[Closed] Best electronic album of all time?

Can listen to Portisheads Dummy again and again and again.............
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fuzzhead - Member
+1 on New Order's Substance. And maybe even Technique

Yes t'was difficult to choose, perhaps the only way Substance could have been made better would have been including Fine Time off Technique. But that would be impossible as Substance predates Technique by 2 years

Always time to listen to any Portishead

Any Depeche Mode / Erasure fans should try VCMG
Vince Clark and Martin Gore do techno together

Timeless, Dummy, homework, discovery and exit planet dust for me

forgot coldcut let us paly

Surprised Crystal Method hasn't had a mention.

Model 500 - Deep Space also a great album

Tricky - Maxinquaye deserves a shout!
To Rococo Rots first.

No one mentioned RJD2 yet? Anything he's done is gold, but his first couple of albums were awesome.

+1 on 808 state.

Digitalism
Prefuse 73 - invaders must die is an awesome album
Aphex Twin as mentioned
Quantic

Ooohhh, and guilty pleasure - Opus III, its a fine day. LOVE that tune.....

For my 5 pennies worth, I don`t think they have been mentioned, how about:
Speedy J "Live"
Ronie Size - New forms
Orbital - Snivilization
Moby - Play
Royksopp - Melody AM
Death in Vegas - Trans love energies.
Grove Armada ? not sure which album.
The streets - original pirate material!!!

Some modern classics:
SBTRKT
Metronomy - Night Out
The Two bears

LFO - LFO

A few more.
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry, felt mountain or supernature.
Lemonjelly - lemonjelly
Juan maclean - Both
MGMT - Oracluar spectacular.

william orbit - strange cargo 3

Because I think there's not enough drum n bass on the thread...

Squarepusher - Feed me weird things
Photek -Modus Operandi
T Power - The self evident truths of an intuitive mind

T Power in particular was a real hidden gem, a proper album years ahead of its time in a genre based almost purely on singles.

Not read all of above but DJ Shadow's "Entroducing" should be up there

All my favourites have been mentioned, but I wil add Eat Static - Abduction and Speed J - Ginger. Oh and Sabres of Paradise - Sabresonic and Black Dog - Bytes 🙂

That T Power ^^ album does indeed still sound incredible.

Fila Brazilia – Brazilification

Haha no way, I'll mention this to my es GF... She's been going out with Dave McSherry for about 3 years now iirc!

In addition to those I mentioned earlier, as some of them have been mentioned so many other times as well, should also add...

Leftfield - Leftism
Leftfield - Rhythm and Stealth (not as big an album, but Phat Planet kinda shaped a whole generation of music IMO)
Chemical Brothers - Every album... Have they done a bad one? I struggle to think cos pretty much everything they've ever done I love.
The Prodigy - Experience, Music for the Jilted Generation & Fat of the Land... Kinda lost their way a little after that IMO.
Adam F - Colours
Justice - The Cross
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
Plump DJ's - Eargasm

Best album difficult but pretty much anything by
Kraftwerk ,aphex twin,carl craig ,boards of canada,autechre

u-ziq is another big omission.

Tango n vectif or Lunatic Harness for me, but his stuff is consistently good.

binners - Member
And for retro electronic, how about OMD - Architecture and Morality? Just listen to Georgia. Superb!

OMD's Dazzle ships is an acquired taste but very interesting to listen to

Streetsounds albums take me back to my yoof with a square of lino & a can of Mr Sheen 😆

Depeche Mode: Violator, a quality bit of electronic pop

New Order: Power, Corruption & Lies, superb album

So many excellent albums have already been posted up it's hard not to re list them (leftfield, massive attack, 808 state, chem. bros. etc...)

Surprised Crystal Method hasn't had a mention.

I was thinking about this last night - Endtroducing, the Man Machine, Deadringer, In Sides (rereleased with the Saint), etc etc are all in there.
Mine would probably be the Fight Club OST, the Dust Brothers. Just fantastic, and clearly a favourite of whoever does the soundtrack for Top Gear.

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+1 Simian Mobile Disco

Waveform transmissions 1, jeff mills
New electronic architecture, Christian varela

257 veiws, 1 like and 0 comments, painfully underrated.

Orbital - Snivilisation
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
Four Tet - any
Maybe some Roni Size, LCD and Caribou to round out the list. Autechre [url=

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M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us

And some other projects related to Global Communication

Reload - A Collection of Short Stories
Harmonic 33 - Music for Film, Television and Radio Volume 1

I've used Ganz Graf as a test track on a few very nice hifi systems, because it can separate the wheat from the chaff fairly quickly. Have also spent some quality time recently in our demo room caning loads of the stuff listed because we've got nice speakers in from our new partners, Focal. Retail cost, £63000 😯

Incredible video too!

there's not enough bickering on this thread..

there's not enough bickering on this thread..

That's because there's no riff raff. Big hitters don't have time to listen to music don't you know.

This is a great thread... in no particular order
Air, Moon Safari
Underworld, Second toughest in the infants
Portishead, Live at the Roseland NYC

couldn't possibly pick just one album but Bomb the bass "Clear" must be one of my most played electronic albums of all time.
Loved that and The Prodigy's "jilted Generation" played loud through headphones for night road riding on fast city/suburban roads.

For me Underworld Dubnobass is an album I have listened to for 20 odd years and it still sounds amazing.
Leftism and anything by Orbital are also top class.
But for me its a toss up between the first two fully mixed albums I listened to; Ministry of Sound Vol 1. and Renaissance.
Playing All funked up by Mother on the listening post in the local Virgin megastore was a defining moment of my youth. It was probably then that I realised I really liked dance music (having been a heavy metal and rap kid up to then).
I listened to the three mixes of Leftfields Song for life at the start of the Renaisance album round at a mates house and couldn't get over how good the build up sounded before the moment the third mix of the song dropped.....

Excellent thread...looks like I'm going to set my decks up and get all my old vinyl out! 8)

How about Jaga Jazzist - A Living Room Hush and
DJ Hidden - The Later After (Good album but crap moniker!)

Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants! Got it on now, would say my neighbours think their walls are about to come in!!!

so, on the back of this thread today I have listened to, for the first time:

Nitin Sawhney - beyond skin
two lone swordsmen
boards of canada

listened to a few others, but the three above really stand out. listening to underworld, second toughest in the infants before i go out, ****ing hell, can't believe I've never heard it before, quality...

EDIT: thank the lord for spotify!

Some quality suggestions on here.

Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született

Yes. Without question the finest Elgar-sampling intelligent D'n'B album about a Hungarian pigeon ever written. 😀 I love Detrimentalist too, completely bonkers and brilliant.

Fila Brazilia – Brazilification

Haha no way, I'll mention this to my es GF... She's been going out with Dave McSherry for about 3 years now iirc!

FB are ace, soundtrack to my student years they were along with a stack of other stuff on Pork. Oddly enough I think I'd also probably choose Brazillification as my favourite of theirs.

Got to add to the numerous votes for Leftism, Timeless, Dummy, Maxinquaye, Lifeforms, Second Toughest, Exit Planet Dust, Homework, Entroducing, Screamadelica. Not sure I could choose my favourite. So many good records, so little time to listen to them loud enough to do them justice...

(Having said that, a few months back my boy was in the car and something by Fila Brazillia came on. He said: "Make it louder daddy!" Good lad.)

I've just been fettling my bike for tomorrow, with a beer, and dubbobass on nice and loud. Not listened to it for ages. Cowgirl is still the best on it!! 🙂

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Fab album.

It's to pick just one, but Global Commnication's [i]76:14[/i] is probably my favourite electronica album, ever (& eternally evocative of riding long chalk droves on the Wiltshire/Dorset border, many summers ago...).

YMO must be in there some place.

"Try syncing all those synths up without MIDI, just working off triggers and CV? gates, then recording to recording to analogue in perfect time....these guys did! and it was 1979. Go figure......."

Anyone mentioned some quality big beat yet?

Lo Fidelity Allstars - How To Operate With a Blown Mind?

Beaucoup Fish probably my favourite out of everything mentioned above.

Used to be heavily in to that French house or whatever it was called epitomised by daft punk (homework would be a close second as would super discount, oh I loved that album).

Also think bjork is seriously under rated. Esp homogenius.

+1 to the orbital, Moon safari, goldfrapp (well seventh tree & felt mountain)

Cabaret Voltaire should figure more strongly IMHO. 2x45 and red Mecca for me.

Also Pole.

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Always goes nicely with the similarly sample-heavy (& sublime) [i]Chillout[/i] by the KLF.

Earlier Kraftwerk is more interesting than later IMO.
Some of the stuff from Kraftwerk 2, for example. Once it gets moving at 2:00

Hard to choose any album as the best.
On the list though:
FSOL - Lifeforms
Evan Marc - Emotional Ecology
Der Dritte Raum have made some great bouncy electronic stuff too

I'm also for Leftfield - leftism. Listened to it the other day and have to say it is still brilliant.

Going to have to read the whole thread and make a list as there's lots of interesting recs listed.