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

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

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?