NOMINATIONS THREAD for ILM's Alltime Best Techno/Electronic/Ambient/etc ALBUMS poll (nominations end 9/30/10 11:59 PDT)

Delia Derbyshire - Electrosonic
Orbital - II (The Brown Album)
808 State - Ex:El
The Shamen - Entact
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Ellen Allien - Thrills
Global Communication - Pentamerous Metamorphosis
Future Sound Of London - Accelerator
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
The Knife - Silent Shout
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe
Kraftwerk - The Man Maschine
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Natacha Atlas - Diaspora (if that gets disqualified as "World" then Transglobal Underground)
Seefeel - Quique
Hardfloor - TB Resuscitation
Vangelis Albedo 0.39
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

I need to think about Tangerine Dream, what to include, and the moment I hit submit, I'm going to realise I've forgotten some crucially important stuff so I need to check CD and vinyl, too.

Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

Akufen - My Way
Autechre - Tri Repetae++
Autechre - LP5
Frank Bretschneider - Rhythm
Farben - Textstar
Global Communication - 76:14
Luomo - Vocalcity
My My - Songs for the Gentle
Omni Trio - Music for the Next Millenium
Oval - 94 Diskont
Plaid - Double Figure
Roni Size & Reprazent - New Forms
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Telefon Tel Aviv - Map of What Is Effortless

Textstar and Music for the Next Millenium are compilations, if that matters.

Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting
Fripp & Eno - Evening Star

Just stuff that's round about my desk for now p much

Jeff Mills - Purposemaker
Jeff Mills - Waveform Transmissions Vol 3
Jeff Mills - Metropolis
Khan - 1-900-GET-KHAN
The Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do
The Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Bjorn Torske - Feil Knapp
Lindstrom & Christabelle - Real Life Is No Cool
Todd Edwards - New Trend Sounds 2004
Plastikman - Sheet One
Orbital - The Middle Of Nowhere
Terror Danjah - Gremlinz
The Doubtful Guest - Acid Sauna
808 State - Ninety
Remarc - Sound Murderer
Drexciya - Harnessed The Storm
Venetian Snares - Higgins Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits 1972-2006
Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Muzik
Alex Moulton - Exodus

Art of Noise - Who's Afraid of ...
Beloved - Happiness
Blancmange - Happy Families
Bjork - Homogenic
Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops
Harold Budd - The White Arcades
Harold Budd/Brian Eno - Ambient 2/Plateaux of Mirrors
Burial - Untrue
Caretaker - Persistent Repetition of Phrases
China Crisis - Difficult Shapes...
Carl Craig - Landcruising
Thomas Dolby - Golden Age of Wireless
Depeche Mode - Violator
Brian Eno - Apollo
Brian Eno - Music For Airports
Finitribe - An Unexpected Groovy Treat
Hot Chip - One Life Stand
Human League - Reproduction
Human League - Travelogue
Human League - Dare
Human League - Secrets
Inner City - Paradise
Ken Ishii - Jelly Tones
KLF - The White Room
Leila - Like Weather
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Kraftwerk - Tour De France Soundtracks
LFO - Sheath
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective
Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves
Propaganda - A Secret Wish
S'Express - The Original Soundtrack
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence OST
Soft Cell - Art of Falling Apart
Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
Suicide - Suicide
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Flux and Mutability
Todd Terry - To The Batmobile (Let's go)
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
White Noise - An Electric Storm
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's
Susumu Yokota - The Boy and the Tree

jesus this makes my head hurt, but i can't wait for the poll results

Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Omar-S - Just Ask the Lonely
Ricardo Villalobos - Alchachofa
Ricardo Villalobos - Thé Au Harem d'Archimède
Monolake - Hong Kong
Ellen Allien & Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
Theo Parrish - Sound Sculptures
Robert Hood - Internal Empire
Robert Hood - Minimal Nation
Model 500 - Deep Space
The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe
LFO - Advance
Baby Ford - Ford Trax
Daft Punk - Homework
Todd Edwards - Odyssey
Metro Area - Metro Area
Melchior Productions LTD - No Disco Future
Newworldaquarium - The Dead Bears
Vladislav Delay - Whistleblower
Gavin Russom & Delia Gonzalez - The Days of Mars
Dj Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
Studio 1 - Studio 1
Rhythm & Sound - w/The Artists
Basic Channel - BCD
Basic Channel - BCD-2
Maurizio - M-Series
Donnacha Costello - Colorseries
(do comps count?)

Galaxy 2 Galaxy - High Tech Jazz Compilation
Susumu Yokota - Sakura
Detroit Escalator Company - Black Buildings

G2G nominated on the assumption that comps do count.

ultramarine - every man & woman is a star
wendy/walter carlos - switched-on bach

Prodigy - Experience
Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Booka Shade - Movements
Bjork - Vespertine
The Bug - London Zoo
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
Kode9 & The Spaceape - Memories of the Future
Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
MJ Cole - Sincere
Royksopp - Melody AM
Skream - Skream!
Squarepusher - Go Plastic
Squarepusher - Hello Everything
Trentemoller - The Last Resort
Trentemoller - Into the Great Wide Yonder

Bloody hell, where to start?

Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
Global Communication - 76:14
The Prodigy - first three albums
Orbital - Brown Album, Snivilisation, In Sides
Omni Trio - The Deepest Cut
David Holmes - Let's Get Killed
Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
Super Discount
Dave Clarke - Archive One
Gus Gus - Polydistortion
Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
Lo-Fidelity Allstars - How to Operate With a Blown Mind
Leila - Like Weather
Chemical Brothers - first three albums
Presence - All Systems Gone
Aim - Cold Water Music
Add No to X - Avant Hard
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry and Supernature
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
Thee Madkatt Courtship - I Know Electrikboy
Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz and Thee Glitz
Four Tet - Pause
Richard X - Presents His X-Factor Volume One
Kid Loco - A Grand Love Story
Basement Jaxx - First three albums
The Knife - Deep Cuts and Silent Shout
Burial - both albums

Spooky - Found Sound
Two Lone Swordsmen - The Fifth Mission (Return to the Flightpath Estate)
Two Lone Swordsmen - Tiny Reminders
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Photek - Modus Operandi
Third Eye Foundation - Little Lost Soul
Third Eye Foundation - You Guys Kill Me
Funkstorung - Appetite for Disctruction
Fluke - Oto
Black Dog - Bytes
Black Dog - Spanners
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport

Portishead - Dummy (if that counts)

I wondered about that - Maxinquaye? Endtroducing?

not that it's up to me but if it was I would say 'no, there are guitars and live drums all over both those albums'

Dummy and Maxinquaye that is

there is no limit on nominations so have at it.

Just wondering ... if there's no limit on nominations, then what's the point of having nominations? (to jog our memories, I guess?) If we can choose anything we want then why not just send in our individual top 50's?

Yeah, I'm finding the memory jogging aspects of the nominations really helpful. There's so much stuff I've forgotten!

Great poll idea, btw.

Noms:

Plastikman - Closer
Luke Slater - Freak Funk
Moderat - Moderat
Ben Klock - One
Fennesz - The Black Sea
Petar Dundov - Escapements
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed

Is there any reason why almost no mixes and compilation albums have been nominated so far? Are we agreeing to limit this to artist albums only? (I don't think we should, btw)

Porter Ricks - Biokinetics
(nobody voted for this except me in the 90s poll but I live in hope)

Mouse on Mars - Autoditacker

A lot of stuff I'm thinking of has already been nominated but I'm sure I'll be back as they spring to mind. Clarification on whether we're allowed mixes and compilations would be good, some have been nommed but surprisingly few for such a mix/comp-heavy genre (ha xp)

If we're allowed to nominate compilations than I'm nominating Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit.

comps and mixes are cool. the nominations exist more as a memory jogger, yeah. btw now i need to go for a job while listening to...

michael mayer - fabric 11

*jog

venetian snares - Rossz csillag alatt született
junior boys - last exit
herbert - bodily functions
herbert - scale
Isolée - We Are Monster
Isolée - Western Store

Air France - No Way Down

Yellow Magic Orchestra - YMO
Hrvatski - Swarm and Dither
Bruce Haack - the Electric Lucifer
Walter Carlos - Switched-On Bach

DAT Politics - Sous-Hit
DAT Politics - Go Pets Go

Goldfrapp-Seventh Three
Jean Michel Jarre-Equinoxe
Hot Chip-The Warning
Yellow Magic Orchestra-Naughty Boys
Underworld-Beaucoup Fish
Bjork-Vespertine
OMD-Dazzle Ships
John Foxx-Metamatic
Junior Boys-So This is Goodbye
Sparks-Number 1 in Heaven

Is Seventh Tree appropriate? Most Goldfrapp albums are, but I would say not that one or Felt Mountain.

Oh, and if we're allowed comps:

The Old Skool Masters: Ratpack vs Magica

Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Stars of the Lid - ...the tired sounds of Stars of the Lid
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4

Michael Mayer - Immer
Ikonika - Contact, Love, Want, Have
V/A - Routes From The Jungle

I am kinda losing track of what has been nominated so apologies if I duplicate anything:

The KLF - Chill Out
Coil – Time machines
Cluster – Sowiesoso
Shackleton – Three EPs
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom – The Days Of Mars
Minilogue – Animals
Fila Brazillia – Old Codes - New Chaos
Fila Brazillia – Maim That Tune
Fila Brazillia – Mess
Scuba – Triangulation
The Orb – Orbus Terrarum
Booka Shade – Movements
Round 1/2/3/4/5 – 1993-99 main street records
Ricardo Villalobos – Vasco Ep
Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia – Ov Biospheres And Sacred Grooves

Wait, are EPs fair game?

Both those EPs I listed are 50 mins plus so I think of them as albums.

We should def. include EPs in the albums poll.

Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Coil - Constant Shallowness Leads To Evil
The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human
The Juan Maclean - The Future Will Come

Well in that case

Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy
Flying Lotus - LA EP 3x3

Including mixes and comps:

Richie Hawtin - Transitions
Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36
Adam X - Wax Trax! MasterMix Volume 2
Frankie Bones - Computer Controlled
Frankie Bones - Factory 101
Junglized
Jeff Mills - Live at Liquid Room
AFX - Chosen Lords
Buraka Som Sistema - Black Diamond
Italians Do It Better - After Dark
Steve Stoll - The Blunted Boy Wonder
Crystal Castles - both albums
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Belbury Poly - The Willows
The Focus Group - Hey Let Loose Your Love
Justice - Cross
Maruizio - M-Series
Monolake - Momentum
Mr. Oizo - Lambs Anger
Pole - 1 & 2
Rhythm & Sound - The Versions
Soulwax - Part of the Weekend Never Dies
Vex'd - Degenerate
Zomby - Where Were U In '92?

Studio - West Side
Drexciya - Neptune's Lair
Drexciya - Grava 4
Zomby - Where were you in '92
Kelley Polar - Love Songs of the Hanging Gardens
Model 500 - Classics
Moodyman - Black Mahogani
Colder - Again
Inner City - Paradise
Micronauts - Bleep to Bleep
Zongamin - Zongamin
Optimo Present Psyche Out
Optimo - Walkabout
Coldcut - Journeys by DJ
Playgroup - DJ Kicks
Morgan Geist - Unclassics
I-F - Mixed up in the Hague
DJ Rolando - The Aztec Mystic Mix
Fatboy Slim - On the Floor at the Boutique (lol big beat!)
Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism
Dave Clarke - Electroboogie

That's all I can think of for the moment- I bet there are loads of others I would like to nominate...

Rhythm & Sound - Showcase

A couple more:

Carl Craig - Sessions
Monkey Mafia - Live at the Heavenly Social

i feel like comps / mixes should be a separate poll. happy to run that one if omar little agrees with me.

Cool, strike the above mixes/ comps I nominated.

aw, and here I was thinking you'd just opened the door for THE JOINT

i feel like comps / mixes should be a separate poll. happy to run that one if omar little agrees with me.

Disagree, let's keep it together. I play my Villalobos mixes right alongside my Villalobos albums and I expect everyone else does, too, and I'd love to see where the pieces fall when they're all polled against each other.

im with vahid on this one

I'm with ilxor. I say let everything or nothing in. This is AMERICA.

Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen
Deathprod - Morals and Dogma
Echospace - The Coldest Season
Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays
Iannis Xenakis - La légende d'Eer
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
Monoton - Monotonprodukt 07
Ryoji Ikeda - +/-
Supersilent - 6

Alter Ego - Decoding the Hacker Myth
Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich
Air Liquide - Nephology
2 Lone Swordsmen - A Bag of Blue Sparks
2 Lone Swordsmen - Stay Down
Pole - 1
Pole - R
Pole - Steingarten
Neotropic - 15 Levels of Magnification
Drexciya - Harnessed the Storm
Ellen Allien - Sool
Luomo - The Present Lover
Khan & Walker - Radiowaves
The Bionaut - Lush Life Electronica
The Modernist - Kangmei
Nonplace Urban Field - Raum für Notizen
Burnt Friedman - Con Ritmo
Nicolette - Let No One Live Rent-Free in Your Head
Jahcoozi - Barefoot Wanderer
Paul Kalkbrenner - Self
Syrinx 2600 - Docking -20s
Bassomatic - Science and Melody
310 - Snorkelhouse
310 - The Dirty Rope
4 Hero - Parallel Universe
The Fires of Ork - The Fires of Ork 2
Biosphere - Patashnik
Biosphere - Substrata
Maddkatt Courtship - I Know Electrikboy
Gemini - In and Out of Fog and Lights
Readymade - Bold
Derrick May - Innovator (comp)
Various - Metalheadz Presents Platinum Breakz (Metalheadz comp)
Various - Blech II: Blechsdottir (Warp comp)
Various - Recloose Presents Jigsaw Music (mix album)

not sure how i feel about stuff like junior boys and herbert - scale on this. i love those albums but they don't seem like they quite fit in a techno/dance/ambient focused poll. 'scale' in particular has no synths on it and lots of orchestra! it's a pop album imo

Mouse on Mars - Glam
Boulderdash - We Never Went to Koxut Island
Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land
Stars of the Lid - The Ballasted Orchestra
Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork
Vladislav Delay - Multila
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By
Wagon Christ - Tally Ho!

i guess the angle i'm gonna take is to just not vote for stuff that i consider pop more than dance/ambient/electronic, and hope that other people do the same and we don't end up with silent shout at #1

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Four Tet - Rounds
Plone - For Beginner Piano

i guess the angle i'm gonna take is to just not vote for stuff that i consider pop more than dance/ambient/electronic, and hope that other people do the same and we don't end up with silent shout at #1

― ciderpress, Wednesday, September 15, 2010 9:52 AM (39 minutes ago)

this is my plan.

This doesn't sit well with my uncompromising techno vision.

majeure - timespan
zombi - cosmos
lawrence - the night will last forever
biosphere - cirque
biosphere - substrata
barbara morgenstern - nichts muss

I recognize a lot of these names, but I actually know less about this than I do the metal poll. So I'm just going to nominate these because I didn't see them already nommed.

μ-Ziq - Lunatic Harness
Sophie Rimheden - Hi-Fi
Cornelius - Point

i suppose the fact that a bunch of death metal and black metal placed in the top 20 of the metal/hardrock poll alongside the traditional classic rock picks bodes well for this poll not ending up all pop

though i suspect kraftwerk may end up as the equivalent of sabbath here and dominate

More noms:

Kit Clayton - Nek Sanalet
Si Begg - Commuter World
Monolake - Gravity
Ian O'Brien - Desert Scores
Hell - Geteert & Gefedert
Hell - Munich Machine
Steve Bug - The Other Day
Eat Static - Crash and Burn!
Plastikman - Consumed
Emmanuel Top - Asteroid
Air Liquide - Stroboplastics
Khan & Walker - Empire State Building
Age - The Orion Years
Susanne Brokesch - Sharing the Sunhat
Mouse on Mars - Vulvaland
Da Damn Phreak Noize Phunk - Electric Crate Diggers
William Orbit - Strange Cargo III
The Irresistible Force - It's Tomorrow Already
Omni Trio - Haunted Science
Various - Metalheadz Limited Edition Metal Box Set (comp)
Various - Submerged Part Deux (comp)

Still more:

Baked Beans - Bean Me Up, Scotty!
Takkyu Ishino - Karaokejack
Vladislav Delay - Anima
Aquasky - Bodyshock
Tetsu Inoue - Yolo
Burnt Friedman - Plays Love Songs
Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - Can't Cool
State of Bengal - Visual Audio
Vapourspace - Themes from Vapourspace
K. Hand - The Art of Music
Richie Hawtin - DE9 / Closer to the Edit (mix album)
Magda - She's a Dancing Machine (mix album)

More:

Banco de Gaia - Maya
Mouse on Mars - Instrumentals
Masters at Work - Our Time Is Coming
Utah Saints - Utah Saints
Various - The Complete Death of Cool (comp)

Ada - Adaptations / Mixtape #1 (mix album)

Pan Sonic - Kesto
Monoton - Monotonprodukt 02
Fennoberg - The return of
Jim O'Rourke - I'm happy and I'm Singing...
Oval - Systemisch
Ilpo Vaisanen - Asuma
Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba

wow you guys so I took a chance on this just 'cause it looked interesting and this is a great, weird, pre-digital-age ambient drone thing. really just awesome! does everybody already know about this record? I had never heard of it.

Never heard of it, and I don't even know the artists. Who are they?

Mickey Hart was the drummer for Gay Dad.

Tuomas, it tells you on the page

About the Artist
Mickey Hart, best known for his work with The Grateful Dead, has collected and performed on many unusual percussion instruments found throughout the world. He has put both traditional and little-known instruments to new and unexpected uses in his own compositions. At the same time, he has worked diligently to preserve the wisdom of ancient musical cultures through his recordings of indigenous artists. His research into the ritualistic roots of percussion is chronicled in his 1990 book, 'Drumming at the Edge of Magic'. In 1969, Henry Wolff and Nancy Hennings traveled to India and Nepal where they studied with the Kagyu branch of Tibetan Buddhism and discovered the transcendent music of the Tibetan bells. In 1972, they became the first Western artists to make use of the then unknown Asian instruments in a 20th century Western idiom. The resulting album, Tibetan Bells, led to a succession of recordings featuring these instruments.

I assume you've heard the grateful dead.

This is not the best CD to buy in my opinion. Its okay... Yamantaka is supposed to be some lower being of some kind and this CD is supposed to explore the darker side or something.... Anyway its okay. It sounds kinda spooky actually but I do like the sound of the bells.

That actually sounds pretty cool, despite the Gayful Daed connection. I may have to check the album out.

Here's me thinking tuomas was above calling things gay!

Various - Rave Olympia: The Mayday Compilation Album (comp)
Various - The Raving Society (We Are Different): The Mayday Compilation Album (comp)
Various - Mayday: The Great Coalition (comp)

Eliane Radigue - Geelriandre / Arthesis
Tod Dockstader - Quatermass
Tonto's Expanding Headband - Zero Time
Klaus Schulze - Cyborg
Klaus Schulze - Irrlicht
Klaus Schulze - Blackdance
Raymond Scott - Soothing Sounds For Baby Vol. 1-3
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor

Nightmares on Wax - A Word Of Science (The 1st & Final Chapter)
Terrence Parker - Detroit After Dark

A couple of these might be compilations I guess, so ignore if so:

A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology
Underground Resistance - Interstellar Fugitives
Drexciya - The Quest

Gotta go try and think of some more later.

I think compilations are ok in this poll?

oh ok cool. Some more:

Omar S - Fabric 45
Carlos Giffoni - Adult Life
Dopplereffekt - Calabi Yau Space
Lull - Cold Summer
Blade Runner Esper Edition
Scorn - Gyral
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
Kevin Drumm - Imperial Distortion
Arpanet - Inertial Frame
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
Plaid - Not For Threes
Seefeel - Polyfusia
Seefeel - Succour
Speedy J - A Shocking Hobby
Pita - Get Off
Charanjit Singh - Synthesising: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat
Portishead - Third
The Orb - U.F.Orb
Various - Warp 10 + 2: Classics 89 - 92
Dinosaur L - 24 - 24 Music

Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
V/A - 5 Years Of Hyperdub
Cluster - Zuckerzeit
Harmonia - Deluxe
Cerrone - Cerrone 3: Supernature
Michael Shreieve - Transfer Station Blue
X-102 - Discovers The Rings Of Saturn
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
V/A - Pop Ambient 2002
V/A - Kompakt Total 4
Horsepower Productions - In Fine Style
Triple R - Friends
V/A - The Roots Of Dubstep
Mount Kimbie - Crooks And Lovers
Guido - Anidea
Zomby - Zomby EP
Ellen Allien - Fabric 34
V/A - Milky Disco

is this happening?

http://cdn.pastemagazine.com/www/system/images/thumbs/www/articles_2010_04_22/lcd_soundsystem_this_is_happening_album_cover_300x300.jpg?1273891902

Sad this never got off the ground.

I did the tracks poll that was also abandoned could give this a try.

Still hoping...

totally just started compiling a ballot!