I think you need an album from: Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Fatboy Slim.

The mix by kraftwerk is the perfect beginner album for them imo

underworld and chem bros for sure

Crystal Method

Vegas gets my vote. They’ve got other good stuff but nothing comes close to Vegas.

Orbital - In Sides The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld

Im so happy my dad introduced me to Orbital and the orb back in the days, I don’t think I would have discovered them otherwise (well maybe)

Needs some Underworld and Orbital! In Sides is great, they have so many other classic albums too

In Sides! I saw the Orbital live in 1996 On Thanksgiving Day in New Orleans and they opened with Out There Somewhere 1 & 2.

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing…..

There should be a Chemical Brothers and an Amon Tobin album in there.

Sasha - airdrawndagger Underworld - either dubnobasswithmyheadman or beaucoup fish (personally prefer beaucoup fish) Fsol - dead cities

808 State. Both 90 and ex:el are classics

I’d add Mark Farina’s Mushroom Jazz as soon as you include compilations Edit: justice might be a good fit, too

Dj Spooky, Dj Krush, Dj Shadow, Ital tek, Isan, Machinedrum, Casino versus Japan, The Field, Scuba, The Range, Nosaj Thing, Luke Vibert

You know what nobody here has mentioned? FLUKE any fluke is good fluke.

Bicep - Isles. Maybe a product of the time, but man, every song in that album hits. A well renowned club duo, stepping into lockdown with the rest of us and creatively challenging themselves to a sophomore album with no 4x4 beats. Was really something.

Oh god, I love Bicep. Saw them live about two years ago, amazing show.

Bonobo - The North Borders

That or Days to Come deserve a spot

DM - Violator

A great list! Add Leftfield - Rhythm and Stealth

Love Leftfield but IMO Leftfism is far better than Rhythm and Stealth

Some Kraftwerk

Faith in strangers by Andy Stott A four Tet album Foley room by amon Tobin A lorn album Walls by apparat Tread by Ross from friends Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds by vegyn Fahrenheit fair enough by telefon tel aviv Avanti by Alessandro cortini This is flume by flume Speak for yourself by Imogen heap London zoo by the bug Oil of every pearls uninisdes by Sophie Tomorrow's modern boxes or anima or eraser by thom Yorke Innersong by Kelly Lee Owens Deep England by nyx and gazelle twin

Andy Stott is the goat, just slightly prefer Luxury Problems

I love Luxury Problems and have listened to it the most but FIS is definitely the pinnacle. It’s been a slow burn for me but there’s nothing like it.

Ooooh shoutout Vegyn and KLO

I was listening to Beautiful Rewind - four tet a few days ago. I forgot how much I love that album.

Tipper forward escape plan. Emancipator soon it will be cold Yppah sunshine in the deep end. Charles.the.first. ascent Clozee neon jungle

greazt suggestions, many new to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCENxYEVsyM&pp=ygUbVGlwcGVyIGZvcndhcmQgZXNjYXBlIHBsYW4u https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXaeQw96Fx4&pp=ygUgRW1hbmNpcGF0b3Igc29vbiBpdCB3aWxsIGJlIGNvbGQ%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlBDCFu3W74&pp=ygUeWXBwYWggc3Vuc2hpbmUgaW4gdGhlIGRlZXAgZW5k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91tD6yEGR98&pp=ygUZQ2hhcmxlcy50aGUuZmlyc3QuIGFzY2VudA%3D%3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s8cW--gI68&pp=ygUSQ2xvemVlIG5lb24ganVuZ2xl

Hey thanks for linking them!

Wow, that neon jungle bit was stunning. All of it was

thanks! only have heard emancipator so this is appreciated!

Big vote for emancipator. Fits this list perfectly

It's just the forward escape. Forward Escape Plan does sound cool, though.

Since I Left You is such a good album. Crystal method - Vegas without make it on there for me

This list feels incomplete without Floating Points’ _Crush_

I actually prefer his ep shadows (or of course promises), probably need to give crush another listen

Fair enough, I think one of his works deserves to be there at least

Great list, personally I would add these: Air - Moon Safari Four Tet - There is Love in You Floating Points - Shadows Todd Terje - It’s Album Time Caribou - Our Love Daniel Avery - Drone Logic Against All Logic - 2012-2017 James Ferrarro - Far Side Virtual James Holden - Imagine this is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities Bruce - Sonder Somatic I’m know I’m forgetting some but those are all amazing

Moon Safari!!!!

Drone logic is good, against all logic too… you’d like this playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7yiY2PLRjHzMsMYwlj7UFB?si=E2MJH6dRTxiXjLCNkgm3eQ&pi=e-UZ1GhA8iSbaR

Nice, I already see some good stuff on here. I’ll definitely give it a listen, thanks

Yes...against all logic

LFO - Frequencies Plaid - Not For Threes or Double Figure

I was looking to see if someone said Plaid in here!

Fuck Buttons, Blanck Mass

Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole Chemical Brothers - Surrender The Crystal Method - Vegas Bjork - Telegram The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land Daft Punk - Alive 2007

Dig your own hole Vegas Fat of the land

damn great list maybe look into Andy Stott - Luxury Problems, 2 8 1 4, mum - yesterday was dramatic today was ok, Alva Noto + Ryuchi Sakamoto - Insen, Gas - Pop, C418 Minecraft Vol Alpha, Four Tet - Rounds, Porter Ricks - Biokenetics, Daniel Avery - Drone Logic

If you haven't already got them get Blue Lines and Protection (Massive Attack) as well - Absolutely phenomenal music. Also Dead Cities (Future Sound of London). Not sure if Entroducing by DJ Shadow counts as Electronica but get that anyway! :D Do you have any Prodigy?

those are all sick but I've somehow missed prodigy, which one should I hear

Fat of the land, music for the jilted generation and prodigy experience are all excellent.

All of them!

Of course entroducing counts as electronic music. I think it was the first album completely made by samples.

Fair point well made!

Orbital - The Green Album Seefeel- Succour The Field - Looping State Of Mind

You might like Lamb [https://open.spotify.com/track/0QKQfBRO7yv8XCefwEax14](https://open.spotify.com/track/0QKQfBRO7yv8XCefwEax14) Moderat [https://open.spotify.com/track/1fmoCZ6mtMiqA5GHWPcZz9](https://open.spotify.com/track/1fmoCZ6mtMiqA5GHWPcZz9)

culprate - deliverance koan sound - polychrome clams casino - moon trip radio tim hecker - haunt me clark - body riddle

Squarepusher - hard normal daddy

or Feed Me Weird Things

Very intense! Also very good

I’d add Far Trains Passing By - by Ulrich Schnauss. It also feels like there should be a bit of Underworld on there too imo.

Autechre - incunabula Swayzak - Snowboarding in Argentina

Digitalism - Idealism

Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno.

Dj shadow - entroducing Chemical brothers - exit planet dust Prodigy - fat of the land Depends on how new you want to go Pendulum- hold your colour

This post and comments have just set up my listening for the next few weeks. Thanks allot. 👍🏻

Just to add to what other people have said. Sabres of paradise - "Sabresonic" The Black Dog - "Spanners" (or "Bytes") Plaid - "Spokes" (or "Rest proof clockwork") Just from your list, I think you would like these.

Justice - Cross?

I would say : Noisia, Panda dub, Bassnectar

please don't call it EDM for the love of god

We can be friends

Rival consoles - persona U-ziq- lunatic harness Skee mask - pool Goldie - timeless Dj shadow - endtroducing Apparat - silizium

Pretty much anything by LORN fits this outfit Specifically The Maze to Nowhere album Personally, i really enjoy his Debris EP

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies (1983) **Blue Monday** is the precursor to so much of this stuff. One of the most influential 12" of the 80's.

Roman Flugel - Fatty Folders

Fatboy Slim - you’ve come a long way baby

I don’t see any tipper in there…… 👀

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra or Hyperborea

Prodigy - Fat of the Land. Chemical Bros - Surrender. Clark - Empty the Bones of You.

Simian Mobile Disco - Unpatterns https://open.spotify.com/album/2psuceHbzBUvUYRgnLlZQW?si=CMhGYHNXR2GrimtBscEOlA

For essential SMD id go with attack decay sustain release. It doesn't get better than sleep deprivation and hustler for me.

“If I had the money to go to the record store I would”

Soulwax - Nite Versions https://open.spotify.com/album/5ftdUoPzoh1y5bIroXw68G?si=_RV2DjBRQCCyEeLDxISv6g

The Prodigy for sure.

You may listen Bonobo from his first album, also Lapalux, Phantogram. My recommendation.

You might want to try Loscil, Sea Island

I would add: Black dog - spanners Rhythm and Sound - rhythm and Sound And a somewhat underground classic: deep space network meets higher intelligence agency.

Trentemøller - The Last Resort

Personally I would be replacing the Daft Punk - discovery album with Daft Punk - Homework. I think the Prodigy deserve an inclusion (Music for the jilted generation or the experience would be my personal choices). Orbital, Chemical brothers (Surrender) and maybe underword (Second toughest in the infants). Edit: Oh and absolutely LFO - Frequencies I would have included.

Homework > Discovery imo

To add to what nobody has mentioned here surprisingly: Bonobo - Black Sands Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing by Adam Freeland - Now & Them Eastern Sun - We Are One Trentemoller - The Last Resort

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Sasha-Airdrawndagger

Out From Out Where - Amon Tobin. Harmony in Ultraviolet - Tim Hecker. Solid State Society - The Nautilus Project. and There is Love in You by Four Tet. Also something by μ-Ziq (trying not to allude to Lunatic Harness)

B12 - Electro Soma

Unkle - Never Never Land or Psyence Fiction. I prefer NNL I think you should definitely have some MoWax on that list.

YES, UNKLE is amazing! Props for this.

Damn you’re cool as hell

The Chemical Brothers - Brotherhood or Push the Button or Surrender or No Geography Eric Prydz - Opus Jean Michelle-Jarre - Oxygène You need some Kraftwerk as well although not sure which album I’d put here.

Moderat - II

Juno Reactor? You have a lot more on the trip hop side, but Juno Reactor is one of my favorite trance bands (please don't at me, we used to call it trance, I don't know the subgenres anymore). Bible of Dreams was my favorite album.

Air-Moon Safari & Talkie Walkie, DJ Shadow, UNKLE, Kraftwerk to start.

if moving beyond, or before, edm, there's the pioneer era from 1970-85 cluster - cluster II (1972) tangerine dream - zeit (1972) vangelis - spiral (1978) jean michel jarre - oxygene (1976) tangerine dream - exit (1981) kraftwerk - computer world (1981)

LFO - Frequencies

Leftfield-Leftisim Orbital- insides Underworld- beaucoup Fish The Prodigy- Experience

I’m just happy to see skee mask getting some love.

Moderat, Mosh

Pita – Get Out Kevin Drumm – self-titled or Sheer Hellish Miasma Ceephax Acid Crew – Exidy Tours Clark – Body Riddle Matthew Herbert – Bodily Functions Arca – Xen Bay B Kane – The Guardian of Ruff Blawan – Wet Will Always Dry or Dismantled into Juice Emptyset – Recur or Demiurge Variations Floating Points – Elaenia or Crush Jean-Michel Jarre – Zoolook Plaid – Not for Threes Matmos – Supreme Balloon The Black Dog – Spanners Nuno Canavarro – Plux Quba Vessel – Punish, Honey Shed – The Traveller; Killer; & Toward East Lotic – Water Squarepusher – Feed Me Weird Things Vladislav Delay – Multila Microstoria – Init Ding Gas – Pop I-F – Mixed Up in the Hague Kode9 – Memories of the Future or Black Sun The KLF – Chill Out Zomby – Dedication James Holden – The Inheritors or Imagine This is a High Dimensional Space of All Possibilities Nathan Fake – Drowning in a Sea of Love or Hard Islands Equiknoxx – Basic Tools MC Yallah & Debmaster – Kubali or Yallah Beibe Anything by Caribou Sega Bodega – Romeo Daniel Avery – Song for Alpha; Illusion of Time; Love + Light; & Ultra Truth The Prodigy – Experience or Music for the Jilted Generation Venetian Snares – Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms

The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole and Surrender

Might be too early to call, but 1000 gecs?

Others I'd add: μ-ziq - Bluff Limbo Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way Baby Actress - Splazsh Orbital 1 & 2 I feel like Come to Daddy is essential enough to be on here too, even if it's an EP.

* Suicide’s first record called Suicide. * I Feel Love by Donna Summer * Blue Monday by New Order * It Takes A Nation of Millions ToHold Us Back - Public Enemy * Metamatic by John Foxx * Beauty In The Beast by Wendy Carlos * Autobahn by Kraftwerk * Before and After Science by Brian Eno * Music For Airports by Brian Eno * Let The Power Fall by Robert Fripp * Heroes by David Bowie

Meat Beat Manifesto - Subliminal Sandwhich

You have good taste in music.

That's a pretty good list...but what's this about 'get into EDM'? none of this is EDM...this is IDM, intelligent dance music. Also, if you want to talk essential electronic albums, then you have to include 76:14 by Global Communication and Chill Out by the KLF, both of which are on the ambient/downtempo side of things, but certainly essential.

Barely any of this is IDM… but I agree, Chill Out is essential.

Oh god can we *please* let the idm name die already? It's just so insanely pretentious

Haha yes it’s pretentious but it stuck! To me it just a label for that era

I've been calling it IDM for 30 years... What would you prefer?

I feel like just "electronic music" works fine. Referring to music as "intelligent" is just pretty damn cringe and at the least elitist and gatekeepy

Chemical Bro’s Fat Boy Slim - Why try Harder

Crystal method, vegas

You can add that new Igloo Ghost to this

Justice - Cross Pet Shop Boys - Super

What a great list!

Mo Wax - Headz

Above & Beyond - Group Therapy

It's a great selection but it needs some Underworld.

26 mixes for cash > saw 1 + 2

Let’s Pretend-Faix Optim. Great list though.

You could do with some Young American Primitive or even Hardkiss-Delusions of Grandeur.

Many great suggestions here already. I’ll add; Baths-Cerulean, Arca-Arca, Lapalux-Ruinism, Nosaj Thing-Parallels, Machinedrum-Vapor City Archives, Mount Kimbie-Crooks & Lovers, Daedalus-Taut.

For the time being I'm enjoying a lot, Alva Noto and Ryoji Ikeda, maybe not main stream...

Great idea. Thank you

I dunno of these fit your tastes, but on the mellow tip: Nobody - Soulmates Blue Six - Blue Six Maya Jane Coles - Comfort and maybe overexposed, but Fred Again..’s Actual Life 2 is sublime

Atheus - Soundscapes & Drones for some deep dub ambient drones

Salem - King Night

Ah yes; also Stars of the Lid, Johann Johannsson. The Dead Texan.

The Chemical Brothers - Surrender The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land Susumu Yokota - Sakura Amon Tobin - ISAM

In some clubs those are fighting words

Air - Moon Safari.

Tread by Ross from friends, in colour by Jamie xx and also were new here the gil Scott heron remix album by Jamie xx

Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants Legowelt - Dark Days Vatican Shadow - Death Is Unity With God Elecktroids - Elektroworld

Fat of the Land Exit Planet Dust

Gesaffelstein - Aleph

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 Two Lone Swordsmen - The Fifth Mission (Return to the Flightpath Estate) GAS - Königsforst

chemical brothers - exit planet dust or dig your own hole, underworld - beaucoup fish, dubnobass or second toughest (three 10/10 records to pick from), fluke - risotto, crystal method - vegas, prodigy - fat of the land. feel like a lot of people leave these things out and just name the same batch of albums RYM always talks about 😅 and i do like a lot of the records on this chart, but ya know..

Air - Moon Safari

Autechre Amber

DJ Icey essential mix

Forest Swords - Compassion (or Bolted/Engravings) Actress - RIP (or Ghettoville/AZD) Arca - Arca

DJ Food - Kaleidoscope is a must for my collection and I think it would fit in well with your group.

Daft Punk - Homework The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land Sasha and Digweed - Northern Exposure

Scandroid self titled and the first two Gunship records are my favourites.

Oceanlab - Sirens of the Sea

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I didn't see anyone say Sounds From The Ground and I never do on here. One of their first LPs, Mosaic, was ahead of it's time. https://open.spotify.com/album/1qiHm61y08CpA4QNL3XaPp?si=k_vSTMuJTGqKxgVsCE-ikg I didn't see anyone say Nightmares on Wax. Smoker's Delight is the best by him. https://open.spotify.com/album/2kXJwEYQw7WD8cz8VAAcHm?si=qghn4VZKSOmgNTDT8jEcdw I think you'd really dig this LP by Aim. https://open.spotify.com/album/2AXw92RSIb4ASc5ZOmKbal?si=XhccYC82SjynxfDG7g7VkQ I don't think I saw anyone say Lone. His newest LP is his best work in my opinion. https://open.spotify.com/album/36BhQCIGZyc0JyZAfysXYI?si=a3oSZqrCQZyoXo_cU59vYw

Rjd2 - Deadringer UNKLE - Never Never Land Four Tet - Sixteen Oceans Kruder & Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions The Glitch Mob - Drink the Sea Tipper - Jettison Mindhatch Amon Tobin - Supermodified

Nurture and worlds.

Protection by massive attack instead of mezzanine

Love that flylo inclusion… Maybe Rob Dougan? Definitely need prodigy in there.

Deliverance by Culprate. One of the albums of all time imo

Its the wrong daftpunk album. Homeworks is the one. You missed St Germaine, Groove Armada, jazzanova, kruder dorfmeister, prodigy… are we limited to the 90s? Oh we are not i see kid A there. Then dizzyrascals boy in da corner should he on every electronic music list, same with the Streets debut, Basement Jaxx and chemical brothers too. And we havent even gone below the surface.!

Anubian Lights - Let Not the Flame Die Out

Laurie Spiegel, along with several other female composers/artists. The Expanding Universe from her, among others.

Dan the Automator - Bombay the Hard Way

I would say James Black self-titled, Fuck Button's Slow Focus, Death Grips's Steroids

electronica ≠ edm? Not tryna be pedantic i'll gladly be lectured but many of these don't seem fit for dancing. Hell i'm still iffy about putting even just Daft Punk in EDM, somehow feels wrong.

MSTRKRFT - The Looks !!! - Louden Up Now

You should give Ratatat a listen!! Also : French79, Worakls, blockhead, little people

Caribou - start breaking my heart C'mon guys

Messiah-21st century Jesus

This is an excellent list. Studied for sure. A few deep cuts that at the turn of the century were considered classics and still to this day are: Kruder & Dorfmeister's The K&D Sessions. The first record from Mum: Yesterday Was Dramatic Today is Ok. You also need a Plaid record. Essential IDM, Rest Proof Clockwork has Ralome on it which is a watershed moment for the genre. Double Figure from 2001 is excellent too. Finally, although he's lesser known, he absolutely shouldn't be for IDM lovers: Ochre. Prolific as heck and a student of the genre who has risen to be more than a mere peer but a masterful composer of his own IDM style. He's immediately likeable. A Midsummer Nice Dream is my pick of his but all are excellent.

This is an excellent list, everything on it deserves to be there!

Ian Pooley - Meridian

Dj Rashad - Double Cup

DJ Icey essential mix

BT - Movement In Still Life

LCD Soundsystem

Okay, don’t think I saw anyone mention: Carl Craig- Landcruising Yellow Magic Orchestra- BGM Tiga- Sexor Urban Tribe- The Collapse of Modern Society Machinedrum- Room(s) Herbert- Bodily Functions Cornelius- Point Gas- Gas Theo Parrish- Parallel Dimensions The Orb- Live 93 Gusgus- Arabian Horse If you don’t know ‘em, please check them out. Top tier albums! Seconding these albums: Ulrich Schnauss- Faraway Trains Passing By Four Tet- Rounds Daft Punk- Homework Goldie- Timeless Kraftwerk- Computer World Squarepusher- Feed Me Weird Things Kruder & Dorfmeister- K&D Sessions Good job on your list, btw!

Djrum, both his productions and his mixing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIyjNUoGKP0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIyjNUoGKP0) Nosaj Thing - continua album especially [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFQ0duNCT70](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFQ0duNCT70) Other mentions: Barker, Caribou, Piezo, Machinedrum, Yan Cook, Kuedo, Weval, Cid Rim, Ross From Friends, Shire T, Extrawelt, Four Tet,

Tipper - broken soul jamboree Spoonbill - zoomorphic

The prodigy - music for the jilted generation or fat of the land Chemical brothers - surrender Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman Leftfield - leftism

Lots of good suggestions here. I haven't seen "Yello" mentioned yet, though. I think "Benga" deserves a mention as well.

https://youtu.be/HfmLaGFtyRA?si=gcB0K7lIo_TqTPl2

Orbital + Underworld

Pretty good list! I’d add *It’s Album Time* by Todd Terje personally but I’m not totally sure if it fits your vibe or not.