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P&B's Top 30 Electronic Music Albums


Colin M

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1.) Daft Punk - Homework

2.) Soulwax - Nite Versions

3.) Daft Punk - Discovery

4.) Justice - Cross

5.) Air - Mooon Safari

6.) The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land

7.) Avalanches - Since I left You

8.) Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angels

9.) 2 Many DJs - As Heard On Radio Soulwax Vol.2

10.) The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation

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1. Carl Craig - More Songs About Food And Revolutionary Art

2. DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues

3. Trentemoller - The Last Resort

4. Metro Area - Metro Area

5. Theo Parrish -Parallel Dimensions

6. The Field - Yesterday And Today

7. Machinedrum - Room(s)

8. Boards Of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

9. Pantha Du Prince - This Bliss

10. Akufen - My Way

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1. Orbital - Brown Album

2. Primal Scream - Screamadelica

3. Laurent Garnier - Unreasonable Beahviour

4. Daft Punk - Homework

5. Utah Saints - Utah Saints

6. The Shamen - Boss Drum

7. Drexcyia - The Quest

8. Felix Da Housecat - Kitten the thee Glitz

9. Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation

10. The Hacker - X Live

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10. Add N to X - Add Insult To Injury

9. Bjork - Homogenic

8. Drexciya - Neptune's Lair

7. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

6. William Basinski - Melancholia

5. Autechre - Quaristice

4. Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

3. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

2. Aphex Twin - Drukqs

1. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

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Excellent thread this and enjoyed the writeups by Colin.

Despite being into dance music for years and having an extensive collection I've never been one for buying LP's. I always found that LP's were for people who liked dance music in the same way they like other forms of music. For me it's not usually a format for sitting down and listening to an LP as a concept. Possibly only a few artists like Goldie have tried to produce an LP this way.

One I would recommend that isn't on the list is EX:EL by 808 State.

http://www.discogs.com/808-State-exel/master/27737

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I'll put up the full list of albums nominated at some point, they are on my laptop at home. Sure it will spark a few good debates etc.

Different contributors' definition of "electronic" remains an interesting point. Blue Lines and Screamedelica, both of which featured in the individual lists above, are two of my favourite albums but I wouldn't class them as electronica. There are elements of it within both, but they lean a little too much on the "organic" (for want of a better word) side of sound for me.

On the Massive Attack front I had Mezzanine in my list and left out Blue Lines. Having listened to them both in the lead up to submitting my list I adjudged Mezzanine to fall on the side of electronic and Blue Lines not to. No idea if there's any real weight of logic behind that decision, but it seemed about right in my head. I was tempted to add the Contino Sessions by Death In Vegas but it just fell short for the same reasons Blue Lines did.

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On the Massive Attack front I had Mezzanine in my list and left out Blue Lines.

I did exactly the same. Have never considered Blue Lines to be electronic, but everything about Mezzanine is cold, harsh and has that claustrophobic electronic vibe to it.

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1. Discovery - Daft Punk

2. Substance - New Order

3. 6th Borough Project - One Night in the Borough

4. Violator - Depeche Mode

5. Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld - The Orb

6. Moon Safari - Air

7. Dig Your Own Hole - Chemical Brothers

8. Music Has the Right to Children - Boards of Canada

9. Music for the Jilted Generation - The Prodigy

10. Turning the Mind - Maps

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1 - Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman

2 - Flying Lotus - Los Angeles

3 - Boards Of Canada - Geogaddi

4 - Altern8 - Full On:Mask Hysteria

5 - Depeche Mode - Violator

6 - Burial - Untrue

7 - Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms

8 - Kraftwerk - Trance Europe Express

9 - Zomby - Dedication

10 - Soundclash Republic - The Birth Of Shiva Shanti

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1. Endroducing by DJ Shadow.

2. Homework by Daft Punk.

3. Cross by Justice.

4. The Grey Album by Dangermouse

5. Alive 2007 by Daft Punk

6. The Campfire Headphase by Boards of Canada

7. Violator by Depeche Mode

8. Exit Planet Dust by The Chemical Brothers

9. Music for the Jilted Generation by The Prodigy

10. The Warning by Hot Chip.

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The write-ups in this thread are fucking brilliant, by the way.

Looking at the top 30, I think I had about 5 or 6 of the albums listed, but only had a proper listen of 2 or 3 (Angles, SAW and Fat of the Land, mainly, I haven't listened to Leftism anywhere near enough, same goes for Mezzanine). Through this thread, I've ordered at least 5 or 6 albums (I've already bought Timeless and Surfing on Sine Waves, just ordered Moon Safari, Homework, Homogenic and Jilted), and managed to find a few pretty shit-hot tracks on top of that.

Wish I'd chucked in a top 10 myself, but I wasn't too sure about what would qualify, and I'd probably have made an arse of it.

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Mine was:

1. Big Bud - Infinity + Infinity

2. Goldie - Timeless

3. Basement Jaxx - Remedy

4. Slam - Alien Radio

5. Blu Mar Ten - Natural History

6. Bachelors Of Science - Science Fiction

7. Daft Punk - Homework

8. 4hero - Two Pages

9. Massive Attack - Blue Lines

10. 187 Lockdown - 187

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1. Far From the Maddening Crowds - Chicane

2. Out There and Back - Paul van Dyk

3. Discovery - Daft Punk

4. Music for the Jilted Generation - Prodigy

5. Rhythmn and Stealth - Leftfield

6. Random Album Title - Deadmau5

7. Sirens of the Sea - Above and Beyond

8. Dynasty - Kaskade

9. Legend of the Black Shawarma - Infected Mushroom

10. There is Love in You - Four Tet

Was really struggling for names, just chucked any old random titles..

Thanks to this thread, been listening to DJ Shadow's Endtroducing non stop past few days :D Fantastic write ups, great stuff.

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Happy New Year fellow elecktroids!

Thinking of doing a hip-hop version of this - do we think we'd get enough voters?

Happy new year, Colin.

I'm nowhere near well-versed enough in hip-hop to participate. I'd like to read the hip-hop version of this thread though!

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Happy New Year fellow elecktroids!

Thinking of doing a hip-hop version of this - do we think we'd get enough voters?

Happy new year!

Yah Colin i'd be in. Judging by the hip hop thread there seems to be a lot of fans on here - i'd guess you'd get enough voters eh?

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