Favorite albums 2016

Here is my list. Give us yours.

1. Matthew Stewart - A World Bathed In Sunlight
2. Matthew Margeson - Eddie The Eagle (soundtrack)
3. Jean-Michel Jarre - Electronica 2: The Heart Of Noise
4. Vangelis - Rosetta
5. Sverre Knut Johansen - Earth From Above
6. Pet Shop Boys - Super
7. Cock Robin - Chinese Driver

In random order:

Peter Baumann:Machines of Desire
-it was a total surprise to hear an album of new stuff with the original TD vibe after all these years and it was much better than I would have imagined.

Juhamatti Rautiainen: Endless Now
-extremely beautiful and deep album of varied ambiences, all made with a bass guitar and a lots of pedals

Kebu: Perplexagon
-kebu is definetly the king of this particular retro genre

Robert Rich: What we left behind
-dark and innovative masterpiece from the master

Steve Roach:This Place to be
-the same as above, beautiful soundscapes to float into

Actually I am a bit surprised to note now, that there was probably not too many exceptional albums this year in the more electronic genres?

I pretty much agree with you here.

Stephen

Well - eye did release four albums this year (so far), did You happen to listen to any of them, mon ami...?!?

(...on second thought: forget it! Why did I even ask...?!?! )


Ah, right. *Cough*

On a more serious note - I personally have no idea which may have been the best releases as I only ever got to listen to only a very small part of whatever may have been released, but of those I listened to, I did enjoy

What We Left Behind

and

Vestiges

by Robert Rich certainly the most...


Other electronic albums which I found quite adorable and enjoyed a lot were (in no particular order):

Ian Boddy, Tone Science

Baghiri & Gleisberg, Laudanum

Mathias Grassow, Interstellar Gravity

Closing The Eternity & Mathias Grassow, (no title / same title)

Cosmic Ground, III

Forrest Fang, The Sleepwalker's Ocean


...and from a slightly wider context of "just great" (and rather "progressive") music

Markus Reuter, Todmorden 513 (World Premiere Performance) (OK - material is from 2013)

Stick Men, Prog Noir

King Crimson, Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind


...and I like to give a special mention for the recent re-release of this (formerly out of print) album

Nostalgia, The House On The Borderland

...one of my favorite albums of all time!


I'd also like to state that I didn't get to hear neither Vangelis' nor Jarre's nor Peter Baumann's new album except for one or two tracks from each yet - judging by which I guess I'd value Mr. Baumann's efforts the most of these...

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