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

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?

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!