Top 10 Electronic Albums - No Rock & Roll Allowed

(I just divided it up as an excuse to have more than 10. No particular order.)

Classics:

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Daft Punk - Discovery
Daft Punk - Homework
New Order - Technique
Royksopp - Melody A.M.
Mylo - Destroy Rock n Roll
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

More recent:

Hercules and Love Affair - s/t
Seekae - The Sound of Trees Falling on People
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
The Knife - Silent Shout
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Passion Pit - Manners
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
 
Rated E said:
(I just divided it up as an excuse to have more than 10. No particular order.)

Classics:

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Daft Punk - Discovery
Daft Punk - Homework
New Order - Technique
Royksopp - Melody A.M.
Mylo - Destroy Rock n Roll
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

More recent:

Hercules and Love Affair - s/t
Seekae - The Sound of Trees Falling on People
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles II
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
The Knife - Silent Shout
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
Passion Pit - Manners
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
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You have similar tastes to me, Rated E!!! - Underworld, Primal Scream, Kraftwerk, New Order. I must say I'm surprised you put 'Technique' in your top 10, as I don't think it's that good. I think 'Substance' is far better, although maybe that doesn't count seeing as it's really a compilation rather than an album???
 
It's very hard to find 10 good albums since most are either boring and pass by unnoticed, or have glaring flaws.
 
MDMAhead said:
You have similar tastes to me, Rated E!!! - Underworld, Primal Scream, Kraftwerk, New Order. I must say I'm surprised you put 'Technique' in your top 10, as I don't think it's that good. I think 'Substance' is far better, although maybe that doesn't count seeing as it's really a compilation rather than an album???
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Ah nice. :)

I haven't checked out Substance yet. But I've been meaning to. So I will make sure to do that. Technique yea, I dunno, I guess I wanted New Order in my list.
 
okay, like rated e i'll list recent stuff and classics . 5 of each. some i thought of have been mentioned but i won't echo those just for the sake of variety. can't rank music this good.

recent:

Scuba - Triangulation (great tunes, sounds best around 3-4am)
Paul Kalkbrenner - Berlin Calling (too bad the movie wasn't that good. a scene in it he is producing "aaron" on ableton and the beat playing with the expression of contentment on his face really did it for me cause u know sometimes when u listen to a great song u think to yourself "music is all i need"
The Field - Here We Go Sublime (if there is heaven, this is what they would play while waiting in line to get in)
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues (house music at its finest. to me its like a history lesson on house music, listen to intro, you'll know what i mean)
D-Bridge - The Gemini Principle (what would be played ascending into heaven)

classics:

Plastikman - Consumed (brilliant minimal, imo his best work)
Grooverider - Mysteries Of Funk (a shame cybernetic jazz isn't on utube, but yea this blew me away when i heard it, i can remember in the car with my parents, headphones on thinking "this is what the future sounds like"
Bad Company - Inside The Machine (imo the best dnb album, during the great acid wave of 2000 before pickard got busted, i tripped so much listening to this, some of the best times of my life)
Gas - Zauberbeg (dense, hypnotic, atmospheric sound. an outdoor rave, heard floating through the air from a a neighbouring village. "GASeous music, caught by a bass drum just marching by, that streams, streams out through the underwood across the forest soil")
I-F - Fucking Consumer (space invaders are smoking grass... nuff said)
 
In no particular order--

1. Aphex Twin - Ambient Collections Volume II/drukqs
2. Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy/Hello Everything/Just a Souvenir
3. Autechre - tri reptae++/nothing
4. Iannis Xenakis - Diamorphoses
5. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
6. The Orb - UFOrb
7. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children/Geogaddi
8. Brian Eno - Discreet Music
9. Biosphere - Substrata
10. Global Communication - 76.14
 
Not necessarily in order:
1. Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries From Shongleland (since I don't want to use up four spots)
2. Paul Oakenfold - A Voyage Into Trance
3. Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom
4. VA - The Mystery of the Thirteen Crystal Skulls
5. Hallucinogen - Twisted
6. Logic Bomb - Unlimited
7. Astral Projection - Trust in Trance
8. Bluetech - Elementary Particles EP
9. Younger Brother - A Flock of Bleeps (love them both, can't wait for the third!)
10. Can't decide…either Delta Aquarids, Stardiver, Transdimensional, Corridor of Mirrors, Central Processing Unit, The Art of Being Non, East of the River Ganges, almost any Suntrip, Ape to Angel, Skylon, Hydroponic Garden, or Archipelago :p
 
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my fav trance/rolling albums ....

1.In Search of Sunrise, Vol. 5: Los Angeles- Tiesto
2. Universal Religion 2004: Live From Ibiza- AVB
3.Sector Beat 100.9, Vol. 5 3 disc set
4. In Search of Sunrise, Vol. 4: Latin America- Tiesto
5. The Politics Of Dancing 2- PVD
6. The DJ In The Mix Vol. 3 - ATB
 
Hmm don't have ten but I can muster 5 up

1. In Search Of Sunrise Vol.5 Disc.1 - Tiesto
2. ASOT 2010 - Armin
3. Dash Berlin - United Destination
4. 76 - Armin
5. Once Upon A Night - Ferry Corsten

Haha good music! xP
 
avrolling said:
Hmm don't have ten but I can muster 5 up

1. In Search Of Sunrise Vol.5 Disc.1 - Tiesto
2. ASOT 2010 - Armin
3. Dash Berlin - United Destination
4. 76 - Armin
5. Once Upon A Night - Ferry Corsten

Haha good music! xP
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in search of sunrise is amazing disc 1
 
Rated E said:
Ah nice. :)

I haven't checked out Substance yet. But I've been meaning to. So I will make sure to do that. Technique yea, I dunno, I guess I wanted New Order in my list.
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I have similar taste as well - Agree with the above though - Technique is pretty much last in the queue if you want to rank New Order albums (although I haven't even bothered to pick up their last couple of albums...). Plus on Substance you get the original version of Blue Monday (not the '88 remix with the extra sample overkill).

Here's my list for reference:

Depeche Mode - Violator
Hybrid - Wide(r) Angle
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Leftfield - Leftism
Ladytron - Witching Hour
Air - Premiers Symptomes
Goldfrapp - Supernature
Gary Numan (/Tubeway Army) - Replicas
Single Gun Theory - Flow, River of my soul
Pole Folder - Zero Gold

Of course, ask me tomorrow and the list will probably be different, plus it depends on where you draw the line on 'Electronic' - I included Primal Screams - Screamedelica in the non-electronic thread.

Also, Boards Of Canada fans should check out some Severed Heads clips which some of you will hopefully enjoy...
 
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1. Digitalism - Idealism
2. Daft Punk - Homework
3. Ephedrix - Far Away
4. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
5. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
6. Delphic - Acolyte
7. Chicane - Best of Chicane 96-08
8. Cosmic Gate - Sign Of The Times
9. Boys Noize - Oi Oi Oi
10. Pendulum - Hold Your Colour

Dayyyummm, that was hard to do a Top 10! Haha I could do a Top 50! :D
 
1. Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
2. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-93
3. Alec Empire - The Destroyer
4. u-ziq - Lunatic Harness
5. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
6. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
7. Squarepusher - Go Plastic
8. Venetian Snares - Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom-Poms
9. edIT - Certified Air Raid Material
10. Aphex Twin - Drukqs
 
Top ten? Damn I'm going to have to think about this one. I'm currently hooked on the new Crystal Castles album, but there are definitely better ones out there.

PS: Sooo much good music in this thread...
 
so what about crossover type stuff? i mean celldweller successfully mixes DnB, goa, and metal, often all in the same song. i still consider it electronic music....
 
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