I THINK I'M generally pretty optimistic at the end of the year, but I really do feel confident saying 2006 was a damn fine year for music. Here's a few Portland heads and their picks.
Ken Cheppaikode
Dirtnap Records and Green Noise Records
1. King Khan & BBQ Show - What's for Dinner
2. Marked Men - Fix My Brain
3. Off with Their Heads - Hospitals
4. Toys That Kill - Shanked
5. Head - No Hugging No Learning
6. This Is My Fist - A History Of Rats
7. Riverboat Gamblers - To the Confusion of Our Enemies
8. Dead Moon - Echoes of the Past 2xCD
9. Career Suicide - Attempted Suicide
10. Potential Johns/Chinese Telephones split – s/t
Britt Daniel
From Spoon
1. Eric Bachmann - To the Races
2. Peter Bjorn & John - Writer's Block
3. Lily Allen - Alright, Still
4. Black Nasty - AIDS Can't Stop Me
5. Dr. Octagon - The Return of Dr. Octagon
6. The Drones - Wait Long by the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By
7. Ray LaMontagne - Til the Sun Turns Black
8. Yo La Tengo - I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass
9. ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - So Divided
10. Sound Team - Movie Monster
Jona Bechtolt
From the Blow, YACHT
1. Dear Nora - There Is No Home
2. Adrian Orange - Bitches Is Lord
3. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
4. Bobby Birdman - Giraffes & Jackals
5. Lucky Dragons - Widows
6. Planningtorock - Have it All
7. Valet - Blood Is Clean
8. Ratatat - Classics
9. White Rainbow - BOX
10. Dirty Projectors - New Attitude EP
Charlie Salas-Humara
From Panther, Romancing, Leti Angel
1. Howling Hex - 1,2,3
2. Lips and Ribs - MySpace songs
3. Ratatat - Classics
4. New Bloods - MySpace songs
5. Erase Eratta - Nightlife
6. Arthur Russell - World of Echo Reissue
7. Nice Nice - Yesss
8. Heavy Seals - Jazz Bust
9. Telepathe - EP
10. ...worms - 7-inch
Adam Forkner
From White Rainbow, Co-owner of yarnlazer
1. Valet - Blood Is Clean
2. Tsehaytu Beraki - Selam
3. v/a Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan DVD
4. Hu Vibrational - Universal Mother
5. Rob Walmart - Contains the Hit...
6. Dirty Projectors - New Attitude EP
7. Privacy - Without Mercy
8. Tussle - Telescopic Mind
9. Loscil - plume
10. Tarentel - Home Rukus
Peter Broderick
From Horse Feathers
1. Max Richter - Songs from Before
2. Johann Johannsson - IBM 1401, A User's Manual
3. Ryan Teague - Coins & Crosses
4. Final Fantasy - He Poos Clouds
5. Eluvium - When I Live by the Garden and the Sea
6. MONO & World's End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain
7. Clogs - Lantern
8. Mike Andrews - Hand on String
9. The Album Leaf - Into the Blue Again
10. Talkdemonic - Beat Romantic
Curtis Knapp
From Marriage Records
1. Dirty Projectors - Live at Reed College Sunday Nov 5, '06
2. Aidan Coughlin - Mystery's Mist
3. Valet - Blood Is Clean
4. Tsehaytu Beraki - Selam
5. Rob Walmart - Contains the Hit...
6. The Dead Science - Crepuscule with The Dead Science
7. Les Maîtres du Bèlè - Tambours de Martinique
8. Erdem Helvaco lu - Altered Realities
9. Karl Blau - Beneath Waves
10. Melodium - Flacana Flacana
Bennett Yankey
Rotture booker, from DRUGS
1. Honed Bastion - s/t
2. Danava - s/t
3. Whitehouse - Asceticists 2006
4. Mouthus - Snow Globes
5. Rabbits/Under Mountains - split 12-inch
6. Ear Venom - Acid Headband
7. Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession
8. Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky
9. Silentist - House On the Hill
10. Craft - Fuck the Universe
Danny Seim
From Menomena, Lackthereof
1. Justin Timberlake - SutureSex/GlovedSchlongs
2. Corrina Repp - The Absinthe and the Piss Tint
3. The Roots - Gay M'Theory
4. 31Knots - Pole Hammocks EP
5. Viva Voce - Get Yr Bloody Sucker Out
6. Mew - And the Halfassed Gas Blasts
7. Girl Talk - Knight Romper
8. TV on the Radio - Rugburn thru Cocky Mountin'
9. Wet Confetti - Shake That Laffy Gaspy
10. The Decemberists - Larry Crane's Wife
Fogatron
Beat boxer
1. Copy – Mobius Beard
2. v/a - Bridgetown Breaks Vol.2
3. Manic D - Newspeak
4. Santotzin - Late Night and Dollar Beers
5. DJ Wicked - Fuck the Radio
6. Debaser (Sandpeople) - Crown Control
7. IAMe (Sandpeople / Oldominion) - Noise Complaints
8. Auditory Sculpture - Sessions at East
9. Cleveland Steamers - Treasure Chest
10. Cool Nutz - The Voice of NE Portland vol.1 hosted by E-40
Valentine
From Get Hustle
1. Bobby Beausoleil – Lucifer Rising
2. Silentist - House on the Hill
3. Annette Peacock - 31:31
4. Scott Walker - Drift
5. Valet - Blood
6. Sun Ra - Solar Myth vol 1 & 2
7. Garyland Ray Project's latest album
8. Snoop Dogg - R&G (Rhythm & Gangsta) The Masterpiece
9. Love is Love (A compilation by Erik at Mississippi Records)
10. Josh Taylor's Friends Forever - Bird Attack
