Most important electronic albums of the last 5 years

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The subject is pretty self-explanitory, I'm thinking. I'm doing a paper on emerging trends in electronic music and how they look to shape future electronic music, and some input (and hopefully, consensus!) on some of the more important recent albums would be nice.

Influence is the main factor, but innovation is important as well. I'm going to try and avoid singles as that is a bottomless pit of searching that I don't feel like confornting just yet(I've been putting off work on this paper for a bit now).

All genres are applicable, from dance to avant garde pieces.

― original bgm, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thanks!

― original bgm, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Huh huh. He said "consensus."

― charlie va, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My two cents worth:

1. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children. Both influential and innovative.

2. Kid 606 - Down With the Scene. Not everyone's cup of tea - hell, not even mine all the time - but a step away from anality in IDM, and for that, very influential.

3. Luomo - Vocalcity. Certainly makes a case for microhouse as the current most exciting dance genre.

4. Daft Punk - Homework.

5. Modulations and Transformations 4 (Mille Plateaux compilation). I guess glitch is on its way out or whatever, but this is a strong, strong, quite varied collection (thanks, Mark R.!). Notable also for attempting to unify artists by a common "spirit" (or underlying philosophy, at least seen as such by MP) rather than by a common sound.

― Clarke B., Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Influence is the main factor

MARK S TO THREAD.

― jess, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

hahahahanyway.

vocalcity
"space invaders are smoking grass"
that goddamn kid606 nwa remix
"bound 4 da reload"
"a stroke of genius"

― jess, Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is it me, Jess, or is that NWA remix gonna provoke a "turn that the fuck OFF" response for most everyone in, oh, a couple of years? (Not that that should matter much if you like it, still...)

― Clarke B., Monday, 22 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'd say Vladislav Delay's Entain is more noteworthy than < i>Vocalcity, even if it's not as good.

Also, let's hope Herbert's Let's All Make Mistakes mix leaves some sort of mark. Dear god, pleazzzz.

― Andy, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Warp 10+3 - Remixes Fennesz - Endless Summer Max Tundra - Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be Headz 2A+2B Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

― http://gygax.pitas.com, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Warp 10+3 - Remixes
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Max Tundra - Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be
Headz 2A+2B
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

― http://gygax.pitas.com, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Let me take this opportunity to ask, what defines 'microhouse' as a style? (as a neutral observer, I'm usually amused by the genre-splintering in dance music, but I really do want to know)

― Jordan, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

tracks paired down to extremes ("rhythm, soul, and silence" as the coiner of the term microhouse put it) or tracks using lots of little sounds. sometimes neither, sometimes both at once. it's really one of those "i know what that word means, but i can't accurately define it like Mr. Webster" genres.

― jess, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I think I will like that Kid606 NWA mix until the day I die. A shame nothing else remotely as good has emerged using the same modus operandi.

― Tom, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

So, would the Luomo album be the (current) defining microhouse album? It seems to be the most cited and about the only other albums on a similar scale that readily come to mind are a few of the Kompakt comps. Experimental artists introducing more pop elements into their sound is going to play a big role in my paper and Luomo seems about perfect for that. Fennesz even.

I wasn't even thinking about the Tigerbeat6 releases as they aren't really my thing, but the label probably has been influential enough to be included. I think Down With the Scene was on Mike Patton's Ipecac label, but close enough.

I don't really understand the consensus post, but hey.

― original bgm, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't have much problem with most the nominees so far, but am I the only one who finds Nobukazu Takemura's Scope album one of the Most Ravishingly Beautiful Electronic Albums of the Last Five Years, if not necessarily the Most Important?

― Lee G, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Panacea's Low Profile Darkness is one of those albums that I seem to hear in everything since. Maybe the most brutal bass heavy jungle album ever. Grrrr.

― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jazzanova - In Between.

― Johan, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Panacea's Low Profile Darkness

Oh, HELL YES!!!! Does Atari Teenage Riot fall into this timeframe, too?

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

sorry, but you probably have to put "dig your own hole" (or exit planet dust i guess) on the list.

― g, Tuesday, 23 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I guess Atari Teenage Riot would fit in, since their last album was a '99 release. But did they really carry that much influence? I don't hear that sound in too many other bands, but I can't say I've really looked into them either.

― original bgm, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Well, there were several years there where the entire DHR posse looked like it was going to take over the world. I'd say that a good amount of the current electro and glitch stuff I hear now is reminiscent of DHR suff minus the feedback and speed.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The buzz around that last ATR album was pretty big, from what I remember. They somehow even got on the Spawn movie soundtrack! (what an awful movie)

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― original bgm, Wednesday, 24 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

fx randomiz - stuff; blechtum from blechdom - things; soul center III; microstoria :model2 step 3; cher :believe. not fuckin'fennesz (god that is STILL such a dull album - what next ? Pita attempts a career / sales coup by reappropriating the mantovani orchestra?) microhouse is a journalist who needs to pay bills

― bob snoom, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Second the Cher.

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

We can guess at albums that might have caused music-makers to say to themselves, "I want to make something like that!" Such as,

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right... (for obvious reasons, much current IDM built around this album, for better or worse)
Something by Timbaland (have to defer to others on this)
Herbert - Around the House (this branch of experimental house will continue to blossom)
Gas - Pop (shaped one direction of Kompakt, which will continue to grow)
Something to do w/ French house, whether Daft Punk or the guy who produced Madonna's "Music," for bringing in fun, goofy disco, vocoder, etc.

― Mark, Thursday, 25 April 2002 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

five months pass...

Gahhh! Endless Summer is in no way whatsoever a dull album. And I am easily bored by most electronic music.

― Justin M (Justin M), Friday, 18 October 2002 23:52 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Daft Punk - Discovery
2. Daft Punk - Discovery
3. Daft Punk - Discovery
4. Daft Punk - Discovery
5. Daft Punk - Discovery

Oh shit, it's "of the last 5 years" not "most important 5 albums". EPPURE SE MUOVE.

― Dan I., Saturday, 19 October 2002 06:41 (twenty-three years ago)

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