[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Here's something to spark some much needed > critical analysis on this list: if you had to name > the > fifty best AND most important electronic CD's of > the past 25-odd years, what would they be?
Well that's something to contemplate because most of the important electronic/ classical electronic music from the 60's and 70's made its impact when it was released on vinyl. > Here are my picks. I've been working on this for a > while; believe me, I have considered most albums > people are going to point out are absent. However, > I'd love to discuss why you think that record is > important. Techno: The Future Sound Of Detroit! (Virgin/10) is probably the most important electronic music CD to come out of Detroit. Your list also lack's some important CD's from the early 90's like 808 State Album 90 (ZTT), LFO Frequencies (Warp), Blueprints for Modern Technology (Plus 8), the Artificial Intelligence comps are way more important then some of the idm names on your list. Oh yeah, and there's that From Beyond comp on IDT that I'm not that crazy about. I'm getting real sick and tired of "electro" and early 80's nostalgia. If you people want to be nostalgic try and make something that sounds like Mike Dunn - Magic Feet. Not as easy as using that 808 break beat formula huh? my .02, stephen. > I can defend my decisions. > > -- > > Aphex Twin: Selected Ambient Works, Volume 2 (Warp) > Autechre: Chiastic Slide (Warp) > Balil: Parasight (Rising High) > Basic Channel (BCP/EFA) > Biosphere: Substrata (All Saints) > Boards of Canada: Music Has the Right to Children > (Matador/Warp/Skam) > Brian Eno: Ambient 1 - Music For Airports (EG) > Brian Eno & Harold Budd: Ambient 2 - The Plateaux of > Mirrors (EG) > B12: Electro-Soma (Warp/AI) > B12: Prelude Part 1 (B12) > Claude Young: DJ Kicks (Stud!o K7) > Carl Craig: Landcruising (Blanco Y Negro) > Derrick May: Innovator (Transmat) > Derrick May: Mix-Up, Volume 5 (Sony Japan) > Detroit Escalator Co.: Soundtrack [313] (Ferox) > Dettinger: Intershop (Kompakt) > DJ Rolando: The Aztec Mystic Mix (Underground > Resistance) > DJ Shadow: Endtroducing (Mo'Wax) > Fumiya Tanaka: I Am Not a DJ (Sony Japan) > Fumiya Tanaka: Mix-Up, Volume 4 (Sony Japan) > Future Sound of London: Lifeforms (Astralwerks) > Gas: Pop (Mille Plateaux) > Giorgio Moroder: From Here to Eternity (Repertoire) > Global Communication: 76:14 (Dedicated) > Harold Budd w/Brian Eno: The Pearl (EG) > I-F: Mixed Up in the Hague, Volume 1 (Panama) > Isolee: Rest (Playhouse) > Jeff Mills: Live at the Liquid Room, Tokyo (React) > John Beltran: Earth & Nightfall (R&S/Distance) > Kraftwerk: Autobahn (EMI) > Kraftwerk: Trans-Europe Express (Capitol) > Kruder & Dorfmeister: The K&D Sessions (Stud!o K7) > Monolake: Interstate (ml/i) > Moodymann: A Silent Introduction (Planet E) > Negativland: U2 (SST) > Paperclip People: The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich > (Planet E) > Pete Namlook: Air I&II (Instinct) > Placid Angels: The Cry (Peacefrog) > Plug: Drum 'n' Bass For Papa (Nothing/Blue Planet) > Reload: A Collection of Short Stories (Infonet) > Sterac: The Secret Life of Machines (100% Pure) > Tangerine Dream: Phaedra (Virgin) > Tangerine Dream: Rubycon (Virgin) > Terrence Parker: Tragedies of a Plastic Soul Junkie > (Stud!o K7) > Tetsu Inoue: World Receiver (Instinct) > The KLF: Chill Out (TVT/Wax Trax) > The Martian: LBK-6251876 (Red Planet) > Theo Parrish: Sound Signature Sounds (Sound > Signature) > The Orb's Adventures Through the Ultraworld (Island) > The Philosophy of Sound and Machine (A.R.T./Rephlex) > Underground Resistance: Revolution For Change > (Network) > > -- > > This list is _far_ from finished. > > I haven't gotten these CD's yet, that will in all > probability make > it on and replace less potent discs: > > Dettinger: Oasis > Thomas Brinkmann: Rosa > Moodymann: Forevernevermore > Jedi Knights retrospective > > So, of course, as good albums appear, I will update > this, although > new releases would have to be something else to > break through > with CD's of the above caliber. Also, I am not sure > whether > Drexciya's "The Quest" should be included....if > anyone has a good > argument either way, let's talk. > > Matt >
