalactic Remix)"

Live artists
Prefuse
Beans
Battles

Newcomers
Maximo Park
Lo-fi FNK

Artists
Boards of Canada
Boom Boom Satellites