Your Most Influencial Electronica Album

[vurt]

pink floyd-darksideofthemoon
kraftwerk-autobahn
kraftwerk-transeuropeexpress
tangerinedream-electronic meditation
tangerinedream-stratosphere
klaus schulze-pictures
gong-the potheadpixie trilogy


if your into windy synth pad sounds and dont own any of the above amend this forthwith.

[Armadillo]

BT - Movement in Still Life & ESCM

Crystal Method - Legion of Boom

Prodigy - Fat of the land

Chicane - Behind the Sun & FFTMC

Robert Miles - Dreamland & 23AM

Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust

Earlier Pet Shop Boys

Artful Dodger - It's All About the Stragglers

Very close to my list.
Take away Robert Miles and Pet shop boys and change

Crystal Methods - Legion of Boom to Vegas.
Then add Leftfield - Leftism and
Sorten Muld - Mark 2 and
Andy Hunter - Exodus.

[kevink]

Fripp and Eno - No Pussyfooting

[gbles]

Without creating a huge list.....pretty tough to do...

Mezzanine - Massive Attack
(Their best album by a long stretch, and something that hasn't dated to me at all)

Ambient Works 2 - Aphex Twin
(Still as pretty as ever)

Dummy - Portishead
(Another all time classic that hasn't dated. It didn't sound like it belonged to a genre to me, which helps make it a little more timeless)

More recent stuff.....I've just discovered Arovane and love it. Very nice.

[farlukar]

Global Communication - 76:14

[APK77]

- Terry Riley : A rainbow in curved air
- Fripp & Eno : No Pussyfooting
- TDream : Ricochet

[Katanaman]

I try not to take influences for my music(consciously, at least), as that often results in mediocrity, so I will, instead, list the 5 most memorable albums for me:


1 - Aphex Twin's "The Richard D. James Album" - Beautiful! The album that made me get into electronic music definitely(and become obssessed with Aphex Twin).

2 - Mu-Ziq's "In pine effect" - Not his best overall, but "Within a sound" is one of the BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME.

3 - Aphex Twin's "26 mixes for cash" - The most addictive album in my collection. Didn't like it much at first listen but it seemed to grow better with each repeated listen. I can't live without it now!!!

4 - Prodigy's "Music for the Jilted Generation" - It wasn't as immediate as the fat of the land but where fat of the land is all for the immediate kick in the balls(there's not much to enjoy after a few listens), music for the jilted generation gives a lot more. Most of the songs are unique and always a joy to listen to(oh, my god, I'm making the prodigy sound gay!!!).

5 - Massive attack's "Mezzanine" - The last few songs are a bit dull but the rest is top notch.

[origami]

some other ones I know remember:

Tangerine Dream: Force Majeure

Future Sound of London: ISDN

Amon Tobin: Supermodified

Depeche Mode: Violator

Kraftwerk: The Man Machine

[Meffy]

And if you've ever played with a Moog Modular, or even Arturia, you will come to quite a new level of respect for Carlos, and what heshe did with the tools available.

Oh my, yes. Breadboarded a Moog 901 in 1969, from St. Dr. Bob's plans. :-) Mine didn't work very well, terribly unstable, wouldn't track its pitch CV for much more than an octave. Mostly my fault for being a sloppy tech and substituting parts (but I discovered years later that it was partly the design).

Learned to patch and play on a Moog Modular III in the early 1970s, used an ARP 2600 and a Mini too. (Special high school arts class for the "talented" kids. I have no idea why they let me in. Colossal error, but I'm glad of it.)

I learned to do track-by-track recording on old Akais and Teacs (sound on sound or sound with sound? ummm...); how to create "granular synthesis" by chopping up tape and splicing it back together; and how to prepare a patch on paper, grab the synth when my sign-up time arrived, patch like a crazed ferret (I'm a skunk, not a ferret, Jim!), play quickly, then tear it all down and "zero the board" (well, panels) for the next student in line. *WHEW*

Nothing I wrote or performed in that class was quite up to Carlos' level. Not by a megaparsec! :-D But my final, "Triangles," actually drew applause, surprising me no end... wish I hadn't lost the tape about a quarter century ago. *sigh*

Anyhow: I can't come to a new level of respect, been there all along. :-) Knowing how hard it was made the listening all the more enjoyable. I could really appreciate how much effort went into SOB, STS, Sonic Seasonings, the grab-bag of tunes on "By Request"... and the later stuff, mmmm.

Meffy

[visa tapani]

Cabaret Voltaire - Microphonies

f**king a, Cabaret Voltaire were the bomb! Tho I can't quite see why did you pull this specific album, I'd list their earlier stuff as even more noteworthy, like Red Mecca and 2 x 45...

As for other mentions:

The Orb('s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld)
FSOL - Lifeforms
Autechre - Tri Repetae (++)
Black Dog Productions - Bytes
Aphex Twin - SAW 85-92
Pan Sonic
Derrick May (and aliases)
Juan Atkins (and aliases)
Biosphere - Substrata
Eno - Ambient 1
µ-ziq - Lunatic Harness
BoC - umm perhaps MHTRTC
V/A - Artificial Intelligence 1
Jarre - Oxygene
Vangelis - Blade Runner
Monolake - Hong Kong
Vladislav Delay
Tod Dockstader
Raymond Scott
Kraftwerk
V/A - Clicks & Cuts 1
Squarepusher - Feed Me Weird Things
Yeah, Endtroducing for sure
Prodigy - Experience, Music for the Jilted Generation
Tangerine D.
Merzbow
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Plastikman - Musik, Consumed...
Einstürzende Neubauten
Size - New Forms
Goldie - Timeless
Orbital
Yeah, S. Puppy for sure
Tobin

Eh too many, I'll stop now.

Yeah, I know this thread is about albums, but with some artists it just seemed a bit trivial to list a specific record. Also, couldn't be arsed.

Arse.

[Meffy]

Gah, y'all keep adding to my list! :-D

Tangerine, yes, Pink, yes, Vangelis, Larry Fast, and how about Beaver and Krause?

Meffy

[donkey tugger]

Cabaret Voltaire - Microphonies

f**king a, Cabaret Voltaire were the bomb! Tho I can't quite see why did you pull this specific album, I'd list their earlier stuff as even more noteworthy, like Red Mecca and 2 x 45...

.

Cos I was only a wee nipper (about 14), when microphonies came out, it was the first album of theirs I bought and I still reckon it's the most poptastic!

[vurt]

Gah, y'all keep adding to my list!

Tangerine, yes, Pink, yes, Vangelis, Larry Fast, and how about Beaver and Krause?

Meffy

ooh yeah beaver and krausse
altho i only discovered them quite recently
also what about bands like klaatu and khaan?
the beatles even

[ianweb123]

Tomita - Snowflakes are dancing..

Space - Magic Fly..


Bearing in mind the time that they were released.

[Meffy]

Space - Magic Fly..

=@.@=

Someone else has this album?!?!

*fallsover*

Meffy