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

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 know what you mean ilxor but then someone could argue that they play their 37-minute villalobos tracks right next to their albums and then fizheuer zieheuer makes the album poll?

i stand with vahid

I do too, but srsly: THE JOINT

Not really the same thing, it's still a track.

xxp

i think mixes should def be seperate, but i really consider BCD, BCD-2, Colorseries, Studio 1, M-Series, etc albums, even though they're singles comps.

EPs should be seperate, too. Villalobos' Vasco is an LP anyway (there were two seperate Vasco EPs.)

I say we do a mash-up poll with all electronic albums, EPs, compilations, mixes and whatnot.

Why the fuck not?

Who wants to vote in more than an albums poll and a tracks poll??

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

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!