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Sneaker pimps - bloodsport
IMAX - kingdom of welcome addiction
Pet shop boys - disco
Saw sneaker pimps do bloodsport in Oxford, best gig I've ever seen
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another one for selected ambient works, with moon safari by air a close second.
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Absolutely gorgeous album 🙂
Some great calls and good memories up there. Can't believe that no one has mentioned Hybrid yet? Probably Wide Angle for me, but all great albums
Leftfield - Leftism
Goldie - Timeless (the best drum programming I have *ever* heard)
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
My votes go to
Crystal castles one by Cystal castles
The XX album,
Everything Everything Man Alive
Odd Blood by Yeasayer
Four Tet there is love in you
Chunk of Change EP by Passion Pit.
Goldie - Timeless - Track 1 (21m!)
Surprised the Prodigy haven't been mentioned, though which album out of Experience, Music for the Jilted Generation and the Fat of the Land I'm not sure which would take it, probably Experience.
Feeling the muso glow of being well acquainted with and well fond of over half of the albums on this thread so far. Most of my favourites already on here. I will add:
Rest Proof Clockwork -Plaid
Organism -Jimi Tenor
Komputerwelt (in German of course) -Kraftwerk
[Guilty pleasure] - Dare -Human League 😳
Forgot about burial. must be up there, Untrue, also 3eps by shakleton.
Gary Numan Replicas
Cabaret Voltare the Covenant sword arm of the lord
John Foxx metamatic
Good call Peyote! A glaring omission. Got to be Experience FTW! Just because it was the soundtrack to a period of utter and complete madness 😀
I'll add Laurent Garnier's Unreasonable Behaviour or Cloud Making Machine.
Jean Michelle Jarre has to be on the list alongside Kraftwerk.
The Drum Club - Drum Club
Global Comminucation - 76:14(?)
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Banco De Gaia - Maya
Nathan Fake - Drowning In A Sea Of Love
The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultra World
Orbital - Green Album (mainly for Impact, Lush & Halcyon)
FSOL - Cascade (ok not an album but it's a 30mins+ single)
The Orb - The Blue room (again not an album, but a 40mins single is close enough!)
Hybrid - Wide Angle
Chicane - Far From The Maddening Crowds
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született
**** Buttons- Tarot Sport
The Prodigy - Experience
Leftfield - Leftism
Goldie - Timeless
Just because it was the soundtrack to a period of utter and complete madness
Yep, happy days! Then chilling out to Enigma, MCMXC and Cross of Changes, those two albums have got to be on the list too. Probably forget the Deep Forest phase though!
Going back a little I reckon Upstairs At Eric's by Yazzoo is vastly under rated, Vince Clark has had his hand in a lot of excellent music (Bronski Beat were good pop but I somehow feel guilty for saying so).
Also, Depeche Mode are too often overlooked (in the UK at least) and have a massive back catalogue of good stuff.
Finally, I recently got hold of a copy of the Goa Mix by Paul Oakenfold that he did for Radio One in the early to mid 90s, just awesome.
I always find it a little funny when my wife and friends are surprised at my love of electronic/dance music at the age of 40 - I was there in its hey day you whippersnappers!!
How could I forget the mighty leftism? It's a tough one as I have listened to Entroducing, Select ambient works and leftism so many times I have lost count.
Some of my other favorites (perhaps not the greatest, but still damn good) are:
Fila Brazilia – Brazilification
Kruder & Dorfmeister – The K&D Sessions
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
If I could only pick one, it would have to be Entroducing. Absolute masterpiece. Poor old dj shadow set the bar so high, no-one, including himself could get close.
Have to agree with a lot of the selections although it's difficult to pick just one, most influential would probably Selected ambient works or something by Jean Michel Jarre, The Orb, Drexciya, Bukem and loads of stuff I'm sure I've forgotten about in a drug induced hazy fog.
A few others worth a mention, maybe not the best but important to me -
A Guy Called Gerald - Automanikk
Atjazz - Labresults and pretty much everything released on DIY
Morgan Geist - Double Night Time
Consequence - Live For Never
Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters
Love stuff like Pawel, Zoot Woman, Cut Copy, Thieves Like Us, Erlend Oye, Oneohtrix Point Never, Tobacco, BMSR, Claro Intelecto, Air, ASC, The Moderator, blah blah blah
The Orb - Adventures beyond the Ultraworld (Aubrey remix).
Much better than the original offering IMO.
Nearly forgot....
Ciudad Feliz – Barrenador
Gunz
OMG I luv In my Room from that album, so beautiful. 
Some great choices, difficult to choose a 'best'.
Kraftwerk, YMO, Human League, Cabaret Voltaire all up there for leading the way,
Electribe 101, Eurythmics, Propaganda, Soft Cell and Yazoo for making electronic music that essential combination of voice and noises.
The Detroit techno pioneers, Chicago Acid house for the dance phenomenon.
Cold Cut, DJ Shadow, Liam from the Prodigy, Norman Cook for cutting and chopping it all up..
If I had to choose just one, definitive album it would be:
Depeche Mode - Violator
For the quality of the song writing and stucture, individually and as an album. For the electronics ('spotters' will know they always craft their sounds carefully and Violator combines some lovely warm old Roland System 100 with cutting edge digital stuff. For the productionDaniel Miller, Flood and Kevorkian all had a hand in it. For the fact it quietly sold millions and saw them go huge worldwide but was quietly underrated in the UK, for the 'crazy' stadium tour they did to accompany it that the fact that they are still doing it.
Emsz
You're right, I've always wondered what a second album would have been like. I saw a documentary on Alison Moyet recently and she revealed that she and Vince Clark hardly ever met or spoke away from the studio. It wasn't that they disliked each other, just didn't socialise at all, strange.
Electribe 101 - Electribal Memories
Kruder & Dorfmeister – The K&D Sessions
Sasha - Involver
Bonobo - Days to Come
Lamb - Lamb, Five
+1 Boards of Canada - Music has the right to children
+1 f*** buttons - Tarot Sport
Renegade Soundwave - In Dub
Sofa Surfers - In Transit
Yonderboi - Shallow and Profound
Roni Size and Reprazent - New Forms
Roland The Bastard - Things to do in Devon When You're Dead
Gunz
I read somewhere (probably NME 😳 ) that she was just doing a demo for a couple of the songs and the record company just loved it so they asked her to do the album, it weren't like they were a group or anything.
Gunz - Member
EmszYou're right, I've always wondered what a second album would have been like. I saw a documentary on Alison Moyet recently and she revealed that she and Vince Clark hardly ever met or spoke away from the studio. It wasn't that they disliked each other, just didn't socialise at all, strange.
Don't get me started on Vince n' Alf!
Yazoo were the band that got me into music. First band I saw live.
'Upstairs At Erics' remains my 'favourite' album of all time.
Is 'Only You' the greatest pop song of all time?
Consider they followed that up with 'Don't Go' a floor-filler that along with 'Situation' (which was only released as a remix in the US) set so many dance musicians off on their journeys.
There was a second album 'You and Me Both' really interesting contrast between the two of them (they both wrote and the songs were deliberately sequenced Clarke - Moyet - Clarke - Moyet.
They got back together of course, for a tour in 2008 (I did all the UK dates!!) and again for a one-off last year (The Mute festival). Great to see them become 'friends' again after all the years.
FSOL - ISDN
....and slightly different tack, but I'm getting back into Public Enemy. It Takes a Nation of Millions is an astonishing album, Chuck D one of the greatest vocalists in modern music.
There's nothing sadder than a middle-aged, white suburban hip-hop officianado
oooh, has anyone mentioned The XX yet? really simple melodies that just work, absolutely up there with the best of all time IMO. Jamie XX is a genius. can't wait for the new album this year.
edit: Jamie XX and Gil Scott Heron: We're New Here. Just Yes!
Autobahn or Radioactivity - Kraftwerk. Dots and loops - Stereolab
Way Out West- I'd struggle to pick a fave out of there CD's
And a special mention to Salt Tank-Science and Nature, let's forget the second album!
For me being a Northern Monkey it has to be New Order Substance, it has everything New Order you could want (apart from World in Motion perhaps)
But mainly for this - True Faith
This - Temptation
And of course this - Blue Monday
....and slightly different tack
If you can do that then surely Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me should get a mention too..
probably been mentioned before but exit planet dust still does it for me.
Future sound of London - Lifeforms ... It just hasn't aged which is very difficult to achieve with electronic albums and is a truly stunning piece of work to boot.
+1 on New Order's Substance. And maybe even Technique
So many of my all-time favourite albums mentioned already... except the subdued techno loveliness of John Beltran's 10 Days of Blue:
And Susumu Yokota's Sakura in a similar vein:
Awesome thread, just wish I could find that Drum Club tune I used to love...
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