Amplifier

For the 1st year in a row Amplifier staff have sat down, thrown aside their personal preference for Industrial German Happy House , and chosen their Top 20 kiwi albums of 2006.  This is a rare event for Amplifier staff who normally don't get to express personal opinion, instead spending their time walking around the Amplifier House offices chanting the mantra, "All New Zealand Music is Good Music".  While this is no doubt true this year we've decided to recognise that in our opinion some kiwi music is in fact "gooderer" than the rest.

So in order from the first to the last here is the very first Amplifier Top 20 Albums of 2006.

 1. The Dance Reduction Agents - The Reduction Agents (Lil' Chief Records)

 2. Isolation Loops - Bachelorette (Independent)

 3. Crazy? Yes. Dumb? No. - The Mint Chicks (Warner)

 4. Special Surprise - Luke Buda (Arch Hill)

 5. Hello, are you there? - Voom (Lil' Chief)

 6. Birds - Bic Runga (SonyBMG)

 7. Commercial Suicide - Cyphanetik (Breakin Wreckwordz)

 8. Cut for Summer - Cassette (Tardus)

 9. Lawrence Arabia - Lawrence Arabia (Independent)

10. Chaos by Design - Concord Dawn (Uprising)

11. Flying Nun 25th Anniversary Box Set - Various (Warner)

12. There My Dear - Dimmer (Warner)

13. The Onus of Sand - Little Bushman (Independent)

14. Warm Hand - Don McGlashan (Arch Hill)

15. Chris Knox and the Nothing - Chris Knox and the Nothing (Indpendent)

16. Soulstice - Shapeshifter (Independent)

17. Solace - Jakob (Midium)

18. The Gruesome Numbers - The Whipping Cats (Independent)

19. The Hunt Brings Us Life - Samuel Flynn Scott (Loop Recordings)

20. Soup Kitchen - one million dollars (Tardus)