Thinking Man's Top Ten, 2006

Here we are...4 days left & the l@b inundated with requests for what we think of another Ambient year, in music...

Here's my Top Ten *:

01. The Circular Ruins + Off the Sky - We All Fall Down (Dataobscura)
02. O Yuki Conjugate - The Euphoria of Disobedience (OYC)
03. Michael Griffin - The Pulse Meditations (Hypnos)
04. Steve Roach - Immersion 1 (Soundquest)
05. Fern - This First Day (Autoplate)
06. Segue - Forest Refractions (Thinner)
07. Anne Guthrie - Conservatoire (Stasisfield)
08. Marsen Jules - Les Fleurs (City Centre)
09. Robert Fripp - Evensong (DGM)
10. Jars of Clay - Good Monsters (Essential Records & a departure from Ambient/Electronica)

*and an honorable mention to Paul Simon's Eno-fused 'Surprise'.

James Brown is Dead

R.I.P. - the hardest working man in show biz.

Mass hysteria, this is techno.
House is not my home but it rocks though.
I checked up on the late great J.B.,
is dead it's said on national TV.
How? When, and why are the main,
things that I heard when I stroll down the lane
Now memory, man are you with that?
James Brown is dead