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Albums Of The Year 2006 - The Results
All the votes are in, the stat-monkeys have looked at the figures through magnifying glasses and telescopes and we can now announce the results of The Big Chill 2006 Album of the Year poll. What a great year 2006 was for music...The results show that, more than ever, Big Chillers are defined by their love for all good music - irrespective of genre. Votes were spread amongst a variety of styles, taking the top ten artist albums from big name electronica and downtempo (Nathan Fake, Thom Yorke, Bonobo, Gotan Project), through out-and-out dance music (Hot Chip & Trentemoller) all the way to indie rock (Arctic Monkeys).
Pete Lawrence comments; 'It's good to see Big Chillers tastes broadening more than ever in the most exciting year for new music for a while.'
The biggest albums all polled such similar numbers of votes that they are all winners, so in a change to previous years, this year we are announcing the Top Ten in alphabetical order...
Top 10 Artist Albums
(in alphabetical order)
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
BiggaBush - BiggaBush in Dub
Bonobo - Days to Come
Gotan Project - Lunatico
Hot Chip - The Warning
Kleptones - 24 Hours
Laroca - Friends in Faraway Places
Nathan Fake - Drowning In a Sea of Love
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Trentemoller - Last Resort
The following albums also polled a high number of votes, just missing out on the top ten...
Ali Farka Toure - Savane
Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
Bent - Intercept!
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Chilled by Nature - Under One Sun
Coldcut - Sound Mirrors
Fink - Biscuits For Breakfast
Gnarls Barkely - St Elsewhere
Lily Allen - Alright, Still
Mike Monday - Smogasbord
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - Keep Reachin' Up
Nightmares on Wax - In a Space Outta Sound
Quantic - An Announcement To Answer
Skream - Skream!
Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
Telefuzz - Financiers of Samsara
The Beauty Room - The Beauty Room
The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics
Tunng - Comments Of The Inner Chorus
Zero 7 - The Garden
Zero db - Bongos, Bleeps & Basslines
Top 5 Compilations
(in alphabetical order)
James Holden at The Controls
Mr Scruff’s Big Chill Classics
Take Me Home (compiled by Pete Lawrence)
The Big Chill (compiled by Pete Lawrence)
The Trip 2 (compiled by Tom Middleton)
Many thanks to everyone who voted for Big Chill compilations - all 3 of 2006's Big Chill compilations made the Top 5!
Live Music
For the first time, 2006's poll also included the question - 'What was your favourite live set of 2006?' Again, a variety of responses, but well done to the following who all garnered multiple responses. Perhaps not surprising, but still gratifying, was the number of people who enjoyed their favourite live show during The Big Chill festival at Eastnor.
Amadou and Mariam @ Eastnor
Bent @ Eastnor
Biggabush
Coldcut @ Eastnor
Digitonal @ Eastnor
Esbjorn Svensson Trio @ Eastnor
Fink @ Eastnor
Gogol Bordello @ Warsaw
Guillemots @ The Astoria
Jamie Lidell @ Eastnor
Jon Hopkins @ Eastnor
Lambchop @ Eastnor
Laroca @ Eastnor
Lawrence @ Eastnor
Muse
Nathan Fake @ Eastnor
Primal Scream @ The Astoria
Rodrigo y Gabriela @ Eastnor
Sufjan Stevens @ Manchester Academy 2
DJ Sets
In keeping with this year's trend, a wide variety of different DJ sets we acclaimed as 'the best of 2006'. These are the ones who garnered multiple votes...
Andy Weatherall @ Electric Picnic
Bam Bam @ Eastnor
Ben Mynott, FluidNation @ BCH
Biggabush
Chris Coco @ Eastnor
Eric Kleptone @ Mutation, Birmingham
Erol Alkan
Gilles Peterson @ Eastnor
Hexstatic
Johnny Clash closing set at bricklane festival
Kleptones
Marc Mac @ Eastnor
Mixmaster Morris
Mr Scruff @ Eastnor
Norman Jay @ Eastnor
Plaid @ Eastnor
Rob Da Bank
Music isn't a race, so congratulations to everyone involved in making 2006 such a great year for new music.
Written: 1st Jan, 07
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