Top 50 Most Properly Rated Electronic Albums

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