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    Posted: February 02 2022 at 11:38
Let's get our kicks in 2006.
Some of these picks are still reaching a little bit, but at least I have a top 10 again 😅

1. Yugen - Labirinto D'Acqua
2. Ozric Tentacles - The Floor's Too Far Away
3. French TV - This Is What We Do
4. Ahleuchatistas - What You Will
5. Hiromi - Spiral
6. Squarepusher - Hello Everything
7. Ut Gret - Recent Fossils
8. Tim Hodgkinson - Sketch Of Now
9. The Mars Volta - Amputechture
10. Soft Machine Legacy - Soft Machine Legacy
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13        Espers II          USA     2006   

12        Univers Zero   Live     Bel       2006   

12        Woven Hand   Mosaic            USA     2006   

11        Aka Moon       Amazir            Bel       2006   

11        Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung, Die (DAAU)      Domestic Wildlife      Bel      

11        Bärtsch, Nik / Ronin   Stoa     Swz      2006   

11        Gösta Berlings Saga   Tid Är Ljud      Swe     2006   

11        Hadouk Trio    Utopies           Fra       2006   

11        Hypnos 69       The Eclectic Measure            Bel       2006   

11        NeBeLNeST     ZePTO             Fra       2006   

11        Portico Quartet          Gypsy Music   Eng      2006   

11        Tunng  Comments of the Inner Chorus         Eng      2006   

11        Uzva    Uoma Fin       2006   


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10        Don Caballero World Class Listening Problem         USA     2006   

10        Faun Fables     The Transit Rider       USA     2006   

10        Karda Estra     The Age of Science and Enlightenment        Eng      2006   

10        Lazuli   En Avant Doute...       Fra       2006   

10        P.G. Six            Music for the Sherman Box Series and Other Works            

10        Panzerpappa   Koralrevens Klagesang          Nor      2006   

10        Soft Machine Legacy, The     Live at the New Morning (December 12th, 2005)   

10        Tool     10,000 Days    USA     2006   

10        Young, Neil     Living with War          Can      2006   

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1. Frost* - Milliontown
2. Puppet Show - The Tale of Woe
3. Guthrie Govan - Erotic Cakes
4. Mike Keneally Band - Guitar Therapy Live
5. French TV  - This Is What We Do
6. Vanden Plas - Christ 0
7. Sylvan - Posthumous Silence
8. A Triggering Myth - The Remedy of Abstraction
9. The Mars Volta - Amputechcture
10. Antique Seeking Nuns - Double Egg With Chips and Beans
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Not much in the avant area in my collection for this year... Still, some OK stuff.

1. Zombi - Surface to Air
2. Deluge Grander - August in the Urals
3. Spaced Out - Unstable Matter
4. Nexus - Perpetuum Karma
5. The Tangent - A Place in the Queue
6. Paatos - Silence of Another Kind
7. The Mars Volta - Amputechture
8. Mindgames - Actors in a Play
9. Sympozion - Kundabuffer
10. Spock's Beard - Spock's Beard

Honorable mentions:
Magenta - Home / New York Suite
Retroheads - Introspective
Opus Est - Opus II
Brighteye Brison - Stories


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Yugen - Labarinto D'Acqua
DAAU - Domestic Wildlife
Panzerpappa - Koralrevens Klagesang
Hamster Theater- The Public Execution of Mr Personality
One Shot - Ewaz Vander
North Sea Radio Orchestra - s/t
Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
Ahleuchatistas - What You Will
Antique Seeking Nuns - Double Egg with Chips and Beans
Alec K Redfearn & The Eyesores - The Smothers Party
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1. Unexpect - "In a Flesh Aquarium"
2. Sylvan - "Posthumous Silence"
3. Russian Circles- "Enter"
4. Diablo Swing Orchestra- "The Butcher's Ballroom"
5. La Maschera Di Cera- "LuxAde" 
6. Tool- "10,000 Days"
7. Guthrie Govan- "Erotic Cakes"
8. PFM- "Stati Di Immaginaione"
9. Deluge Grander- "August in Urals"
10. The Pineapple Thief - "Little Man"
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Circulus - Clocks are Like People
Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Faveravola - Contea dei Cento Castagni
Galahad - Ladhivan
Gavin O'Loghlen and the Cottar's Bequest - Land of the Vast Horizon
Poor Genetic Material - Spring Tidings
Seven Reizh - Samsara
Tenhi - Maaaet
Viima - Ajatuksia...
Woven Hand - Mosaic
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Milliontown - Frost*
Stati Di Immaginazione - Premiata Forneria Marconi
Spock’s Beard - Spock’s Beard
Christ 0 - Vanden Plas

Wild Orchids - Steve Hackett

Ajatuksia maailman laidalta - Viima

Actors in a Play - Mindgames

Cantus Firmus - Advent

Holdfénykert - Yesterdays

Revolution Road - Rocket Scientists
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Mono - You Are There
Sylvan - Posthumous Silence
Pineapple Thief - Little Man
Zero Hour - Specs Of Pictures Burnt Beyond
Frost* - Milliontown
The Gathering - Home
The Tangent - A Place in the Queue
Andromeda - Chimera
Spock’s Beard - Spock’s Beard
Vanden Plas - Christ 0
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Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

9. Sympozion - Kundabuffer
Superb album, music reminds me of National Health. A shame they didn't release a second album. I put this in my top ten of 2005 list. That's the copyright date on the CD. Maybe that's wrong?
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^ 3 live albums and 2 compilations? 

I think music from 2006 takes priority specifically. Like I said, a live album, maybe it's worth listing, but compilations make no sense to be listed in the context of this thread. 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

^ 3 live albums and 2 compilations? 

I think music from 2006 takes priority specifically. Like I said, a live album, maybe it's worth listing, but compilations make no sense to be listed in the context of this thread. 


Good point. If I remove the two compilations, then that'll nicely bring my list down to ten favourite albums for this year. Smile
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I have far more non-prog than prog from these years, it was surprisingly hard to get to 10. Not sure whether 2007 is any better. I looked up the "2006 top albums" on PA and only list a single one of those; I maybe know four or five.

Adrian Belew - Side Three
North Sea Radio Orchestra - s/t
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Art Zoyd - Champ Des Larmes
Asmus Tietchens - Zeta-Menge
Battles - EP C/B (this has more than album length in fact, despite being listed as EP)
Legendary Pink Dots - Alchemical Playschool
Halma - Back to Pascal  
Clogs - Lantern
Peter Hammill - Singularity
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Originally posted by Grumpyprogfan Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Originally posted by progaardvark progaardvark wrote:

9. Sympozion - Kundabuffer
Superb album, music reminds me of National Health. A shame they didn't release a second album. I put this in my top ten of 2005 list. That's the copyright date on the CD. Maybe that's wrong?

I don't know. I don't have it in front me and was basing my list on what I own on RYM (which dates it to 2006, but I apparently have the 2007 issue from Unicorn Digital UNCR-5036). I don't know if I can find my physical copy because I'm transitioning between storage solutions and everything I own from G to Z is piled up on a large dog grooming table (I know, that sounds weird). Embarrassed
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Top 10:
Vanden Plas: Christ.0 (One of my fave albums of all time....)
Seventh Wonder: Waiting In The Wings
Pure Reason Rev: The Dark Third
Frost*: Milliontown
Zero Hour: Specs Of Pictures
Beyond Twilight: For The Love Of..
Magenta: Home
Novembre: Materia
Wolverine: Still
Andromeda: Chimera

Some Hon Mentions:
Mind's Eye: Walking On H20
Proto-Kaw: The Wait Of Glory
Rocket Scientists: Revolution Road
Green Carnation: Acoustic Verses
To-Mera: Transcendental
Adagio: Dominate
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^ that's a great list, forgot about Mind's Eye, great band.
Also Adagio is great, too. 
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Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

^ that's a great list, forgot about Mind's Eye, great band.
Also Adagio is great, too. 

The best Mind's Eye album by some way is 'A Gentleman's Hurricane', Dominion is Adagio's most unexceptional and mainstream album; it's OK, but it's not as strong as either of the first two or Archangels in Black...
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

^ that's a great list, forgot about Mind's Eye, great band.
Also Adagio is great, too. 

The best Mind's Eye album by some way is 'A Gentleman's Hurricane', Dominion is Adagio's most unexceptional and mainstream album; it's OK, but it's not as strong as either of the first two or Archangels in Black...

Adagio is still one of the greatest prog-power bands from France, Symphony X influenced, a lot of fun IMO. 
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On the subject of French bands,...

... Did you ever check out the first two albums by Spheric Universe Experience? They are very strong... the 3rd and 4th much less so, when they went mainstream...

also, Venturia's 2nd, 'Hybrid' in particular is great...


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