all the albums listed are recognized as classic in one scene or another. if you haven't listened to much outside of Warp Records/edm then it's a fairly good list.

90s gave us a lot of quality records of which some are unfortunately forgotten these days. Some well-known names such as Massive Attack/The Orb/FSOL/Portishead/Orbital/Chems/Prodigy/Underworld/Leftfield are still mentioned, but it seems that stuff from "under the surface" is simply lost.

So it's nice to see equally important and interesting albums brought to light of day, so that at least some newbies can rediscover these classics once again. As pozz said, all of them are classics in one way or another (though I haven't heard that Skinny Puppy and System Error album), and you can't go wrong with any of them. Of course this list is not perfect and you could always throw in a couple of records that only you know of, but what list is?

Plastikman's (Ritchie Hawtin) Sheet One was one of my favorite albums, back then.

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It's a decent list and mostly classic/iconic records (although there's a few I haven't heard of), but it obviously leans heavily towards the critical canon. I think I'd prefer it if someone made a list like "Essential Electronic Records From the 90s (That you won't read about in The Wire)".

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Excellent list. Took me by surprise because i was expecting the usual orb/leftfield/underworld/bla bla stuff but you get amazing less known albums like Too dark park (best album by Skinny Puppy IMO), Thomas Kroner- Teimo (beautiful dark ambience), biosphere-substrata (one of the first and the best drone/isolationist ambient albums, Fluxion-Largo (Basic Channel and Maurizio were the creators of dub minimalist techno but fluxion was the perfectionist)the weird IDM of Oval and the dark, surrealist and classicist electronica of the caretaker. I'm very curious about the system error album (i don't know it) but i can't find it anywhere. Anyway, thanks a ton. If this is not thread worthy i don't know what is it. Definitely not the other 90% (trance/whatever is dead/AVB/Tiesto sell out) MD threads. This forum must eventually be renamed into Electronic Music Addict or something but i can't see it happening :P

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Originally posted by PETRAN biosphere-substrata (one of the first and the best drone/isolationist ambient albums

one of the finest ambient music albums to ever be released but nowhere near the first. Maeror Tri outpaces Biosphere by 8-9 years (as drone music) and there's alot of other examples that even came earlier.


everyone who mentioned the predominance of the Warp Records/ The Orb/ Leftfield albums in "Best of..." lists is right. should we make a TA list of the best electronic music albums?

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Originally posted by pozz everyone who mentioned the predominance of the Warp Records/ The Orb/ Leftfield albums in "Best of..." lists is right. should we make a TA list of the best electronic music albums?

That's actually quite an idea. Everyone who thinks (s)he has sufficient knowledge should recommend a not-so-obvious album and write a couple of words why is his suggestion good/important/influential/whatever... We could completely ironize the thread title and turn it into one of the most informative threads on TA.