[Closed] Best electronic album of all time?

First that springs to mind is Orbital - Yellow album - cos its got Belfast and Chime on it!

Good shout.But I'm a knob and always loved In Sides!

I'm gonna say Blue Lines, because it was perfect at the time.

In Sides has got The Box and Petrol tho' so I could let you have that!

something by Shpongle I imagine.. not one for the purists though

Can't go wrong with any Massive Attack album.

Leftfield top of my list though.

In Sides has got The Box and Petrol tho' so I could let you have that!

Its 'The Girl With The Sun in her Head' that I really love on that album.

It's like Kraftwerk goin Balaeric!

Leftfield - Leftism

Leftism or R&S?

Could that sound like a ****ier question? 😳

screamadelica

Fluke: Techno Rose of Blighty.

Or Dare...

Screamadelica is a fine suggestion.. what about

Two Lone Swordsmen - Tiny Reminders..

Any of Heaven 17's first 3.

Great albums already.

Screamadelica? Slip Inside This House has to be one of the best covers ever!

The reason for my username!

Tiny reminders is ****in awesome! Brootle!

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slainte 8) rob

Good call on Screamadelica. Defined a few years for me that one did.

I saw the recent tour, and whilst the Screamadelica set was very good, it was clear that the band just wanted to play rock n roll. The encore took the roof off with Jailbird/rocks/country girl.

Leftism another great album.

For me, another one was FSOL Accelerator. It used to just keep looping in the car.

Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin deserves a mention too I reckon..
and Akasha Project but I couldn't pick an album.. maybe Cosmic Ambient Garden.. and my last nomination will be..

The Irresistible Force - It's Tomorrow Already

Never heard that one rob. I love Add Insult to Injury though. I have the CD with the scratch and sniff cover! 🙂

Endtroducing...

Of course...DJ Shadow.

In that case, I'll chuck in Brainfreeze.

This thread is fairly fuelling my spotify playlist. Not listened to Nitihn Sawhney for a long time.

Im going to add Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where and Boards Of Canada - Music Has the Right....

Another vote for The Man Machine.

Or Incunabla by Autechre.

Or Selected Ambient Vol. 1

Or the Pi soundtrack. Does that count?

Music Has the Right to Children

Selected Ambient Works II

Untrue

Endtroducing

Oxygene

Oscillons from the Anti-Sun

Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld

first time I went proper clubbing, I saw a live set by Children of the Bong....

for that reason - Sirius Sounds is getting a place in the line up.

I'll throw in Second Toughest in the Infants - Underworld

Lcd soundsystem

Id count the Pi soundtrack!

Speaking of soundtracks....

Leftism is genius!
808 state - pacific is an under-rated gem.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine when you're in a dark, thoughtful mood
Underworld - dubnobass takes some beating. Just for 'cowgirl' alone!
Does the happy Mondays hallelujah EP count? It's one of the greatest of any genre, ever recorded!

And for retro electronic, how about OMD - Architecture and Morality? Just listen to Georgia. Superb!

Underworld; any of their albums but Beaucoup Fish being the best

Four Tet - There is love in you

Managed to forget Orbital too, and Unkle, and the Orb.

[i]For me, another one was FSOL Accelerator. It used to just keep looping in the car.[/i]

Smiling now remembering when it was gloveboxes full of tapes, recorded by mates, and there was always something new tagged on the end to fill the 90mins. 🙂

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For me, another one was FSOL Accelerator. It used to just keep looping in the car.

slainte 8) rob

Cups has got to be one of the greatest album openers ever!

Glitch Mob - Drink the Sea

CJ Bolland - The Analogue Theatre

Daft Punk - Tron Legacy

And another...

Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
Propellerheads

slainte ❗ rob

Tubular Bells,

Hergest Ridge,

Oxygene,

Journey tot the centre of the world, Rick Wakeman

Glitch Mob done well here too!!

Vitalic - Flashmob

All this talk has made me look forward even more to the first festival of the season....

Loads of bands, but when the sun goes down - I'll be with this lot:

THE ASHAN PROJECT
SYSTEM 7
ASTRALASIA
THE PRODUCER [Universe]
LIQUID ROSS
BEZ23
SPACEHOPPER
ZUBZUB
BANCO DE GAIA

And reading the posts I missed - CJ bolland. Brilliant. Messy night up the Orbit.

Daft Punk - Homework to me remains their finest moment.

I'll chuck in Timeless, loads of good memories.

Daft Punk - good call.

Which brings to mind Air and Moon Safari as well.

slainte 8) rob

Autechre - Tri Repetae... Still fresh!

Exit Planet Dust should have a mention! Not bad for 3 weeks work!

...or "A Strangely Isolated Place" or "Far Away Trains" both by Ulrich Schnauss.

You bastards! Do you realise how much this is about to cost me on iTunes?! 😉

Chemical brothers - exit planet dust. With Beth Orton. Whats not to like? Saw them loads of times at paradise factory when they were still the Dust Brothers. Happy days! : D

What about KLF Chill Out

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A toss up between Select Ambient Works and Entroducing.

LFO!

Oxygene + 1. A pioneering album and one I still listen to regularly.

And for those of a 'certain age' how about the Street Sounds and Electro albums. Electro 3 and 5 are the best. And the first 2 House Sound of Chicago albums! Without which, most of the stuff mentioned would never have been made

Im having to make do with Digestives. The wrong type of biscuit for this evening!!
The KLF - The White Room How could I forget!!!

+1 for the streetsounds electro albums..

Ladytron - Light and Magic

WAY too many good Electronic Albums, but here's some stand outs for various reasons...

-Bladerunner Soundtrack - Vangelis... Most influential Film Soundtrack of all time? Possibly...
-Daft Punk - Homework... Pop/House/Electro/Disco/Synth-tastic fusion that brought House music to the mainstream and won!
-Goldie - Inner City Life... The guy who pretty much created D&B's finest moment. The fact as a producer he kinda slipped into the ether almost after this shouldn't take away how ground breaking it was.
-Roni Size & Reprazent - New Forms... Won the Mercury Music Prize in 1997, when almost nobody had still heard of D&B! Nuff said...
-Thriller - Michael Jackson... Do I need say any more? The man, the legend, produced by the greatest producer of all time, Quincy Jones.

There are tonnes more obviously, but those stand out for me right now...

Nice slection mboy. Im a big Jackson and Quincy Jones fan.

IMHO one of their best moments

Seventeen Seconds - The Cure.
A masterpiece.

got to go dig out leftism now!

For you bobbyg81... Herbie Hancock Jamming on his Fairlight with Quincy Jones in the studio

😀

Mboy, I'm sure you don't need reminding...but the Goldie album was called Timeless - the first 20 odd minutes was Inner City Life. 8)

Thanks Mboy. Never seen that before! Great stuff!

Quincy Jones is a genius! Billy Jean is the best bass line ever recorded.

And while we're on about genius. How about New Order? Everything on Substance is better than anything else recorded in the 80's.

Oh.... And Primal Scream - Exterminator

Some impeccable taste displayed on this thread.

Not expected from a bunch of overweight, balding IT consultants!!!! 😀

Nothing in the last 15 years has challenged Leftism as my 'If I could only ever keep one album what would it be?' choice, but I think FSOL Lifeforms deserves a mention.

Mboy, I'm sure you don't need reminding...but the Goldie album was called Timeless - the first 20 odd minutes was Inner City Life.

Durrrrrr, slip of the tongue (fingers?) on my part... Didn't have my iTunes library to hand when I posted it and could only think of the name of the first track! 😳

Quincy Jones is a genius! Billy Jean is the best bass line ever recorded.

He is, and he has some of the most influential albums of all time to his name yet never played a note himself! Brilliant at piecing everything together though...

As for Billie Jean best bassline, it's certainly up there... Was researching influential basslines the other day when I came across the following article online...

[url] http://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/the-40-greatest-synth-sounds-of-all-time-ever-306114/40 [/url]

Check out the 40 best synth sounds of all time there... I'm a little surprised by the newness of the number 1 (though not its effectiveness, I remember it coming out, it pretty much gave birth to the "Electro House" sound!) as usually oldies win at this kinda thing, not surprised by number 2 though... Moroder's bassline for Donna Summer!!! WOW!

Shades of Rhythm - Sound of Eden is worth a mention too

A few albums spring to mind, but if I had to choose one to listen to over and over again Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem would win out. Honorable mentions to Daft Punk, Leftfield and Roni Sizee

great electronic albums hmmm mine are all quite mainstream. guess they get mainstream by being great

- portishead - dummy
- leftfield - leftism
- fatboy slim - you've come a long way baby

anything by chemical brothers, underworld or daft punk

oooh actually my fave is:
LTJ Bukem - logical progression

I'm surprised Tangerine Dream (Phaedra)

and Ashra (Blackouts)

have been overlooked.

Sounds of the 70s

Leftfield - Leftism

Dj Shadow - endtroducing (Best electronic album is not going to be awarded to brainfreeze!)

Opiou - Slurp and Giggle

Opiou - Slurp and Giggle

and maybe Opiou - Slurp and Giggle. Buy it,plug yer lugbuds in and try it out on the bike. He's going to be famous soon,you know.

First that springs to mind is Orbital - Yellow album - cos its got Belfast and Chime on it!

It was known as the Green Album.....

Mine are .

Orbital - Brown Album
KLF - Chill Out
Left field - Leftism
Massive Attactk. - Mezzanine

All great albums

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Too many to mention, however the one that sprung immediately to mind....

Leftfield - Leftism

Global communications. Layo and bushwaka, low life. Jam and spoon, tripomatic fairytales.swayzak, himawari and Ian pooley , meridian.

Leftfield, FSOL, Orbital, The Orb, DJ Shadow, Underworld and others all very credible shouts, but how about Network Records' [i]Biorhythms[/i]?

There's some great albums, listed above( and some dross)

I'll back Leftism, KLF and Underworld. Dub No was my personal fav particularly 'Dirty Epic'.

I'll also give you Eat Static-Implant.

Brian Eno - Apollo

Plastikman- Sheet One
Bjork - Vespertine

Man Machine - Kraftwerk
Leftism - Leftfield
Second toughest of the infants - Underworld

Honourable mentions go to:
Post - Bjork
Timeless - Goldie
Vanishing Point - Primal Scream

Ps Yunkie's makes a good point : Shpongle!! Their songs are epic mind storms that can dissolve you from the inside like an effervescent tablet especially on a handfull of shrooms 🙂

Electro Glide in Blue - Apollo 440

(Although not exclusively electronic, at least not live, I reckon it still counts).

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