Belated Best of 2006

It's best to be the last to post 'best of' lists, because you have time to read everyone else's first before you can think you have a shot at claiming "best" of anything. I'm still finding top worthy songs up until today I had no idea existed (like this reggae bomb by Alaine - Deeper):


15 TOP ALBUMS
Bugz in the Attic - Back to the Doghouse
Mark Mac Presents: Visioneers -'Dirty Ole Hip Hope
Omar- Sing... If You Want It
TM Juke/Diesler – Keepie Upies
DJ Shadow - The Outsider
J Dilla - Donuts/The Shining
Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
Mr V - Welcome Home
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - Keep Reachin' Up
Nomo, Owusu & Hannibal, Radio Citizen
Sergio Mendes - Timeless
The Beauty Room - The Beauty Room
V/A - More MPM Sound
VA - Brownswood Bubblers
VA - BITA
VA - SoulBoulders

DANCE
Alice Smith - Love Endeavor (Maurice Fulton mix)
Digital Funk Addicts - Higher Level
ESG - 'Insane' (Bass Mix)
Floetry - 'I Want You' (Yoruba Soul Mix)
Kevin Reynolds - 'Afrik'
Quasimode - 'Ipe Amarelo' (Spiritual South Remix)
Spirit Catcher - 'Rise and Shine' (Pascal Rioux Philly mix)
Sumo - The Danceband LP (inc. Lovebeat, Nini, No Custa Nada)
The Outlines - 'Listen to the Drums Part 1'
Zero dB - 'A Pomba Girou'
Status - You aint Really Down (Jazzanova mix)

LATIN/WORLD
12"s
Aloe Blacc - 'Bailar'/'Patria Mia' (Stones Throw)
Jorge Ben - 'Sou Da Pesada' (7 Samurai Afroraduno Remix)
Nomo - 'Nu Tones'
Luisito Quintero - 'Percussion Maddness'
El Lele De Los Van Van Feat. Radiohead - 'High & Dry'
Sygaire - 'Deux Mille Deux' (Sonar Kollektiv)
LPS
Ali Farka Toure - Savane
Juana Molina - Son
Sergio Mendes - Timeless
VA- The Rough Guide to West African Gold
Kinky- Reina
Soweto Kinch -
Edu K, DJ Sandrinho
Diplo - bringing Angolan, Brazillian, Jamaican, Baltamorean beats to the cool kids


TOP TRACKS (POPPY)
Ben Westbeech - 'So Good Today' (Brownswood)
Gnarls Barkley - 'Crazy' (Wea)
Lily Allen - 'LDN' (Regal)
Nicole Willis & The Soul Investigators - 'Feeling Free' (Timmion)
Simbad - 'Soul Fever' (Raw Fusion)
J Timberlake - My Love
T.T f Q-Tip - Why You Wanna
Lupe Fiasco - 'I Gotcha' (Atlantic)
Pharrel - Mamacita, Number 1, Margarita (Sleepy Brown), Anything (Jay-Z)
Rapture - Get Myself Into It (Prince Language mix)

R&B/SOUL
Chokolate - 'Heavy'
Colonel Red - 'Blue Eye Black' (People)
Omar - Ghana Emotion, Lay it Down, Your Mess, Feeling You..
Eric Lau & Rahel - 'I'm Fine' (White)
Georgia Anne Muldrow - 'Wrong Way'
J*Davey - 'Might As Well'
Brockington - 'Can We Fall in Love Again'
Mark Ronson f/ A. Greenwald - 'Just'
LPs
Omar - Sing... if You Want It
Anthony David - Red Clay Chronicles
Julie Dexter & Khari Simmons - Moon Bossa
Joi - Tennessee Slim Is The Bomb
Chokolate - Choklate

HIP-HOP
Busta Rhymes - 'New York Sh***' (Interscope)
Ghostface Killah & MF Doom - 'Angeles' (Lex)
J Dilla Ft. Pharaoh Monch - 'Love' (bbe)
Lupe Fiasco - 'I Gotcha' (Atlantic)
Cut Chemist - 'What's the Altitude'
Dj Adlib f. MED - Everyday
Ghostface f Amy Winehouse - You Know I'm No good
Hi Tek f/ Talib Kweli, Ayak - Can We Go Back
Tanya Morgan - 'Pretty'
Strange Fruit Project - the Healing LP
Rhymefest - Blue Collar LP
J Dilla - The Shining
Clipse -
Visioneers - Dirty Old Hip Hop LP

JAZZY THINGS
Big Bang - Way In Jazz (Summer Fields)
Hot 8/Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Marcina Arnold - ForefathersMemory
Middlewood Sessions - Fall Back
Elizabeth Shepherd - Start To Move (Do Right)
Raul Midon - 'Sunshine' (EMI)
Matthias Vogt Trio - Changing Colors
Heritage Orchestra - THO
Koop- Koop Islands
The Life Force Trio - Living Room
Kenny Garrett - Qing Wen
Ammoncontact - With Voices
Soil & Pimp - Pimp Master
Sleepwalker - The Voyage

VIDEOS
Mark Ronson - Just http://youtube.com/watch?v=fxu5CUPRU-U
Elizabeth Shepherd Trio - Four http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZYpNi9nTW4&eurl=
Soil & Pimp - Summer Goddess -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7cZ1cRERZo
Mard de Clive Lowe - Heaven - http://youtube.com/watch?v=qGMtA6QHazQ

ROCK
Jose James - 'The Dreamer' (White)
M Craft - 'Silver and Fire' (679)
CSS - Music is My Hot Hot Sex / Alaha
Tahiti 80 - Something About You/A Matter of Time
Beck - The Information
Prototypes - Who's Gonna Sing