We wrote down our favourites albums, songs, live artists, newcomers and artists of 2006. No order within the lists below.

Published: January 8, 2007

 

Previous lists:

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"1998" also contains the Swedish Electronic Music Awards and the readers' foreign poll.




Mikael Kahrle

Albums
IAMX: "The Alternative"
Portion Control: "Filthy White Guy"
The Knife: "Silent Shout"
Röyksopp: "Röyksopp's Night out EP"
Hybrid: "I Choose Noise"
Mesh: "We Collide"
Pet Shop Boys: "Fundamental"
Laibach: "Volk"
Cryo: "Cryogenic"
Tiga: "Sexor"

Songs
IAMX: "The Alternative"
Pet Shop Boys: "I'm with Stupid"
Gabriel & Dresden feat Jan Burton: "Dangerous Power (Cicada Full Mix)"
Covenant: "The World Is Growing Loud"
Frost: "Sleepwalker"

Live artists
The Knife
Nitzer Ebb
Depeche Mode

Newcomers
Cryo
Cat5

Artists
Nitzer Ebb
The Knife
Depeche Mode



Kristoffer Noheden

Albums
Einstürzende Neubauten: "Klaviermusik"
Foetus: "Damp"
Ministry: "Rio Grande Blood"
Pere Ubu: "Why I Hate Women"
Motor: "Klunk"
Scott Walker: "The Drift"
Tiga: "Sexor"
The Knife: "Silent Shout"
Current 93: "Black Ships Ate the Sky"
The Legendary Pink Dots: "Your Children Placate You from Premature Graves"

Songs
Einstürzende Neubaten: "Jeder Satz mit ihr hallt nach"
Max Peezay: "Lämmeltåget"
Coil: "The Remote Viewer 4"
Matmos: "Solo Buttons for Joe Meek"
Foetus: "Chimera"

Live artists
Thåström
Max Peezay
Blixa Bargeld

Newcomers
Max Peezay.

Artists
Einstürzende Neubauten
Scott Walker
Edward Ka-spel



Mattias Huss

Albums
The Knife: "Silent Shout"
Hot Chip: "The Warning"
O Yuki Conjugate: "The Euphoria of Disobedience"
Death in June: "Free Tibet"
Tom Waits: "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards"
Koop: Koop Islands
Current 93: "Black Ships Ate the Sky"
Laibach: "Volk"
Belle & Sebastian: "The Life Pursuit"
Tokyo Jihen: "Otona"

Songs
Einstürzende Neubauten: "Jeder Satz mit ihr hallt nach"
Husky Rescue: "Diamonds in the Sky"
Momus: "Frilly Military"
Shiina Ringo: "Karisome Otome"
Paavoharju: "Montezuma"

Live artists
Morrissey

Newcomers
Ebb

Artists
Antony Hegarty
Kahimi Karie
Polysics



Niklas Forsberg

Albums
Code 64: "Departure"
The Knife: "Silent Shout"
Camouflage: "Relocated"
Intuition: "Overworked & Underplayed"
Seabound: "Double-crosser"
Mesh: "We Collide"
John Alexander Ericson: "Black Clockworks"
Universal Poplab: "Uprising"
Portion Control: "Filthy White Guy"
IAMX: "The Alternative"

Songs
Pet Shop Boys: "Fugitive (Richard X Remix)"
Chinese Theatre feat Distain: "History Forecast (AMP Remix)"
Frozen Plasma: "War/Flashbacks"
Covenant: "Brave New World"
The Legends: "Another Sunday"

Live artists
-

Newcomers
Frozen Plasma
047

Artists
Camouflage
The Knife
Mesh



Johan Carlsson

Albums
IAMX: "The Alternative"
Delerium: "Nuages du Monde"
Pet Shop Boys: "Fundamental"
Hybrid: "I Choose Noise"
Trentemöller: "The Last Resort"
Bitcrush: "In Distance"
Front Line Assembly: "Artificial Soldier"
Röyksopp: "Röyksopp’s Night out EP"
Code 64: "Departure"
Mesh: "We Collide"

Songs
IAMX: "Spit It out"
Delerium: "Tectonic Shift"
Hybrid: "Just for Today"
Mesh: "Petrified"
Gabriel & Dresden feat Jan Burton: "Dangerous Power (Cicada Full Mix)"

Live artists
The Knife
Front Line Assembly
Depeche Mode

Newcomers
Cryo
Trentemöller

Artists
IAMX
Front Line Assembly
Pet Shop Boys

 


Sussi Pettersson

Albums
Laibach: "Volk"
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness: "Fear Is on Our Side"
Mesh: "We Collide"
The Radio Dept: "Pet Grief"
Koop: "Koop Islands"
IAMX: "The Alternative"
The Knife: "Silent Shout"
Anders Ilar: "Ludwijka EP"
Various artists: "In Memoriam: Jhonn Balance ...It Just Is"

Songs
The Radio Dept: "The Worst Taste in Music"
Covenant: "Ritual Noise"
Placebo (feat. Alison Mosshart): "Meds"
And One: "Enjoy the Unknown"
Welle:Erdball: "Nur tote Frauen sind schön"

Live artists
Depeche Mode
Nitzer Ebb
The Knife

Newcomers
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
120 Days
VETO

Artists
Depeche Mode
Nitzer Ebb



Alex Veronac

Albums
Otto von Schirach: "Maxipad Detention"
Venetian Snares: "Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms"
Anthony Rother: "Super Space Model"
KMFDM: "Ruck Zuck"
Images in Vogue: "Collection Version 3.0: Evolution"
Killing Joke: "Hosannas from the Basement of Hell"
Weave: "Cell 29A"
Digital Geist: "The Zero Engine"
Covenant: "Skyshaper"
Antigen Shift: "The Way of the North"

Songs
-

Live artists
Nitzer Ebb
Bauhaus
Gary Numan

Newcomers
Neue Weltumfassende Resistance

Artists
Otto von Schirach
Daft Punk
Nitzer Ebb



Peter Marks

Albums
Portion Control: "Filthy White Guy"
Mordant Music: "Dead Air"
The Church: "Uninvited, Like the Clouds"
Fad Gadget: "Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey"
Kattoo: "Hang on to a Dream"
Klinik/Vidna Obmana: "Greed"
Index AI: "World Blade Center"
In Strict Confidence: "Exile Paradise"
Covenant: "Skyshaper"
David Galas: "The Cataclysm"

Songs
All About Eve: "Raindrops"
Frank Tovey and the Pyros: "The Liberty Tree"
Echo and the Bunnymen: "Of a Life"
Depeche Mode: "Newborn"
Covenant: "Greater Than the Sun"

Live artists
-

Newcomers
Paper Gods
Uncotones
Moto: Rosa

Artists
Pieter Nooten
Das Ich
Lagowski



Mike Whyte

Albums
Kyler: "Pur Cosy Tales"
Sunao Inami: "Used up and Empty"
Brian English: "Beyond Words"
Peaches: "Impeach My Bush"
Pzychobitch: "Electrolicious"
Headscan: "Pattern Recognition"
Clark: "Body Riddle"
Thom Yorke: "The Eraser"

Songs
Omnimotion: "Japan"
The Horrors: "Sheena Is a Parasite"
Jarvis Cocker: "Running the World"

Live artists
Peaches

Newcomers
Thom Yorke (as a solo artist)

Artists
Clark
Peaches