People are poor substitutes for paper.
Here is a silly list that I spent days working on. It's been a great year for music, especially for hip hop and techno. Every single one of these records have been very good to me at some point during the past year.
1. Magda - She's a Dancing Machine
2. Cut Copy - Fabric Live 29
3. Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer
4. The Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
5. New Young Pony Club - s/t EP
6. Claude Vonstroke - Beware of the Bird
7. Luciano - Sci. Fi Hi. Fi Vol. 2
8. Mahogany - Connectivity!
9. Justin Timberlake - Futuresex / Lovesounds
10. My My - Songs For the Gentle
11. Crowdpleaser & St. Plomb - 2006
12. Tiefschwarz - Fabric 29
13. The Daysleepers - Hide Your Eyes EP
14. T.I. - King
15. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
16. Matthew Dear as Audion - Fabric 27
17. Ellen Allien and Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
18. The Blow - Paper Television
19. Cat Power - The Greatest
20. Beach House - Beach House
21. Trespassers William - Having
22. Troy Pierce - 25 Bitches EP
23. Yo La Tengo - I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
24. Booka Shade - Movements
25. Colleen - Mort Aux Vaches
26. Louderbach - Enemy Love
27. Ms. John Soda - Notes and the Like
28. Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals
29. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
30. Juana Molina - Son
31. Broadcast - The Future Crayon
32. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
33. Ellen Allien & Audion - Just A Man/Just a Woman EP
34. SebastiAN - Ross Ross Ross EP
35. Herbert - Scale
36. Spank Rock - Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo
37. Lindstrøm - It's a Feedelity Affair
38. Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island
39. Guillemots - Through the Windowpane
40. Barbara Morgenstern - The Grass is Always Greener
41. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
42. Cansei de ser Sexy - s/t
43. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
44. Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things (this is climbing though....)
45. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
46. MSTRKRFT - The Looks
47. El Perro del Mar - s/t
48. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
49. The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home
50. My Morning Jacket - Okononos
51. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
52. Figurines - Skeleton
53. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
54. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
55. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
56. Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
57. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
58. Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
59. The Pipettes - We are the Pipettes
60. Manual - Bajamar
61. Johnny Boy - Johnny Boy
62. Destroyer - Rubies
63. Syntaks - Awakes
64. Beck - The Information
65. Alex Smoke - Paradolia
66. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
67. Max Richter - Songs from Before
Very arbitrary number but everything after 67 is either kind of hit or miss or just plain shitty (i.e. that Nathan Fake record is terrible).
1. Magda - She's a Dancing Machine
2. Cut Copy - Fabric Live 29
3. Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer
4. The Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
5. New Young Pony Club - s/t EP
6. Claude Vonstroke - Beware of the Bird
7. Luciano - Sci. Fi Hi. Fi Vol. 2
8. Mahogany - Connectivity!
9. Justin Timberlake - Futuresex / Lovesounds
10. My My - Songs For the Gentle
11. Crowdpleaser & St. Plomb - 2006
12. Tiefschwarz - Fabric 29
13. The Daysleepers - Hide Your Eyes EP
14. T.I. - King
15. Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
16. Matthew Dear as Audion - Fabric 27
17. Ellen Allien and Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
18. The Blow - Paper Television
19. Cat Power - The Greatest
20. Beach House - Beach House
21. Trespassers William - Having
22. Troy Pierce - 25 Bitches EP
23. Yo La Tengo - I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
24. Booka Shade - Movements
25. Colleen - Mort Aux Vaches
26. Louderbach - Enemy Love
27. Ms. John Soda - Notes and the Like
28. Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals
29. Liars - Drum's Not Dead
30. Juana Molina - Son
31. Broadcast - The Future Crayon
32. Asobi Seksu - Citrus
33. Ellen Allien & Audion - Just A Man/Just a Woman EP
34. SebastiAN - Ross Ross Ross EP
35. Herbert - Scale
36. Spank Rock - Yo Yo Yo Yo Yo
37. Lindstrøm - It's a Feedelity Affair
38. Lansing-Dreiden - The Dividing Island
39. Guillemots - Through the Windowpane
40. Barbara Morgenstern - The Grass is Always Greener
41. Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
42. Cansei de ser Sexy - s/t
43. Belle & Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
44. Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things (this is climbing though....)
45. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
46. MSTRKRFT - The Looks
47. El Perro del Mar - s/t
48. Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain
49. The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home
50. My Morning Jacket - Okononos
51. Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
52. Figurines - Skeleton
53. Girl Talk - Night Ripper
54. Mogwai - Mr. Beast
55. Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
56. Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
57. Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
58. Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins - Rabbit Fur Coat
59. The Pipettes - We are the Pipettes
60. Manual - Bajamar
61. Johnny Boy - Johnny Boy
62. Destroyer - Rubies
63. Syntaks - Awakes
64. Beck - The Information
65. Alex Smoke - Paradolia
66. Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye
67. Max Richter - Songs from Before
Very arbitrary number but everything after 67 is either kind of hit or miss or just plain shitty (i.e. that Nathan Fake record is terrible).