Not the best year for outstanding albums, but 5 that I've listened to more than most, and quite varied, are
- Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys
- Chase & Status - No More Idols
- I Break Horses - Hearts
- Mogwai - Harcore Will Never Die But You Will
- Florence & The Machine - Ceremonials

Been to some great gigs (despite the hoped for winter Chems arena tour never materialising...) and been listening to a lot more older stuff, but there you go. Happy New Year to all when it comes.

Mexicans With Guns - Ceremony

Here's my big 2011 summary. It was an amazing year. Maybe somebody will find something interesting here.
Don't take it too serious - the order doesn't matter much in the lower part of the list.

1. The Fear Ratio - Lightbox
genre: IDM, Techno
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2. Andy Stott - Passed Me By / We Stay Together
genre: Techno, Dubtechno, Dubstep
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3. Sandwell District - Feed-Forward
genre: Techno
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4. Agaric - Who Made Up The Rules
genre: Tech House
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5. Dominik Eulberg - Diorama
genre: Techno, Minimal
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6. The Chemical Brothers - Hanna
genre: chemical




7. Kami-Sakunobe House Explosion K-S.H.E - Routes Not Roots
genre: Deep House
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8. Maceo Plex - Life Index
genre: Tech House
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9. Tommy Four Seven - Primate
genre: Techno
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10. Steffi - Yours is Mine
genre: House, Deep House
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11. Carbon Based Lifeforms - Twentythree
12. Modeselektor - Monkeytown
13. Burial - Street Halo EP
14. Falty DL - You Stand Uncertain
15. Extrawelt - In Aufuhr
16. Lucy - Wordplay For Working Bees
17. Sepalcure - Fleur EP
18. Sepalcure - Sepalcure
19. Deadbeat - Dawn & Qaurtered
20. Wolfgang Voigt - Kafkatrax

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21. Secret Cinema - Minerals
22. Emika - Emika
23. Agoria - Impermanence
24. Swarms - Old Raves End
25. Morphosis - What Have We Learned
26. Ben Sims - Smoke & Mirrors
27. Machinedrum - Room (s)
28. Nicholas Jaar - Space is Only Noise
29. Xhin - Sword
30. Perc - Wicker & Steel

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31. Oliver Huntemann - Paranoia
32. Echologist - Subterannean
33. Moomin - The Story About You
34. Byetone - Symeta
35. Roman Flugel - Fatty Folders
36. 2562 - Fever
37. Tiger & Woods - Through the Green
38. .tobias - Leaning Over Backwards
39. The Field - Looping State Of Mind
40. Rebolledo - Super Vato

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41. Deepchord - Hash-bar Loops
42. Surgeon - Breaking The Frame
43. Walls – Coracle
44. Robag Wruhme - Thora Vukk
45. Martin Schulte - Treasure
46. Mark E - Stone Breaker
47. The Black Dog - Liber Dogma
48. Planetary Assault Systems - The Messenger
49. Plaid - Scintilli
50. Martyn - Ghost People

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51. Jonsson / Alter - Mod
52. Eleven Tigers - 111
52. Dusty Kid - Beyond The Hill
53. Desolate - The Invisible Insurrection
54. Deepchord presents Echospace - Spatialdimension
55. Conforce - Escapism
56. Biosphere - N-Plants
57. Audiofly - Follow My Liebe
58. Luomo - Puls
59. Irrevelant - It'll be ok
60. Mike Dehnert - Framework


Best Compilations / Mix Albums:
Marcel Fengler - Berghain 05
Various Artists - Laid Compilation
Prosumer - Panorama Bar 03
Four Tet - Fabriclive 59
Brodinski - Fabriclive 60


Happy New Year!