another vote for Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works pt.2. If I had to only pick one, it would be that.
(btw i liked drugks, not my favorite AT release but i still like it)
FSOL - lifeforms
The Infinity Project - Mystical Experiences
(various psytrancers) - The Mystery of the Yeti
Eat Static - Science of the Gods
Greatest Electronica of EPIC proportion
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- KVRAF
- 2107 posts since 12 May, 2003 from gone
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- KVRist
- 211 posts since 12 Jul, 2004
In 1979, a guy came along called Gary Numan and in the guise of Tubeway Army brought electronica into the spotlight, with the album Replicas...check it out, its a beauty.
A few years later he produced Telekon and ironically still keeping drums, bass, guitar as the backbone...and some cracking good songs.
A few years later he produced Telekon and ironically still keeping drums, bass, guitar as the backbone...and some cracking good songs.
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- KVRAF
- 7489 posts since 6 Jul, 2004
Brian Eno: Music for Airports
Tangerine Dream: Phaedra
Jarre: Oxygene
Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour
Lemon Jelly: Lost Horizons
Massive Attack: Blue Lines
Pet Shop Boys rarely seem to get a mention in polls of this kind, which I think is rather unjustified. They took electronic pop to new heights commercially, and were also great and inteligent songwriters... never more so than on Behaviour.
Tangerine Dream: Phaedra
Jarre: Oxygene
Pet Shop Boys: Behaviour
Lemon Jelly: Lost Horizons
Massive Attack: Blue Lines
Pet Shop Boys rarely seem to get a mention in polls of this kind, which I think is rather unjustified. They took electronic pop to new heights commercially, and were also great and inteligent songwriters... never more so than on Behaviour.
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- KVRist
- 361 posts since 21 Oct, 2004 from sunny florida, baby!
Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
comment: that song 'Room 208' has an infectious melody. the album has tons of misc sound that just "gels" together.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
comment: the first song is a real killer. the transistion from drum machine to heavy acoustic drums is amazing.
Jarre - Oxygene
comment: it still sounds fresh as it was almost 30 yrs ago.
Juno Reactor - Bible Dreams
comment: dang! 'conga fury' is a wild song. pretty intense conga playing.
. 'shark' is one cool ambient track.
also, what makes BOC's 'music has the right to children' a good album
tbh, i have a love/hate feeling about this album. not to bash them, but to me their composition skills are elementary compared to their contemporaries. i can't believe that they have songs with vocal lines like '123456789' and 'i love you'. what the heck? 
comment: that song 'Room 208' has an infectious melody. the album has tons of misc sound that just "gels" together.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
comment: the first song is a real killer. the transistion from drum machine to heavy acoustic drums is amazing.
Jarre - Oxygene
comment: it still sounds fresh as it was almost 30 yrs ago.
Juno Reactor - Bible Dreams
comment: dang! 'conga fury' is a wild song. pretty intense conga playing.
. 'shark' is one cool ambient track. also, what makes BOC's 'music has the right to children' a good album
tbh, i have a love/hate feeling about this album. not to bash them, but to me their composition skills are elementary compared to their contemporaries. i can't believe that they have songs with vocal lines like '123456789' and 'i love you'. what the heck? be part of the solution, not the problem
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- KVRist
- 104 posts since 22 Nov, 2004
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene, Equinoxe, Rendez-Vous, Chronologie, Oxygene 7-13.
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra, Rubycon, Stratosfear, Exit, Logos, Hyperborea.....practically every album from when they were signed to Virgin!
Kraftwerk - Autobahn, Trans-Europe Express, The Man Machine.
Vangelis - Heaven and Hell, Spiral, China, Blade Runner, Antractica, Direct, Voices, Oceanic.
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells, The Songs of Distant Earth, Tubular Bells III.
Lunz - Lunz.
Depeche Mode - Ultra.
Brad Fiedel - The Terminator OST.
Atlas Plug - 2 Days or Die.
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra, Rubycon, Stratosfear, Exit, Logos, Hyperborea.....practically every album from when they were signed to Virgin!
Kraftwerk - Autobahn, Trans-Europe Express, The Man Machine.
Vangelis - Heaven and Hell, Spiral, China, Blade Runner, Antractica, Direct, Voices, Oceanic.
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells, The Songs of Distant Earth, Tubular Bells III.
Lunz - Lunz.
Depeche Mode - Ultra.
Brad Fiedel - The Terminator OST.
Atlas Plug - 2 Days or Die.
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- KVRAF
- 1981 posts since 26 Oct, 2003 from Toronto
Wendy Carlos - Switched On Bach was and still is the biggest EPIC imho. 
And long before Kraftwerk was 'the pioneering household electronica name' - there was Hot Butter, with the worldwide infectiously catchy song 'Popcorn'. (Totally done on Arp's w/live drums I recall?)
That to me is a 'EPIC' single that laid the path for Kraftwerk et al. (Or maybe it was on Arista? )
But no one has said John Foxx's Metamatic yet? Shame on you!
Coming fresh from the trendsetting Eno produced Ultravox album, Foxx stunned so many by quickly breaking from the group and releasing a self produced solo album that was on par with Man Machine, but was WAY ahead of Gary Numan, Human League, and Depeche Mode that were to follow in his footsteps.
Then there's PIL's 'Flowers Of Romance'. It seemingly came out of nowhere, and set the whole of New Wave, Electronica, and Industrial flat on their collective asses. Maybe not your epic run of the mill electronica - but the use of samplers, synths, percussion and production revolutionised the future of music from that day foward IMHO.
Then I'd have to say Ministry's 'Land Of Rape And Honey'. A snarling, malicious, and violent heavy metal album as seen by most. But Jorgensons subtle to over the top use of samplers and synths woven in the typical guitars and basses fused two genres - rock and techno, to a common ground. Without this album, folks like Trent and Rob Zombie and Marilyn would still be coming off like Alice Cooper circa 1974.
Stereolabs' 'Emperor Tomato Ketchup' would be the next epic electronic milestone. Again, Tim Gane would use it subtle on certain songs, to saturated on others. But was a complete about face of Ministry's LRH.
It showed electronics to have a 'Hi fi Lo Fi' sound, and work well in minimal to highly orchestrated numbers. Of course this laid the path for groups like Portishead and Feist to venture out upon.
Daft Punks 'Homework' would be another epic IMO. I never thought I'd be able to sit back and listen to 'house music' straight. But somehow Daft Punk made it intriguing. There's such detail in the minimalism, and enticing metamorphium in the arrangements. It's way more than just a 'dance record', and set so many precedents that modern electronica, industrial, and ambient still try to embelish upon.
Then Boards Of Canada indeed! Highly agree with Music Has The Right To Childern.
And not to toot my own horn here, but I'd like to think my Analogistic CD could be as 'epic' as John Foxx's Metamatic over 25 years ago? It just happened so 'naturally' for me, and I'm sure with all I mentioned above - their 'epics' did for them as well. But when done, it feels so foriegn - like a schizophrenic doppleganger put it together... But yet has this 'channeled message' in it that must be made available to the public?
To me, that's when you know something could and should be 'epic'. When everyone says WTF? And the material has the attitude of 'Well F you too!'
And long before Kraftwerk was 'the pioneering household electronica name' - there was Hot Butter, with the worldwide infectiously catchy song 'Popcorn'. (Totally done on Arp's w/live drums I recall?)That to me is a 'EPIC' single that laid the path for Kraftwerk et al. (Or maybe it was on Arista?
)But no one has said John Foxx's Metamatic yet? Shame on you!
Coming fresh from the trendsetting Eno produced Ultravox album, Foxx stunned so many by quickly breaking from the group and releasing a self produced solo album that was on par with Man Machine, but was WAY ahead of Gary Numan, Human League, and Depeche Mode that were to follow in his footsteps.Then there's PIL's 'Flowers Of Romance'. It seemingly came out of nowhere, and set the whole of New Wave, Electronica, and Industrial flat on their collective asses. Maybe not your epic run of the mill electronica - but the use of samplers, synths, percussion and production revolutionised the future of music from that day foward IMHO.
Then I'd have to say Ministry's 'Land Of Rape And Honey'. A snarling, malicious, and violent heavy metal album as seen by most. But Jorgensons subtle to over the top use of samplers and synths woven in the typical guitars and basses fused two genres - rock and techno, to a common ground. Without this album, folks like Trent and Rob Zombie and Marilyn would still be coming off like Alice Cooper circa 1974.
Stereolabs' 'Emperor Tomato Ketchup' would be the next epic electronic milestone. Again, Tim Gane would use it subtle on certain songs, to saturated on others. But was a complete about face of Ministry's LRH.
It showed electronics to have a 'Hi fi Lo Fi' sound, and work well in minimal to highly orchestrated numbers. Of course this laid the path for groups like Portishead and Feist to venture out upon.
Daft Punks 'Homework' would be another epic IMO. I never thought I'd be able to sit back and listen to 'house music' straight. But somehow Daft Punk made it intriguing. There's such detail in the minimalism, and enticing metamorphium in the arrangements. It's way more than just a 'dance record', and set so many precedents that modern electronica, industrial, and ambient still try to embelish upon.
Then Boards Of Canada indeed! Highly agree with Music Has The Right To Childern.
And not to toot my own horn here, but I'd like to think my Analogistic CD could be as 'epic' as John Foxx's Metamatic over 25 years ago? It just happened so 'naturally' for me, and I'm sure with all I mentioned above - their 'epics' did for them as well. But when done, it feels so foriegn - like a schizophrenic doppleganger put it together... But yet has this 'channeled message' in it that must be made available to the public?
To me, that's when you know something could and should be 'epic'. When everyone says WTF? And the material has the attitude of 'Well F you too!'
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- KVRAF
- 12235 posts since 18 Aug, 2003
It surprised me that you picked Flowers of Romance. I think Second Edition/Metal Box is the one that stands head and shoulders above the rest. Just listen to Albatross to get a load of the epic. That album is Keith Levine at his finest.Steven West wrote:Then there's PIL's 'Flowers Of Romance'. It seemingly came out of nowhere, and set the whole of New Wave, Electronica, and Industrial flat on their collective asses. Maybe not your epic run of the mill electronica - but the use of samplers, synths, percussion and production revolutionised the future of music from that day foward IMHO.
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- KVRAF
- 3723 posts since 17 Apr, 2002 from Scotland
Steven West wrote: But no one has said John Foxx's Metamatic yet? Shame on you!
ooooh damn
Can't believe I left that off my list
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- KVRian
- 1411 posts since 25 Sep, 2003 from The Dirty South, USA
Exit Zero wrote:Ok folks....
Think... Seargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
... The Wall - Pink Floyd
... 1999 - Prince
We're not talking about your ordinary average everyday release. The afore mentioned albums are examples of what I'm referring to.
What album of electronic music can be said to hold the same stature as these classic recordings?
Bring it!
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- KVRist
- 35 posts since 11 Nov, 2003 from Denmark
Phew, I was going though this thread and thought, where
the hell is Daft Punk - Homework. But here it is on page 4
That would get my vote too. Other individual tracks I would mention.
Moby - GO
Jam & Spoon - Follow me (pure meditation)
William Orbit - Barber's Adagio For Strings (almost too obvious)
Leftfield - Leftism (especially "Melt")
the hell is Daft Punk - Homework. But here it is on page 4
That would get my vote too. Other individual tracks I would mention.
Moby - GO
Jam & Spoon - Follow me (pure meditation)
William Orbit - Barber's Adagio For Strings (almost too obvious)
Leftfield - Leftism (especially "Melt")
Regards Jan Holm
"does it work"
"does it work"
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- KVRian
- 1411 posts since 25 Sep, 2003 from The Dirty South, USA
No, actually that is Daft Punk's second album Discovery.Jan Holm wrote:Phew, I was going though this thread and thought, where
the hell is Daft Punk - Homework. But here it is on page 4
That would get my vote too. Other individual tracks I would mention.
Moby - GO
Jam & Spoon - Follow me (pure meditation)
William Orbit - Barber's Adagio For Strings (almost too obvious)
Leftfield - Leftism (especially "Melt")
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- KVRian
- 1258 posts since 25 Nov, 2003 from London
Screamadelica - Primal Scream
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- KVRAF
- 5703 posts since 8 Dec, 2004 from The Twin Cities
Poptones is as good as it gets.shamann wrote:It surprised me that you picked Flowers of Romance. I think Second Edition/Metal Box is the one that stands head and shoulders above the rest. Just listen to Albatross to get a load of the epic. That album is Keith Levine at his finest.Steven West wrote:Then there's PIL's 'Flowers Of Romance'. It seemingly came out of nowhere, and set the whole of New Wave, Electronica, and Industrial flat on their collective asses. Maybe not your epic run of the mill electronica - but the use of samplers, synths, percussion and production revolutionised the future of music from that day foward IMHO.
'It's wet, and I'm losing my body heat
The cassette plays: poptones'
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- KVRian
- 889 posts since 10 Jul, 2004
DEPECHE MODE - SPEAK&SPELL (1981)