Sput Birthday 1
Well I did it. I lasted a year. 54 reviews, 33 lists and 711 ratings,
which would be more but I stopped rating everything I listened to a
couple of months ago. I haven't made enough friends here to fill out
a list so you'll have to put up with a shit ton of electronic music
instead. |
| 1 |  | Aphex Twin
DrukQs
If memory serves, this was the first proper electronic album that I really
kicked back and got into. I'd started to get bored with indie, so it pretty
much triggered a binge on every IDM album I could get my hands on. |
| 2 |  | Mt Eden
Mt Eden Album
I jumped onto dubstep for a little bit as it really started to gain ground in
the public eye. This fella was pretty big on t' youtubes at the time so me
and some friends used to chill to it while doing GCSE art. |
| 3 |  | Deadmau5
For Lack of a Better Name
I was never really much of a mau5-head, but the guy who originally got me
listening to electronic (I used to be one of those "it's not music if it's not
made by people" dickheads) was borderline obsessed. Strobe is still
awesome though. |
| 4 |  | Boards of Canada
Music Has The Right To Children
Not too long ago I ended up in a surprisingly deep discussion with my old
English teacher about this album. Seems it's pretty much universally
adored. |
| 5 |  | Radiohead
Kid A
After living in the same town as them and going to the same schools as
them, I think I can finally understand why they ended up making the music
they did. |
| 6 |  | Foals
Total Life Forever
Same with some of these guys. Happy people do not come from around here. |
| 7 |  | Max Richter
The Blue Notebooks
It's fine though, the best music in the world is sad music. Bought this album
on vinyl just so I could sit in the dark and be broody as fuck. |
| 8 |  | Secede
Bye Bye Gridlock Traffic
It kind of sucks that a lot of people on this site refuse to listen to electronic
music, because it really is denying yourself some of the best music ever
written for the sake of laziness/ stubbornness. This album still has 6
ratings, despite being a borderline classic. |
| 9 |  | Tipper
Surrounded
Likewise. Incredible album: 9 votes. Makes me cry evrytim. |
| 10 |  | Bisk
Time
I have a feeling a lot of you guys who enjoy crazy stuff will really dig Bisk.
Wouldn't recommend for anyone not used to being mindfucked. |
| 11 |  | The Flashbulb
Soundtrack to a Vacant Life
This LP rules. The new one is possibly the most overrated thing on this site.
3.8 average yet no one can be bothered to review it? Yeh... i'm not buying
those 4.5's. |
| 12 |  | Aglaia
Three Organic Experiences
Actually let's jump back to unknown classics (contradictions!). This is one of
the best pure ambient albums I've ever heard. |
| 13 |  | Rokkurro
Í Annan Heim
This isn't exactly a classic. But it's still an outstanding example of icelandic
post-rock goodness. |
| 14 |  | A Winged Victory for the Sullen
A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Actually fuck this list for a bit I'm going to come back and finish it later. Just
had the urge to go have a sesh listening to this. |
| 15 |  | Bersarin Quartett
II
Back. This on FLAC = *drool*. Was emailing this guy the other day, too.
He's pretty damn cool. |
| 16 |  | Mr. Scruff
Keep It Unreal
Spandex Man is my jam 4 lyf. |
| 17 |  | Massive Attack
Heligoland
Is it wrong that I don't think Mezzanine is the best thing ever made ever? I
think this album's a lot better than people give it credit for. |
| 18 | | Robag Wruhme
Wuzzlebud "KK"
This album just gets better every time I listen to it. His most recent one,
Thora Vukk, is also excellent. |
| 19 |  | Fredrik
Flora
Sweet yet dark folk/electronic from Sveeeden. They dropped an EP this year
with a remix by Eluvium on it but I never got round to getting my hands on
it. |
| 20 |  | Grum
Heartbeats
So. fucking. happy. eugh. |
| 21 |  | The Future Sound of London
Dead Cities
I kind of wish I was born about 15 years earlier, that way I would have
been around in the 90's and as far as I'm concerned the 90's were the
absolute tits in terms of music and, well, a lot of other things. |
| 22 |  | Squarepusher
Feed Me Weird Things
So many fucking classics from the 90's. Although working backwards
through Squarepusher's discography was pretty fun. |
| 23 |  | Autechre
EP7
Their best release. End of discussion. |
| 24 |  | Beefcake
Drei
While we're on the topic of 90's stuff. This little LP from 2001 is full to the
brim with 90's style electronic. It's also a masterpiece so if you're not one of
the 17 you've rated it go have a listen. |
| 25 |  | Amon Tobin
ISAM
When I first reviewed this, I didn't really have the knowledge to really sell
it. I might go back and review it again, but until then: jesus christ it's
beautiful. |
| 26 |  | Natural Snow Buildings
The Dance of the Moon and the Sun
Another one I might re-review, but this time it's just because I want to talk
about the most perfect piece of music ever created. |
| 27 |  | I Monster
NeveroddoreveN
Now I just included this because it's bat-shit insane and you should go listen. |
| 28 |  | Pepe Deluxe
Queen of the Wave
This too. |
| 29 |  | Daedelus
Denies the Day's Demise
Also this, though Daedelus is a more kind of violent lunatic. Still lovable
though: he has crazy hair and his soundcloud page is very active. He
pumps stuff out left right and centre. |
| 30 | | DJ Food
The Search Ending
Take the above craziness and mix in trip-hop and the fact that this was
released this year so go listen. |
| 31 |  | Prefuse 73
One Word Extinguisher
Still some mad trip-hop stuff but it's just a tad more chilled out. |
| 32 |  | Flying Lotus
L.A. EP 3 X 3
I was going to be seeing this guy |
| 33 |  | James Blake
James Blake
and this guy |
| 34 |  | Oneohtrix Point Never
Replica
and this guy |
| 35 |  | Orbital
In Sides
and these guys along with Squarepusher, Snoop Dog, Clark + a shit ton
more this summer, but no one will go with me. Sad times. |
| 36 |  | Richard Skelton
Landings
But for now I will sit here and listen to a load of ambient and feel sorry for
myself because instead I might end up seeing David Guetta at Creamfields
so I'll probably end up killing myself. |
| 37 |  | Anenon
Inner Hue
My 3rd favourite ambient release of this year. |
| 38 |  | The Post Riot Era
Schism
2nd favourite. |
| 39 |  | Listening Mirror
Resting in Aspic
1st favourite. |
| 40 |  | Desolate
Celestial Light Beings
Albums like this are also really good, but I have a very hard time bringing
myself to call this ambient. |
| 41 |  | Stars of the Lid
The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid
These guys are definitely ambient though. |
| 42 |  | The Dead Texan
The Dead Texan
2nd favourite Stars of the Lid side project after a Winged Victory for the
Sullen. Nice and bite sized too; give it to your kids. |
| 43 | | Eluvium
When I live in the Garden by the Sea
Proof that I will love any album with a Tom Hanks sample in it. |
| 44 |  | Solar Fields
Leaving Home
Very, very tasty space-like ambient. |
| 45 |  | Anoice
The Black Rain
It's not particular ambitious but it's just super-duper nice ambient/ post-
rock stuff. The kind of thing that everyone likes but no one obsessively
likes. Well worth a look though. |
| 46 |  | Mono / World's End Girlfriend
Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain
Unlike this, which you're not allowed to dislike otherwise I will judge you
silently. |
| 47 |  | World's End Girlfriend
Starry Starry Night
Also did you guys catch this? It has some very nice moments. |
| 48 |  | Ed Harrison
Neotokyo
Only 9 votes... dayum. It has an average of 4.6 so far if that makes any
more of you interested in hearing one of the most exhilarating and
interesting soundtracks of all time... ALL TIME! |
| 49 |  | Hermitude
HyperParadise
No, seriously, go get #48. This as well, but #48 is more important. |
| 50 |  | Holy Other
With U
"Touch" is one of my war songs, along with "All The Wine" by The National
and "In McDonalds" by Burial. Gets me in the moooooood. |
| 51 |  | Burial
Street Halo
Who said Burial? |
| 52 |  | Klatu
Mutual
Or |
| 53 |  | Phaeleh
Fallen Light
Things |
| 54 |  | Swarms
I Gave You Everything
That |
| 55 |  | Submerse
Mecha
Were |
| 56 |  | Mount Kimbe
Maybes
Similar-ish? Yeh maybe Mount Kimbe's a little far. |
| 57 |  | Long Arm
The Branches
The genre I was told this fell into was Jazz-hop. That's a stupid sounding
genre, but it kind of fits. This LP is smooth as fuck from head to toe, and
also pretty damn groovy. |
| 58 | | Void Pedal
Void Pedal EP
As is this. Currently sitting on 1 vote (mine) and it's brilliant. A quick google
will prove that it's free as well, so what's stopping you? Oh, and Rishi is the
sexiest track ever made. |
| 59 |  | edIT
Crying Over Pros For No Reason
This album is also pretty sexy. Shame he had to go on to be mediocre. |
| 60 |  | Nicolas Jaar
Space Is Only Noise
Revisiting this album, it seems to have gotten better. Odd. |
| 61 |  | Goldie
Timeless
The funny thing about listening to this is that after years spent seeing
Goldie on the tv doing documentaries and assorted random shit, I really did
not expect him to have made some of the most awesome DnB I've ever
heard. Well, you know what they say: never judge a musician by the
number of his gold fillings. |
| 62 |  | Murcof
Remembranza
And now for something classy as balls. |
| 63 |  | Arvo Part
Tabula Rasa
And then even more classy. |
| 64 |  | Kettel
Whisper Me Wishes
And now something not quite as classy but my rating for it is looking very
lonely at the minute. |
| 65 |  | u-ziq
Tango N' Vectif
Where the "u" is meant to be the greek letter mu so it spells out "music".
Very clever. |
| 66 |  | Venetian Snares
Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett
Now this would be classy if not for the several dozen drummers having an
epileptic fit in a drum room behind all the lovely instruments. |
| 67 |  | Autistic Daughters
Uneasy Flowers
Not electronic, but experimental-as-fuck-folk. I love it. |
| 68 |  | William Basinski
The Disintegration Loops III
Now is this electronic? Either way it's unintentionally the most depressing
piece of anything in forever; ever. |
| 69 |  | Ben Frost
Music For Sad Children
Because this isn't that sad. Still very good though. |
| 70 |  | Fo//ic/e
Nidificating
This is more intentionally sad. Kinda weird and fucking disturbing as well.
Lonely vote on this one too. |
| 71 |  | Piano Magic
Disaffected
Ah man, I totally forgot about these guys. If I remember correctly, one of
their tracks is just a bloke talking about how he's going to kill himself....
AWESOME. |
| 72 |  | Red Light Company
Fine Fascination
Another interlude of non-electronic stuff. Happy-indie people should check
this out. |
| 73 |  | Steve Aoki
Wonderland
My girlfriend makes me listen to this because, quote: "I need to be eased
back in to real music for people who know what sunlight is" |
| 74 |  | Omar S
Just Ask the Lonely
Then I go listen to this. |
| 75 |  | Robert Rich
Somnium
and then this. That'll show her. |
| 76 |  | Dntel
Life Is Full of Possibilities
Returning to this list for the second time (just went out for some film
screening shit before hanging round the park), I think I may have
overstretched myself with trying to do this with no structure at all. Oh
well... |
| 77 |  | Gui Boratto
III
Oh there's this. This is good. |
| 78 |  | Lapalux
When You're Gone
This has kind of grown on me to be honest. Gone and Moments are both
absolutely incredible: if only they could fill a whole LP with tracks like that
and they'd be set. |
| 79 |  | Wisp
NRTHNDR
Pretty damn awesome IDM stuff that's well worth a looksy. |
| 80 |  | The Tumbled Sea
Songs By The Tumbled Sea
Another one of those "I want to sit in a dark room and be gloomy as fuck"
records. That website that shows rain pouring onto a window was pretty
much made for this... |
| 81 |  | Stendeck
Scintilla
Quite playful IDMish things. |
| 82 |  | Soundtrack
Portal 2: Songs To Test By
This soundtrack is the tiiiitts. Exile Vilify (by The National) isn't on it though,
which sucks. |
| 83 |  | Ratatat
Classics
"I know it's electronic, but it's actually kind of good" - some random German
bloke recommending me this album. |
| 84 |  | Madness
One Step Beyond
Not electronic (you should know this!). Grew up with my dad listening to
either this, Queen or Eric Clapton. |
| 85 |  | Magic Man
Real Life Color
Indie-Electonic/ Blogwave |
| 86 |  | Paco Sala
Ro-Me-Ro
Never did get round to reviewing this. Ambient, but in the style of... |
| 87 |  | Tim Hecker
Harmony in Ultraviolet
... which is a very, very good album. |
| 88 |  | Son Lux
At War With Walls and Mazes
Pretty sure I found this from a friend who found it from Skins. The UK
version not the shitty US spin off... also not from season 3 onwards cos it
got crap very quickly. |
| 89 |  | AFX
Chosen Lords
Listen to all the EPs in this series. I'm serious; some of his best stuff EVAR
is in these eps. |
| 90 |  | The Avalanches
Since I Left You
With some of the best music videos of all time. |
| 91 |  | Wendy Carlos
A Clockwork Orange
Soundtracks are tasty. |
| 92 |  | Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet & Mogwai
The Fountain OST
Includes one of the best pieces ever; ever. |
| 93 |  | Gustav Holst
The Planets Suite, for orchestra, Op. 32
First came into contact with this while it was blasted out to me in a field in
Somerset. Long story. Anyway, Jupiter made me cry for realz. So
motherfucking perfect. |
| 94 |  | Noisia
Split The Atom
From serenity to getting your face blown off be noise... ee-ah. |
| 95 |  | cssc
The Lonely Robot
I'm not sure if it's possible to have a cuter name for an album. |
| 96 |  | m83
Saturdays=Youth
I'm deeply infatuated with Morgan Kibby. |
| 97 |  | The Romanovs
...and the Moon was Hungry...
No I'm serious, I am. Mostly because this album is just jaw-droppingly mad
and incredible at the same time. She manages to be sexy when singing
about eating someone - it's confusing. |
| 98 |  | Saltillo
Monocyte
Just been listening to this guy's new EP. It's more of a spin off of this LP,
really - but welcome nonetheless. |
| 99 | | Schiller
Leben
Dowwnnntteeeeemmmmppppoooooooooo. |
| 100 |  | Queen
Greatest Hits One
I just want to share with you the fact that I've finally learnt all the words
and all the notes to Bohemian Rhapsody so I can mouth jam to it at will. It's
not relevant to the list at all. |
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