The ill-ec-tro-nic

With just a few hours to go until we wish a fond farewell to 2006, here's my pick of what was hot this year. I've opted to avoid including re-releases and tunes that rocked this summer's parties (both Rej and Carl Craig's mix of Falling Up would have made the top 10 easily) and I've also opted to avoid the gargantuan effort of putting samples and links to each track as Mr Lange so painstakingly did. Juno or other good stockists should be able to sort you out with most of these and hunting for the harder to find ones is part of the fun anyway. I've also failed to post any actual mp3s as Langer was rather generous in this respect too and I've got to go and iron my bellbottoms and prepare some canapes.

So here are the lists I'm sure you've all been on the edge of your seats to see and here's hoping 2007 is another corker for electronic output!

RAW's Top 40 Singles of 2006

1. Hot Chip – Boy From School (Erol Alkan’s Extended Rework) // EMI
2. Audion – Mouth To Mouth // Spectral Sound
3. Alex Under – Untitled (Multiplicanciones 2) // Apnea
4. Rhythm & Sound – Dem Never Know (Sleeparchive Remix) // Burial Mix
5. Metope - Second Skin ([T]ekel remix) // Sender
6. Loco Dice – Harissa // Cadenza
7. Black Strobe - Nazi Trance F*ck off (Holden remix) // Crosstown Rebels
8. Petter – Some Polyphony // Border Community
9. Martin Buttrich – Full Clip // Planet E
10. Uffie – Pop the Glock // Ed Banger
11. Bug & Tanzmann – Schick n Schock // Poker Flat
12. Spank Rock – Bump (Switch Remix) // Big Dada
13. My Robot Friend – Dial Zero (Modeselektor Remix) // Soma
14. Hot Chip – Over And Over // EMI
15. Claude Von Stroke – Beware of the Bird (Justin Martin Remix) // Dirty Bird
16. Apparat – Montreal // Shitkatapult
17. Marc Houle – Bay of Figs // Minus
18. Troy Pierce - 25 Bitches (Gaiser’s too many bitches makeover) // Minus
19. Boards of Canada – Trans Canada Highway EP // Warp
20. Smash TV – Yellow Asteroids // Bpitch Control
21. Justus Koehncke / Nerk/Dirk Leyers - Speicher 43 // Speicher
22. Extrawelt – Doch Doch // Traum
23. Bodzin vs. Romboy – Telesto / Hydra // Systematic
24.Loco Dice – Seeing Through Shadows // Minus
25. Claude Von Stroke – The Whistler/Who’s Afraid Of Detroit? // Dirty Bird
26. The Knife – Like A Pen (Stephan Bodzin Mix) // Brille
27. Rekorder – Rekorder 7.1 // Rekorder
28. Eyerer & Chopstick – Electric (Williams remix) // Great Stuff Recordings
29. Minilogue – The Girl From Bottany Bay // Wir
30. Lusine – Emerald EP // Ghostly International
31. Tiga – Move My Body // PIAS
32. Alex Metric – Holding // Fourtwenty
33. Depeche Mode - Darkest Star (Holden dub) // Mute
34. Rhythm & Sound – Poor People Must Work (Carl Craig Remix) // Burial Mix
35. Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom – Revelee (Carl Craig Remix) // DFA
36. Theo Parrish – Falling Up (Technasia Remix) // Third ear / Synchrophone
37. Magic Daddy / The Truffle Club – The Insert Title Here EP // Stuff Records
38. Booka Shade – In White Rooms // Get Physical
39. Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer // Playhouse
40. Radio Slave - My Bleep //Rekids

RAW's Top 10 Albums of 2006

1. Hot Chip – The Warning // EMI
2. Alex Smoke – Paradolia // Soma
3. Burial – Burial // Hyperdub
4. Ellen Allien & Apparat – Orchestra of Bubbles // Bpitch Control
5. Marc Houle – Bay of Figs // Minus
6. Underground Resistance – Interstellar Fugitives 2 Destruction of Order // Underground Resistance
7. Anthony Rother – Super Space Model // Datapunk
8. Holden – The Idiots Are Winning // Border Community
9. Trentemoller – The Last Resort // Poker Flat
10. Various – The World is Gone // XL