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Location: Hart Plaza, Detroit
100 Greatest Electronic Music Albums
It's not voted by a bunch of artists or producers, or even voted by people and the fans, or put together by elite of or in the industry and their peers... Not sorted by a reputable EDM magazine, trendy blog or website compilation. Only a list put together on the internet by some guy on a shady site. Just a link I came across...
But I thought it could start up a good discussion on what everyone thought of some of the best, popular, influential, etc... of Electronic(a) or Dance Music albums. What are yours, what do you like, where any of these albums your first taste of this music, etc...
1. Trans-Europe Express (1977) - Kraftwerk
2. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1993) - Aphex Twin
3. Blue Lines (1991) - Massive Attack
4. Oxygene (1977) - Jean Michel Jarre
5. Ambient 1: Music for Airports (1978) - Brian Eno
6. Phaedra (1974) - Tangerine Dream
7. Autobahn (1974) - Kraftwerk
8. Switched-On Bach (1968) - Wendy Carlos
9. Endtroducing... (1996) - DJ Shadow
10. Leftism (1995) - Leftfield
11. Dubnobasswithmyheadman (1993) - Underworld
12. Orbital 2 (Brown Album) (1992) - Orbital
13. Dig Your Own Hole (1997) - The Chemical Brothers
14. Homework (1997) - Daft Punk
15. The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld (1991) - The Orb
16. Screamadelica (1991) - Primal Scream
17. Dummy (1994) - Portishead
18. Irrlicht (1972) - Klaus Schulze
19. Music for the Jilted Generation (1995) - The Prodigy
20. Play (1999) - Moby
21. Pretty Hate Machine (1989) - Nine Inch Nails
22. Music Has the Right to Children (1998) - Boards of Canada
23. Timeless (1995) - Goldie
24. Homogenic (1997) - Björk
25. Tri Repetae++ (1995) - Autechre
26. Mezzanine (1998) - Massive Attack
27. Maxinquaye (1995) - Tricky
28. The White Room (1991) - The KLF
29. Planet Rock (1986) - Afrika Bambaataa
30. Violator (1990) - Depeche Mode
31. (Who's Afraid of) the Art of Noise! (1984) - The Art of Noise
32. Remedy (1999) - Basement Jaxx
33. Exit Planet Dust (1995) - The Chemical Brothers
34. 76:14 (1994) - Global Communication
35. Bytes (1992) - Black Dog Productions
36. New Forms (1997) - Roni Size & Reprazent
37. Clear (1990) - Cybotron
38. You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998) - Fatboy Slim
39. The Fat of the Land (1997) - The Prodigy
40. Richard D. James Album (1996) - Aphex Twin
41. Substance (1987) - New Order
42. Tubular Bells (1973) - Mike Oldfield
43. Computer World (1981) - Kraftwerk
44. Second Toughest in the Infants (1996) - Underworld
45. Dare (1981) - Human League
46. Big Fun (1989) - Inner City
47. Discovery (2001) - Daft Punk
48. Solid State Survivor (1979) - Yellow Magic Orchestra
49. Everything is Wrong (1995) - Moby
50. U.F.Orb (1992) - The Orb
51. Utd. State 90 (1990) - 808 State
52. Experience (1992) - The Prodigy
53. Moon Safari (1998) - Air
54. Innovator (1997) - Derrick May
55. In Sides (1996) - Orbital
56. Keep On Movin' (1989) - Soul II Soul
57. Musik (1994) - Plastikman
58. Rubycon (1975) - Tangerine Dream
59. Lifeforms (1994) - The Future Sound of London
60. Chill Out (1991) - The KLF
61. Kid A (2000) - Radiohead
62. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981) - Brian Eno & David Byrne
63. Music for the Masses (1987) - Depeche Mode
64. Future Days (1973) - Can
65. Low (1977) - David Bowie
66. Faces & Phases (1997) - Kevin Saunderson
67. Tango N' Vectif (1993) - µ-Ziq
68. Autoditacker (1997) - Mouse on Mars
69. Debut (1993) - Björk
70. Ray of Light (1998) - Madonna
71. Godfather of House Music: Trax Classics (2000) - Frankie Knuckles
72. More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art (1997) - Carl Craig
73. Hard Normal Daddy (1997) - Squarepusher
74. Amber (1994) - Autechre
75. Gonna Make You Sweat (1990) - C+C Music Factory
76. Dark Side of the Moon (1973) - Pink Floyd
77. 20 Jazz Funk Greats (1979) - Throbbing Gristle
78. Fear of a Black Planet (1990) - Public Enemy
79. Throbbing Punch (1994) - Wagon Christ
80. Cluster 71 (1971) - Cluster
81. Silver Apples (1968) - Silver Apples
82. Blade Runner (1982) - Vangelis
83. From Here to Eternity (1977) - Giorgio Moroder
84. Paul's Boutique (1989) - Beastie Boys
85. Let the Music Play (1984) - Shannon
86. 2X45 (1982) - Cabaret Voltaire
87. Classic Fingers (1995) - Larry Heard
88. Sonic Seasonings (1972) - Wendy Carlos
89. Suicide (1977) - Suicide
90. Incunabula (1993) - Autechre
91. Beaucoup Fish (1998) - Underworld
92. Moby (1992) - Moby
93. En-Tact (1990) - Shamen
94. Another Green World (1975) - Brian Eno
95. Front By Front (1988) - Front 242
96. Neu! (1972) - Neu!
97. Moondawn (1976) - Klaus Schulze
98. The Downward Spiral (1994) - Nine Inch Nails
99. Faust (1971) - Faust
100. Tago Mago (1971) - Can
Discuss...
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Jan-19-2011 08:02
Mach X
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Registered: May 2007
Location: Hart Plaza, Detroit
These was hugely influential for me in in the early 90s for me when i was spent many of summers in England and first really started hearing the "rave" music and were some of my first CDs of electronica....
This compilation which introduced me to many other artists...
The in other years following I got to hear more and more stuff like Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
At that time I knew I enjoyed the music, mainly from all the retro, alternative (before it meant grunge), new wave and industrial music that was out which I later began to know more and more about.
This album was suggested to me by a guy at our local record shop and changed my world...
Daft Punk's Homework and Chemical Brother's Dig Your Own Hole are truly epic albums that solidified my interest in the music as well.
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Jan-19-2011 10:22
Moral Hazard
Oppressing the 99%
Registered: Mar 2005
Location: with the 1%
I'm not sure how some of them qualify as electronic music unless one is taking the absolute broadest meaning of the words (produced using equipment requiring electricity). Dark Side of the Moon for instance... fantastic album; however, calling it electronic music is a pretty big stretch, no?
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you're just a shit version of Moral Hazard. At least he knows what he's talking about.
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lol, i love it when moral feels the need to lay the smack down
Jan-19-2011 12:38
pozz
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Nov 2007
Location: 1000mile island
the list seems kind of random. and very British. no doubt these are good, but it seems like someone was going through their collection at home and picked out favourites.
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Jan-19-2011 12:55
ChemEnhanced
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Milton, ON Canada
I like the fact there isn't a single album from 2000 onward.
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Jan-19-2011 13:29
StereoPrincess
sassy one-piece
Registered: May 2001
Location: SPFRI
yeah, this person has a certain style of music and just put down his favorite albums.
some of them are definitely not electronic.
and if tiesto or pvd is not on the list, it's not complete.
Jan-19-2011 15:08
PivotTechno
senseless
Registered: Feb 2008
Location: Citizen, World
Not bad - even though CC's "More Songs..." made the list, I would have also thrown (gettit?) Paperclip People's The Secret Tapes Of Doctor Eich in there somewhere.
Originally posted by Moral Hazard
I'm not sure how some of them qualify as electronic music unless one is taking the absolute broadest meaning of the words (produced using equipment requiring electricity). Dark Side of the Moon for instance... fantastic album; however, calling it electronic music is a pretty big stretch, no?
pink floyd were one of the first (as a band) to fuck around with analog equipment like synthesisers back when the closest shit to edm was disco stuff.
this is from dark side of the moon, if you didn't know (recorded in 1972 or some mind-blowing 40years ago).
