Top 50 Most Properly Rated Electronic Albums

1994 was portishead, SAWII, biosphere - patashnik, woob, 76:14, oval - systemisch, kenny larkin - azimuth, robert hood - internal empire

would not call portishead electronic but yeah those are all good ... “jilted generation” and “dubnobass...” too

what was the best year for electronic albums in your opinion lg? (no snark intended)

oh if it's supposed to be 1994 then I guess related to the other thread Future Sound Of London - ISDN & Lifeforms

although I have absolutely no idea the degree which they are properly rated

i’m not sure tbh

Some nice and not overrated electronic albums from 1994
Ebi ‎– Zen
The Primitive Painter ‎– The Primitive Painter
7th Plain ‎– The 4 Cornered Room
Sweet Exorcist ‎– Spirit Guide To Low Tech
Larry Heard ‎– Sceneries Not Songs, Volume One
Reagenz ‎– Reagenz
Yoni ‎– My Little Yoni
Vulva ‎– From The Cockpit
Electronic Dub ‎– Electronic Dub
Alter Ego ‎– Alter Ego
Stevie Be Zet ‎– Archaic Modulation

The Late Great - I know it seems like it, but I promise I am not trolling you. I have seriously never heard of anything in this thread aside from Autechre and Portishead and Larry Heard. Primitive Painter(s) is a Felt song for me. I really did recently discover Andy Stott and liked it and then I read the ILX thread saying it was overrated and my curiosity shot through the roof. What do you guys and gals think is NOT overrated? I'm mostly interested in the last 5-10 years. Not sure when I'll get to 1994. I'm starting at the beginning (LOVE E2-E4 but I'm already well-acquainted with that one) like Mr. Fingers, etc. and then trying to pay attention to current stuff that's coming out. Never heard the name Jon Hopkins before yesterday, for example. Have a bad feeling about that one though.

Thanks everyone for the recs!

xp haha i didn’t mean you SA i meant the people at the beginning posting stuff i hate :)

If you're interested in stuff like Fingers you can't really go wrong with this box set:

https://www.discogs.com/Terry-Farley-Acid-Rain-Definitive-Original-Acid-And-Deep-House-1985-1991/master/611425

It's just too broad of a topic for me to even approach

Ooh thanks Colonel Poo that looks rad.

Jordan - to narrow it way down, what is Andy Stott? What is that kind of music called? I have no clue. Do you have any recs for stuff like that?

just blooping about in my itunes, this is a bunch of v random stuff from the last 6 or 7 years that i liked the last time i heard it:

Sandwell District - Feed-Forward
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
John Roberts - Glass Eights
Lone - Galaxy Garden
Dorisburg - Irrbloss
Omar S - Thank You for Letting Me Be Myself
Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
Rustie - Glass Swords
Recondite - Hinterland
Vessel - Punish, Honey
Marie Davidson - Adieux au dancefloor
Jlin - Black Origami
Shinichi Atobe - Butterfly Effect
Trentemøller - Into the Great Wide Yonder
Container - LP
Hieroglyphic Being - The Red Notes
Prins Emanuel - Arbete / Fritid
Terrence Parker - Life On The Back 9
K-S.H.E ‎– Routes Not Roots
Claro Intelecto - Reform Club

lot of good stuff on nick’s list

SA if you like Andy Stott there's a thread here called something like "slow mutant techno" that has lots of similar recs...

Stott called his stuff "knackered house"

Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19
Special Request - Soul Music
Huerco S - Colonial Patterns

3 full lengths I "rate" very highly and properly

Carl Crack - Black Ark

A frickin masterpiece of distorted dreamzz

That's from the 90s, though

honestly pretty much all the albums in the "most overrated electronic albums" thread are worth listening to. somebody's going to recommend you a white label ep with no title and no artist and it'll be great but you know, a lot of that thread is like people complaining about how "kind of blue" is an overrated jazz album, which it of course is.

electronic albums in general are overrated. the album isn't the best format for electronic music.

otm

Thank you everyone.

I don't know why I can remember every obscure post-punk band but I can never remember any electronic stuff. It's like a mind wipe. I really like Huerco S and listened to that a bunch. Totally forgot it existed. Same with Omar S.

I tried Jlin - I think she might be beyond me.

try rashad?

“double cup” rightly regarded as the double album version “timeless” of the footwork era

;-)

Hey SA, check:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Channel

It's generally all wonderful.

there we go

i feel there's this aspect to electronic music that actively works against the idea of a canon. there's other reasons for the glut of whitelabels as well but it feels like part of it is that once you start talking about which records are The Best you close yourself off to the new.

Uusitalo - Karhunainen

Are electroacoustic experiments allowed? Like say:

Alvin Curran - Canti Illuminati (1982)
Alvin Lucier - I am sitting in a room (1981)

Anyhow noone has mentioned Kraftwerk and Man Machine, Computerworld, Trans Europa Express and Autobahn are pretty much perfect.

Alvin Lucier - I am sitting in a room (1981)

vibey tune like, but not in summer! put it in the attic till its time for conkers

I Am Standing In A Field

midtown 120 blues

metro area

rushomancy kinda otm throughout this thread tho

i mean one of the albums i named is technically a comp of 12 inches

tim f listed grooverider's hardstep selection vol. ii mix on that 5 favorite albums thread and i think that's a proper rating

otm

Where is this 5 favorita album thread you speak of

Your 5 favorite albums

Yeah if we are including mixes then Dreem Teem In Session Vol II belongs here too

xp haha i didn’t mean you SA i meant the people at the beginning posting stuff i hate :)
― the late great,

after years of being on ILx, I have never ever trolled anyone.
it's not my style.
I was genuine re my suggestion re the TOTAL archive, I love them and think they provide a great entry point into all that is wonderful about electronica.
(just needed to put that out the TLG .. )

I think some people don’t rate it highly but I really enjoy the Voices From the Lake self-titled, it’s pretty sublime. Some may find it boring, though.

The Moodymann DJ Kicks compilation is essential.

Yagya has released some vv beautiful dub techno, especially the album ‘Rigning’.

Did we talk about Secret Tapes of Dr Eich yet

i'm a big fan of yagya's sleepygirls, need to get to his other stuff

Standing by a phone booth with money on my mind

It's a comp, but Carl Craig's Sessions deserves all the acclaim it gets. I keep telling myself I should start a poll for it, I should get on that

Dr Eich absolutely otm

love Moodyman's DJ Kicks but it's barely "electronica" imo, thought about mentioning Silentintroduction tho

Brad otm about Rush being otm, fuck an album tbh

Ok fine here are some random personal touchstones with no order or sense of completeness:

Telefon Tel Aviv - Fahrenheit Fair Enough
Autechre - Chiastic Slide
5 Years of Hyperdub comp
sd Laika - That's Harakiri
James Blake - first 3 EPs and the s/t album
Mount Kimbie - Maybes EP and Crooks & Lovers
Actress - Splazsh
Hudson Mohawke - Satin Panthers EP
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Teebs - Ardour
Rustie - Glass Swords
Shlohmo - Bad Vibes
Lotic - Heterocetera EP
M.E.S.H. - Damaged Merc EP
SHALT - Acheron EP

And lots of more dance-oriented stuff that doesn't slot easily into albums or EPs.

vocalcity/the present lover