best of 2006

[dirty_bass]

FAVE label: City centre offices.
FAVE Producer: Charlie Clouser
FAVE DJ: DJ Boss
Fave Live Act: The Young Gods, by a long long long way.
Fave newcomer: Tough tough decision, will have to be a list....

Rory St John: For amazing production/synth technique.
Villain: For unexpected and very fresh sounds and textures.
Force: Again for artful and original programming technique.
Casual Violence: For taking the dark side away from the rather tedious birmingham model that most seem to follow.

One to look out for in 2007.
Those mentioned above, plus some of the other more original people that have emerged on BOA over the last year or so, and who seem to be trying something different.
Force, Rory St John, Villain, Stoq, Jay Pace (not really a newcomer), Bloodstar spring to mind immediately, but there are also a few others who I hope will forgive me for not mentioning.

All in all a very dissapointing year for techno (well, techno techno, the stuff that sits between minimal and schranze).
Lots of releases by people mimicking their idols.
An increasing stagnation and lack of risk taking in general, it doesn`t surprise me at all that minimal has got so popular, as there seems to be some genuine artistry going on and a genuine spread of diversity within this subgenre.
However, there does appear to me to be a new bunch of rebels emerging who are making interesting sounds and doing it in a different way, which is very encouraging.
I fear however, that 2007 will breed more armies of Dave the Drummer and Glen Wilson clones (which is no discredit to either producer, both lead their fields, rightly so) and more homogonisation within the rather ailing techno scene.
Bring on the diversity and the end of single minded-ness.

[marginmaster]

fave live act= grindviks monuments pa. awesome

and switchblade for no messin pounding loveliness

[echodek]

best label - subject detroit
best producer - claro intelecto, gerald donald
best dj - deetron
best live act - modeselektor
best newcomer - pendle coven
one to look out for in 2007 - http://www.myspace.com/nineninetwo

[Frank Dogshit]

FAVE Producer: Rumenige/Loktibrada, Fanon Flowers.
FAVE DJ: Inigo Kennedy
Fave Live Act: Speedy J

[fac]

Fave Live Act: Speedy J

didnt he stop to play "real" live gigs?

[Numeric]

fave live act= grindviks monuments pa. awesome

yeah the Monuments PA is one of the finest...

also Ian Lehman, Radial and Pat DSP...

Pat DSP's Passport is one of my fave DJ sets from this year without doubt, and Dia.chro.na's Fingerprints Vol.12 also...

[aallvor]

best label - Trapez
best producer - Jeff Samuel
best dj - Switch
best live act - Cobblestone Jazz
best newcomer - None
one to look out for in 2007 - None

[Roxy Trip]

worse sets of 2006

carl cox at wakestock! because he played complete and utter cheese
and dave clarke at warehouse project , he played one of the worse sets ive ever heard !

two of the highest paid dj's ive seen this year..pfft, what a dissapointment :grr:

[Fan]

best tune - Aaron-Carl - Tears (Subject Detroit)
best label - Subject Detroit
best producer - Carl Craig
best dj - Surgeon
best live act - UR/Los Hermanos
best club night you've been to - Electric City
best gig you've seen - Los Hermanos, Suburban Knight, DJ 3000,
Octave One & Rob Hood @ The Warehouse Project

[holotropik]

Best Producer: Dirty Bass
Best Live-set: Chris Liebing @ old river international
Best DJ: dont care...

I felt that 2006 was pretty good from my perspective as I found out lots of new sounds and people. I ended up focussing on new artists because they had the freshness!

I was impressed by what Beyer came up with and was totally blown away by Liebing's Live PA stuff.

Personally I am moving further away from the mainstream DJ driven yadda and into more obscure Live music.

[Buttman]

FAVE label: City centre offices.

Good, good.