Top electronic albums of all time

Cafe Society
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  1. Massive Attack - Blue Lines
  2. Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K&D Sessions
  3. DJ Shadow - Entroducing
  4. Air - Premiers Symptomes
  5. RJD2 - Dead Ringer
  6. Amon Tobin - Supermodified
  7. Peace Orchestra - Peace Orchestra
  8. Kid Loco - A Grand Love Story
  9. Nightmares on Wax - Carboot Soul
  10. Tosca - Suzuki
  11. Thievery Corporation - Mirror Conspiracy
  12. Prefuse 73 - Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives
  13. Brian Eno - Music for Airports
  14. Portishead - Dummy
  15. LTJ Bukem - Progession Sessions 1
  16. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
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Switched on Bach – Walter/Wendy Carlos

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I think that while Autobahn really put them on the map, Radio-Activity is Kraftwerk’s electronica-defining work, IMHO. They got off into that robot shark-jump after that, which, of course, was their commercial peak.

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Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center
Morton Subotnick: The Wild Bull
Kenneth Gaburo: Music for Voices, Instruments, and Electronic Sounds
Terry Riley: A Rainbow in Curved Air
Tangerine Dream: Phaedra
Klaus Schulze: Timewind
Wendy Carlos: Sonic Seasonings

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Great thread, except for the fact it’s way too hard to remember them all.

In no particular order, and not including any already mentioned:

  1. Lamb - Lamb
  2. Lamb - What Sound
  3. Massive Attack - Protection
  4. Leftfield - Rhythm & Stealth
  5. DJ Shadow - The Private Press
  6. Faithless - Reverence
  7. Faithless - Sunday 8pm
  8. Faithless - No Roots
  9. Royksopp - Melody A.M.
  10. Portishead - Dummy
  11. St Germain - Tourist

Geez that’s a hard thread to pick.

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I just picked up the best-of Lamb compilation “Best Kept Secrets”.
I had seen them live and wasn’t very impressed, but that album just blew me away.
It has been in my cd-player for the last 2 weeks, every night.

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5a. Herbaliser - Very Mercenary
5b. Herbaliser - Herbal Blend

Vangelis - Heaven & Hell
Air - Moon Safari
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet

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Y’all forgot Jean-Michel Jarre. Oxygene.

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Also…

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

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Electronic???

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I would have to put some Underworld in a list, somewhere.

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Well, it’s almost like you’d need a computer-like brain to be able to play [ul][li]Organ[]Guitar (Acoustic)[]Bagpipes[]Bass[]Guitar[]Mandolin[]Percussion[]Piano[]Flageolet[]Glockenspiel[]Guitar (Bass)[]Guitar (Electric)[]Keyboards[]Organ (Hammond)[]Choir[]Chorus[]Tympani[]Farfisa Organ[]Spanish Guitar[]Tubular Bells[]Fuzz Guitar[]Grand Piano[]Mando-Guitar[]And other assorted instruments[/ul]As well as be the[ul][]Producer[]Engineer[]Arranger[]Composer[]Conductor[/ul]On Tubular Bells.[/li]
As a small aside, Tubular Bells II & Tubular Bells 2003 did have electronic elements, so technically, they could be considered part of the electronic genre.

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I suppose it all depends on your definition of electronica, but IMHO the robot shark-jump albums are the essence of Kraftwerk, and were the inspiration for countless 80’s synth bands.

I might have to list Discreet Music ahead of Music For Airports from Brian Eno.

And I will add to the list:
Kitaro - The Silk Road