Best Electronic Album (last 30 years) - any genre?

[Dynamics]

If you had to pick the best electronic album which was made and came out in the last 30 years in the electronic genre which would it be and why? Sorry if this has been done before (suspect it has), but humour me please. :)

I'm thinking any electronic genre can count from dance, techno, house, dub, trance, downtempo electronica and chill out etc.

I was racking my brains over my album collection going from groups like aphex twin, orbital, massive attack, the prodigy, underworld and Leftfield.

It was a toss up between leftfields leftism album and underworlds dubnobasswithmyheadman. But I settled on leftism because it was so influential, combined loads of styles and has fantastic melodies.

[dantheman91]

Hi Si,

Hope you are feeling better after all the troll troubles - feck 'em

Well one that gets regular play here is - Moby - Play :) theirs alot more to be honest theirs so many of this style from all ages another close one is Groove Armada - Virtigo

Very interesting thread...:) Your at home here...

[Dynamics]

Yes thanks, have both of those great albums. Moby play shades it for me and so many tracks and different styles on that album. I like the last track called 'my weakness' lol. That moby album is well quoted in best electronic albums lists. I like orbitals snivilisation too, also well quoted.

Listening to some great stuff at the moment from neu! Halogallo onto Brian Eno now.

[Conan]

To name one album is very difficult but there are a few on my list:
Bonobo - dial m for monkey
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Royksopp - Melody AM
Daft Punk - Homework
Air - Moon Safari
Fila Brazillia - Old codes new chaos
Boards of Canada Music Has the Right to Children

[HackneyRF]

Nice thread. Definite yes to previous suggestions. Well there is almost endless great electronic music over the last 30 years. Some things I love/have loved during that period. One for each of those 30 years!

Sabres of Paradise - Sabresonic
Autechre - Amber
Biosphere -Substrata
Fennesz -Black Sea
Plaid - Not For Threes
Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
The Caretaker - Persistant Repitition of Phrases
Deathprod - Tree Top Drive, 1-3
Brian Eno - The Ship
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
Monolake - Gravity
Four Tet - Pause
Jedi Knights - New School Science
Jeff Mills - The Exhibitionist
The KLF - Chill Out
Burial - Burial
Sandoz - In Dub:Chant to Jah
Murcof - Martes
Meatbeat Manifesto - Satyricon
Spacetime Continuum - Emit Ecaps
LFO - Advance
U.N.K.L.E - Psyence Fiction
Stars Of The Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid
Tortoise - TNT
LaBradford - Mi Media Naraja
The Orb - U.F. Orb
Photek - Form and Function
Plastikman - Consumed
Radiohead - Kid A
John Hopkins - Immunity

[Dynamics]

Nice one for doing that list. Oh sabres of paradise, sabresonic, now you've got me talking. You are clearly an ambient man from your selections.

[HackneyRF]

You are clearly an ambient man from your selections.

I do like many different things but yes Ambient artists do feature quite often in these parts. Not sure why but even as a kid I've been drawn to soporific sounds. In the right setting of course. Not much fun having your friends around for the evening and playing Music For Airports all night!

[rossman]

The electronic album that I keep coming back to, even though it is a various artists compilation is Quarknosis. Chilled trance from the Kinetix label.

Also worthy of mention in my opinion;

Abakus - That Much Closer to the Sun
Various Artists - Goa Trancendental 1
Various Artists - Feed Your Head 1
Channel U - Ape-Man Talking
Spacetime Continuum - Sea Biscuit
UVX - Double Helix
Beaumant Hannant - Texturology
Higher Intelligence Agency - Colourform

[Haselsh1]

For me there are two electronica albums that stand out huge above so many and that would be 1) Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon and 2) Younger Brother - A Flock of Bleeps. Massively different in style but stunningly awesome.

[Haselsh1]

Also The Peaking Goddess Collective - Organika.

[Dynamics]

I went through my nas and these are the ones I keep coming back to in electronic genre, even though I've missed lots out;

Aphex twin - all
Autechre - amber
Blue six - beautiful tomorrow
Blue states - nothing changes under the sun
Boards of Canada - music has the right to children
Bonobo - animal majic
Brian Eno - apollo : atmosphere and soundtracks
Chicane - far from the maddening crowds
Eastern Sun - in emptiness
Erlend Oye - unrest (of kings of convenience fame)
Frankie Knuckles
Giorgio Moroder - best of electronic disco.
Gorillaz - plastic beach
Groove Armada - vertigo
Guardner - ready for take off
GusGus - Arabian horse
Guts - paradise for all
Jam and spoon - tripomatic fairytales
Kraftwerk - Tour de France
Lady Duracell - mushrooms
Laurent Garnier - mixmax live vol 19
Leftfield - leftism
Lemon Jelly - lost horizons and lemon jelly ky
Lindstrom - smallhans
Massive attack - blue lines, protection and mezzanine
Mathar - Indian vibes
Moby - play
Nightmares on wax - carboot soul
Nils Fraham - felt (I like nonkeen too)
O.t.t - skylon and Mir
Ocean lab - sirens of the sea
Dubstar - disgraceful
Orbital - snivilisation
Rue du soleil (cafe del mar) - emotions
Royksopp - all
Shades of rhythm - the album
Solar fields - movements
Stephane pompougnac - living on the edge and hello mademoiselle
The chemical bros - we are the night
The orb - best of
The prodigy - experience and music for the gilted generation
Sabres of paradise - sabresonic 2
The shamen and mr c - en tact
Thiervery Corporation - richest man in Babylon
Todd terje - its album time
Tosca - Suzuki, going going going
Tricky - maxinquae
Ulrich schnauss - far away trains passing by
Ultramarine - every man and woman is a star
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman, barbra barbra we face a shining music, olympics music
Vangelis - blade runner, china, voices
Waldeck - the night garden
John and Sasha digweed - renaissance
Late night tales - royksopp and other artists too.

All the acid house stuff of my generation like frankie knuckles, index, mr c, 808 state, scientist, 4 hero, etc.