HERE ARE MY TOP ALBUMS OF 2005 IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
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Supersilent "7" (Rune Grammofon)
Elaine Radigue "Elemental II" (Rosa)
Tape "Rideau" (Hapna)
Hototogisu "Green" (Eclipse)
Mountains "Mountains" (Apestaartje)
Greg Davis/Sebastien Roux "Paquet Surprise" (Carpark)
V/A Shigeru Umebayashi "2046 Soundtrack" (EMI-UK)
Pierre Schaeffer "L'Oeuvre Musicale - reissue" (INA-GRM)
Iannis Xenakis "La Legende d'Eer - DVD" (Mode)
Ryoji Ikeda "Dataplex" (Raster-Noton)
SUNN O))) "Black One" (Southern Lord)
Tod Dockstader "Aerial - series" (SubRosa)
Alva Noto/Ryiuchi Sakamoto "Insen" (Raster-Noton)
David Sylvian/Bernd Friedmann/Morten Grønvad/Steve Jansen "Snow Borne Sorrow" (Samadhisound)
V/A "Small Melodies" (Spekk)
The Lappetites "Before the Libretto" (Quecksilber)
Stillupsteypa/BJNilsen "Vikinga Brennivin" (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
EARTH "Legacy of Dissolution - remixes" (No Quarter)
Birchville Cat Motel "Chi Vampires" (CPSIP)
Rova::Orchestrova "Electric Ascension" (Atavistic)
V/A "Archives GRM - box set" (INA-GRM)
Overall a pretty darn explorative year in sound - few things reallys stood out as "changing the history of sound as we know it", but there were many adventurous works that took the ears to exciting places and did so with degrees of virtuosity and distinction.
Favorite new genre/sound thats come around: Doom-Drone-Urmetal! (ala Boris, Sunn, Black Boned Angel, etc.)
