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08.14.12 More Things Of A Deviant Nature 07.31.12 Things Of A Deviant Nature
06.26.12 Dev's 2012 (down The Winding Road) 12.15.11 A Deviant 2011
12.02.11 Devstep - November 2011 11.01.11 Devstep - October 2011
10.05.11 Devstep - September 2011 09.14.11 Devstep: July - August 2011
07.29.11 Deviant Digs07.01.11 Devstep - June 2011
06.16.11 Deviant And Almost 6 Months Of 2011 Acc 06.02.11 Devstep - May 2011
04.24.11 Devstep - April 201104.14.11 When Deviant Points His Finger At You
03.24.11 When Deviant Tells You What To Do 03.11.11 Users' Best Of 2010: 100 - 51
02.24.11 Dev's Summer & The User Best Of 2010 12.30.10 Devstep Part II
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The Dancing Deviant

Digs/recs/essentials - of the electro variety
14Hero
Parallel Universe


Quintessential drum & bass, nice jazz licks abound as well
2A Guy Called Gerald
Black Secret Technology


Classic, and a huge influence over d&b
3Aphex Twin
Selected Ambient Works 85-92


Mindfuck, but that one asks politely first
4Aphex Twin
26 Mixes For Cash


This one doesn't ask nicely
5 Autechre
Tri Repetae ++


Amazing IDM
6BT
Ima


His most overlooked album, equal parts house and trance
7DJ Shadow
Endtroducing


This doesn't need explaining
8Kraftwerk
Autobahn


The most influential artist in the business, bar none
9Kraftwerk
Trans-Europa Express


More of the same
10Leftfield
Leftism


One of the most important albums of the 90's
11Noisia
Split The Atom


Fapfapfapfap
12Orbital
Orbital 2


The Brown Album - acid and delectable
13 Photek
Form & Function


Damn tasty d&b
14The Chemical Brothers
Dig Your Own Hole


The chem's practically invented big beat with their debut, Exit Planet Dust. With Dig Your Own Hole they perfected it, and destroyed it in one fell swoop
15The Future Sound Of London
Lifeforms


Gorgeous and brutal all at the same time
16 The Orb
The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Underworld


A house concept album, with ambient sections? They got it sorted
17 The Orb
U. F. Orb


Just as potent
18The Prodigy
The Fat Of The Land


Breakbeat's push for the mainstream, just happened to be the group's best effort to boot
19Underworld
Dubnobasswithmyheadman


Scarily good
20Underworld
Second Toughest In The Infants


Keeps the same formula, but throws in some house for good measure
2116 Bit
Chainsaw Calligraphy The Remixes


Earth shaking dubstep
22Adam Freeland
Coastal Breaks II


Tasy breaks
23Air
Premiers Symptomes


Downtempo/trip hop, this is actually a collection of early singles
24Air
Everybody Hertz


Great remix album
25Alpha
Stargazing


More trip hop
26Alpha
Lost In A Garden Of Clouds - Part 2


And more, some lounge overtones thrown into this one
27Amon Tobin
Permutation


Schizophrenic trip hop that's anything but
28Aphex Twin
Chosen Lords


Overlooked acid house
29Autechre
Incunabula


Mmmmmmmm
30 Black Sun Empire
Cruel & Unusual


Breathtaking d&b
31Boards Of Canada
Music Has The Right To Children


Ambient, IDM, trip, psychedelic - amazing
32Boards Of Canada
Geogaddi


And again
33Burial
Untrue


Needs no introduction really - dark scratchy dubstep set to garage
34Conjure One
Conjure One


Rhys Fulber ambience
35Deadmau5
For Lack Of A Better Name


Deep deep house
36Deceptikon
Ascii Ghettoblaster


Great hip hop inspired d step mix
37DJ Krush
Kakusei


Get this now
38Faithless
Reverence


Insomnia is the greatest house/trance song ever made - 'nuff said
39Faithless
Renaissance 3D


Spectacular mix album
40Fluke
Progressive History X


Great house
41Flying Lotus
Los Angeles


Sorry guys, this is still better than Cosmogramma
42Goldie
Timeless


Name says it all really, timeless and classic d&b
43Herve
Ghetto Bass 2


Great mix of fidget & straight house
44Junkie XL
Today


Bloc likes this guy
45Juno Reactor
Shango


Fucked up trance meets world music fusion
46Kashiwa Daisuke
Program Music I


Beautiful
47Ladytron
Witching Hour


Yeah, so I like electropop
48Lamb
Lamb


D&b mixed with elements of trip
49M83
Before The Dawn Heals Us


Acquired taste, but unforgettable regardless
50Massive Attack
Mezzanine


Defined the 90's
51Meat Beat Manifesto
Satyricon


Oh yeah......
52Moby
Play


One of the most infectious albums you'll ever hear? Probably
53Orbital
In Sides


Up there with the best
54Pantha Du Prince
This Bliss


Minimal house, lo-tech, so good
55Peace Orchestra
Peace Orchestra


Chill trip
56Prefuse 73
One Word Extinguisher


Glitchy as fuck
57Roisin Murphy
Overpowered


Pop, disco - urgh
58Shapeshifter
Soulstice


D&b, roots - native NZ outfit
59Shpongle
Tales Of The Inexpressible


Your mind on acid set to music
60Simian Mobile Disco
Attack Decay Sustain Release


Tasty tech house
61Squarepusher
Hard Normal Daddy


Acid d&b
62StrangeZero
The Neverlands


So good - disturbing and relaxing at the same time
63The Avalanches
Since I Left You


Get this yesterday
64The Crystal Method
Community Service II


Great great mix
65Tosca
Opera


Triptriptriptrip
66UNKLE
Psyence Fiction


Shadow's second album
67Venetian Snares
Songs About My Cats


I freaking love this album
68Zero 7
The Garden


Trip, shoegaze, downtempo
69Amorphous Androgynous
Tales Of Ephidrina


Future Sound Of London in disguise
70Archive
You all look the same to me


Post rock meets trip, think Lights Out Asia but more electronic based
71Badmarsh & Shiri
Dancing Drums


Even more trip
72Benga
Diary Of An Afro Warrior


Conscious dubstep
73Bonobo
Dial 'M' For Monkey


Sooooooo good
74Boxcutter
Oneiric


Its IDM, but not really. There's a 2 step but it aint dubstep. Its just fantastic
75Guido
Anidea


My latest dig, expect a review in a day or two
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