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The 10 Most essential electronic music albums ever!
 

offline Archrival on 2005-06-02 04:19 [#01619941]
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List your 10 most essential electronic music albums ever in
no particular order. It would be nice for us to find out to
see if we got em all...maybe I have missed one "essential"
must have album :)


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-02 04:20 [#01619942]
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Karma by Delerium, the only totally essential trance album


 

offline bill_hicks from my city is amazing it is calle on 2005-06-02 04:20 [#01619943]
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COOL. MORE LISTS!!!! I like a good list now and again. It's
stops me thinking about how sad and empty my life is.


 

offline mrgypsum on 2005-06-02 04:21 [#01619945]
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why the need for this thread?


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-02 04:23 [#01619946]
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um... so that we can compare people's top ten essential
albums? I can't list ten because I usually burn individual
tracks and make amazing compilations mwa ha ha!


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2005-06-02 04:24 [#01619947]
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Rod Stewart does IDM - Live


 

offline mrgypsum on 2005-06-02 04:24 [#01619949]
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its just so much like the other....wouldnt they be very
similar?


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2005-06-02 04:24 [#01619950]
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i couldnt make a full top 5 list, but i know Boards of
canada - Geogaddi
would be in there.


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-06-02 04:26 [#01619953]
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hahaha! nemi for avatar?!



 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-02 04:26 [#01619954]
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true.....this was a bit of a pointless thread really...

W0Wz£r$! R0d do3s IDM i$ 5tiLL 1 0f the most amazing albums
EVER!! shame about the damn crowd in the background, all I
hear is one drugged up woman going "YEAH I LOVE YOU ROB
STEWHARD" -_-


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-02 04:27 [#01619956]
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I'm sure your life isn't sad and empty.

favorite albums at the moment:

"Tubular Bells", Mike Oldfield
"ESCM", BT
"The Brown Album", Obital
"Drukqs", Aphex Twin
"Closer", Plastikman
"Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett", Venetian Snares
"Blade Runner", Vangelis
"Chiastic Slide", Autechre
"Dead Cities", Future Sound of London
"Go Plastic", Squarepusher


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-02 04:28 [#01619957]
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oh, replace the Mike Oldfield one with BoC Geogaddi. This is
electronic albums, I forgot.


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2005-06-02 04:28 [#01619958]
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Yep. You a fan of nemi?


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2005-06-02 04:29 [#01619959]
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Wake up Maggie I think I got something to say to you..."
BRUM TSH KAFLBOM TKTKTKBMTKTKBMTKBMTKBM
SHhhhhhhBRUMTKEIIBMBMBMBM FLhhhhhHHS


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-02 04:29 [#01619960]
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she's cool, though unfortunately my minute weasel brain
doesn't usually get her jokes


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-02 04:30 [#01619964]
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*laughs*


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-06-02 04:32 [#01619966]
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I enjoy the strips from time to time, but I don't really buy
the albums and stuff... the chick who draws nemi is
sometimes hot sometimes not... I don't know why, but I see
her walking downtown at times, and sometimes I'm all like
"oh, yeah! you fuck me, I fuck you!!" and other times I'm
all "ah, ah! you gon have to PAY for this, sucka bitch!"


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-06-02 04:33 [#01619967]
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Sorry. Don't do well with top tens. The best I could give
you is 20 essential. All these are brilliant in their own
way.

Massive attack - Messanine
Daft Punk - Homework
Autechre - EP7
Matt Elliot - The Mess We Made
The Orb - Orbus Terrerum
Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
Aphex Twin - Select Ambient Works vol 2
Rhythm and Sound - With The Artists/The Versions
Thomas Brinkmann - Concept 1 96
Plastikmann - Consumed
Richard Devine - Asect:Dsect
Einoma - Milla Toverna
Jega - Geometry
Loscil - Third Narrows
Alva Noto - Transall cycle 1-3
Opiate - While you were sleeping
T Rauschmere - Radio Blackout
Machine Drum - Now You Know
Secret Frequency Crew - Forrest of the Echo Downs
Harmonic 33 - Extraordinary People


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2005-06-02 04:35 [#01619971]
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I've always felt that jega - geometry was missing something
very important in lots of places. did you get high and think
it was the shit? or is it just your opinion, which is fine
too :)


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-06-02 04:35 [#01619972]
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Heh... I gave you a serious answer and everyone else starts
taking the piss. Its usually the other way around... heh


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2005-06-02 04:36 [#01619975]
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um...cool?

i didnt even know there were albums, i just read the strips
in the metro (british newspaper)...


 

offline Taxidermist from Black Grass on 2005-06-02 04:37 [#01619978]
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No... I have listened to it hundreds of times. There are a
couple songs that hit such a brilliant place that I can't
quite describe it. Static is so perfect it nearly ruined IDM
for me.

Its was also really cold though. Maybe you felt it was
lacking emotion?


 

offline Gwely Mernans from 23rd century entertainment (Canada) on 2005-06-02 04:42 [#01619983]
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and the geometry track on that album was so perfect it
nearly ruined IDM for me! But then I leveled it off with
some hasty boom alert.



 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-06-02 04:46 [#01619990]
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the albums are probably just here in norway then...


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-02 04:47 [#01619992]
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norway! I'm from there! yay the norweigan weasel finds some
company at last w00t!


 

offline CS2x from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-02 04:49 [#01619995]
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You're from England you silly bitch.


 

offline Archrival on 2005-06-02 04:50 [#01619999]
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Geogaddi!
MHTRTC!!
DrukQs!!!
Selected Ambient Works!!!!
Apollo, Atmospheres and Soundtracks!!!!
Confield!!!!!
Ultravisitor!!!!!!
RDJ Album!!!!!!!
Double Figure!!!!!!!!
Slower Than Church Music!!!!!!!!!


 

offline Drunken Mastah from OPPERKLASSESVIN!!! (Norway) on 2005-06-02 04:57 [#01620004]
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hahahha! the norwegian weasel!


 

offline TonyFish from the realm of our dreams on 2005-06-02 05:15 [#01620018]
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Steve Reich
Steve Reich
Steve Reich
Steve Reich
you get the idea...



 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2005-06-02 05:17 [#01620021]
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XLT has just overtaken Q magazine in the pointless lists to
content ratio.


 

offline diamondtron on 2005-06-02 05:28 [#01620038]
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aphex twin - all of them
luke vibert - all of them
squarepusher - all of them
ceephax - everything
leila - everything
drexciya/japanese telecom/arpanet/der
zyklus/transllusion/other people place/lam/dopplereffekt etc
- everything
brian eno - shutov assembly/music for films/apollo
dillinja - everything since 2000
jay dee dilla - everything
jeff mills + UR - everything
bogdan raczynski - everything
global goon - everything
808 state - first 4 albums
chicago acid compilations
bill corey - hounds of hell
etc


 

offline Archrival on 2005-06-02 06:21 [#01620061]
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yeah :)


 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2005-06-02 06:29 [#01620064]
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you clearly cannot count.


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2005-06-02 06:53 [#01620076]
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one plaid spokes two autechre chiastic slide three fsol dead
cities four mouse on mars glam five orbital in sides six
photek modus operandi seven underworld second toughest in
the infants eight orb live 93 nine new order technique ten
...dunno


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2005-06-02 06:59 [#01620079]
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SPOKES?!?!


 

offline thatne from United States on 2005-06-02 07:10 [#01620084]
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orbital - in sides
the orb - the orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld
aphex twin - selected ambient works 85-92
autechre - tri repetae
squarepusher - hard normal daddy
underworld - second toughest in the infants
boards of canada - music has the right to children
kraftwerk - autobahn
terry riley - a rainbow in curved air


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2005-06-02 07:12 [#01620086]
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????


 

offline zero-cool on 2005-06-02 07:13 [#01620089]
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ibm


 

offline thatne from United States on 2005-06-02 07:14 [#01620091]
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and

dr. octagon - dr. octagonecologyst

it's controversial including a hip-hop, but i think this is
the best hip-hop record ever

also tricky - maxinquaye is essential, #11 gentlemen


 

offline uzim on 2005-06-02 07:20 [#01620099]
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i don't know.

i'm still discovering.


 

offline Bob Mcbob on 2005-06-02 07:22 [#01620101]
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i cant think of an idm album thats less essential


 

offline i_x_ten from arsemuncher on 2005-06-02 07:27 [#01620104]
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its average at best.


 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-02 07:29 [#01620105]
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Just some of the top of my head, notice no RDJ or ae, no
overrated pap in this chart

Arovane -Atol Scrap
Fizzarum - Monochrome Plural
Bola - Soup
Plaid - Not for Threes
ISAN- Lucky Cat
H.I.A. and Pete Namlook - S.H.A.D.O 2
Crunch - 1
Sense - Learning to Be
B.O.C. - Music has the Right
Ambidextrous- Errorism



 

offline soundguy from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-06-02 07:32 [#01620107]
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Well done for listing New Order Technique, I'd have rated
that as one of the best electronic albums about 15 years
ago, Now it's just one of the best pop albums, still
fantastic though.


 

offline nacmat on 2005-06-02 08:40 [#01620165]
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orbital - brown album
aphex - selected ambient works 85-92
lfo - frequencies
the black dog - bytes
dj shadow - endtroducing
nightmares on wax - a word of science
the sabres of paradise - haunting dancehall
boards of canada - music has the right to children
autechre - confield
chemical brothers - exit planet dust


 

offline DeleriousWeasel from Guam on 2005-06-02 11:18 [#01620351]
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W0Wz£R$! lookie at my huge weasel phallus that has been
discovered by i_x_ten! thanks so much I'd been looking for
it for ages.

delerium - karma
delerium - poem
aphex - Drukqs
any autechre album
squarepusher - go plastic
ATB - dedicated
paul van dick - Vorsprung Dky Technik

hmm cant think of any more


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2005-06-02 11:21 [#01620356]
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you forgot dario g


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2005-06-02 11:59 [#01620427]
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1.ok
2.the topic is not just idm but electronic in general
3. List YOUR 10 most essential electronic music albums
ever

4.come back here, and argue !


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2005-06-02 12:02 [#01620439]
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well, it was one of my first "electronic" tapes when i was a
kid that's why i still value it as something essential for
me - since i've never got bored of it.


 

offline melack from barcielwave on 2005-06-02 12:31 [#01620509]
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ok...lets see...
not really electronic music list,
im just a braindance guy...

my essential actually:

bogdan-myloveilove :)
sp-ultravisitor (or goplastic!)
afx-mmmerrr... druqks? nono maybe icbyd...bouf... afx!!!
ae-untilted
mr76ix-hits of mr76ix
jan jelinek-how has it called? the salmon coloured one...
vincent gallo-when (recordings for films is ace too!)
mum-one of the two last... (does it counts as electronic
music?)
chris clark-ceramics is tha bomb (althought it is an ep,
every piece of music is incredible and counts by doble...)

dunno

etc...



 


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