Top 24 Records of 2006
| 1. |  |
Clint Mansell Kronos Quartet Mogwai |
The Fountain Soundtrack |
| 2. |  |
Don Caballero | World Class Listening Problem |
| 3. |  |
Talkdemonic | Beat Romantic |
| 4. |  |
Te | If That is What is Being Thought, Liberated Sound Talks The Depth of Musical World |
| 5. |  |
Russian Circles | Enter |
| 6. |  |
Couch | Figur 5 |
| 7. |  |
I'm Not a Gun | We Think As Instruments |
| 8. |  |
Ratatat | Classics |
| 9. |  |
This Will Destroy You | Young Mountain |
| 10. |  |
Mono | You Are There |
| 11. |  |
Ecstatic Sunshine | Freckle Wars |
| 12. |  |
Belong | October Language |
| 13. |  |
Red Sparows | Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Red Sun |
| 14. |  |
Shogun Kunitoki | Tasankokaiku |
| 15. |  |
Crime in Choir | Trumpery Metier |
| 16. |  |
Tim Hecker | Harmony in Ultraviolet |
| 17. |  |
Lanterna | Desert Ocean |
| 18. |  |
65daysofstatic | One Time for All Time |
| 19. |  |
Stop, Thief! | Stop, Thief! (Self-Titled EP) |
| 20. |  |
Clark | Body Riddle |
| 21. |  |
Marconi Union | Distance |
| 22. |  |
Canyons of Static | Canyons of Static (Self-Titled EP) |
| 23. |  |
Anoice | Remmings |
| 24. |  |
Eluvium | When I Live By The Garden and the Sea |