Electronic Albums That Deserve 10/10 Praise, Worship

New album. 4 CDs/hours of brilliant electro/noise/drone for $30. Though not really for the dance floor....

x-post good call Gear!

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i was going to mention Gus Gus 'Attention' and Tok Tok v Soffy O too but I feel I may be over-rating those

Music Has a Right To Children
The Man Machine
Vulva
Autoditacker
Kulma

:-( disc1 of lifeforms is a great big washy prog-ambient delight!!! the second disc is dull, but the first one is one of my most-played discs ever!

boards of canada - geogaddi and music has the right to children, i forgot about.

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xpost: cruise yourself fools

But anyhow, back on subject...

no, i think it is even better than Twoism as a collection myself tho

Their attempt at jungle in the middle does nothing for me, but the rest of it is so good I'll go along with the 10 rating. Himawari is almost perfect too. Too bad the newest one sucked rocks.

My favorite album of 2003. Everyone everyone download it and then buy it because Merck needs your money. It actually is good...much more than just the palatable BoC wankage that is permeating the idm scene these days.

I don't understand the fascination with Around The House... its one of the most boringly middlebrow records I've heard to garner so much blanket critical jizzing.

My nominations would Agoria - Blossom and MRI's All That Glitters.

New Order - PC&L
The Black Dog - Spanners
YMO - Solid State Survivor
Pet Shop Boys - Very
Kenny Larkin - Azimuth
Deee-Lite - Dewdrops In The Garden
Depth Charge - Nine Deadly Venoms
Plaid - Double Figure
Opus III - Mind Fruit
LSG - Into The Deep

not sure that they're all perfect 10s, but they all made quite an impression on me somewhere along the way and have stuck in my collection as favorites.

perhaps it's time to pay 'Electribal Memories' in full (but i've never heard it in full!)? and Inner City's 'Paradise'? and maybe even S Express 'Original Soundtrack'??

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Hymnen (Deutsche Grammophon 139 421122)

herbert - around the house ... you were saying about middlebrow, strongo?

v/a - relics ... derrick may's 30-second edits of tracks are astoundingly pretentious. that's not a "relic", that's an annoying fragment of a track that fucks up the flow of your album, dummy.

swayzak - both albums ... how the same people who like these guys can snicker at doc martin and hipp-e + halo is beyond me. it's like repping dope dragon instead of true playaz. at least proper san francisco trippy deep house artists have the good sense to drop references to drugs and fucking instead of modernist design

coldcut - let us play
fsol - anything

these inclusions are sort of mind-blowing, honestly. fsol has never ever ever done anything that wasn't simultaneously being done 100x better by their contemporaries. compare "papau new guinea" to "pacific state", "lifeforms" vs skylab's #1 or saw ii or irresistible force or atom heart's BASS or silver sound 60 or whatever, "dead cities" vs no-u-turn's output of the period. i don't even know how to address coldcut.

2LS - bag of blue sparks, tiny reminders
plaid - double figure
mu-ziq - royal astronomy

well, i guess it's touching that somebody cares, because these albums are the sounds of these artists painting themselves into corners from which they will never emerge.

ellen allien - weiss mix, berlinette ... if anybody cares about her in three years i'll eat my trucker hat.

Oops, invasion of da hippies

daft punk - discovery
fila brazilia - maim that tune
aphex twin - saw 85-92
basement jaxx - remedy
boards of canada - music has the right...
prodigy - experience
kraftwerk - computer world
oval - diskont94
new order - pc&l

and i would add these to my list

jeff mills - live at the liquid room
urban tribe - collapse of modern culture
reflection - the errornormous world
mr fingers - amnesia
suicide - 1st album

and i wish i could add these but they're honestly not 10/10, just more favorites

two lone swordsmen - the fifth mission

2nd half of 1st disc lets down the insane quality of the rest of it

psyche/bfc - elements 1989-1990
paperclip people - 4mypeepz ep
69 - sound of music

ok the fact that i can't pick which one makes the list makes me think maybe carl craig doesn't make the list. i had a similar problem with choosing between various artists and maurizio and porter ricks for a token berlin dub cd.

i also had similar problems with morgan geist, ken ishii though these i think are more cases where they are fascinating artists that keep drawing me back to their work - they might be among my all-time favorites but i don't think they really have an album that's 10/10 ... maybe a long run of 9/10 and 8/10 albums and a couple songs on each one that are like 20/10.

lil louis & the world - from the mind of...
kc flightt - in flightt
808 state - newbuild
jacob's optical stairway - s/t

and i can't include these because they're really compilations

2 bad mice - kaotic chemistry
moodymann - take your pick
bobby konders - a lost era...

scratch that depth charge then, cos it's just a singles comp, really

also, do dj mixes count here? cos NE and NE2 are probably my most played "electronic" albums ever.

ne & ne2 = Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure (Vols 1 & 2)

Water Melon - Field Trip* (Toshio Nakanishsi of Major Force/Skylab/Tyccon Tosh and the Terminator Troops and Kevin Hale)
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash
Coldcut - What's That Noise?*
Skylab - #2*
Muki - Cabin Fever*
Baby Ford - "Ooo" The World Of Baby Ford
Cornelius - Fantasma, CM and Point
Mekon - Welcome To Tackletown
The Dust Brothers - Fight Club
Luke Vibert - Big Soup*

I'd like Melodic Records to produce a classic record someday - Pedro, Minotaur Shock, Empire State et al have their moments but not accross an entire record yet, maybe that Pedro one might qualify with time.

Phoenecia - Brownout
Venetian Snares - Doll Doll Doll
Autechre - Draft 7.30
Vladislav Delay - Multila

Aphex Twin, Come to Daddy

is the only electronic album that hasn't kinda diminished for me in some way. just gets better and better.

too bad it's kind of unrelentingly sad (but! it isn't just stupidly _melancholy_ all the way through. lotsa idm is adolescent moping, this is fully sublimated adult depression).

well, i think JOS is vibrantly, madly tacky. i often go "omg wtf lol" when i contemplate tracks like "the fusion formula" and "harsh realities" (where robots sing their problems to us) and "the naphosisous wars" (the who???) ... it's so blatantly ridiculous, so misguidedly aspirational, so serious and at the same time comfortable and benevolent and besides each track is just stuffed with one-of-a-kind production madness. and all of the UFO stuff is just fabulous, you just knew they're full of shit but it's SO endearing.

"around the house" in comparison is just furniture to me. "bodily functions" even worse. the cover makes me think of the ads for "creative agencies" in the back of lifestyle mags.

b-but it is called "around the house"!

the thing i never understood is what's wrong with syrupy drum and bass ballads about golden ages of nubian wisdom and secret ufo languages and trees of wisdom??? i thought we liked camp!! and it's not like i have anything better to believe in than nubian ufo wisdom anyway, it's a lot easier to swallow than the shit the designers republic is always throwing at me. and i was listening to roberta flack and minnie ripperton already ...

xpost: haha yeah well it being furniture music is precisely why i LIKE it so much. the only thing that remotely stands out is "going round".

Burger/Ink - [las vegas]
Herbert - Around the House
The Black Dog - Spanners
Vocalcity

Add (if they haven't already been):

Herbert - 100 lbs, slightly better than Around the House, i reckon.
Murcof - Martes
Richard H Kirk - Virtual State
69 - The Sound of Music (it's ALL CLASSIC, the best techno album ever)

BOC - geogaddi
worlds end girlfriend - farewell kingdom
wonderland falling yesterday - enchanted landscape escape
mum - yesterday was dramatic today is ok (all of their other albums are shit)
m-83 - self-titled first album

Stockhausen, Massive Attack, Burger/Ink - Las Vegas (also Burger's Lush Life Electronica as The Bionaut), Orb - Adventures seconded (and Sun Electric have also done a couple perfect LPs I'd say).

ellen allien - weiss mix, berlinette ... if anybody cares about her in three years i'll eat my trucker hat.
Seconded, I'll be eating my Red Sox cap.

Looking at slightly larger spines on the vinyl wall...

Kraftwerk (and Señor Coconut by association), The Residents, Eno all have several perfect electronic music albums I cannot choose from.

Model 500 - Sonic Sunset & UR - Revolution For Change
Jedi Knights - New School Science (short of seconding the Global Comm love.. these guys must have done something right !)
The KLF - CHill Out
The Sabres Of Paradise - Sabresonic (prolly just being sentimental here)
Esplendor Geometrico - Kosmos Kino (amazing covers from these cats always)
Suicide - Suicide
Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up
Robert Hood - Minimal Nation
Hippnotic Culture (Terrence Dixon) - Population 1
Hell - Geteert & Gefedert (forget your Acid Scouts, here's your Bartz)
The Private Lightning Six - They Came Down
Kruder & Dorfmeister - G-Stoned & Nightmares On Wax - Smokers Delight
Motorbass - Pansoul (conveniently, the longer re-release)
Khan & Walker - Empire State Building
Cristian Vogel - Absolute Time
Le Coeur - Suddenly

Reprazent's New Forms, Hardfloor's TB Resuscitation, Mills' Waveform Transmissions 1 & 3who would have thought they wouldn't remain stone cold classics ? Houch.

change that to "haunted dancehall". i am seriusly building a religion around that one.

i would love to hear this

Nonplace Urban Field: Raum für Notizen EP
Laurent Garnier: Unreasonable Behaviour
Pole: 1
Pole: R
Utah Saints: Utah Saints
Mouse on Mars: Autoditacker
Herbie Hancock: Sextant
Steve Bug: The Other Day
Hell: Munich Machine
Paperclip People: The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich
310: Snorkelhouse
Recloose: Cardiology
Aquasky: Bodyshock
v/a: Blech (Mixed by PC & Strictly
The Prodigy: Music for the Jilted Generation
Ultramarine: Every Man and Woman Is a Star
µ-Ziq: Bluff Limbo
Biosphere: Patashnik
Biosphere: Substrata
Omni Trio: Haunted Science
Air Liquide: Nephology
Yello: Stella
Si Begg: Commuter World
4 Hero: Parallel Universe
Baked Beans: Bean Me Up, Scotty!
Two Lone Swordsmen: Stay Down
v/a: Major Force - Return of the Original Art-Form
Syrinx 2600: Docking 20's
Takkyu Ishino: Karaokejack

Even though I don't think it's perfect, it's nice to hear someone big this up, it's rarely mentioned on ILM.

Jeez Vahid makes Ellen Allien sound like Miss Kittin or something, just 'cos she adopted a few Anthony Rother-isms here & there (*cough* Data Romance) I think she'll last going on the current evidence, though things could change... When did weiss.mix get posted on this thread? That's 2002 for a start!

Horsepower - Ravesignal >> The 4th Sign (probably).

Raiders of the Lost Arp: 4
Luciano: Live @ Weetamix
Der Dritte Raum: Raumgleiter

And in any case, stylistically there is no word even remotely close to "glamorous", "trendy" etc or any of their weaker cousins that I would use to describe Ellen Allien's music.

Seconds:

Kraftwerk - T.E.E./Man Machine/Computer World
YMO - Solid State Survivor
Bjork - Homogenic

What, it isn't cool?

what a horrible title

LFO Advance you miserable cockfarmers.

µ-Ziq - Royal Astronomy

Amen Andrews - Vol 1 - 4

Amon Tobin - Permutation
Amon Tobin - Bricolage

Aphex Twin - Melodies From Mars
Aphex Twin - Classics

Kid 606 - P.S. I Love You
Kid 606 - P.S. I Dub Ya E.P.
Kid 606 - Who Still Kill Sound?

Kraftwerk - Computer World

Melodies From Mars

Are you for real?

Oh yes.

Atom Heart-Dots

smith n hack, 'tribute'

mouse on mars - glam
tired sounds of stars of the lid (if it counts as electronic)
and maybe autechre - LP5

thats really all i can think of at the moment, i love electronic music but unlike pop/rock there are very very few albums that feel perfect to me. i'm not really sure why this is, but oh well

Does this only apply to electronic albums that are rooted in instrumental music/minimalism to some extent?

Otherwise, add the following
Human League: Dare
Japan: "Gentlemen Take Polaroids" and "Tin Drum"
OMD: "Organisation" and "Architecture And Morality"
Depeche Mode: Entire catalogue more or less
Yazoo: "Upstairs At Eric's"
Erasure: "Chorus"

vocalcity seconded or thirded or whatever

also is there no love for Leftism around these parts?

Bushwacka! - Cellar Dwellas
Howie B w/ Sly & Robbie - Drum and Bass Stripped to the Bone
Kode9 w/ The Spaceape - Memories of the Future
Two Lone Swordsman - Tiny Reminders
Alex Reece - So Far
Various - Artificial Intelligence Volume II
B12 - Time Tourist
Burial - Burial
David Alverado - Maya Songs
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
Grooverider - Mysteries of Funk
Various - Headz 2A & 2B
Move D - Kunststoff
Nightmares on Wax - A Word of Science
Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves
Radioactive Man - Radioactive Man
Susumu Yokota - Sakura
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
The Aloof - This Constant Chase for Thrills
The Black Dog - Bytes

LFO Advance you miserable cockfarmers.

i agree, it's such a big lush piece - bigger on ambience than dancing tho - i think this is what undermines it for some people. Carl Craig's Landcruising is similar in that respect but probably a better album for having a more dedicated focus thematically and sonically (because again it just sounds so lush) with more subtlety.

i listed way too many 66% good albums upthread!

Landcruising also undermined somewhat by the reworked versnion from a couple of years back but I love both equally.

ellen allien - weiss mix, berlinette ... if anybody cares about her in three years i'll eat my trucker hat.

-- vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:02 (3 years ago)

lol how does it taste?

i agree, it's such a big lush piece

Thank you for redeeming both this thread and my cranky comment.

bigger on ambience than dancing tho - i think this is what undermines it for some people

Well "some people" need to recognize that this is the album that gave us Tied Up!

they could've left that off it really tho, considering the gap between that coming out as a single and the album release. plus the Acid mix is better!

There's no such thing as a less-than-excellent version of this track, but I dunno "better".

ellen allien - weiss mix, berlinette ... if anybody cares about her in three years i'll eat my trucker hat.

-- vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 09:02

Seconded, I'll be eating my Red Sox cap.

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, January 21, 2006 3:47 AM

mega lol!

http://sequence-records.com/sklep/plyty/thumb/DM_constructiontimeagain.jpg

it's a great album but i wouldn't give it 10/10. especially compared to a broken frame, black celebration, violator and ultra

and music for the masses

John Foxx - Metamatic
Patrick Cowley - Mind Warp
Arpanet - Wireless Internet
Other People's Place - Lifestyles Of The Laptop Cafe
Daniel Wang -Idealism 2005

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/Human-League-Reproduction.jpg/200px-Human-League-Reproduction.jpg

I'd suggest

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c8/Dazzle_ships.jpg

too, but I actually don't think of it as an electronic album, particularly (whereas Reproduction is devoutly, exclusively so).

But yeh, I listened to Reproduction last night while I was wrapping Christmas presents, oddly enough, and I thought: this is one of the greatest artefacts in recorded sound.

This may be my fave EM record ever:

http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/1600/imageuploadimageab5.jpg

Daniel Wang -Idealism 2005

^^^this is so true

http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/n/m/nm_8/0-Renegade-Soundwave---Soundclash.jpg

renegade soundwave - soundclash

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