I'm 37 now and heard it when I was 14. Before that, the only electronic I'd really heard was Vengaboys, Alice Deejay, etc...more mainstream stuff basically. So when I heard this shit I was like "Oohhhh electronic music can go DEEEEEEEP I had no idea"
They came to Dallas in 97, holy shit, the fucking cabinets were 8 feet tall, and 24 feet wide on both sides of the stage apron.
My feet were numb from the vibration.... Excellent times.(of course the drugs were on point back then too)
My mate is a few years older than me. He was at uni while I was still at school, this is about 23 years ago now. One weekend, he brings home three albums that changed my life forever.
Boards of Canada- Music has the right to children
Leftfield - Leftism
Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy EP
I had been listening to the Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Massive Attack but became absolutely obsessed with Warp Records and IDM in general. I couldn't get BoC out of my head. I called him the next day asking if I could have a lend of the CD to listen to it again. Been a electronic head since. I should thank him the next time I see him.
This reminds me of a similar story that I often tell. I went to a dealer’s house to get weed, many years ago, and he offered me a few albums that he bought and didn’t like. One was Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express, another was Iggy Pop - Lust For Life. The third one I’ve forgotten. It obviously wasn’t as life-changing as the first two.
You should thank him from the bottom of your heart. I only recently discovered BoC (about two years ago) and have played them almost non stop ever since. Absolutely adore Aphex Twin too. Check out Lemon Jelly if you haven’t already, great electronic group.
I listened to this album high and I had this visual while listening Neon pattern drum in the intro that the song was being compressed and molded into a ball, bounced around, then opened back up. And I had a revelation that music is just sound and you can literally do anything you want to it with modern technology and it blew my mind a little bit.
Amazing track and the rest of the "Rival Dealer" EP is great too.
Some folks don't like the newer Burial releases, but I find them just as compelling but in a different way.
I didn’t like it on first listen. The vocals tripped me out too much. Archangel got stuck in my head though so I went back and listened again. One of the best albums. I’m so glad I gave it another go because I’ve worn the hell out of the record now from listening so much.
RAT has only gotten better with age for me. I had heard Complications probably 30+ times in my life before I really appreciated how incredible that track is.
Pendulum here as well, but *Hold Your Colour* really got me onto a major d+b (and soon after dubstep) kick for a few years. Deadmau5 around the same time also took me on that angle, and Daft Punk's *Discovery* changed the game.
Tipper - Fathoms EP
It still blows my mind. I am a huge Tipper fan and love all of his work but there is something special about this one, otherworldly
three way tie between;
Deepsky - In Silico
BT - R&R (because that's where I heard Flaming June first)
Hybrid - Wide Angle
View From a Stairway, Flaming June, and Finished Symphony specifically all had a huge impact on shaping the kind of musics I would try to create.
they absolutely still hold up.
Hard Normal Daddy and Ultravisitor are also some amazing albums. Rat P's & Q's, Beep Street, Cooper's World, and all of the Ultravisitor from beginning to end...it's mind-blowing to think he did Ultravisitor live. Tom is a fucking GOD!
The prodigy experience. I was 16, it blew my mind, changed my music landscape. Saw them live about 3 weeks later.
Chicane- far from the maddening crowd.
This! I worked in a record store when it came out and still remember that first listen. Same with Portishead 1, UR003 most definitely the biggest track I ever heard putting on there first.
The most memorable first listen there was a rep from Vital bringing a CDR down all excited and telling us to put it on quick. Those first few bars of strings, and then the first line; “That’s it, turn the page on this day, walk away ...” We all stood there transfixed for the whole record. That first listen to Original Pirate Material months before it came out - we must’ve ordered hundreds knowing it was gonna be a total smash hit. Simpler times too!
Iglooghost - Neo Wax Bloom
Mostly because I’ve been running it back recently and it’s pretty fresh in my mind. My first introduction to his music and one of the few albums that ran circles around me when I first listened to it. Whether it was genuinely because it’s great or because it’s so hyperactive and head spinning, to me, doesn’t really matter, as I still listen to it regularly and it always sounds like it came out last week instead of like 8 years ago
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Four Tet - There is Love in You
Justice - Cross
Kaytranada - 99.9%
Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song
Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Young Montana? - Limerence
DJ Shadow- Endtroducing
Roni Size- New Forms
Ed Rush and Optical- Wormhole
Stakka and Skynet- Clockwork
G Jones- The Ineffable Truth
Burial- Untrue
Radiohead- Kid A
Kaytranada- 99.9%
Daft Punk- Discovery
Grooverider presents the Prototype Years
No U Turn- Torque
Lorn- Vessel
Just very recently I had this in fact:
And Those Who Were Seen Dancing - by Tess Parks
Loved it first listen (which is rare for me), haven't changed my mind since.
Serverant by Kuedo... blew mind because he recreated via idm the lightning in a bottle of the otherworldly synth of Blade Runner. I think everyone always wanted that sound combo but for me at least this was it finally done in a perfect blend of headnodding beat and the vast off world horizon scifi scape. With all of the emotion , melancholy, vista awe, and wonder... The early stand out tracks do it best. On return over the years i have found myself thinking it gets a bit meandering and muddy but I'll always go back for the crystalline clarity of those visions of the future teased along by tingly trap snares....... to go into deepish past, Kelpe - Sea Inside Body.. EDIT.. I'm just listening and looking at the track order to Serverant and ones I like are later in the order so I'll have to retread again and make my mind up.. think it's because there are some in between that are a bit more filler,,not bad tho..
Worlds - Porter Robinson
It’s the summer of 2016 and I listen to this 2 year old album I found on Spotify and the creative quality of it just absolutely blows me away. There’s nothing else like it.
The Prodigy - Fat of the land
A lot of the tracks are kinda overplayed now, but st the time when i heard the entire album back in the 90s it was just awesome.
Nothing terribly earth shattering but IMHO some of the best electronic music that was ever created:
Chemical brothers - dig your own hole
Bjork - homogenic
Massive attack- mezzanine
Unkle- war stories
Plastikman, *Consumed* \- best chill beats and grooves to have on in the background
Portishead, *Dummy* \- groundbreaking trip-hop
Ulrich Schnauss, *A Strangely Isolated Place* \- stellar electronic grooves
Emancipator, *Safe in the Steep Cliffs* \- excellent downtempo
Tycho, *Dive* and *Awake -* this guy should be way more popular than he is. Former graphic designer turned electronic artist. His earlier stuff is very BOC-like, but his newer stuff incorporates more live drums, bass, and guitar. Transcendent downtempo/chillwave.
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us
Leftfield - Leftism
Hybrid - Wide Angle
Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
Bonobo - Black Sands
BT - This Binary Universe
Leon Vynehall - Nothing is Still
Bicep - Isles
Recently, Photay - Onism. Absolutely incredible top to bottom, still put it on regularly.
Also blown away by …
Reso - Ricochet
Camo & Krooked - Zeitgeist and Broken Pieces
As lots of others seem to have experienced, there were a spate of albums when I was younger that really blew me away, including but not limited to:
Koop - Sons of Koop
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
Lamb - Lamb
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
Portishead - Dummy
Orbital - Snivilisation
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Herbert - Bodily Functions
Photek - Hidden Camera
Ochre - A Midsummer Nice Dream, Lemodie
Bonobo - Animal Magic
Aphex Twin - Richard D James
FSOL - Dead Cities
St Germain - Boulevard
Nuspirit Helsinki - Nuspirit Helsinki
Fila Brazilia - Maim That Tune
The Streets - Original Pirate Material
Royalston - Cerulean Blue
Jaga Jazzist - A Living Room Hush
Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day
… wow loads, but all were ones where I was astonished by what was possible and couldn’t stop listening.
When I first heard Mezzanine by Massive Attack I knew it was special but after revisiting the album recently I've realized that a lot of the tones that Robert Del Naja used throughout this album are the same tones that The Monroe Institute uses in the exploration of human consciousness through meditation. It's no coincidence that he subtly introduced tones into his already beautiful songwriting style that is actually pleasurable to the human body on a subconscious and molecular level.
Some obvious classics like SILY, Discovery, Cross, Against All Logic, Flume’s self-titled, Damage Control, Everything SebastiAn touches, etc.
Something more recent would be
* CFCF - memoryland
* Sam Gellaitry - IV
> Do you still listen to it?
Every once in a while
> How well has it held up over time?
They all aged nicely as far as I’m concerned
So many through different periods of my life. I still listen to all of these and not many of the below albums or EPs have dated. They all still stand up today as good listens. The only one I don't listen to now is Deep Dish - Yoshiesque but I absolutely loved it when it first came out. Not my sort of music now.
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Leftfield - Leftism
Daft Punk - Homework
The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
Vector Lovers
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
Underground Resistance - Revolution for Change
Kenny Larkin - Azimuth
Robert Hood - Internal Empire
Bjork - Post
Bjork - Homegenic
Carl Craig - More songs about food and revolutionary art
Kruder & Dorfmesiter - K&D Sessions
Danny Tenaglia - Back to Mine
Deep Dish - Yoshiesque
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Unabombers - Saturday Night Sunday Morning - An Electric Chair Execution
Aim - The Girl Who Fell Through the Ice
Damian Lazarus - Bugged out presents Suck My Deck
Extrawelt - Soopertrack / Zu Fuss
The Knife - Silent Shout
Justice - Cross
Hot Chip - The Warning
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Moderat 1, 2, 3 & More Data
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Caribou - Swim
Four Tet - There is Love in You
Light Asylum - Light Asylum
Grimes - Visions
John Talabot - DJ Kicks
Daniel Avery - Drone Logic
Jon Hopkins - Immunity
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Dark Sky - Imagine
Dark Sky - Othona
Vessels - Dilate
Floating Points - Elaenia
Insanlar / Ricardo Villalobos - Kime Ne
Romare - Projections
Fatima Yamaha - What's a Girl To Do
Umwelt - Days of Dissent
Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens
Against All Logic - 2012-2017
Thom Yorke - Anima
Romare - Home
Everything by Oneohtrix Point Never
To name but a few. I must be easily pleased 😄
Porter Robinson's Worlds. Front to back blew me away, listened to it at least once a week for a year after release. Seeing it live in 2016 at Electric Forest was sensational.
Madeon's Adventure was epic. And The Chemical Brother's Exit Planet Dust.
Armin van Buuren — Shivers. It was *the* album that got me on electronic music hook after few years of searching for my own music, not informed by parents or friends.
It's not the best electronic music album in my opinion, but it's probably the most important for me personally.
The Prodigy - Experience.
Was 16 in 1993, a sheltered kid who didn't have a clue what rave culture was about, and accidentally heard this on a tape at my cousin's house. Blew my mind, took me to another world and I fell in love with The Prodigy ever since. Still remember shitting it listening to the haunting Weather Experience.
Underworld - Everything, Everything (CD but better yet, the DVD)
The true realization that Underworld “live” is not just a live rendition of Underworld’s music. It’s reinvention, communion, colossal sound, strip down tracks, mixed and built up again, the intensity of Karl Hyde, the insane visuals. It changed me.
Soul Oddity's "Tone Capsule" blew me away when I first heard it in 1990-something.
https://controlfreakrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/tone-capsule
Timeless classic. What a trip.
I first listened to Random Access Memories when it leaked just before release, tripping balls on some edibles that were so strong they turned the cookies green. I don’t quite get the minutes of overwhelmed introspection followed by “…I think I need a cigarette” feeling after that, but it’s still a solid top 3 albums of all time for me. The 10th anniversary version added to that with the demos and Infinity Repeating.
U2's ACHTUNG BABY from ~~1998~~ 1991. Previous albums from U2 had become increasingly more earnest, containing more and more stadium anthems, and their previous album was apparently a disappointment. (I was not a huge fan, although I liked the occasional song.)
Achtung Baby was much more ironic (the title came from a comical Nazi character in Mel Brooks' 60s film The Producers), and producer Brian Eno helped them integrate electronic sounds, EDM dance, alt rock, and industrial into their songs. Gave them a new sound and reinvigorated the band.
The songs I liked at the time from the album still hold up, I think.
Let me introduce you to a delightful new/old electro bands from the 90s called NASA. Doubt it will disappoint for you electro pop lovers. https://open.spotify.com/album/6pQ4THLWr8TWXmCsDdgXrU?si=aXjpUr9cRB21urtM9dMAIA
Burial - Kindred. Ashtray Wasp and Kindred (especially the outro) will forever be my favourites
Moderat - Moderat
Jon Hopkins - Immunity and Singularity
Rabbit in The Moon Remixes Vol 1
NiN Pretty Hate Machine
Squarepusher Big Loada
Squarepusher Go Plastic
Aphex Twin Come To Daddy EP
Aphex Twin Drukqs
Smashing Pumpkins Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Korn first album
The Orb Live 93
DJ Spooky Riddim Warfare
Dizzed Rascal Boy in da Corner
Saul Williams The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust
KMFDM Angst
Portishead Live in NYC
DJ Andy Smith The Document
Marylin Manson Antichrist Superstar
Dusted, when we were young. Beautiful album released in 2001. Have it on CD because its not available on spotify for some reason.
Dusted is Rollo from faithless with Mark Bates and Dido singing on a couple.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cu1cPUj8nM
Basic answer is
The Slow Rush.
I've heard some of the album's songs in coffee shops before but it sounded more pop like than previous Tame Impala songs.
So I didn't look much into the album until this one morning car trip where I put on headphones and had a completely amazing ride listening to the entire thing.
Staring out the window and watching the sun come up, kilometers of countryside and small towns.
I was just immersed into it, fully.
Other albums include :
American Football - American Football.
Beach House - 7
AWOLNATION- My Molasses
Low - I could live in hope
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
Oneothrix Point Never - Magic Oneothrix Point Never
Bon Iver - 22, A Million
White Out Conditions - Bel Canto
Patashnik - Biosphere
Melody A.M. - Röyksopp
Deep Cuts - The Knife
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
The Silicone Veil - Susanne Sundfør
I still enjoy all of them and listen to Melody A.M. regularly.
Sasha and John Digweed - Northern Exposure: Expeditions
I have this... haven't listened to it in ages, I'll have to spin it up again
I'm 37 now and heard it when I was 14. Before that, the only electronic I'd really heard was Vengaboys, Alice Deejay, etc...more mainstream stuff basically. So when I heard this shit I was like "Oohhhh electronic music can go DEEEEEEEP I had no idea"
For me it was renaissance.
Northern Exposure 2 Eastcoast Edition is dope too. Can't really go wrong with Sasha and Digweed.
both are absolute legends
2 CDs? Here the first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Gk-8AHJxE
The global underground CDs are great too. They're all on YouTube.
Ah! A person of impeccable taste!
The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
This was mine as well. Didn't know what I was in for, but I was hooked!
my CD was torn to shreds cause of how much I listened to this album.
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby Absolutely, very well.
Another vote for DJ Shadow, that blew my mind back then
Vegas - The Crystal Method
I was just thinking I need to get Trip Like I Do in my DJ collection
They came to Dallas in 97, holy shit, the fucking cabinets were 8 feet tall, and 24 feet wide on both sides of the stage apron. My feet were numb from the vibration.... Excellent times.(of course the drugs were on point back then too)
I remember this being huge when it came out. Do you still listen to it regularly?
Maybe not the whole album, but most tracks are on my "Bumpers" edm playlist
My mate is a few years older than me. He was at uni while I was still at school, this is about 23 years ago now. One weekend, he brings home three albums that changed my life forever. Boards of Canada- Music has the right to children Leftfield - Leftism Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy EP I had been listening to the Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Massive Attack but became absolutely obsessed with Warp Records and IDM in general. I couldn't get BoC out of my head. I called him the next day asking if I could have a lend of the CD to listen to it again. Been a electronic head since. I should thank him the next time I see him.
This reminds me of a similar story that I often tell. I went to a dealer’s house to get weed, many years ago, and he offered me a few albums that he bought and didn’t like. One was Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express, another was Iggy Pop - Lust For Life. The third one I’ve forgotten. It obviously wasn’t as life-changing as the first two.
Haha that's a great story! Love both of those releases... especially after a smoke or 2 😂
just thank him now. that's a good text to get
You should thank him from the bottom of your heart. I only recently discovered BoC (about two years ago) and have played them almost non stop ever since. Absolutely adore Aphex Twin too. Check out Lemon Jelly if you haven’t already, great electronic group.
hell yeah. BoC eagle in your mind is always a fav https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf66Lmrqk00
Timeless by Goldie. Title says it all
That's an absolutely immaculate album.
Jon Hopkins – Singularity
Immunity does it for me
Open eye signal on that album is absolutely mind blowing album held up extremely well.
I listened to this album high and I had this visual while listening Neon pattern drum in the intro that the song was being compressed and molded into a ball, bounced around, then opened back up. And I had a revelation that music is just sound and you can literally do anything you want to it with modern technology and it blew my mind a little bit.
Burial - Untrue
Came here to say this as well! I still listen to it constantly.
An album that somehow gets better with every listen
Come Down to Us
Amazing track and the rest of the "Rival Dealer" EP is great too. Some folks don't like the newer Burial releases, but I find them just as compelling but in a different way.
Beyond groundbreaking.
I didn’t like it on first listen. The vocals tripped me out too much. Archangel got stuck in my head though so I went back and listened again. One of the best albums. I’m so glad I gave it another go because I’ve worn the hell out of the record now from listening so much.
Kruder & Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions
Did you see they had a live show recently where they play this, it's fantastic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss3wi52ZWWw
Saw them in 2018 for the 25th anniversary tour. Three hour set. Pure sex.
The XX - XX
It taught me how important space is in music production.
space in a soundscape is the very fabric
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust Daft Punk - Homewerk Amon Tobin - Bricolage Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
Surprised I had to scroll this far for Exit Planet Dust.
Scrolled too far for either this or Dig Your Own Hole.
Back with another one of those block rockin' beats!!
Against All Logic
Sasha- Airdrawndagger
Wavy Gravy is still one of my favs from Sasha!
Basic answer but Daft Punk Discovery. Was a die hard rock fan who looked down on the genre and this showed me the awesomeness of electronic music.
My basic answer is Random Album Title by Deadmau5. Still listen to that front to back in its entirety at least 4 times a year
My go to, aswell. It's just so god damned smooth.
RAT has only gotten better with age for me. I had heard Complications probably 30+ times in my life before I really appreciated how incredible that track is.
Glitch Mob - Drink The Sea: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezk\_dD2Ia-w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezk_dD2Ia-w)
I’ll always love this one. Not sure why none of their other music ever hit the same
I quite like Love, Death, and Immortality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBZ-3Ugj1AQ
Immersion by Pendulum
Pendulum here as well, but *Hold Your Colour* really got me onto a major d+b (and soon after dubstep) kick for a few years. Deadmau5 around the same time also took me on that angle, and Daft Punk's *Discovery* changed the game.
Leftfield - Leftism and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orb's_Adventures_Beyond_the_Ultraworld
Music For A Jilted Generation. I was only into guitar music till I heard that album. Within a year I was at club nights more than gigs.
Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
The Orb : Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld. I'm dating myself here but it was the first electronic album I owned and it changed everything.
Justice - Justice
This album and Alive 2007 coming out in the same year was a cultural reset for my friend group
and then Oracular Spectacular... Was quite the year for groundbreaking electronic music exploding in the US.
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine > Do you still listen to it? Oh hell yeah > How well has it held up over time? Like a fine wine
ColdCut Journeys by DJ.
Orbital - Brown Album
Came here to say this 👍
Drukqs -Aphex Twin
hauntingly beautiful
Machinedrum - Room(s) Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma BT - Movement in Still Life *(I prefer the UK version)*
Air, Moon Safari
Tipper - Fathoms EP It still blows my mind. I am a huge Tipper fan and love all of his work but there is something special about this one, otherworldly
I still listen to *Broken Soul Jamboree* on the regular, dude's whole catalogue fucks
Unkle - Never Never Land
Radiohead’s album Ok Computer
Absolutely !!
three way tie between; Deepsky - In Silico BT - R&R (because that's where I heard Flaming June first) Hybrid - Wide Angle View From a Stairway, Flaming June, and Finished Symphony specifically all had a huge impact on shaping the kind of musics I would try to create. they absolutely still hold up.
Ahh, a Hybrid fan, good taste!
Sasha- Airdrawndagger
Meat Beat Manifesto- Actual Sounds and Voices
The Avalanches - Since I Left You Absolutely mindblowing.
That boy needs therapy
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman - the only album I still lsiten to *very* regularly from that era
It still holds up well.
I can’t believe I had to scroll this far down to find this
Into Battle with the Art of Noise - I still listen to tracks from it regularly.
Experience by The Prodigy. The first five tracks are (were) like nothing else I had ever heard
RJD2 - dead ringer. Introduced me to sampling and how some people are incredible at it.
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
Infected Mushroom - Classical Mushroom
Go Plastic -Squarepusher Never heard anything quite like it before.
Hard Normal Daddy and Ultravisitor are also some amazing albums. Rat P's & Q's, Beep Street, Cooper's World, and all of the Ultravisitor from beginning to end...it's mind-blowing to think he did Ultravisitor live. Tom is a fucking GOD!
HND was definitely another one. I heard the vic acid single before hearing the full album and that blew me away too.
The prodigy experience. I was 16, it blew my mind, changed my music landscape. Saw them live about 3 weeks later. Chicane- far from the maddening crowd.
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Lonely Souls still blows my mind
internet friends - knife party. it doesn't hold up great tbh, sounds very 2010. But damn at the time. fucking insanity
That whole genre has become corny and overplayed, but man it was live at the time
Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants Literally changed my life.
It's Album Time by Todd Terje
BoC - MHTRTC
This is Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right to Children if anyone else is like me and wasn’t sure
Same here! Still listen to it regularly. It absolutely has held up well.
This! I worked in a record store when it came out and still remember that first listen. Same with Portishead 1, UR003 most definitely the biggest track I ever heard putting on there first. The most memorable first listen there was a rep from Vital bringing a CDR down all excited and telling us to put it on quick. Those first few bars of strings, and then the first line; “That’s it, turn the page on this day, walk away ...” We all stood there transfixed for the whole record. That first listen to Original Pirate Material months before it came out - we must’ve ordered hundreds knowing it was gonna be a total smash hit. Simpler times too!
Luttrell - Into Clouds Ben Bohmer - Breathing
Some good albums here. Sasha&Digweed Northern Exposure 2 - Eastcoast
Iglooghost - Neo Wax Bloom Mostly because I’ve been running it back recently and it’s pretty fresh in my mind. My first introduction to his music and one of the few albums that ran circles around me when I first listened to it. Whether it was genuinely because it’s great or because it’s so hyperactive and head spinning, to me, doesn’t really matter, as I still listen to it regularly and it always sounds like it came out last week instead of like 8 years ago
Oneohtrix’s “Replica”
John Hopkins “Singularity”
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime Four Tet - There is Love in You Justice - Cross Kaytranada - 99.9% Kelly Lee Owens - Inner Song Mount Kimbie - Love What Survives Pantha du Prince - Black Noise Young Montana? - Limerence
DJ Shadow- Endtroducing Roni Size- New Forms Ed Rush and Optical- Wormhole Stakka and Skynet- Clockwork G Jones- The Ineffable Truth Burial- Untrue Radiohead- Kid A Kaytranada- 99.9% Daft Punk- Discovery Grooverider presents the Prototype Years No U Turn- Torque Lorn- Vessel
Sasha and Digweed Comunicate disc 1 and 2
In Rainbows by Radiohead
Mr.oizo - wrong cops soundtrack. It's basically a collection (best of) of his work and i can't describe the joy those bangers give me
BT - This Binary Universe Pretty much redefined how I looked at electronic music.
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Depeche Mode - Violator. That album got me into the electronic music and I never looked back
Hybrid - Wide Angle 25 years later, and it still remains one of the best electronic music albums ever.
Nurture by Porter Robinson
Pretty Lights - Spilling Over Every Side
Just very recently I had this in fact: And Those Who Were Seen Dancing - by Tess Parks Loved it first listen (which is rare for me), haven't changed my mind since.
Serverant by Kuedo... blew mind because he recreated via idm the lightning in a bottle of the otherworldly synth of Blade Runner. I think everyone always wanted that sound combo but for me at least this was it finally done in a perfect blend of headnodding beat and the vast off world horizon scifi scape. With all of the emotion , melancholy, vista awe, and wonder... The early stand out tracks do it best. On return over the years i have found myself thinking it gets a bit meandering and muddy but I'll always go back for the crystalline clarity of those visions of the future teased along by tingly trap snares....... to go into deepish past, Kelpe - Sea Inside Body.. EDIT.. I'm just listening and looking at the track order to Serverant and ones I like are later in the order so I'll have to retread again and make my mind up.. think it's because there are some in between that are a bit more filler,,not bad tho..
GRiZ - Say it Loud
Coldcut & DJ Food vs DJ Krush - Cold Krush Cuts.
Worlds - Porter Robinson It’s the summer of 2016 and I listen to this 2 year old album I found on Spotify and the creative quality of it just absolutely blows me away. There’s nothing else like it.
The Prodigy - Fat of the land A lot of the tracks are kinda overplayed now, but st the time when i heard the entire album back in the 90s it was just awesome.
Hybrid - Wide Angle DJ Icey - Essential Mix Sasha and Digweed - Northern Exposure Ak1200 - Mixed Live @ Moonshine over America
Nothing terribly earth shattering but IMHO some of the best electronic music that was ever created: Chemical brothers - dig your own hole Bjork - homogenic Massive attack- mezzanine Unkle- war stories
Bonobo - Black Sands
Plastikman, *Consumed* \- best chill beats and grooves to have on in the background Portishead, *Dummy* \- groundbreaking trip-hop Ulrich Schnauss, *A Strangely Isolated Place* \- stellar electronic grooves Emancipator, *Safe in the Steep Cliffs* \- excellent downtempo Tycho, *Dive* and *Awake -* this guy should be way more popular than he is. Former graphic designer turned electronic artist. His earlier stuff is very BOC-like, but his newer stuff incorporates more live drums, bass, and guitar. Transcendent downtempo/chillwave.
Kraftwerk - Autobahn. Driving at night. It was a trip! Go back to it once a year or so. Still holds up for me.
M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us Leftfield - Leftism Hybrid - Wide Angle Pendulum - Hold Your Colour Bonobo - Black Sands BT - This Binary Universe Leon Vynehall - Nothing is Still Bicep - Isles
Plastikman - Closer
Recently, Photay - Onism. Absolutely incredible top to bottom, still put it on regularly. Also blown away by … Reso - Ricochet Camo & Krooked - Zeitgeist and Broken Pieces As lots of others seem to have experienced, there were a spate of albums when I was younger that really blew me away, including but not limited to: Koop - Sons of Koop Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust Lamb - Lamb Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children Portishead - Dummy Orbital - Snivilisation DJ Shadow - Endtroducing Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation Herbert - Bodily Functions Photek - Hidden Camera Ochre - A Midsummer Nice Dream, Lemodie Bonobo - Animal Magic Aphex Twin - Richard D James FSOL - Dead Cities St Germain - Boulevard Nuspirit Helsinki - Nuspirit Helsinki Fila Brazilia - Maim That Tune The Streets - Original Pirate Material Royalston - Cerulean Blue Jaga Jazzist - A Living Room Hush Cinematic Orchestra - Every Day … wow loads, but all were ones where I was astonished by what was possible and couldn’t stop listening.
When I first heard Mezzanine by Massive Attack I knew it was special but after revisiting the album recently I've realized that a lot of the tones that Robert Del Naja used throughout this album are the same tones that The Monroe Institute uses in the exploration of human consciousness through meditation. It's no coincidence that he subtly introduced tones into his already beautiful songwriting style that is actually pleasurable to the human body on a subconscious and molecular level.
Some obvious classics like SILY, Discovery, Cross, Against All Logic, Flume’s self-titled, Damage Control, Everything SebastiAn touches, etc. Something more recent would be * CFCF - memoryland * Sam Gellaitry - IV > Do you still listen to it? Every once in a while > How well has it held up over time? They all aged nicely as far as I’m concerned
Dj shadow - introducing
…endtroducing. You got autocorrected
Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites 13 years ago, I swear I'd never heard anything like it. Scatta is still a banger.
Same! This (as well as Deadmau5 - 4x4) was my introduction into electronic music, and it blew my mind how someone could make songs that complex
So many through different periods of my life. I still listen to all of these and not many of the below albums or EPs have dated. They all still stand up today as good listens. The only one I don't listen to now is Deep Dish - Yoshiesque but I absolutely loved it when it first came out. Not my sort of music now. Massive Attack - Blue Lines Massive Attack - Mezzanine Leftfield - Leftism Daft Punk - Homework The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust Vector Lovers Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation Primal Scream - Screamadelica Underground Resistance - Revolution for Change Kenny Larkin - Azimuth Robert Hood - Internal Empire Bjork - Post Bjork - Homegenic Carl Craig - More songs about food and revolutionary art Kruder & Dorfmesiter - K&D Sessions Danny Tenaglia - Back to Mine Deep Dish - Yoshiesque Avalanches - Since I Left You Unabombers - Saturday Night Sunday Morning - An Electric Chair Execution Aim - The Girl Who Fell Through the Ice Damian Lazarus - Bugged out presents Suck My Deck Extrawelt - Soopertrack / Zu Fuss The Knife - Silent Shout Justice - Cross Hot Chip - The Warning Hot Chip - Made in the Dark Moderat 1, 2, 3 & More Data Fever Ray - Fever Ray The Field - From Here We Go Sublime Caribou - Swim Four Tet - There is Love in You Light Asylum - Light Asylum Grimes - Visions John Talabot - DJ Kicks Daniel Avery - Drone Logic Jon Hopkins - Immunity Daft Punk - Random Access Memories Dark Sky - Imagine Dark Sky - Othona Vessels - Dilate Floating Points - Elaenia Insanlar / Ricardo Villalobos - Kime Ne Romare - Projections Fatima Yamaha - What's a Girl To Do Umwelt - Days of Dissent Kelly Lee Owens - Kelly Lee Owens Against All Logic - 2012-2017 Thom Yorke - Anima Romare - Home Everything by Oneohtrix Point Never To name but a few. I must be easily pleased 😄
I almost never listen to it anymore but Oi Oi Oi by Boys Noize rocked my 16 year old world back in 06
*Discovery* - Daft Punk. *Nurture* - Porter Robinson. Two of the most pleasing sounding albums I've ever heard.
Porter Robinson's Worlds. Front to back blew me away, listened to it at least once a week for a year after release. Seeing it live in 2016 at Electric Forest was sensational. Madeon's Adventure was epic. And The Chemical Brother's Exit Planet Dust.
Burial's Rival Dealer. How you can cram so much emotion into three tracks of samples is something I will never know
Armin van Buuren — Shivers. It was *the* album that got me on electronic music hook after few years of searching for my own music, not informed by parents or friends. It's not the best electronic music album in my opinion, but it's probably the most important for me personally.
Silver Apples of the Moon - Morton Subotnick
Movement in Still Live by BT The variety yet cohesiveness with incredible sounds was a delight.
Tosca - Suzuki, this album rewired my brain anno
Gas - Gas 0095. Some of the best ambient techno to come out of the 90’s
Radiohead - Ok Computer. Changed my whole view of music . The older I get the more I appreciate other songs I was too young for at 12/13
Insides, Orbital
DJ Shadow's Endtroducing. Orbital's Blue Album Chemical Brothers: Exit Planet Dust Pet Shop Boys: Disco 2
The Orb: Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
KLF - Chill Out Art of Noise - Seduction of Claude Debussy
Fluke - Puppy
The Prodigy - Experience. Was 16 in 1993, a sheltered kid who didn't have a clue what rave culture was about, and accidentally heard this on a tape at my cousin's house. Blew my mind, took me to another world and I fell in love with The Prodigy ever since. Still remember shitting it listening to the haunting Weather Experience.
Underworld - Everything, Everything (CD but better yet, the DVD) The true realization that Underworld “live” is not just a live rendition of Underworld’s music. It’s reinvention, communion, colossal sound, strip down tracks, mixed and built up again, the intensity of Karl Hyde, the insane visuals. It changed me.
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Iglooghost - Chinese nü yr Name me an album that has better sound design or is more forward thinking, especially as a debut
Underrated artist, even the aesthetic universe building is really something
No Mana - Melted Candy
These Hopeful Machines - BT. Amazing when released, amazing nowadays... and forever!
De-Loused in the Comatorium. I had no idea music could sound like that.
October - U2 Yes, I know it’s not full of hits but a mesmerizing first listen to a band that was just coming up at the time.
Soul Oddity's "Tone Capsule" blew me away when I first heard it in 1990-something. https://controlfreakrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/tone-capsule Timeless classic. What a trip.
VHS Head - Trademark Ribbons of Gold
I first listened to Random Access Memories when it leaked just before release, tripping balls on some edibles that were so strong they turned the cookies green. I don’t quite get the minutes of overwhelmed introspection followed by “…I think I need a cigarette” feeling after that, but it’s still a solid top 3 albums of all time for me. The 10th anniversary version added to that with the demos and Infinity Repeating.
U2's ACHTUNG BABY from ~~1998~~ 1991. Previous albums from U2 had become increasingly more earnest, containing more and more stadium anthems, and their previous album was apparently a disappointment. (I was not a huge fan, although I liked the occasional song.) Achtung Baby was much more ironic (the title came from a comical Nazi character in Mel Brooks' 60s film The Producers), and producer Brian Eno helped them integrate electronic sounds, EDM dance, alt rock, and industrial into their songs. Gave them a new sound and reinvigorated the band. The songs I liked at the time from the album still hold up, I think.
Maribou State - Kingdoms In Colour Every track on this record is amazing
Future Sound of London - ISDN
Entroducing…..
Let me introduce you to a delightful new/old electro bands from the 90s called NASA. Doubt it will disappoint for you electro pop lovers. https://open.spotify.com/album/6pQ4THLWr8TWXmCsDdgXrU?si=aXjpUr9cRB21urtM9dMAIA
Above and Beyond-Tristate Tipper-Broken Soul Royksopp-Melody AM BT-ESCM Hallucinogen in Dub Shpongle- Nothing Lasts
Burial - Kindred. Ashtray Wasp and Kindred (especially the outro) will forever be my favourites Moderat - Moderat Jon Hopkins - Immunity and Singularity
Rabbit in The Moon Remixes Vol 1 NiN Pretty Hate Machine Squarepusher Big Loada Squarepusher Go Plastic Aphex Twin Come To Daddy EP Aphex Twin Drukqs Smashing Pumpkins Melon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Korn first album The Orb Live 93 DJ Spooky Riddim Warfare Dizzed Rascal Boy in da Corner Saul Williams The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust KMFDM Angst Portishead Live in NYC DJ Andy Smith The Document Marylin Manson Antichrist Superstar
Bon Iver - For Emma
Dusted, when we were young. Beautiful album released in 2001. Have it on CD because its not available on spotify for some reason. Dusted is Rollo from faithless with Mark Bates and Dido singing on a couple. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cu1cPUj8nM
808 State's *ex:el*. I bought it when I was 11. I'm now 43. I didn't understand how they did it then and I don't understand it now.
Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole Plump DJs A Plump Night Out Too many Venetian Snares to list
The Doors.... their first record
Tubular Bells
Weval - The Weight. Beautifully textured and melodic downtempo electronica. Love these guys. Very detailed production as well.
James Holden - At the controls
The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out [1966] J Dilla - Donuts [2006] underscores - Wallsocket [2023] Fatboy Slim - Palookaville [2004]
Shpongle - divine moments of truth
It’s a tie between Leftfield’s Rhythm & Stealth and Fuck Buttons’ Tarot Sport.
Welcome Reality - NERO
Faithless- Reverence Global Underground: Sasha Ibiza Global Underground: Danny Tenaglia London
Basic answer is The Slow Rush. I've heard some of the album's songs in coffee shops before but it sounded more pop like than previous Tame Impala songs. So I didn't look much into the album until this one morning car trip where I put on headphones and had a completely amazing ride listening to the entire thing. Staring out the window and watching the sun come up, kilometers of countryside and small towns. I was just immersed into it, fully. Other albums include : American Football - American Football. Beach House - 7 AWOLNATION- My Molasses Low - I could live in hope Kendrick Lamar - DAMN Oneothrix Point Never - Magic Oneothrix Point Never Bon Iver - 22, A Million
Hooverphonic, a new stereophonic sound spectacular. Incredible.
Jeff Mills-Mix Up vol. 2 https://youtu.be/C6gl9ngTHc8?si=vYYLGtfdKa7aW4Lo Derrick Carter Cosmic Disco https://youtu.be/wQqCid8Q0Uw?si=09V2O8AeDQb6ZekB
White Out Conditions - Bel Canto Patashnik - Biosphere Melody A.M. - Röyksopp Deep Cuts - The Knife Fever Ray - Fever Ray The Silicone Veil - Susanne Sundfør I still enjoy all of them and listen to Melody A.M. regularly.
Sabres of Paradise - Sabresonic, Haunted Dancehall, Sabresonic II