I don't know if this will fly, but I certainly would love to see some lists that reflect the relative placement of electronic/dance albums that people are likely to put on their year-end list. Go nuts.
Hmm, I wanted to hear Batbox but forgot about it. I'll go search for it now. Thanks for reminding.
This topic will be good for me to find out new artists since I'm not fully knowledged (<-- is that even a word?) in this genre yet since it's my newest introduction.
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I removed all of two albums from my overall list to make this top 15:
01. Trifonic - Emergence 02. Ready Fire Aim - This Changes Nothing 03. Adam Singer - Lifeforce 04. The Presets - Apocalypso 05. System 7 - Phoenix 06. Lange - Better Late Than Never 07. Ladytron - Velocifero 08. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors 09. Morcheeba - Dive Deep 10. DJ Orkidea - Metaverse 11. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair 12. AmpLive - Rainydayz Remixes 13. Kilowatts & Vanek - Focus & Flow 14. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into 15. Siriusmo - Diskoding
I'mnot a 100% sure what goes under the title of 'electronic' so this might not make sense...
1. Dairy of an Afro Warrior - Benga 2. I Need You to Hold on While the Sky is Falling - Kelley Polar 3. The Devil , You & Me - Notwist 4. Kontpab - Mahjongg 5. ExitingARM - Subtle
6. Girls In the White Dream - Water Fai 7. Alopecia - Why? 8. Sool - Ellen Allien 9. After party Babies - Cadence Weapon 10. Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants - Metaform
I’m liking Sool by Ellen Allien quite a bit at the moment. It's extremely minimal, like the latest Pole, but more Ricardo Villalobos sounding. I haven’t given the whole album a listen through yet since there are so many other albums that are stealing my attention: Scarlett Johansson, Booka Shade, Born Ruffians, Santogold and very soon diskJokke.
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This is a good idea. I don't really have enough to make a respectable list yet, but I should soon. I'm about to listen to that Crystal Castles album that's been getting to much attention 'round these parts. I'm very intrigued.
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Zombie Zombie's "A Land For Renegades" is pretty damn solid and sort of menacing electro.
Whatever happened to Two Lone Swordsmen? Their "From The Double Gone Chapel" and "Tiny Reminders" are two of my favorite electronica/IDM albums of this decade.
I also enjoy these:
Portishead - Third Notwist - The Devil, You + Me M83 - Saturdays = Youth Dosh's new one (The name escapes me and i don't know if it qualifies as electronica) Clark - Turning Dragon
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Hercules & Love Affair - s/t. M83 - Saturdays = Youth. Portishead - Third. Crystal Castles - s/t. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead... Zombie Zombie - A Land For Renegades (I'm just listening to them for the first time right now, but they can easily make my electronic, not to mention my general Top Ten List).
A couple that might not belong here: Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree. Santogold - s/t.
A couple I haven't listened to yet: Supreme Balloon - Matmos. Silent Movie - Quiet Village. Emergence - Trifonic. Batbox - Miss Kittin. Street Horrrsing - F**k Buttons.
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I don't know if anyone will care but krautrock/space music/trance godfather Klaus Schulze is releasing ANOTHER album (like his 50th one now) early this July. The album is called Farscape and will feature guest singer Lisa Gerrard... yeah I have no idea who she is either. I'm kinda excited since I love Klaus so much. I hope it's better than his last album, Kontinuum.
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Some of these are less traditionally "electronic/dance" and more or less simply electronic.
01 - Dan Friel - Ghost Town 02 - Portishead - 3rd 03 - Air France - No Way Down EP 04 - HEALTH - DISCO 05 - Matmos - Supreme Balloon 06 - Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead... 07 - Cut Copy - In Ghost Colors 08 - Bajofondo - Mar Dulce 09 - Hercules & Love Affair - s/t 10 - The Chap - Mega Breakfast
This is where I'm at so far. I'd be interested in recommendations to albums that are more hardcore electronic/dance. I've been struggling with this genre lately, so let me have it. Knock me out, tear my P4k-worshiping list to pieces, and reconstruct in the image of your elecronic God before I wake up... or whatever.
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Haha. Shut up you. JGlass, the only thing I was complaining about in our other conversation was a derogatory attitude toward P4k, and I still stand by that. I've been looking beyond Pk4 for the same reason you had, but it hasn't been terribly fruitful, to be honest. I've always been too willing to get reamed in the ass for posterity, so yeah, my neck it out a bit here. Chop away!