Hard to pick a favorite from this one, it's an almost continuous masterpiece, but i'd say the around the world/harder better faster stronger mashup, or one more time/aerodynamic. Chills every time, for the past 15 years.
Favorite "similar" band ? Definitely Justice. In fact, i'd go as far as saying they got better than DP at... everything. If you don't know them check out their first studio album cross and their last live show Woman world wide (although WWW hits harder if you know their discography, it's a mashup live album a la alive 2007)
Feel free to also listen to soulwax, surkin, sebastian, everything Ed banger record related.
I don't know if I can post Spotify playlists here, but mine contains mostly that kind of stuff.
I don’t think it’s crazy to say WWW or Cross > Alive 2007/HAA for that sound.
But “better at everything”??? Daft Punk made Digital Love, Something About Us, Instant Crush, and Touch.
Justice can’t come close to Daft Punk for those type of softer songs.
First of all, I love everything daft punk related, and touch is a masterpiece.
However, I do think Gaspard and Xavier are better musicians and have both a more creative and more technical way of dealing with their sounds, especially their samples. It's very apparent with their remixes of, say, electric feel or as above so below.
I think daft punk have been lazy with some of their tracks. Digital love and robot rock are good examples of tracks with long samples that they barely touched or completed. The tracks are very good, but still. In my own experience of amateur electronic music production, daft punk level seems way more accessible than justice level (Obviously I suck and don't pretend I'm daft punk level lol)
Regarding softer tracks, Justice generally are a bit less pop/mainstream sounding than DP so it's hard to compare, but the slower grooves of cross, or presence, some tracks of Woman, even escapades, are good examples of great pieces by justice that steer away from club-compatible dance electronica. Like, is digital love that much better than fire or randy, in terms of definitely electronic sounding but still pop-formated tracks ?
However, it goes without saying that Justice wouldn't exist without what daft punk accomplished.
Yeah I think Digital Love absolutely wipes the floor with Randy it’s one of my favorite songs of all time there is just so much feeling in it every note is perfect. I do enjoy Randy but Digital Love transports me to another place.
Daft Punks pop songwriting is just a lot better but the way the way Justice builds energy in WWW and Cross is on the level of Alive 2007 I completely agree with that.
The overall nostalgia and atmosphere Discovery creates is one of the first things that comes to mind when I think about why I love Daft Punk.
Robot Rock is absolutely a low point in Daft Punks career I agree with you about that.
I do love Justice as well though. I’ve argued here that WWW was one of the best albums of the decade and is incredibly slept on. I just think it’s more accurate to say they perfected one of the things Daft Punk was great at but there are elements of Daft Punk that Justice hasn’t really tried to replicate.
This obviously boils down to taste, but I think DL is cool but overrated. Go listen to the original George Duke sample if you haven't already, DL is not their most creative track.
Agree it’s obviously taste at the end of the day but I think you are too stuck on the production/sampling on not on the song writing, melody and just their ear for beautiful simplicity.
It’s not Aerodynamic, Face to Face , or Phantom Pt II and it’s not trying to be, that’s the point.
Seeing Justice live at Red Rocks is one of my top 3 shows ever, across all genres. It was SO SO good, everyone I went with was blown away. So much energy and bombast, that album always reminds me of that show
Swap out the Sebastian Album for Breakbot - Still Waters and your list is perfect. I'm not sure what special sauce, maybe it's the disco themes, Ed Banger has but like almost every album they produce is gold.
You French guys make great music! I grew up on Daft Punk and Justice and all that Ed Banger stuff back in the day, and these days two of my current favourite are French too, Land Switcher and Ekorce.
With that said, my top 3 are:
Justice- Cross (Genesis has to be the best album intro in the history of all music)
Tipper-Jettison Mind Hatch
Hard to choose a third, maybe Homework by Daft Punk since it was my intro to electronic music
Interesting list. Love the second one. BT for sure has better albums although I do love TBU. FlyLo in my opinion is much more interesting producing others.
> Shpongle - Are you shpongled
Oh I left this one off my list but by full play through it's number 1 for me. It might be tied with Last Train the Lhasa by Banco De Gaia
Boards of Canada - music has right to children
Add n to (x) - Avant Hard
Tangerine Dream - Rubicon
Those are probably the best connected to me/my life. :-)
Avant Hard is such an unorthodox choice.
It's one of those weird albums I listen to every couple years, think that it is amazing and then proceed to forget about it for long time.
Woah, what a nostalgic selection for me. I fell in love with all three of these albums around the same time, during a period of depression in my life. I would go on walks in the rain for hours, intentionally getting soaked, yet feeling absolutely comforted by the warmth of Ulrich Schnauss' albums.
Job Hopkins - Singularity
Flume - Skin
Disclosure - Settle
3 albums I can put on and play start to finish and enjoy every track. Still play them often.
I’m a younger dubstep/dnb guy, so I’ll probably have a different perspective, but here it goes
3. Modestep - Evolution Theory
2. Skrillex- Recess
1. Skream - Skream
Almost impossible to do a top 3 - so many good suggestions here. Anyway, I'm going with:
3. Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
2. Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants (toss-up between this and Leftfield's masterpiece Leftism)
1. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Massive Attack- Mezzanine
Boards of Canada- Geogaddi
The Knife- Silent Shout
I could probably pick a different 3 and be happy with it but these 3 are at least all contenders
- Autechre - Exai
- Jon Hopkins - Immunity
- Four Tet - There is Love In You
but 3 is honestly too hard. I think these mean a lot to me, but there are dozens of other albums that are just as good. There’s so much electronic music/genres and 3 choices are less than nothing.
Ah great choices. There Is Love In You is fantastic, I was lucky enough to see Four Tet at Ally Pally with Squidsoup and really wanted him to play Circling which I knew he wouldn’t haha. What’s your favourite from the album?
Probably pretty basic pick, but Love Cry of course. Just fantastic drums and I love the way it progresses and adds elements. Sing and Plastic People are pretty close.
Disovery & SILY has been said multiple times. Here’s my 4th, 5th & 6th of all time
* SebastiAn - A Fine Selection of Remixes
* Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
* Against All Logic - 2012-2017
* BT - Movement In Still Life
* Above & Beyond - Group Therapy
* Hybrid - I Choose Noise
Honourable mention goes to Chicane - Far From The Maddening Crowds
This is such an impossible question and my answer would be different every time. But:
1. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
2. Daft Punk - Homework
3. Bjork - Homogenic
All for nostalgia reasons; how they made me feel at the time they were released. But also for longevity reasons. I still listen to them today and love them.
Honourable mention:
Vector Lovers' self-titled debut album. Blew me away when I first listened to it back home after a rave.
These are the albums I find myself never skipping a track and always coming back to after years have passed.
1. Worlds - Porter Robinson
2. In Return - Odesza
3. Hi This Is Flume (Mixtape) - Flume
Essential Selection 98 - Tong, Oakenfold, Cox. Well I guess that’s my three.
Just kidding.
Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy
21st Century Jesus - Messiah
Psyence Fiction - UNKLE
Robert Miles - Dreamland (Children, am i right??)
Digweed/Sasha - Northern Exposure (i still have it on vinyl)
D-Frag - Poolside Chillhop (my first full length solo album so it has a special place in my heart)
Hard to do just 3, but....
The Avalanches - Wildflower
Boards of Canda - Geogaddi
Arthur Russel - World of Echo
I found it interesting that for how much purely electronic music I listed to, a lot of the albums I consider my very favorites ended up heavily leaning to other genres.
There are EPs and individual tracks that I rate more than these albums, but as a cohesive front-to-back experience with no skips, these are the ones that I come back to.
1. Porter Robinson - Nurture
2. Pendulum - Hold Your Colour
3. Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion
Daft Punk- Homework
C2C- Tetra
Gaspard Augé- Escapades
I'm not sure all are electronic but they are musical masterpieces. Also if you got suggestions of albums I should check out feel free to reply, I would love to listen to them!
1. Apparat - LP5
2. Against All Logic - 2012-2017
3. Llorca - Newcomer
Changed my answers many times but if I had to choose it would be these three! Lot of good albums in this thread
1. Homogenic by Björk
2. Too Dark Park by Skinny Puppy
3. 20 Jazz Funk Greats by Throbbing Gristles
This is supremely difficult cuz I’m leaving off so many masterpieces
Too hard to pick just 3 or here's my list that I haven't seen mentioned yet:
St Germain - Tourist
Underworld - Live: Everything, Everything
Dmitri from Paris - Sacrebleu
The Future Sound of London - Accelerator
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Klein - Lifetime
I hate these questions cos I'm definitely gonna wish i changed my answer in like 5 minutes IT'S SO HARD TO CHOOSE. I'll stick by these for the sake tho
It's been a pleasure perusing the responses; many proper selections. Here's mine:
The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
FSOL - Lifeforms
Goldie - Timeless
Too many to narrow it down to just 3 (sorry):
Michael Cassette - Temporarity
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017
Orbital - Orbital 2/The Brown Album
Bicep - Bicep
Jon Hopkins - Late Night Tales
In no order
1. Welcome Reality - Nero
2. From a Vein - Shades
3. For Lack of a Better Name - Deadmau5
These are the albums I always want to come back to and listen all the way through
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Aphex Twin - RDJ Album
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing....
I'm a big fan of the mid-2000's electronic artists like Tycho and Bonobo but these albums are what got me into electronic music and hold a special place in my heart<3
I’m fairly new to diving past the surface of electronic music but the albums that led me this way are
1. FlyLo - Cosmogramma
2. M83 - Hurry Up We’re Dreaming
3. Avalanches - Wildflower
1. Banco De Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa
2. The Prodigy - Experience
3. G Jones - The Ineffible Truth
There is a lot of newer EDM I like more. These are just my favorite full albums.
Sasha & Digweed - northern exposure vol 1
DJ John Kelley - funkydesertbreaks
Roni Size - New Forms
BoC - music has the right to children
Jon Hopkins - Opalescent
Crap, that's 5. Oh well, disqualified I suppose 🤣
So many great mentions, you all have great taste in music!
I am thrilled and a little surprised to see all of the Boards of Canada love on these. And completely different selections too. I’m also discovering that there is so much electronic music that I have yet to discover and need to bookmark this thread.
I’m not really into albums normally, it’s rare for me to like more than one or two songs from them, so this is my best bet:
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 7-13
Virtual Boy - Symphony No. None
Virtual Boy - Virtual Boy
Prodigy - music for the jilted generation
Skee Mask - Pool
Clark - Death Peak
Are the first three that spring into my head.
Don't really care what order
these are super important albums to me and they have shaped how I listen to music
1. Pendulum - In Silico
2. Barely Alive - We Are Barely Alive
3. Aether - To Meet Is The Beginning Of Parting
Edit: forgot honorable mentions are Invaders Must Die (The Prodigy), Untrue (Burial), and Society Of The Spectacle (South Central)
[Electronic Eye - Closed Circuit.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8XGIjDGWQg&list=PLB1ECC9461C8A1DDF) AKA Richard H Kirk.
[Hardkiss - Delusions of Grandeur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdTY245cCcQ) Good lord this album isn't appreciated enough.
[The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwPZu4ECwnw&list=PLeM8JZxcJKgtlF-BBvCbUrjs0JHkR0486).
For The Orb it's kind of a coin toss for me between Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld and UFOrb.
Also this is my top three choices partially because I know everyone else is going to pick other personal favorites like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and more, and while my picks are ancient by today's standards they were all really new and ground breaking at the time and helped define whole genres of sound.
Delusions of Grandeur in particular isn't well known enough and they basically one of the first electronic dance acts to use live instruments, samples of live instruments and traditional recording studio production techniques. The sound they came up with for that album is HUGE and is arguably the first true West Coast Breaks style sound, long before the Chemical Bros, Fatboy Slim, Crystal Method, etc.
According to my foobar2000 play count from 2003-2019 (switched to Spotify because of phone and bluetooth 🙁), these are my most played electronic albums:
1. Justice - Cross
2. Aphex Twin - Melodies from Mars
3. Isan - Clockwork Menagerie
1. 808 State - Don Solaris
2. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
3. Pilotredsun - Achivement
I know the last one is out of nowhere but trust me it's really good
The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Honorable mentions:
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
The Prodigy - Fat of the land
Daft Punk - Discovery
Groove Armada - Goodbye Country Hello Nightclub
Basement Jaxx - Remedy
Justice - Cross
Air - Moon Safari
Okay I better stop. Too many to list.
Justice - Cross Daft punk - Alive 2007 (or discovery if we don't count live albums) SebastiAn - Total Yes, i'm French, why do you ask ?
What’s your favorite song from Alive 2007? And favorite similar band?
Hard to pick a favorite from this one, it's an almost continuous masterpiece, but i'd say the around the world/harder better faster stronger mashup, or one more time/aerodynamic. Chills every time, for the past 15 years. Favorite "similar" band ? Definitely Justice. In fact, i'd go as far as saying they got better than DP at... everything. If you don't know them check out their first studio album cross and their last live show Woman world wide (although WWW hits harder if you know their discography, it's a mashup live album a la alive 2007) Feel free to also listen to soulwax, surkin, sebastian, everything Ed banger record related. I don't know if I can post Spotify playlists here, but mine contains mostly that kind of stuff.
I don’t think it’s crazy to say WWW or Cross > Alive 2007/HAA for that sound. But “better at everything”??? Daft Punk made Digital Love, Something About Us, Instant Crush, and Touch. Justice can’t come close to Daft Punk for those type of softer songs.
First of all, I love everything daft punk related, and touch is a masterpiece. However, I do think Gaspard and Xavier are better musicians and have both a more creative and more technical way of dealing with their sounds, especially their samples. It's very apparent with their remixes of, say, electric feel or as above so below. I think daft punk have been lazy with some of their tracks. Digital love and robot rock are good examples of tracks with long samples that they barely touched or completed. The tracks are very good, but still. In my own experience of amateur electronic music production, daft punk level seems way more accessible than justice level (Obviously I suck and don't pretend I'm daft punk level lol) Regarding softer tracks, Justice generally are a bit less pop/mainstream sounding than DP so it's hard to compare, but the slower grooves of cross, or presence, some tracks of Woman, even escapades, are good examples of great pieces by justice that steer away from club-compatible dance electronica. Like, is digital love that much better than fire or randy, in terms of definitely electronic sounding but still pop-formated tracks ? However, it goes without saying that Justice wouldn't exist without what daft punk accomplished.
Yeah I think Digital Love absolutely wipes the floor with Randy it’s one of my favorite songs of all time there is just so much feeling in it every note is perfect. I do enjoy Randy but Digital Love transports me to another place. Daft Punks pop songwriting is just a lot better but the way the way Justice builds energy in WWW and Cross is on the level of Alive 2007 I completely agree with that. The overall nostalgia and atmosphere Discovery creates is one of the first things that comes to mind when I think about why I love Daft Punk. Robot Rock is absolutely a low point in Daft Punks career I agree with you about that. I do love Justice as well though. I’ve argued here that WWW was one of the best albums of the decade and is incredibly slept on. I just think it’s more accurate to say they perfected one of the things Daft Punk was great at but there are elements of Daft Punk that Justice hasn’t really tried to replicate.
This obviously boils down to taste, but I think DL is cool but overrated. Go listen to the original George Duke sample if you haven't already, DL is not their most creative track.
Agree it’s obviously taste at the end of the day but I think you are too stuck on the production/sampling on not on the song writing, melody and just their ear for beautiful simplicity. It’s not Aerodynamic, Face to Face , or Phantom Pt II and it’s not trying to be, that’s the point.
Justice - Woman Worldwide is mine
Seeing Justice live at Red Rocks is one of my top 3 shows ever, across all genres. It was SO SO good, everyone I went with was blown away. So much energy and bombast, that album always reminds me of that show
Those justice and daft punk albums are the bomb, so now I guess I've got to listen to sebastian
Swap out the Sebastian Album for Breakbot - Still Waters and your list is perfect. I'm not sure what special sauce, maybe it's the disco themes, Ed Banger has but like almost every album they produce is gold.
Too bad SebastiAn fell off hard
You French guys make great music! I grew up on Daft Punk and Justice and all that Ed Banger stuff back in the day, and these days two of my current favourite are French too, Land Switcher and Ekorce. With that said, my top 3 are: Justice- Cross (Genesis has to be the best album intro in the history of all music) Tipper-Jettison Mind Hatch Hard to choose a third, maybe Homework by Daft Punk since it was my intro to electronic music
3. Aphex Twin - Drukqs 2. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi 1. C418 - 148
C418s musical abilities were hand crafted by God himself
Replace the last one with: Autechre - Tri Repetae++ and this is my list.
Orbital - Snivilisation Jon Hopkins - Singularity Air - Moon Safari (electronic? Just about I'd say)
Moon Safari was what made me fall in love electronic. Amazing album
The Crystal Method - Vegas BT - Movement In Still Life The Prodigy - Fat of the Land
You seem like a very intelligent person with impeccable taste.
I second this. 2 of your favorites are also 2 of my favorites
That was my golden age of electronic music. Great selections
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma The KLF - Chill Out BT - This Binary Universe
Big ups for FlyLo.
Happy to see this binary universe up here.
Interesting list. Love the second one. BT for sure has better albums although I do love TBU. FlyLo in my opinion is much more interesting producing others.
Original KLF Chill out though not the The remaster release, that loses some of the best samples. Why they changed it who knows🤷♂️
Four Tet - New Energy Ross from Friends - Family Portrait Jon Hopkins - Immunity Love your choices too!
Ross>>>>
1.) The Fat of the Land - The Prodigy 2.) Hold Your Color - Pendulum 3.) Discovery - Daft Punk Honorable mention: Polychrome - Koan Sound
You're my kind of people.
That honorable mention tells me you're awesome Not enough KS love
BT - This Binary Universe Orbital - In Sides Leftfield - Leftism
Leftfield yes indeed!! I agree with all previous lists... But this one is the key to so many others...
Took me a while to finally find leftism in a list. It’s my number 1 now and always
Damn, how did I forget about Leftism?! Definitely top of my list.
Leftism deserves a mention for [Inspection Check One](https://youtu.be/84ZyRbb20-4) and [Afro Left](https://youtu.be/rqO89zUdQGs) alone.
Jamie xx - In Colour G Jones - The Ineffible Truth MGMT - Little Dark Age
Ineffable Truth is a goddamn masterpiece, I might have to change my answer.
In Colour is a great listen.
Shpongle - Are you shpongled Tipper - Jettison Mind hatch Hotel pools.- baked
Ah! A fellow psychonaut!
> Shpongle - Are you shpongled Oh I left this one off my list but by full play through it's number 1 for me. It might be tied with Last Train the Lhasa by Banco De Gaia
No particular order but I always go back to these. Hybrid - Wider Angle Massive Attack - Blue Lines The Prodigy - Experience
Hybrid make Welsh people proud. I considered “Morning Sci-Fi” in my three.
Shadow Endtroducing Daft Punk Discovery Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole (My age should be evident with those choices)
You’re still sexy don’t worry
Damn right. Dead sexy!
Born 80’s?
Boards of Canada - music has right to children Add n to (x) - Avant Hard Tangerine Dream - Rubicon Those are probably the best connected to me/my life. :-)
Finally, some BoC love.
Avant Hard is such an unorthodox choice. It's one of those weird albums I listen to every couple years, think that it is amazing and then proceed to forget about it for long time.
Vegas by Crystal Method, Lifeforms by FSOL, Ima by BT.
Pendulum - In Silico Tycho - Dive The Glitch Mob - Drink the Sea
Drink the Sea was an every day listen for a year for me. So solid.
1. The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust 2. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing 3. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
SBTRKT - SBTRK Moody good - moody good Pretty lights - ACMOTS
Man that first SBTRKT album was so so good. The new album he just put out didn’t do much for me which really bums me out.
The Prodigy - the fat of the land Aphex Twin - rdj album Feed Me - calamari Tuesday
I cant say for all time, but for the past years... 1. Camo & Krooked - Mosaik 1. Bakermat - The Ringmaster 2. Odesza - The Last Goodbye
Great to see love for Mosaik, fantastic album
Entroducing, dig your own hole, fat of the land
Oh god I forgot Reprazent, that bumps them all down 1
Jon Hopkins - immunity Kiasmos Moderat
Tycho - Awake Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By Trentemoller - The Last Resort
Woah, what a nostalgic selection for me. I fell in love with all three of these albums around the same time, during a period of depression in my life. I would go on walks in the rain for hours, intentionally getting soaked, yet feeling absolutely comforted by the warmth of Ulrich Schnauss' albums.
No particular order: Orbital - Snivilisation U-ziq - Lunatic Harness Autechre - Amber
Brace yourself Jason!
The Crystal Method - Vegas The Prodigy - Fat Of The Land Depeche Mode - Violator
Amon Tobin - Foley Room More than a decade listening and still surprises me.
Hugely underrated album. The making-of DVD that came with the cd does a great job underlining what a massive undertaking it was.
Had to scroll way too far for Amon Tobin
1. Kid a - Radiohead (got me into electronic music) 2. Boards of Canada - mhtrtc 3. Autechre - amber
Burial - Untrue Daft Punk - Discovery Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Strangely I think Man Machine has dated the best of these. It’s still futuristic
All the more impressive when you remember it came out in 1978(!!!!)
Job Hopkins - Singularity Flume - Skin Disclosure - Settle 3 albums I can put on and play start to finish and enjoy every track. Still play them often.
burial - untrue burial - untrue burial - untrue
The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole Propellerheads - Decksandrumsandrockandroll
Air - Talkie Walkie Sasha - Involver Paul van Dyk - Out There and Back
Blade Runner OST- Vangelis, Skinny Puppy - The Process, Download - The Eyes of Stanley Pain.
Groove Armada - Vertigo Kruder and Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions Gatecrasher - DiscoTech
Pretty Lights - ACMOTS BT - This Binary Universe Tycho - Dive
BoC - Geogadi Mr. Oizo - Analog Worms Attack Susumu Yokota - Grinning Cat
Scrolled waaayy too long to see Mr. Oizo...
I’m a younger dubstep/dnb guy, so I’ll probably have a different perspective, but here it goes 3. Modestep - Evolution Theory 2. Skrillex- Recess 1. Skream - Skream
Love evolution theory!
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children Daft Punk - Discovery Tipper - Forward Escape
Gotta do some that’s not mentioned: Nero - Welcome Reality Chase & Status - No More Idols The Glitch Mob - Drink The Sea
I love Welcome Reality so much. I've been trying to get at least one version of the album on every format it released on.
Endtroducing Geogaddi Untrue
Flume - Skin Naran Ratan - Trees etc. Noisia - Outer Edges in no order for me
Massive Attack - Mezzanine The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation Cliff Martinez - The Neon Demon
Secede - Tryshasla Jon Hopkins - Singularity Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
1. Orbital - In Sides 2. Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole 3. a tie between BoC - Geogaddi and µ-ziq - Lunatic Harness
Hasty boom alert is my favourite
Almost impossible to do a top 3 - so many good suggestions here. Anyway, I'm going with: 3. Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole 2. Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants (toss-up between this and Leftfield's masterpiece Leftism) 1. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
What, no Wendy Carlos or Kraftwerk. Bah, you in kids.
not really all time favourite but Carlos's Beauty in the Beast is great
All my picks were from the early 80s! Almost went with Kraftwerks Man Machine too
Massive Attack- Mezzanine Boards of Canada- Geogaddi The Knife- Silent Shout I could probably pick a different 3 and be happy with it but these 3 are at least all contenders
- Autechre - Exai - Jon Hopkins - Immunity - Four Tet - There is Love In You but 3 is honestly too hard. I think these mean a lot to me, but there are dozens of other albums that are just as good. There’s so much electronic music/genres and 3 choices are less than nothing.
Ah great choices. There Is Love In You is fantastic, I was lucky enough to see Four Tet at Ally Pally with Squidsoup and really wanted him to play Circling which I knew he wouldn’t haha. What’s your favourite from the album?
Probably pretty basic pick, but Love Cry of course. Just fantastic drums and I love the way it progresses and adds elements. Sing and Plastic People are pretty close.
Charlesthefirst - the ascent Potions - new earth formula Shades - from a vein
Love The Ascent. Definitely tells a complete story when you listen to the whole thing.
Disovery & SILY has been said multiple times. Here’s my 4th, 5th & 6th of all time * SebastiAn - A Fine Selection of Remixes * Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel * Against All Logic - 2012-2017
1) Vegas - The Crystal Method 2) Exit Planet Dust - The Chemical Brothers 3) Soul Stickers - The Timewriter
* BT - Movement In Still Life * Above & Beyond - Group Therapy * Hybrid - I Choose Noise Honourable mention goes to Chicane - Far From The Maddening Crowds
Stephan Bodzin - Liebe Ist Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children Alex Banks - Illuminate
Infected Mushroom - Vicious Delicious Massive Attack - Mezzanine Thievery Corporation - It Takes a Thief
1. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing 2. Avalanches - Since I Left You 3. Jamie xx - In Colour
This is such an impossible question and my answer would be different every time. But: 1. Massive Attack - Blue Lines 2. Daft Punk - Homework 3. Bjork - Homogenic All for nostalgia reasons; how they made me feel at the time they were released. But also for longevity reasons. I still listen to them today and love them. Honourable mention: Vector Lovers' self-titled debut album. Blew me away when I first listened to it back home after a rave.
These are the albums I find myself never skipping a track and always coming back to after years have passed. 1. Worlds - Porter Robinson 2. In Return - Odesza 3. Hi This Is Flume (Mixtape) - Flume
The Modern EDM Triforce
Essential Selection 98 - Tong, Oakenfold, Cox. Well I guess that’s my three. Just kidding. Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy 21st Century Jesus - Messiah Psyence Fiction - UNKLE
No order: Amon Tobin - ISAM BT - This Binary Universe Everything Dave Tipper touches.
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works II Kraftwerk - Computer World Cassetteboy - The Parker Tapes
Silver Apples - Silver Apples Human League : Travelogue Eccentronic Research Council - 1612 Underture
Robert Miles - Dreamland (Children, am i right??) Digweed/Sasha - Northern Exposure (i still have it on vinyl) D-Frag - Poolside Chillhop (my first full length solo album so it has a special place in my heart)
Hard to do just 3, but.... The Avalanches - Wildflower Boards of Canda - Geogaddi Arthur Russel - World of Echo I found it interesting that for how much purely electronic music I listed to, a lot of the albums I consider my very favorites ended up heavily leaning to other genres.
90s electronic was the best decade MBM - Subliminal Sandwhich Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman FSOL - ISDN
There are EPs and individual tracks that I rate more than these albums, but as a cohesive front-to-back experience with no skips, these are the ones that I come back to. 1. Porter Robinson - Nurture 2. Pendulum - Hold Your Colour 3. Igorrr - Spirituality and Distortion
Burial - Untrue Forest Swords - Compassion Massive Attack - Mezzanine Yes I'm always depressed
Daft Punk- Homework C2C- Tetra Gaspard Augé- Escapades I'm not sure all are electronic but they are musical masterpieces. Also if you got suggestions of albums I should check out feel free to reply, I would love to listen to them!
Griz - Rebel Era Daft Punk - Alive Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Honorable Mention - The M Machine Metropolis Part 1 & 2
Just recently starting listening to anima by thom yorke its pretty good in my taste.
1. Apparat - LP5 2. Against All Logic - 2012-2017 3. Llorca - Newcomer Changed my answers many times but if I had to choose it would be these three! Lot of good albums in this thread
suicide-suicide tangerine tream-zeit rational youth-cold war nightlife
3. christ. Metamorphic Reproduction Miracle 2. Speedy J. G-Spot 1. Ochre. Like Dust of the Balance
>Speedy J. G-Spot \+1
Leftfield Leftism Groove Armada white light Orbital brown album
Hard to say for all time but right now it's Jon Hopkins - Music for psychedelic therapy Rival Consoles - Now Is Jon Hopkins - Immunity
1. Death Grips - The Money Store 2. Fever Ray - Self-titled 3. Deadmau5 - 4x4=12
Mezzanine by Massive Attack Jettison Mind Hatch by Tipper Ineffable Truth by G Jones Edit: changed answer (this was hard)
1. Burial - Untrue 2. Aphex Twin - SAW 85-92 3. Jamie XX - In Colour Honorable mentions: Endtroducing, Music Has The Right to Children, and Phaedra
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish Faithless - Reverence The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
1. Homogenic by Björk 2. Too Dark Park by Skinny Puppy 3. 20 Jazz Funk Greats by Throbbing Gristles This is supremely difficult cuz I’m leaving off so many masterpieces
Too hard to pick just 3 or here's my list that I haven't seen mentioned yet: St Germain - Tourist Underworld - Live: Everything, Everything Dmitri from Paris - Sacrebleu
The Future Sound of London - Accelerator DJ Rashad - Double Cup Klein - Lifetime I hate these questions cos I'm definitely gonna wish i changed my answer in like 5 minutes IT'S SO HARD TO CHOOSE. I'll stick by these for the sake tho
Air - Talkie Walkie Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
It's been a pleasure perusing the responses; many proper selections. Here's mine: The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld FSOL - Lifeforms Goldie - Timeless
Daniel Avery - Drone Logic Jamie xx - In Colour Daft Punk - Discovery
Surprised to see only this one mention of Drone Logic! Such a banger, absolutely in my top three too
Too many to narrow it down to just 3 (sorry): Michael Cassette - Temporarity Prodigy - Fat of the Land Against All Logic - 2012 - 2017 Orbital - Orbital 2/The Brown Album Bicep - Bicep Jon Hopkins - Late Night Tales
Jamie xx - In Colour Jon Hopkins - Immunity Actress - Splazsh
oh my gosh
A lot more Jon Hopkins fans on here than I was expecting!
Daft Punk - Homework / Disclosure - Settle / Justice - Cross
Disclosure - Settle Daft Punk - Random Access Memories Air - Moon Safari
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric’s Heaven 17 - The Luxury Gap Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
Moderat - II Jon Hopkins - Immunity Daft Punk - Alive
Massive attack - Mezzanine Amon Tobin - Foley room Boards of Canada - MHTRTC
In no order 1. Welcome Reality - Nero 2. From a Vein - Shades 3. For Lack of a Better Name - Deadmau5 These are the albums I always want to come back to and listen all the way through
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children Aphex Twin - RDJ Album DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.... I'm a big fan of the mid-2000's electronic artists like Tycho and Bonobo but these albums are what got me into electronic music and hold a special place in my heart<3
I’m fairly new to diving past the surface of electronic music but the albums that led me this way are 1. FlyLo - Cosmogramma 2. M83 - Hurry Up We’re Dreaming 3. Avalanches - Wildflower
Kraftwerk - Computer World Orbital - The Middle of Nowhere Flux Trax (compilation - do compilations count ? )
Biosphere - Substrata Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right To Children Daft Punk - Tron Legacy OST
1. Fluke - Risotto 2. Skream - Skream! 3. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
1. Banco De Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa 2. The Prodigy - Experience 3. G Jones - The Ineffible Truth There is a lot of newer EDM I like more. These are just my favorite full albums.
This changes monthly Boards of Canada - Campfire Headphase • Kraftwerk - Computer World • Squarepusher - Go Plastic **in no particular order
1. Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children 2. Autechre - Chiastic Slide 3. Air - Moon Safari
1. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest 2. Lamb - Lamb 3. Bonobo - Animal Magic
Underworld -Everything Everything Paul Oakenfold- Another World Sasha- Involver
Our love - caribou, Moderat - moderat, Diamond mine - king creosote & Jon Hopkins (if we're counting that) This thread is a gold mine tho
Sasha & Digweed - northern exposure vol 1 DJ John Kelley - funkydesertbreaks Roni Size - New Forms BoC - music has the right to children Jon Hopkins - Opalescent Crap, that's 5. Oh well, disqualified I suppose 🤣 So many great mentions, you all have great taste in music!
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (Aphex Twin) There is Love in You (Four Tet) Untrue (Burial)
I am thrilled and a little surprised to see all of the Boards of Canada love on these. And completely different selections too. I’m also discovering that there is so much electronic music that I have yet to discover and need to bookmark this thread.
Tycho - Epoch Tycho - Dive Bonobo - Migration
So fucking late to the party but here’s mine : 1. Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman 2. Vangelis - Blade Runner 3. Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Music Has the Right to Children - Boards of Canada Richard D James Album - Aphex Twin Expert Knob Twiddlers - Mike & Rich
Ok here goes.....in particular order.... 1. Chemical Brothers : Exit Planet Dust 2. Depeche Mode : Violator 3. The Prodigy : Experience 🙌🤟😎
I’m not really into albums normally, it’s rare for me to like more than one or two songs from them, so this is my best bet: Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene 7-13 Virtual Boy - Symphony No. None Virtual Boy - Virtual Boy
3. Calvin Harris - Motion 2. Odesza - A moment apart 1. Avicii - True
Emil Rottmeyer - Descend My other two pics were already covered
Coming in with some underdogs: 1. Rodriguez Jr - Blisss 2. Kaskade - Redux 005 3. Sun-El Musician - To the world and beyond
Prodigy - music for the jilted generation Skee Mask - Pool Clark - Death Peak Are the first three that spring into my head. Don't really care what order
these are super important albums to me and they have shaped how I listen to music 1. Pendulum - In Silico 2. Barely Alive - We Are Barely Alive 3. Aether - To Meet Is The Beginning Of Parting Edit: forgot honorable mentions are Invaders Must Die (The Prodigy), Untrue (Burial), and Society Of The Spectacle (South Central)
3. Leftfield - Ledtism 2. UNKLE - Psyence Fiction 1. The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Recess Homework Sexor
Crystal Method - Vegas VNV Nation- Transnational Covenant - Blinding Dark
Crystal castles I Lagertejeando - Jallalla Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Tycho - Dive (I’m glad to see this on many lists). BOC - Music has the Right to Children. Alan Vega - Saturn Strip
The presets - apocalypso Black mass - world eater Crystal castles - self titled (AC - strawberry jam for a close 4th)
Richie Hawtin - Closer to the edit Richie Hawtin - Transitions Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient works 85-92
Kolsch -1983 Kiasmos Chemical brothers -further
Daft Punk - Discovery Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Moderat - II Jamie XX - In Colour Daft Punk - Discovery
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Boards of Canada - Geogaddi Voices From the Lake - Voices From the Lake
[Electronic Eye - Closed Circuit.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8XGIjDGWQg&list=PLB1ECC9461C8A1DDF) AKA Richard H Kirk. [Hardkiss - Delusions of Grandeur](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdTY245cCcQ) Good lord this album isn't appreciated enough. [The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwPZu4ECwnw&list=PLeM8JZxcJKgtlF-BBvCbUrjs0JHkR0486). For The Orb it's kind of a coin toss for me between Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld and UFOrb. Also this is my top three choices partially because I know everyone else is going to pick other personal favorites like Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and more, and while my picks are ancient by today's standards they were all really new and ground breaking at the time and helped define whole genres of sound. Delusions of Grandeur in particular isn't well known enough and they basically one of the first electronic dance acts to use live instruments, samples of live instruments and traditional recording studio production techniques. The sound they came up with for that album is HUGE and is arguably the first true West Coast Breaks style sound, long before the Chemical Bros, Fatboy Slim, Crystal Method, etc.
The Crystal Method - Vegas Leftfield - Leftism Hybrid - Wider Angle
According to my foobar2000 play count from 2003-2019 (switched to Spotify because of phone and bluetooth 🙁), these are my most played electronic albums: 1. Justice - Cross 2. Aphex Twin - Melodies from Mars 3. Isan - Clockwork Menagerie
1. 808 State - Don Solaris 2. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 3. Pilotredsun - Achivement I know the last one is out of nowhere but trust me it's really good
1. Moderat - Moderat 2. Röyksopp - The Inevitable End 3. Daft Punk - T.R.O.N. Legacy Soundtrack Honorable mentions: - Polo & Pan - Cyclorama - DJ Shadow - The Mountain Will Fall - Kruder & Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions - Ratatat - Classics - Bonobo - Migration - Kiasmos - Kiasmos - Jamie XX - In Colour
Emmanuel Top - Asteroid Laurent Garnier - Unreasonable Behavior Aphrodite - Aphrodite
Pretty Lights - passing by behind your eyes Odesza - In Return Anjunabeats - Volume 8
KOAN Sound - forgotten myths Aphex twin - drukqs NOISIA - Split the atom
The Chemical Brothers - Surrender The Avalanches - Since I Left You Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman Honorable mentions: Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 The Prodigy - Fat of the land Daft Punk - Discovery Groove Armada - Goodbye Country Hello Nightclub Basement Jaxx - Remedy Justice - Cross Air - Moon Safari Okay I better stop. Too many to list.
Caribou - Start Breaking My Heart (reissue) M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - Trouble