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