Top 5 electronic producers

My new top 5 is:

Underworld
New Order
Kraftwerk
Alex Smoke
Circulation

isn't New Order more of a band though? i'm not referring to their earlier days either. they definitely played with instruments live right?. (i think that playing solo-produced electronic music with a band is a neat approach though.)

regardless, i still love them to death, but when i think producers, i imagine guys with computers and hardware.

(New Order?)
(Cut Copy) if New Order counts, i feel like they do too
(M83) same
Flying Lotus
Amon Tobin

Avalanches
Flying Lotus
Amon Tobin
Bonobo
Daft Punk (admittedly i've never been able to listen to an entire DP album without getting bored, but they deserve to be on here just because "One More Time" is easily one of the greatest songs ever recorded)
 
when i think producers, i imagine guys with computers and hardware.

New Order use computers and hardware. They also use guitars and vocals. But if you're ruling out any producers who use guitars and vocals, I guess you're also ruling out Underworld, The Chemical Brothers, The Prodigy, Squarepusher, Infected Mushroom, Pendulum................

The only objective definition of an 'electronic producer' is a producer who uses synthesisers (which New Order do!!!!)

New Order are mainly known for their synthpop (which I still consider to be 'electronic music'), but they have made other styles too, e.g.

House

Electro
 
Very hard but here are some people that made electronic music what it is today, with Raymond Scott being top of the pile, The man was light years ahead of his time, Check his Cindy Electronium which i have posted in this forum.

in no order

1) Patrick Cowley
2) Jellybean
3) Arthur Baker
4) Herbie Hancock
5) Raymond Scott

6) All the artists and producers the above influenced
 
Very hard but here are some people that made electronic music what it is today, with Raymond Scott being top of the pile, The man was light years ahead of his time, Check his Cindy Electronium which i have posted in this forum.

in no order

1) Patrick Cowley
2) Jellybean
3) Arthur Baker
4) Herbie Hancock
5) Raymond Scott

6) All the artists and producers the above influenced

I like this list :)
 
New list.

1. Underground Resistance
2. Biosphere
3. Oliver Ho
4. Monolake
5. Drexciya

NSFW:
Pay no attention to this. This is the full list that I was selecting from. I don't feel like looking through all my music again, so I'll just keep this here, because I know I'm going to end up changing my mind again.

Dave Angel
Eat Static
Simon Posford (Hallucinogen, Shpongle)
Astral Projection
Transwave
Rene Abildgaard Jensen (Bypass Unit, Colorbox)
Hardfloor
Simon Berry (Art Of Trance, Union Jack, Poltergeist)
X-Dream (The Delta)
Frank De Wulf
Oliver Lieb (Spicelab, LSG, Paragliders...)
Ralf Hildenbeutel (Earth Nation, Odyssee Of Noises, Essence of Nature...)
Pascal Dardoufas (Pascal F.E.O.S., Resistance D...)
Richie Hawtin (Plastikman, F.U.S.E., Circuit Breaker)
Surgeon
Karl O'Connor (Regis)
Jochem Paap (Speedy J, Public Energy, Electric Deluxe)
Adam X (Traversable Wormhole)
Future Sound of London
Robert Hood
Anthony Shakir (Shake, Urban Tribe)
Derrick May (Mayday, Rhythim Is Rhythim)
Joey Beltram (Second Phase, Open Mind)
Trentemoller
Cisco Ferreira (The Advent)
The Black Dog (Plaid, Balil)
Choci (This is where I stop caring enough to find the aliases..)
Aphex Twin
Flying Lotus
808 State
Paul Kalkbrenner
Aril Brikha
DJ Sprinkles
Moodymann
Kevin Yost
Anthony Rother
Aux 88
Sun Electric
Nasenbluten
Martyn
4 Hero
Amon Tobin
Goldie
The Irresistible Force
Omni Trio
Ed Rush & Optical
Aes Dana
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Deep Space Network
Datacide
Global Communication
Wolfgang Voigt (Gas)
Solar Fields
Yagya
Basic Channel
 
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Deadmau5
Rusko
Skream
Ratatat
Pretty Lights
Maybe not the best but they always do it for me.
 
New list.

1. Underground Resistance
2. Biosphere
3. Oliver Ho
4. Monolake
5. Drexciya

NSFW:
Pay no attention to this. This is the full list that I was selecting from. I don't feel like looking through all my music again, so I'll just keep this here, because I know I'm going to end up changing my mind again.

Dave Angel
Eat Static
Simon Posford (Hallucinogen, Shpongle)
Astral Projection
Transwave
Rene Abildgaard Jensen (Bypass Unit, Colorbox)
Hardfloor
Simon Berry (Art Of Trance, Union Jack, Poltergeist)
X-Dream (The Delta)
Frank De Wulf
Oliver Lieb (Spicelab, LSG, Paragliders...)
Ralf Hildenbeutel (Earth Nation, Odyssee Of Noises, Essence of Nature...)
Pascal Dardoufas (Pascal F.E.O.S., Resistance D...)
Richie Hawtin (Plastikman, F.U.S.E., Circuit Breaker)
Surgeon
Karl O'Connor (Regis)
Jochem Paap (Speedy J, Public Energy, Electric Deluxe)
Adam X (Traversable Wormhole)
Future Sound of London
Robert Hood
Anthony Shakir (Shake, Urban Tribe)
Derrick May (Mayday, Rhythim Is Rhythim)
Joey Beltram (Second Phase, Open Mind)
Trentemoller
Cisco Ferreira (The Advent)
The Black Dog (Plaid, Balil)
Choci (This is where I stop caring enough to find the aliases..)
Aphex Twin
Flying Lotus
808 State
Paul Kalkbrenner
Aril Brikha
DJ Sprinkles
Moodymann
Kevin Yost
Anthony Rother
Aux 88
Sun Electric
Nasenbluten
Martyn
4 Hero
Amon Tobin
Goldie
The Irresistible Force
Omni Trio
Ed Rush & Optical
Aes Dana
Carbon Based Lifeforms
Deep Space Network
Datacide
Global Communication
Wolfgang Voigt (Gas)
Solar Fields
Yagya
Basic Channel

While I haven't listened to any of your top 5. I really like your extended list. :)
 
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no order.

- Warp Technique
- Vibrasphere
- Ott
- Vibe Tribe
- Tripswitch

+1 on Biosphere mars, good stuff.
 
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