The Greatest Dance/Electronic Album Ever?

Rollo Tamasi

Ok guys,
Strictly no compilations!

Whats the best dance/electronic album you have ever heard? Feel Free to cover all different types of sub genres (House, Deep House, Techno, Ambient, Electro)

I'd like to recommend :
Roni Size -- New Forms (Drum N Bass)
Released in 1997 on Mercury Records

He won the Mercury Music Award that same year. Its absoulutely brilliant!

hefty_langer

leftfield - leftism
prodigy - music for the gilted generation
daft punk - homework
dave clarke - world service

youcancallmeal

Sasha - Airdrawndagger

Loobz

I cant decide tbh, theres so many in my opinion. Heres a few that make me smile. In no particular order:

Leftfield - Rhythm & Stealth
The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation.
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Fatboy Slim - You've Come A Long Way... Baby
Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars
Fatboy Slim - Palookaville

Sorry I couldnt choose just one. Im bending the rules a bit, lol.

Rollo Tamasi

Death in Vegas - The Contino Sessions

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Weird Album, it works thou!!

JoeSchmoe

Orbital - Brown Album,

no question years ahead of it's time, in fact its time haven't even got here yet

radiospan

Prodigy - Experience
2 Many DJs - As Heard on Radio Soulwax Part 2
Daft Punk - Homework
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...

Lenny

I'd go with
2 Many DJs - As Heard on Radio Soulwax Part 2
dave clarke world service (electro cd)

Seanie M

Rollo Tamasi wrote:

Death in Vegas - The Contino Sessions

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Weird Album, it works thou!!

For me, the reason why I bought the album was because of the track Dirge. But, I was disappointed by the album version - I much prefer the single version.

tel922001

irishclubland

kinkstr

tel922001 wrote:

irishclubland

stab stab stab

Prodigy - music for the gilted generation
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
leftfield - rythm and stealth

Rollo Tamasi

tel922001 wrote:

irishclubland

is that a compilation of the best commerical trance that ireland has to offer???

Ah yes, i think i know the one now, doesn't that contain a remix by DJ Shammie of the classic trad song "The Fields of Athenry"?

Pure Bliss!!

Loobz

tel922001 wrote:

irishclubland

Rollo said no compilations at the start of this thread ffs :mad: :mad: :mad:
It wouldnt be so bad if you mentioned a decent compilation, but that piece of horse**** doesnt deserve the sweat from my ballsack, let alone a mention on this thread. :rolleyes:

Prodigy Experience also tbh

John

Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark 1 and 2
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Gary Numan - Replicas
Fennesz - Venice

None of it is dance apart from Prodigy and a couple of tracks off Throbbing Gristle. It's all class though. The Coil albums are essential for anyone with half an interest in electronic music.

eljono

Prodigy - Music for the Gilted Generation

Mauro Picotto - The Others

Dave Clark - World Service

Also, sorry this is kind of a compilation but it's excellent; Armand van Helden - A Mix Oddessey

spyro_2001ie

Anthony Rother - Live Is Life Is Love

zafa

world service is a compilation for all the people who mentioned it

KevIRL

Album

Dimitri from Paris - Sacré Bleu

Mix

Coldcut - Journey's by DJ

Seanie M

John2 wrote:

None of it is dance....

....in electronic music.

Whats the difference!! Its all the same!

Rollo Tamasi

KevIRL wrote:

Dimitri from Paris - Sacré Bleu

I'll have to check that one out KEV, i pursume its Dimitri's own stuff yeah?
I have a few tracks from his "Playboy Mansion" complilation, its a bit hit n miss really IMO. Whats the Sacré Bleu album like? Deep House?

Scubadevils

JoeSchmoe wrote:

Orbital - Brown Album,

no question years ahead of it's time, in fact its time haven't even got here yet

When I saw the thread title it was the first album that came into my head. Fully agree, my all time best.

Some other tops...

Some Other People - Orbitality
Vapourspace - Themes From Vapourspace
Leftfield - Leftism
The Prodigy - Music For the Gilted Generation

And some might debate but anyway...

The Happy Mondays - Pills Thrills & Bellyaches

Plenty more, very hard to list them all!

Cake Fiend

Autechre - Incunabula

Wertz

Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld by The Orb is still one of my all time favourites
Also gonna suggest Screamadelica by Primal Scream too

Someone metioned the brown album....I preferred CD, but almost any Orbital album belongs in this list.

More up to date, Out there and Back by PVD is one I always go back to...may be just me though.
Lastly, have a lot of time for the Mylo album as a whole, though whther we'll be putting it in a list in a decade's time is another thing...

Scubadevils

Forgot about The Orb, how could I! That is an excellent album as is UFORB - back then (I don't think anymore) it came with a bonus disc with loads of mixes of Blue Room. The only other one I bought was The Orb Live '93. Saw them in the Point in '94, that was a great night.

Anima

Finally someone mentioned Autechre

I'll nominate Squarepusher - Feed me weird things. Maybe not his best but I really like it.

Bri

Here's a few:

2 Many DJs - As Heard on Radio Soulwax Part 2
Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation
Chicane - Far From the Maddening Crowds
Faithless - Sunday 8pm
DJ Shadow - Entroducing
Moby - Play
Underworld - Everything, Everything (sorta counts)
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Winx - Left Above the Clouds
BT - Movement in Still Life
Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
Way Out West - Way Out West
Can't remember if The SoundCrowd ever released anything more than 'The Singles' but sure I'll give them that much

Alkers

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
All recorded on Tape and especially considering how old it is, pure class.

Anima

Yeah thats my favourite of the selected ambient works albums.

Scubadevils

Selected Ambient Works was one of my first ever electronic CDs, still love it too.

While I think of them some more bests...

Njoi Live in Manchester - had this on tape for years but got it recently on MP3

Banco De Gaia - 10 years. Brilliant comp of his music.

Unkle - Never Never Land. Have this on CD and vinyl. Vinyl comes in cool picture discs.

John

Anima wrote:

Finally someone mentioned Autechre

I'll nominate Squarepusher - Feed me weird things. Maybe not his best but I really like it.

I was going to put Autechre into my list until I realised I don't actually like any of their albums, their ep's are much stronger.

Can't believe I forgot Squarepusher though.

Christy1

Without mentionin all the albums dat everybody else put up i'd have to go wit....

1. PVD - Politics of Dancing (one of da main reasons is because he puts his own little sound on each track on both cd's and half da tunes on it weren't released for at least a year after....savage album!!)
2. The Streets - Original Pirate Material (an album ill always come to...weak become heroes reminds me everytime i listen to it of bak in da day when i first started goin out takin da badboys..wooop woopp!!! )
3. Air - Moon Safari (what a chillout album!!)

Prob think of more in a while.....

Kingsize

Cant Believe Nobody Has Mentioned Radioactivity (or Anthing Else ) By Kraftwerk So Im Gonna...

radiospan

Simona1986 wrote:

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
All recorded on Tape and especially considering how old it is, pure class.

Yeah I love the tape sound on that album, especially on the first track.

Of his new AFX Analord series, which one do ye think sounds most like SAW 85-92?

carbsy

Every Kraftwerk album to date. But if I had to choose one it would be Trans-Europe Express. /me does the Krafty shuffle...

Rollo Tamasi

nobodys mentioned Daft Punks Homework -- excellent album, it's just a balls that the other two albums are complete toliet

radiospan

I mentioned it! (after I got the idea from someone else's post)

I wouldn't say Discovery is complete toilet.

pa connors

ah now lads sure what'r ye goin on about at all, at all? ha? sure not one a ye mentioned the classic "intergalactick poo" by 'DJ mac buzzin boss' hah? tut a sure jasus! or wha about clubland euphoria ump ta ump ta buzzin like a fridge special edition? where are yes goin like with yer slim boi fat or whateva??? :eek: buzzin man buzzin! xtc ah mad craic at harriers last week hah?

Anima

**** off troll.

No ones that retarded, poor effort.

Rollo Tamasi

plazzTT wrote:

I mentioned it! (after I got the idea from someone else's post)

I wouldn't say Discovery is complete toilet.

Sorry kid, I didn't realize it was mentioned before. As for Discovery (A.K.A Disco-Very, by the way!!), it had its moments (harder better stronger faster & high life) but beside from that it was nowhere near as influential as the debut album. You can't beat genius, not with that album anyway

jonny68

Felixdhc wrote:

The Happy Mondays - Pills Thrills & Bellyaches
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Big time..a classic album......

jonny68

Not forgetting

Orbital Work 1989-2002

Definetly the best dance band ever.......

Scubadevils

Yes, defo Orbital Work. A great one to have on vinyl. I LOVE Frenetic. Kinetic was brilliant too but I love the vocal additions in Frenetic.

Thinking back to their early stuff aswell such as Belfast etc, really is no beating them

POW!

Orbital - Brown Album (Best Album Ever)
Orbital - Snivilisation
DJ Shadow - Private Press
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

Scubadevils

Actually, its not mentioned anywhere yet and I am surprised I forgot -

The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust. Love the way a few of the tracks go into each other and build up. Kinda similar to the Brown Album in that way.

POW!

jonny68 wrote:

Not forgetting

Orbital Work 1989-2002

Definetly the best dance band ever.......

Although Orbital are my favorite band i wasnt happy with this CD i have always found itrs better to put an orbital album on from start of finish, for example remind (my fav song) always sounds better after listening to LUSH 3-1, LUSH3-2 and IMPACT (the earth is burning ) beforehand.
Thats why i wasnt to happy with to compilation and also because illuminate is on it which is by far my least favorite Orbital song.

POW!

Felixdhc wrote:

Actually, its not mentioned anywhere yet and I am surprised I forgot -

The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust. Love the way a few of the tracks go into each other and build up. Kinda similar to the Brown Album in that way.

Nice one.

Lemlin

Daft Punk - Discovery.

Cake Fiend

Christy1 wrote:

wooop woopp!!!

It's da sound of da police...










(sorry)

tman

"Daft Punk - Homework" best of the three albums so far. the acid in da funk still gets me riled up after all these years

"Orbital - Insides" easily my favourite orbital album (i have yet to hear the blue album though)

"The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust" my favourite chems album. absolutely no filler material unlike their newer albums...

"Prodigy - Music..." i've had 3 kilos on repeat play recently. top notch stuff

"FSOL - Accelerator" rediscovered this one recently...

"Leftfield - Leftism" timeless.

a fairly mainstream list... meh

wideangle

prodigy - gilted generation
dj shadow - entroducing
massive attack - blue lines
fsol - lifeforms
beth orthon - trailor park :cool:

wideangle

oh not forgetting the klf and alex patterson - chillout :cool:

ultra rare and made on a day on two decks a sampler and a mixer in a squat in north london!!!! :eek: