Probably another repeated thread but what the hell.
Well, which album just rocked your boat throughout the year and went the extra mile to stand out way ahead from the rest of the competition?

Imo, hands-down this year's most original EDM artist album was Vibrasphere's Archiepelago on Digital Structures.

The sheer variety, power and emotion on this album just goes to show that psy despite being around since the mid 80's remains amongst the most under-rated and underestimated genres in the whole EDM spectrum. That's where the critics and sceptics make a big mistake.

What Vibrasphere have crafted on this album is nothing short of phenomenal. The DIVERSITY, the flow, the energy is astounding.

Vibrasphere have grabbed a handful of sub-genres namely psychedelic chill, prog trance / prog house, morning-psy , full-on psy and flawlessly moulded it into one awesome journey.
They have pushed the envelope and have raised the bar across the entire spectrum.

Try this experiment: Goto a house party and play out 'Reservoir' and watch the progheads wet themselves and then come up to you and ask you what's playing out.

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For me it has to be Trentemoller - The Last Resort.

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Originally posted by varun The sheer variety, power and emotion on this album just goes to show that psy despite being around since the mid 80's remains amongst the most under-rated and underestimated genres in the whole EDM spectrum. That's where the critics and sceptics make a big mistake.

But psy is not really the main ingredient on Archipelago.

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psychedelic chill

I fail to see what's psychedelic about the downbeat tracks.



However, i agree Archipelago is the best trance album 2006.

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Originally posted by SMC But psy is not really the main ingredient on Archipelago.

Agreed indeed.
Btw "psychill" that is refered to in this thread is more of
Psychedelic Dub actually. Guys like Postford and Rothfield have done that style for many many years for example.

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Last edited by Whirloop on Dec-15-2006 at 10:18

It's one of my favorite too but it's definitevely not the most original album in 2006.

Risto - Aurinko Aurinko Plaa Plaa Plaa

It's in finnish, it's entirely lo-fi and it has lyrics about mean girls tricking you into shoving a vibrator up your ass. How much more originality do you need?

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Dunno about originality but Archipelago is indeed the most "complete" trance album of 2006. You can clearly hear that they put down alot of time and effort on each track. It's also an album that goes down among a wide range of DJs. Just like last years Jaïa - Fiction album. I'm pretty sure that in 5 years from now people will look back on this as a milestone album.

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Everyone seems to love Kyau & Albert's new album but I never saw the light in it. Above & Beyond's album is definately the one that moved me most this year. It's not very original, but it does the trick

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Shiloh - Bleed, enough said

nathan fake- Drowning in a sea of love (Border Community)
James Holden - The idiots are winning (Border Community)
TV on The Radio - Return to cookie Mountain.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Apparat and Ellen Allien - Orchestra of Bubbles (Bpitch).

Orchestra of bubbles, i thought was really nice. Them doing a live PA of that whole project must be really nice. I hear they just dont do clips sequenced on live, they do way more.

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