Your favourite paradigm-shifting electronic tracks

michael jackson -- "beat it"

public enemy -- "night of the living baseheads"

the hidden track on _experimental jet set, trash, and no star_

sonic youth -- "society is a hole"

kraftwerk -- "metal on metal"

kraftwerk -- "radio-activity" (_the mix_ version)

whatever death squad track he played first when he played ottawa in 1996

john cage -- "haiku fm"

lou reed -- _metal machine music_

third eye foundation -- "ghost"

new order -- "everything's gone green"

my bloody valentine -- "to here knows when"

philip glass -- "two pages"

edgard varese -- "deserts"

terry riley -- _poppy nogood and the phantom band: "all night flight"_

whatever pan sonic track i heard first

terry riley -- "bird of paradise"

steve reich -- "pendulum music"

something from _enter the wu-tang_

ryoji ikeda -- "+/-"

Seeing the video for "Ebeneezer Goode" on Beavis & Butthead got me into music. Period.

After that: Prodigy "Fire" (first hardcore track) Photek "Ni Ten Ichi Ryu" (introduced me to broken beats) FSOL "Expander" (blew my f***ing head off) Juno Reactor "Guardian Angel" (the bassline made me a trance fan) and Transglobal Underground "A Tongue of Flame" (for bringing dub into the equation). Most recent paradigm shift? Texas Faggott, and their country-western meets electrofunk meets psychedelic trance-dance music. Don't know what I'd do without "techno"... ;)

'Fade to Grey'- Visage, 'Ghosts'- Japan, 'Electricity'- OMD, 'Horsepower'- Ravesignal 3, 'Everybody in the Place'- Prodigy, 'Dominator'- Human Resource, 'Mutations EP'- Orbital, Tresor 2 compilation, '28 Gun Bad Boy'- A Guy Called Gerald, 'Enjoy the Silence','Never Let Me Down'- Depeche Mode, '21st Century Party'- Gary Clail, currently listening to Ladytron and Greensleeves Ragga compilation

Okay part 2:

Extra - Ken Ishii, Angel's Fell - Dillinja, Mindweaver - Source Direct (the bassdrop to end all of them), Terrorist - Ray Keith, Dread Bass - Dead Dred (how did I miss it the first post), Playgirl - Ladytron, Der Mussolinni & Ein Bisschen Krieg - D.A.F. One in a Million - Aaliyah, Dominator - Human Resource, Human Behaviour & Joga - Bjork, Gone (remix) - Kruder & Dorfmeister, Do or Die - DJ Strectch

and then you've got your tracks that caused a paradigm shift in retrospect:

Raindance - Herbie Hancock, Rubycon part 1 - Tangerine Dream, Radioactivity - Kraftwerk, I Feel Love - Donna Summer, Your Only Friend & Acid Trax - Phuture, Lost Control - Sleazy D. - Where's your Child - Bam Bam.

I was in awe at at sound of the theme tunes from Rhubarb and Custard, Dr Who, before graduating to slasher movie themes and (gulp) Simple Minds 'Sons and Fascination'

alan licht's take on "polarity."

goodie mob -- "all a's"