Electronic Albums That Deserve 10/10 Praise, Worship

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.