Electronic Albums That Deserve 10/10 Praise, Worship

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what's "ne" and "ne2"?

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Bedouin Ascent-Music for Particles.

― Russell Dixon (Skinny), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

So many...and I've posted abt them every now and again but basically I spend far more time with 'academic' type stuff than techno-ish music (most of which has already been listed here).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

what's "ne" and "ne2"?

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

― rentboy (rentboy), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Let Us Play is very good, but also frustratingly patchy, however the highs are sparkling at times. Their debut, What's That Noise?, is worthy of praise, but has not dated well in little parts. So (* for faves):

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.

― Crickets Dance On Tequila Booty (Barima), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

haha vahid you slam me on the middlebrow issue for herbet but include jacob's optical stairway?! omg wtf lol

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)

four recent records I remember putting on more than 20 times each

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

― (Jon L), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Plastikman - Consumed
Plastikman - Artifakts [bc]

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Reading this list makes me want to perform a Bodily Function.

― Mark (MarkR), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the other thread is still there for you mark

― (Jon L), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

vahid painfully otm.
otherwise, reading the responses to this thread are just painful.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

er, reading ... was ...

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Friday, 4 June 2004 17:48 (twenty-two years ago)

technially an ep, but...

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).

― Lukas (lukas), Friday, 4 June 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Echoinggrove, you going to back that "painful" jibe up?

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry to be snippy, it's just that when I hear someone say "this is really shite, man," I want to know what they think *isn't* shite.

― Clarke B. (Clarke B.), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I know it doesn't count but I think Secondhand Sounds is a better choice than Around the House maybe.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

haha vahid you slam me on the middlebrow issue for herbet but include jacob's optical stairway?! omg wtf lol

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.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"around the house" in comparison is just furniture to me

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

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i am also a really big fan of two pages for the same reason, except i think by that point they were clued-in to the fact that some people were looking at them like sun ra pts 2 and 3 (or at least maybe david axelrod pts 2 and 3) and so they good really self-conscious about the afromysticality.

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 ...

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

x-post: hahahahaha ok i guess you schooled me. that hadn't even occurred to me when i typed that.

― vahid (vahid), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:34 (twenty-two years ago)

can i take 4hero in 1992 over either of those choices?

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".

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:36 (twenty-two years ago)

the one thing i DONT get about "around the house" is - ironically - everyone treating it as a house album (s.r. invoking deep dish or mood II swing) when its basically a swingy ambient record.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 4 June 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah the housey bits of Bodily Functions are in some ways housier than Around The House. The latter sounds best I think as individual tracks in other mixes - the way "We Still Have The Music" swoops in halfway through the Neuhouse Slight Different 02 mix is just gorgeous.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Awesome choices here ... was an actual 808 State album named? The correct answer, of course, is "Ex:el".
Lots of good picks here, too (although not all are considered "electronic"):
Top 100 Ambient Albums

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

"oh yes!" to:

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)

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 5 June 2004 00:53 (twenty-two years ago)

actually scrap virtual state - it's pretty good but not 10/10

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 5 June 2004 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)

ive only been into electronic for about a year. here are some of the best of what ive found:

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

― smithers4, Saturday, 5 June 2004 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Portishead - "Dummy"
Portishead - "Portishead"

― Seb (Seb), Saturday, 5 June 2004 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...

massive attack - blue lines
the orb - the orb's adventures beyond the ultraworld

― Regular John (Regular John), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:24 (twenty years ago)

acid scout - safari

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 21 January 2006 00:28 (twenty years ago)

So many I haven't heard yet especially in the ambient/drone dept... ILXors Milton Parker & co. to the rescue.

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.

― blunt (blunt), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

The Sabres Of Paradise - Sabresonic (prolly just being sentimental here)

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

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:51 (twenty years ago)

Water Melon - Field Trip* (Toshio Nakanishsi of Major Force/Skylab/Tyccon Tosh and the Terminator Troops and Kevin Hale)

i would love to hear this

― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 21 January 2006 03:52 (twenty years ago)

me too and xpost, actually Weatherall's another serial offender.

― and_a_major_pothead (blunt), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:03 (twenty years ago)

haunted dancehall seconded - the most underrated stoner album of all time.

― Louis Giomblechett and his kerayzy friends (dog latin), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:17 (twenty years ago)

orbital 2

― latebloomer: virtuous, pure and masculine like only an American male can be (lat, Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:31 (twenty years ago)

i'll say it again. 100 lbs is thee perfect Herbert album.

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:35 (twenty years ago)

vladislov delay - anima
anything by kammerfliemer kollektief

― jonathon, Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:06 (twenty years ago)

Jan Jelinek: Kosmischer Pitch
Mouse on Mars: Glam
Vladislav Delay: The Four Quarters / Entain
Gas: Konigsforst
Burger/Ink: Las Vegas
Cluster: Zuckerzeit
Moebius: Tonspuren
Microstoria: Snd
Kraftwerk: Trans-Europe Express / Man Machine
Hematic Sunsets: Rendezvous im Aroma Club
Pyrolator: Inland / Ausland
Lithops: Didot / Uni Umit

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Saturday, 21 January 2006 05:53 (twenty years ago)

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Vrioon
Antitrade: An Ash International Sampler
Art of Noise - Who's Afraid
William Basinski - The River
Holger Czukay & Rolf Dammers - Canaxis
Eno - Another Green World
Philip Jeck - Surf
KLF - Chill Out
Magnetic Fields - Get Lost
Residents - Duck Stab
Peter Scherer - Very Neon Pet
Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research, Inc.
To Rococo Rot & I-Sound - Music Is A Hungry Ghost
David Van Tieghem - These Things Happen
Yello - Claro Que Si
Zazou/Bikaye/CY1 - Noir et Blanc

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 21 January 2006 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Isolée - Rest
Steve Bug - The Other Day
Forever Sweet - Geben & Nehmen
LoSoul - Belong

― djangojones (djangojones), Saturday, 21 January 2006 13:25 (twenty years ago)

These are the electronic albums I consider perfect or near-perfect (the list is veered towards the home listening rather than dance stuff, because obviously that's easier to appreciate as albums instead of tracks):

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

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

CJ Bolland 'Electronic Highway'

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

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I forgot Nek Sanalet by Kit Clayton from my list.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

And Age of Consent by Bronski Beat.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I sold 'Electronic Highway' pretty recently...

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!

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:31 (twenty years ago)

(I don't dislike Caroline Herve fwiw, just saying I think Ellen's got more of a long term plan/roots going on with her thing).

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:33 (twenty years ago)

The 4th Sign >>>>>>>>>>> Electronic Highway (and I don't even rate The 4th Sign that much, other than as a very nice, accomplished 'mature' capture of the R&S sound at time it was made...)

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

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:41 (twenty years ago)

Jimpster - Messages from the Hub

― jed_ (jed), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:46 (twenty years ago)

yeah over here Ellen Allien is like the last bastion for the anti-hipster who still likes idm.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 21 January 2006 14:51 (twenty years ago)

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