A month ago Matos called for mixes that defined the first half of 2006 for their authors. I am month late with mine, but here's the mix that'd tell you where my head's been most of the year. There is no metal on it for several reasons, the main one being that metal is a whole separate thing (and the secondary one being that there've only been a few metal albums this year that did the trick for me). The only glaring absence is Om, whose album is one of my very favorites this year but which is very much an album to be taken in all at once. Anyhow, past the jump, here's my year so far: