Top 10 Essential Albums for Electronic Music

[Zoots]

I am about to get Kraftwerk's Man Machine and Daft Punk's Discovery. Just curious to know what you guys think are the 10 best electronic music masterpieces ever! Chemical Bros.? Prodigy? Massive Attack? Björk? Moby? Anything else?

 

[AtomicBono]

I love The Postal Service...does that count as electronic?

I'm interested to read responses as I don't listen to a lot of electronic. I have a few M83 songs...

 

[Zoots]

Anything else?

I forgot Kid A!

 

[LMP]

Aphex Twin, bitches!

 

[xaviMF22]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_To_Daddy

 

[xaviMF22]

Aphex Twin, bitches!

damn it you beat me to it

 

[AtomicBono]

Re: Re: Top 10 Essential Albums for Electronic Music

I forgot Kid A!

oh yeah that would be electronic I suppose wouldnt it well that definitely belongs on the list imo but like i said i dont listen to much electronic so i dont know

 

[xaviMF22]

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I forgot Kid A!

you could argue that Kid A is not an electronic album

The only true "electronic" song on that record is "everything in its right place"

 

[Zoots]

Re: Re: Re: Top 10 Essential Albums for Electronic Music

you could argue that Kid A is not an electronic album

The only true "electronic" song on that record is "everything in its right place"

I don't know... there's a bunch including the title track, Idioteque, Treefingers, In Limbo...

 

[xaviMF22]

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I don't know... there's a bunch including the title track, Idioteque, Treefingers, In Limbo...

In limbo is all guitar

national anthem...bass guitar

treefingers ...you do realize that song is all guitar?

I'll give you idioteque

 

[Zoots]

technicalities!

 

[xaviMF22]

technicalities!

don't worry

common mistake with noobs to electronic music

 

[Zoots]

I have some knowledge of this genre thank you very much!

 

[LJT]

Silent Shout- The Knife (the people who wrote Heartbeats)
OK Cowboy- Vitalic

Two electronica acts of recent times, and two albums people should definitely own.

 

[neutral]

I really really like Resuscitation by ADULT. They put out 4 CDs since but I always come back to this one.
http://www.ersatzaudio.com/disco/html/htmlforrightframe/15.html

 

[LMP]

Oh, and Daft Punk and LCD Soundsystem ftw again.

 

[neutral]

LCD Soundsystem ftw again.

I really wanna check this band out. iTunes has 3 albums and 2 EPs, which should I get first?

 

[Zoots]

Checking out Moby right now on allmusic. Kinda torn between Play and Everything Is Wrong. EIW is early 90s eurodancey techno and Play is I guess a classier late 90s loungy style techno. They both sound delicious!

 

[LMP]

The time has come, the time has come, the time has come today!

I really wanna check this band out. iTunes has 3 albums and 2 EPs, which should I get first?

Sound of Silver is my favorite and the most accessible. I'd start there then go backwards.

 

[Canadiens1131]

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Moby - Play

 

[waynetravis]

Moby!

 

[Canadiens1131]

Electronica is such a broad umbrella term as well. This is a fantastic!!!! guide to the subgenres. I certainly educated myself last night while reading this.

http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html?why_yes,_it's_a_dupe

ALSO if anyone has the single called "So Much Love to Give" by half of Daft Punk duo going by the name of Together, please PM me!!!

 

[LMP]

I have it, but I can't PM. Email?

 

[lynnok]

Thievery Corporation is pretty good too.

 

[Zoots]

Electronica is such a broad umbrella term as well. This is a fantastic!!!! guide to the subgenres. I certainly educated myself last night while reading this.

http://www.di.fm/edmguide/edmguide.html?why_yes,_it's_a_dupe

That website is not only informative, the guy is hilarious! Thanks for posting!

 

[1stepcloser]

Royksopp - Melody AM

My favourite electronica album.

 

[Bonos_Lemon]

Surprised no one has mentioned VNV Nation yet. Futureperfect is an awesome album and Beloved is just a song. I need to get their latest, heard it was really good as well.

 

[neutral]

I love VNV Nation! Airships


Have also been listening to White Noise by Alpinestars a lot lately, I think it's in my top 10.

 

[phanan]

Kraftwerk - pretty much any album from Autobahn to Computer World

Moby - Everything Is Wrong, Play, 18

Royksopp - Melody AM

I'm sure there are others I'm not thinking of at the moment.

 

[Canadiens1131]

I have it, but I can't PM. Email?

mike the hockey fan at gmail dot com

All one word
Thanks!