Your favourite paradigm-shifting electronic tracks

Allright!!! first of all 'Happy Station' - Fun Fun but let's see after that: 3 A:M Eternal - KLF, Fear is the Mindkiller - Eon, Charly and Everybody in the Place - Prodigy, Thru the Vibe - Omni Trio, Timeless - Goldie, Shadowboxing - Doc Scott, Squadron - Ed Rush, Champion Sound - Total Science, Alive - Daft Punk, Strings of Life - Rhythm is Rhythm, M7 - Maurizio, If it it really is me - Polygon Window, Lush 3-1 - Orbital, Spastik - Plastikman, Pullover - Speedy J, 100% dissin U - Armando, Breathless - Laurent Garnier, At Less - Carl Craig, Music - LTJ Bukem, Seawolf - Underground Resistance, Rock to the Beat - Kevin Saunderson, Starlight - Model 500, The Extremist - Jeff Mills...on & on & on, you get the picture it's really endless :)

Right now I feel my paradigms being shifted by Exit 25's "Geto Booty". Or possibly that's my ass.

OK - my personal eye-openers:

Abba - Lay All Your Love On Me (dancing to pop music is cool. so's throwing shapes to it. Not totally electronic but it's surely a pulsebeat. Not that I cared, at age 7.)

Ultravox - The Collection: arty Euro-austerity plus modernist synth aesthetic. I was impressionable.

The Pet Shop Boys - First 2 albums. Whoa, synth music can be physical too. Piss off Ultravox.

The KLF - What Time Is Love? / The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds / The Shamen - Pro-Gen - revolution in the head, etc. etc. etc. You know the story by now I'm sure.

The Prodigy - Out Of Space: a useful reminder after a year spent spacing out with ambient.

Mega City 2 - Darker Side Of Evil / Hyper-On Experience - Lords Of The Null Lines / DJ Crystl - Warpdrive: gradual turn from oh-this-is- interesting to fucking-hell.

X-102 Discovers The Rings Of Saturn: re-introduction to techno, still mostly unexplored alas.

Whichever Panasonic track I heard first, swiftly followed by Ryoji Ikeda's "Headphonics".

Alec Empire - The Peak: hey! drill and bass can be good!

The Chemical Brothers - The Private Psychedelic Reel: hey! big beat can be good!

Y Tribe - Enough Is Enough: hey! garage can be great! (Thanks Tim!)

Current eyes still being opened - the OHM box set leading me back to the roots, DJ Assault and Luther Campbell leading me bottom-first into bass.

My head-first plunge into the joys of electronic music can be traced through the following tracks:

The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Tour de France - Kraftwerk
All The Critics Love U In New York - Prince
Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S
Dog Star Man/Helter Skelter - Meat Beat Manifesto
Big Car - Severed Heads
Weekend - Dick
Pro-Gen - Shamen
Charly - The Prodigy
Anasthesia - T99
Mindcontroller - 80 AUM
The Green Man - Shut Up And Dance
O Fortuna - Apotheosis
Close Your Eyes - Acen
On - Aphex Twin
Sad But True - Orbital
Plastic Dreams - Jaydee
Coopers World - Squarepusher
Ni Ti Ichi Ryu - Photek
I'm Losing U - Panacea

There are others...

To pluck a few from thin air: 91 / 92 hardcore originally when I was a pop kid. Underworld's "Dubnobasswithmyheadman" opened my mind at an impressionable age but I'd probably hate it now, while Stereolab led me towards another territory altogether. Too wide a question to answer in one go.

I always knew Tom couldn't tell his paradigms from his ass. :)

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"