Slant Magazine: The 25 Greatest Electronic Albums of the 20th Century

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In celebration of the coup that failed to overthrow the music industry (but continues to flourish on dancefloors, headphones and television commercials around the globe), Slant Magazine asked 300 music journalists, DJs and record label-folk to tell us what they thought were the most important electronic albums of the 20th Century.

  1. 1.
    Trans-Europe Express
    by Kraftwerk
  2. 2.
    Blue Lines
    by Massive Attack
  3. 3.
    Selected Ambient Works 85-92
    by Aphex Twin
  4. 4.
    The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
    by Orb
  5. 5.
    Dummy
    by Portishead
  6. 6.
    Ambient 1: Music for Airports
    by Brian Eno
  7. 7.
    Endtroducing
    by DJ Shadow
  8. 8.
    Exit Planet Dust
    by Chemical Brothers
  9. 9.
    Dig Your Own Hole
    by Chemical Brothers
  10. 10.
    Homogenic
    by Bjork
  11. 11.
    Orbital 2
    by Orbital
  12. 12.
    Substance
    by New Order
  13. 13.
    Dubnobasswithmyheadman
    by Underworld
  14. 14.
    Innovator
    by Derrick May
  15. 15.
    76:14
    by Global Communication
  16. 16.
    (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art Of Noise!
    by Art of Noise
  17. 17.
    Utd State 90
    by 808 State
  18. 18.
    Homework
    by Daft Punk
  19. 19.
    Leftism
    by Leftfield
  20. 20.
    Music for the Masses
    by Depeche Mode
  21. 21.
    Maxinquaye
    by Tricky
  22. 22.
    Music Has the Right to Children
    by Boards of Canada
  23. 23.
    Bytes
    by Black Dog Production
  24. 24.
    Everything Is Wrong
    by Moby
  25. 25.
    The White Room / Justified & Ancient
    by Klf
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Comments

yilingba

what? — 3 years ago

kraftwerk is no. 1 . that’s fine. but just ONE Kraftwerk? Autobahn?? Man Machine? Computerworld? Instead of i find 2 lousy chemical brothers. John Cage? Brian Eno??? Massive Attack vs. Mad Professor (more essential than a chemical brothers…) A New Order and an Aphex Twins Best of instead of a normal one? Human League’s first 2 Albums? and so on and so on……………….

Oct 26, 08:18PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

alca911

Switched on Bach!!! — 5 years ago

Wendy Carlos!!! Switched on Bach and the Clockwork Orange soundtrack are sweet.

Jul 24, 06:36AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

gamine humming the songs from "footlight parade"

WHOT!?! — 5 years ago

Nice to see what people are thinking, but not cool that they have completely forgotten our communal pasts. The Twentieth Century = 100 years, not 1975-2000.

John Cage ain’t on here at ALL?? (Check out his imaginary landscapes albums - and didn’t his use of silence and found noise pioneer uh, almost everything in electronica?). Check out the seminal music for “Forbidden Planet” and why the couple that made this music didn’t get credit http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4486840

How about Delia Derbyshire and the stuff coming out of the BBC in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s?

Howsa about some MOOG folks? Didn’t Gershon Kingsley prove that people wanted to hear electronica as actual music? “Popcorn” baby, “Popcorn”!

Jul 19, 04:03AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

rubyyot

Last.fm — 6 years ago

Tagged these on Last.fm for quick listening.

Apr 18, 07:21PM | 1 comment | Reply to this



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