best of 2006

[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

[Trip Head]

Best tune: Eric Sneo - Masters 14a
Best label: Hydraulix
Best producer: Cave
Best DJ: DAVE The Drummer
Best live act: British Murder Boys
Best Newcomer: Adrenaline Records

[Clit Commander]

best tune - Peace Division - Blacklight Sleaze (Radioslave Dub)
best label - Wagon Repair, Podium, Audio Assault
best producer - Martin Buttrich, Par Grindvik
best dj - Joel Mull, Collabs 3000, Luciano, Derrick May
best live act - Mathew Jonson or Jamie Lidell (they actually do stuff!)
best newcomer - Redshape, Radial, Locodice
one to look out for in 2007 - Paco Osuna, SLS (back in top form!)
best club night you've been to - Release
best gig you've seen - awakenings or a 3-day weekend in berlin

my list changes on a daily basis though. I would choose some sort of obscure barely techno references for my boa list, but that would be too predictable and gay.

[robin m]

Off the top of my head

best label - mastertraxx or 4x4
best producer - glenn wilson
best dj - DAVE the drummer
best live act - not seen too many this year, michael forshaw or cursor miner
best newcomer - no idea
one to look out for in 2007 - hopefully messanger will get a good break

Forgot to answer these:

best tune - The Divide - Drop sector or Paul Langley - Jack n juice (tho I'm not sure when they were released tbh)
best club night I've been to - the Interakt birthday party (si begg, ceephax, cursor miner, radioactive man & michael forshaw)
best gig I've seen - too many good ones to choose from... darc marc, DAVE the drummer, Tim Exile, chris lib jump to mind

[eyeswithoutaface]

haha drop sector came out in November 05 ;)

[Dorian Hunter]

Best Label: Audio Assault (& Arms)
Best producer: I think Calvertron has released quite a lot of good stuff
Best track: Truth without pain from Primal, this tune has everything I need, really wikid
Best DJ-set: I really enjoyed Bas Mooy`s set at Tekkno Traxx, really heavy pounding shit, well done m8 :)
Best Live-PA: Dean Rodell @ Tekkno Traxx
Newcomer: J. Walker, DJ Mika, A.P. (Is he "new"? Not sure, but bought the first records from this guy 2006.)

Merry Christmas & a happy new year to all of you!

[robin m]

haha drop sector came out in November 05 ;)

Ah well, all 10 points to Paul Langley then.

[z99]

the year G-Man releases 4 records can't be all that bad :)

here's a list of my techno heroes '2006:

Gez Varley
Gerard Hanson
Robert Henke
John Tejada
Anders Ilar

maybe in this very order, or quite possibly not really //

Geoff White's lovely Nevertheless finally saw the daylight as well -- it's produced years ago tho'

keep 'em coming!

[The Overfiend]

Tune: Brad Lee - All The Girls (Clandestine)
No Nepotism involved either, if you heard it you know I speak truth.

[BloodStar]

best tune - many tunez from TechnoProductionFilez section
best label - AAR, ARMS
best dj - Oscar Mulero
best producer - Paul Mac
best live act - Alexander Kowalski, Dirty Bass
best newcomer - Intel Core 2 Duo
one to look out for in 2007 - Pilsner Urquell in nice new bottle
best club night you've been to - Imperium
best gig you've seen - Imperium

[Athar]

best tune - Hydraulix 13.6 - Mark Ankh - 4th Dimension
best label - Sound Evulution
best producer - Dave The Drummer / Extrawelt
best dj - DJ Clodagh
best live act - Lasse "Choose" Steen on Drop The Bomb IV@London
best newcomer - Mark Ankh
one to look out for in 2007 - AP
best club night you've been to - browar mieszczanski@wroclaw/poland
best gig you've seen - not yet!

[audioinjection]

best tune - Thats a tuff one....
best label - Kanzleramt
best producer - Vince Watson
best dj - Ben Simms
best live act - Surgeon
best newcomer - Peter Horrevorts
one to look out for in 2007 - Wetworks
best club night you've been to - Interface
best gig you've seen - Speedy J @ Interface

[fac]

best live act - Surgeon

[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.

[Elvio Neto]

one to look out for in 2007 - audioklinik

i have one set of him

i think its the best techno set i ever heard in my life :)

[fac]

was totally blown away by Liebing's Live PA stuff

liebing doesnt play live pa's. never did.

[Clit Commander]

liebing doesnt play live pa's. never did.

True, but sadly his Ableton/FinalScratch/Midi Controllers DJ setup (of other peoples tracks) is a lot more live than most original live pa's these days. :(

[eyeswithoutaface]

strange, im sure i saw a few events with Liebing and Speedy doing the Colabs thing live???