Yotimi: Electronic Heaven

Yotimi 05.21.11	100/100 artwork, beautiful. Now I can be like Dev and link people to this for recs. Give me one good rec if you got it.
robertsona 05.21.11	tangerine dream - phaedra!
ButcheredChildren 05.21.11	this is one giant summary of all the socially acceptable electronic music on sputnik.
pizzamachine 05.21.11	Pretty much.
Yotimi 05.21.11	except 8,19,20,22,26,27,28,30,34,36,37,38,41,52,58,65,70,77,78,82,94,97,98 which don't get much love around here
pizzamachine 05.21.11	Haha good point sir.
Grimlin 05.21.11	space ghost - wallflower
vmcoia91 05.21.11	aweosme list. I'll most certainly check some of these albums out.
FelixCulpa 05.21.11	Sweet list. You should check out The Boats - Songs by the Sea. And I know you said one good rec but I just thought of another, Jogger - This great pressure
luci 05.21.11	Oh my god this is great. I'll be referring back to it frequently. Well done.
Baphomet 05.21.11	life needs moar Kashiwa Daisuke
Satellite 05.21.11	fucking awesome
AggravatedYeti 05.21.11	YES.
AngelofDeath 05.21.11	Great list. Only heard about 60%, so I'll be sure and check out a few of these at some point. Mods should feature this, but I doubt they will.
Calculate 05.21.11	whats 43 doin on here?
Yotimi 05.21.11	Thanks guys. Picked up a few of these recs and they sound promising. @Calculte - what do you mean?
Vesper 05.21.11	My religion professor got me onto 9, haha. And Justice's "Genesis" is seriously the best song to wake up to. This is great, though - I'll be going through the ones I don't know.
luci 05.21.11	Calculate was probably implying that it's a hip hop album not an electronic album. Also why is Tri Repetae so low?? That album is blowing my mind right now.
PlaygroundFading 05.22.11	dont really need to point out the bad ones bc theres plenty of good ones here to balance them out... nice list
PlaygroundFading 05.22.11	also thanks for including 52 it's so often overlooked on here
sifFlammable 05.22.11	Radiohead = Electronic?
Deathcar 05.22.11	The stuff i've heard of this is awesome, i'll check the rest out. And you have Stendeck, I love you. What do you think of his new one? I think I prefer it tbh. Check out: Son Lux - We Are Rising (Future R&B/Minimal) Desolate - The Invisible Insurrection (Burialesque Dubstep) Swarms - Old Raves End (Just listen) Arms and Sleepers - The Organ Hearts (Trip-Hop/Ambient)
Satellite 05.22.11	"Radiohead = Electronic?" siflammable = never heard kid a or amnesiac?
PlaygroundFading 05.22.11	Radiohead = pop punk with electronic influences (they're kinda like cobra starship)
Deviant. 05.22.11	"this is one giant summary of all the socially acceptable electronic music on sputnik." God, you're a twat "Desolate - The Invisible Insurrection (Burialesque Dubstep)" Not actually dubstep
Yotimi 05.22.11	Got all those Deathcar. Good call on Desolate though, it's great. I'd still call Donuts an electronic album. Hip-Hop yeah, but it's mainly beats and samples.
Deviant. 05.22.11	Teebs - Ardour Late - Phantom Papers 2562 - Fever Mono/Poly - Paramatma Icicle - Under The Ice Kromestar - Colourful Virations Clubroot - II-MMX Moon Bounce - Darn Your Best Frock Lorn - Nothing Else Brokenchord - Bluestar Eleven Tigers - Clouds Are Mountains Lorn - Nothing Else VVV - The Projects Kavsrave - Quotes Scuba - Triangulation Xxxy - Every Step Forward FaltyDL - You Stand Uncertain Jacques Greene - Another Girl Sorrow - Existence Submerse - Streams TOKiMONSTA - Midnight Menu
Yotimi 05.22.11	I don't have a few of those, I'll make sure to check them out. Not that you have a credible opinion or anything.
mothercountry 05.22.11	this is gonna get featured so hard, great work.
Spec 05.22.11	Featured so hard.
robertsona 05.22.11	yotimi i hope youve actually heard phaedra. if not its a supra necessity. super awesome '70s album that reminds me of like modern day shit like emeralds and oneohtrix point never and stuff also klf!!! woo
luci 05.22.11	Why is Music Has the Right to Children your favorite electronic album? I'm curious. I really like the album but I don't hail it as a classic as many do.
WeepingBanana 05.22.11	word up to this MFin' list 32 is so goddamn amazing
Chrisjon89 05.22.11	I like quite a few of these but my favourite album here is 7. Good list.
liledman 05.22.11	"Calculate was probably implying that it's a hip hop album not an electronic album. " yeah but also its made in similar way to 6, with some electronic beats underneath
Deviant. 05.22.11	Well seeing as how Dilla pretty much started the whole "wonky" scene.....
Yotimi 05.22.11	"Why is Music Has the Right to Children your Favorite electronic album?" There are a lot of things that can impress you with electronic music - obviously there's production, melody, or even just cool beats, unique sampling, etc. I like all that, but I really like artists that capture an overall sound that is completely their own, and every other artist that releases similar material get labeled "so-and-so clones". The best examples on here besides BoC are probably Burial, Monolake, Fennesz, Trentemoller, Autechre, and Secede. BoC's signature sound comes from their obsession with nostalgia and they slave over every detail to ensure their music taps into those parts of your brain that give you that one of a kind experience of reliving your childhood (or even creating a pseudo nostalgiac experience). I love when music can go beyond just sounding good, and can actually manipulate my mood/feelings. Using warm analog synths, using children for their samples, repeating common things you learn growing up - colors, counting, saying I love you, the album flows perfectly using just the right amount of each of these. Rhythms usually remain simple, but an unintrusive beat is essential to get the most out of the textures. On top of this, some of the chords used (Turquoise Hexagon Sun) and melodies (Roygbiv) are some of the best I've ever heard, and some of the tones they use (An Eagle In Your Mind) are the most sinister I've heard. Plus, the interlude tracks lead into the songs seamlessly. So basically I just think it does everything right: Perfect production, great melodies, unique sampling/chords, perfect pacing, engrossing atmosphere, mood altering, ability to conjure images/memories, and an impressive attention to detail. MHTRTC captures it's unique sound and adds so much mystery and subtleties that you have to give it repeated listens.
Deviant. 05.22.11	I've never really thought of anything that BoC have done to be sinister
luci 05.22.11	Wow, thanks for the thoughtful response. I picked up on the main theme you mentioned of transporting you to earlier days of childhood with the distinctive features they place within their textures - the color-counting, children's laughter etc. Great to know that someone who loves the album as much as you do notes this as one of the main draws of the album. I find it interesting that you describe the beats as "unintrusive"; one of the issues I have with the sound is that the beats sometimes pull me out of the surreal drift of the synth work (most notably on "Rue the Wheel.") I think that the songs Sixtyten and Rogybiv are some of the best electronic tracks ever recorded though. I'll give it more attempts.
luci 05.22.11	@Deviant: I know this is predictable, but even Geogaddi? I agree that the word sinister has harsher implications but I understand why this music can be labelled as such.
Yotimi 05.22.11	Really? Just listen to those notes that come in at the 4:12 mark of An Eagle In You Mind. Or Beware the Friendly Stranger that puts children screaming really low in the mix during the fire crackles, or Devil is in the Details, or Gyroscope's violent beat.
Aids 05.22.11	Ctrl + F "Tri Repetae ++" 1 found good boy, I need to check out Autechre's other albums now (I just got Amber, it's awesome)
Aids 05.22.11	(ps amazing list) (pps, I listened to Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Today, god I love that album)
Yotimi 05.22.11	@Lucidity I guess what I mean by unintrusive beats is that I never feel like they're trying to impress me with crazy beats like a lot of artists do (which is okay, just doesn't always work). I like it to be interesting enough to push the song forward, and at times there should be some focus on the drums - like in Gyroscope - but not to the point where it becomes the artist trying to be technically amazing.
Yotimi 05.22.11	PS my favorite beat on the album is on Turquoise Hexagon Sun where it keeps fading in and out with billiard balls hitting during the fade-outs. And Nice Aids
luci 05.22.11	Yeah I agree, they keep the beats interesting enough without making them needlessly complex or flashy. It works well overall.
captaincrunch11 05.22.11	Great list.
luci 05.22.11	Turquoise Hexagon Sun has such such a moving, pensive chord progression that manages to be warm but somehow chilling. I'll pay more attention to that beat but I seem to remember what you're getting at, it's brilliant.
Aids 05.22.11	I just listened to MHTRTC for the first time this past week. I can already tell that I'm going to give it a 4.5
mothercountry 05.22.11	No dummy, 'timi?
clercqie 05.22.11	Epic list! Makes you wonder how some people don't see that electronic music can be really diverse too...
Deviant. 05.22.11	Most people are idiots though
darnielle 05.22.11	good list but it needs some heart
someguest 05.22.11	"Most people are idiots though" damnit
PlaygroundFading 05.22.11	needs real, hard dubstep like word alive none of this pussy burial shit
wabbit 05.22.11	85 is criminally underrated (actually most of these are) Beautiful beautiful list. I assume you have heard xx- xx and just didn't like it that much?
AggravatedYeti 05.22.11	going over this again < 3 yotimi.
Fuff24 05.22.11	needs some Deadmau5, Justice and PRIMAL SCREAM. But awesomely made list.
wabbit 05.22.11	has justice
Psilocyanide 05.22.11	Good list but a top electronic list without Shpongle is fail.
Yotimi 05.22.11	Deadmau5's full albums never did much for me, but I like some tracks a lot (like Strobe). Primal Scream is okay and I understand their influence, but I never really could dig their sound, always came across as kinda cheesy to me. And I just don't like Shpongle - The Spanish guitars kill it for me. I like the XX Rabbit, just not one of my faves. I like the laid back vibe, but it doesn't really impress me a whole lot (I even wrote a song in 2002 that sounds EXACTLY like "Islands", so I resent them for that).
captaincrunch11 05.23.11	6 is probably my number one. Absolutely love that album.
Observer 05.24.11	Well worth a feature. I'll bookmark this one.
WashboardSuds 05.24.11	ace list Yotimi, I mean it, some of my absolute favorites are up here. props for Tycho your top 5 is absolutely gorgeous but the rest of this list has excellent stuff too
WashboardSuds 05.24.11	congrats for the feature too
Mikesn 05.24.11	Your number one is my number one
Aids 05.24.11	"needs real, hard dubstep like word alive none of this pussy burial shit" hahahaha awesome, also "Good list but a top electronic list without Shpongle is fail." I agree, and I've only heard one of their albums
aok 05.24.11	you are truly a wealth of information. well done and love when this stuff makes it on here (dev can't do it all himself), but i was surprised no one's mentioned 'Orbs Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld' yet.
MaskAtTheMasquerade 05.24.11	list is nazztay
starry 05.24.11	"good list but it needs some heart" 90s electronica like Aphex Twin and BoC don't have much of that.
Liberi Fatali 05.24.11	@aokuneff or Orbital either
Yotimi 05.24.11	Sweet, thanks guys. I love Orbital's Brown album (it'd be like #105 or something) and I haven't listened to The Orb enough to include them, although what I've heard is pretty good. Also, thanks for the few that rec'ed. "Superman" is a gem on that Jogger album FelixCulpa rec'ed. Will listen to Phaedra soon too Robertsona I promise. And I just decided Tri Repetae++ should be higher.
HBFS 05.24.11	Awesome list
omnipanzer 05.24.11	Lords of Acid - VooDoo U Nice list sir, I see a lot of good albums and quite a few I'm not familiar with.
Gyromania 05.24.11	Y'know Yotimi, I've always liked you. This is hands down one of the best lists I've ever seen on Sputnikmusic. Looks like there are a few albums here that I'll need to look into, but I've heard most of these. I recommend you check out the rest of Secede's discography and look into Tangerine Dream's "Phaedra
Liberi Fatali 05.24.11	Really Tangerine Dream - Phaedra should have been the first thing you checked out before all of the stuff on your list! (Cept maybe Kraftwerk)
Deviant. 05.24.11	Happy to see Vitalic on here
Liberi Fatali 05.24.11	and Shed
Deviant. 05.24.11	You go to Nu: Tone last friday Liberi?
Liberi Fatali 05.24.11	Nah had someones 21st to go to that I couldn't miss, I'm assuming you did? Thoughts?
Yotimi 05.24.11	Awesome, thanks Gyro - don't worry I have all Secede's stuff and it's all really good (especially Bye Bye GT). I've heard bits and pieces of Phaedra, I've just never sat down and listened to the whole thing. I've actually listened to more Klaus Schultz' (who's in TD) albums than Tangerine Dream.
Deviant. 05.24.11	Good gig, took him a little while before he feel into the groove but other than a great show all round. Dropped a few tracks off of his latest, went down a treat
Liberi Fatali 05.24.11	Klaus Schulze is awesome too. Did you see Cut Copy is on tonight too, which lots of people seem to be excited about - but it'd only be a waste of money if I went.
Deviant. 05.24.11	Yeah I'm not even remotely interested
Deviant. 05.24.11	Oh yeah, pick up the new Gus Gus album
Liberi Fatali 05.24.11	One of these days we're going to end up at the same gig, or might have done so already. Hope you're not one of the dubstep dicks at Hope Bros. And alritey.
Deviant. 05.24.11	I haven't stepped into Hope Bros in probably 2 years, so no
Liberi Fatali 05.24.11	Which songs do you rec from Gus Gus
Deviant. 05.24.11	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD0Vl4l7F8o
Liberi Fatali 05.24.11	Reminds me of Hercules & Love Affair for some reason. Sounds cool.
FelixCulpa 05.24.11	Sweet finally a feature. "Also, thanks for the few that rec'ed. "Superman" is a gem on that Jogger album FelixCulpa rec'ed. " No probs. I'm gonna go head and assume "Superman" is you favorite track from the album, mine's probably Nephicide but I'm not sure, shifts depending on the mood I am in. And check out Jogger everybody, it's Yotimi approved!
Deviant. 05.25.11	I can kinda see the comparison Liberi
aok 05.25.11	@yotimi - hit exoplanet if you haven't yet. i can't stop listening to this track. ambient house with a bit of idm would probably be the best description -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXbp5ngnK5M
twlight 05.25.11	you are missing A LOT broski
Liberi Fatali 05.25.11	Well of course it is, after all this is only a list of 100 and there are certainly many more great electronic albums.
Aids 05.25.11	should have made a top 1000 IDIOT
robertsona 08.31.11	Basic Channel - BCD reminds me of playing old video games
mindleviticus 05.11.12	Thanks for linking me here yotimi. I've actually listened to about 2/3's of all this.
mindleviticus 06.08.12	donnacho costello - together is the new alone
JustJoe. 07.09.18	https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/album/code-915913 https://you23.bandcamp.com/album/--9