The self-described non-musician had toyed with sparse, quiet and calming sounds on albums like Discreet Music and Another Green World before. Before The Pyramid. Nothing about this album is straightforward, even if the production values aren't exactly sophisticated. Recorded using just a cello and his voice, which he manipulated with a whole host of electronic effects, its impressively diverse tracklist can be pointed to as the prototype for many styles of electronic music that followed. Jungle proper full-bore, thousand-break-edits-a-minute, police-sirens-and-barking-pitbulls, murderous-ragga-sampling jungle was never destined to be an album artform. Blue Lines influence can be seen scattered all over the 90s from records by the likes of Portishead and Bjrk that it helped pave the way for, to much of Madonnas late 90s output. Electronic music wouldn't be the same without them. Off the back of two tracks, 'The New Wave' (which would later evolve in 'Alive') and 'Da Funk', the pair were signed to Virgin, through which they released 'Homework' (named because it was recorded in Thomas' bedroom). But then, most other bands didnt come up in New York in the early 80s, when no wave, disco and hip hop were the heartbeat of the city. Dubstep had been invented, was brewing as a still-minuscule scene, and Bristol based duo Jamie Teasdale and Roly Porter aka Vex'd were certainly connected to it, but some were saying this was breakstep thanks to its rolling junglist feel, others calling it grimey, which its juddering claps could be seen as, even though it didn't have rappers. And by enlisting the likes of 808 States Graham Massey and Soul II Soul producer Nellee Hooper, she tackled the likes of trip hop (Human Behaviour), house (Violently Happy) and techno (Big Time Sensuality). Phones. By staying true to his vision, and armed with just a Yamaha DX7, Roland Jupiter 6 and Tr707 drum machine, Larry Heard gave birth to an entirely new subgenre: deep house. All-time. Cowley tragically died in the year after the release of the record, spate of posthumous reissues and unearthed releases, homophobia-fuelled policy of near-total inaction, administration laughing and making homophobic jokes, The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Centre of the Ultraworld, sampled from an 80s atmospheric vocal compilation, without talking about (at length) Robert Hood, Larry Heard was the stately father figure of deep house, influence for internet subgenre vaporwave, when Skreams landmark debut album dropped in 2006, but fashion, hype and subgenres swiftly change, although such credibility has all but disappeared from the singles chart, he passed away just 6 months after the records release, there are regular collaborations with Bjork. The eponymous single LFO peaked at number 12 in the UK singles chart, earning each respective party fast fame. Here's traces of no wave; here, techno. With label DFA the hub for this new, ferocious and unhinged take on dance music, LCD Soundsystem took centre stage with their self-titled debut album. UK gangsta rap or road rap, as its become more widely known initially started in the pre-gentrified streets of Brixton, South London, by a crew called P.D.C at the top of the millennium. In 2016 the track was sampled by rap megastar and fellow Chicagoan Kanye West, proving the album's influence on not only every deep house track ever made but also one of contemporary music's biggest stars. In her lifetime, she didn't get the appreciation in her own right that she deserved but she did get a moment somewhere near the limelight when she and fellow Radiophonic Workshop toiler Brian Hodgson were recruited by American electronic engineer David Vorhaus to try and use their techniques to make a pop oriented record. Funster. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band. Louis Anderson-Rich. On Trans-Europe Express, before anyone else, they defined what electronic music could be. In 1975, Donna Summer released this album and with it started the disco/electronic fusion. Walk was our version of that album, the hard-hitting productions allowing Giggs monotone flow to become the legend that it is today. It seemed as though dubstep had been completely hijacked by the wobbly, face-melting basslines of producers like Skrillex and Borgore in 2010. When listening to the airy bliss of Mays It Is What It Is or anthemic euphoria and bouncy beats of Saundersons Big Fun, its clear that the sounds featured on that groundbreaking comp are more soulful than the unrelenting darkness of techno you might hear in, say, a Berlin club today. Techno around the early 90s was in its most fertile, formative and revolutionary phase. James Blake said it best himself an interview with the Guardian in 2016: Ive subdued a generation. When two brothers from rural Scotland released an album that twirls through mystic ambient, robotic vocal samples and lightly bobbing IDM in 1998, it changed dance music forever. Blankets, sinking into sofas as the sun rises, zoning out to ambient mixes. Minus is the anxiety-drenched highlight while cuts like Multiple Silence and Home showcase alien gurgles alongside clinical progression. Top. The Avalanches 4.02 25,535 301 27 November 2000 Plunderphonics Dance Instrumental Hip Hop Nu-Disco Exotica sampling summer tropical warm eclectic party rhythmic uplifting Untrue Burial 3.97 25,295 323 5 November 2007 Future Garage Dubstep 2-Step Ambient urban atmospheric nocturnal lonely melancholic sampling cold mysterious A lot of the deconstructed club music thats popular today feels like it stems from Arcas abrasive, future-facing sound and artists like Toxe, M.E.S.H and Kamixlo, particularly on his latest Bala Club EP, are bringing forward industrial, dystopian rhythms that feel influenced by Ghersi. Schnell! madness all fuelled by the Communist-era amphetamine factories of the East. The album features a wide variety of popular electronic dance music styles of the mid-1990s. It sat comfortably beside IDM such as Aphex Twin and Autechre but it also conveyed the nostalgic and emotional role that voices have played in bands the duo have been influenced by such as Beach Boys and My Bloody Valentine. Summer's contribution to wider dance music history shouldn't be passed over. With Debut, Bjrk made an album that not only celebrated house music but also asked artists to demand more to life than this. The best album of all time is subjective, with everybody seeing music in different ways. Despite our taste differences, some classic albums rise to the top of the pile every time a new list is released. Heres our picks for the best albums of all time: 1. Whats Going On (1971) Marvin Gaye Kanye West used Arca at length for songwriting and programming on Yeezus, there are regular collaborations with Bjork and since the release of Arca she worked with Arca again on her Utopia album. Created in 48 hours in his Windsor, Ontario, studio on analogue equipment, Sheet One emulates an LSD trip, never glued to basic dancefloor drums but always propelling forward on warped, head-frying, fluid grooves that still sound sturdily unhinged today. Mills showed an intense focus in his pursuit of stripped-back techno trips. But not just a collection of unevenly stitched together bangers, its a proper headphone-rewarding and coherent long player, exhibiting technical prowess that led to Bjrk and Depeche Mode recruiting Mark Bell to work on Homogenic and Exciter respectively. The album defined the calm after the strobe-storm; 'Chill' or 'Chill Out' as it had somewhat cringingly been tagged became the adopted after-genre by clubbers of the day. Thom Yorke, Anohni, Seth Troxler and Bjork. But it was here, on Ambient 1: Music For Airports, he helped define the genre as we know it today it was also the first usage of the word ambient in a musical context. File Double Cup under Cult Classic, one that remains the high-watermark of an entire genre. The tracks include The Model, The Robots, Neon Lights, Das Model and Die Roboter, managing to be among the greatest rock music albums of the 70s. Its distinctly metallic sound palette was eerie, robotic and weirdly melodic. Patrick Hinton. Without Summer (and other contemporaries, like Kraftwerk), making this sequencer-led machine-made music, we wouldn't have techno, or most other subsequent dance music. We like to think Robert Hood got the ball rolling in 1994 and Internal Empire will always be a stepping stone for todays techno. Its difficult to know where to start with this one. He knew his Urban Dictionary-friendly colloquialisms would be alien to many listening and that's what made it so exciting. Making lyrical references to same-sex attraction and bathroom hook-ups above glistening production, its an unabashed celebration of the gay scene that forged the culture, crackling with the vibrancy of the dancefloors housed within nightspots X-rated walls. And there at the start of it all was Trans-Europe Express. In its entirety The Album embodies the scope and influence of 90s music and is an accurate example of just how prolific Master At Work would become. Come Away With ESG is their debut album, a wonderful primer to their raw, sultry style, which would go on to set the blueprint for the New York punk-funk scene some 20 years later. Revisited today Moon Safari is still the perfect album; 'All I Need' is the sonic equivalent of a shoulder massage in a warm bath of White Russian, 'La femme 'D'argent' and Talisman' float through you like old memories filled with intrigue and whimsy, while the more upbeat tracks (by which we're only talking sub 118 BPM) like 'Sexy Boy', ' Kelly Watch The Stars' or The Beach Boy's sampling 'Remember' give the album enough uplift without demanding you jump all the way back into your rave-sodden trainers. Its easy to interpret Debut as a simple love-letter to club culture following the break-up of her Reykjavk rock band, The Sugarcubes, Bjrk moved to London in 1992 where she became enamoured with the scene happening in the city at that time. John Hedges, who for a time ran the Megatone Records label Cowley founded alongside Marty Blecman, described Cowleys apartment as a mess of wires that didnt look very safe, commenting on the intricate and ingenious patching experiments Cowley undertook to achieve his range of synth sounds, long before you could just turn a dial on Ableton to add delay. This was no truer than in Glasgow, where Hudson Mohawke was busy redefining hip hop production and labels like LuckyMe, Numbers, Dress 2 Sweat and Wireblock were pressing backflipped bangers at a rate of knots (Jacques Greene, Bok Bok, L-Vis 1990, Deadboy, Machinedrum, Mosca and Mike Slott all launched from this bevy of imprints). It was a statement album and plenty listened and learned. Patrick Hinton. In 1998 a tidal wave of Dutch laser-kissed trance, pre-donk hoover-bassed hard house and the Champagne-breathed swagger of late-90s speed garage were washing through clubs, bars, airwaves and holiday resorts. His debut album Alcachofa was a major factor in establishing the widespread appeal, with delicate and trippy textures layered over steady and fine rhythms to create masterful productions that keep the listener surprisingly engaged. Cowley tragically died in the year after the release of the record, an early victim of the AIDs epidemic that decimated the original creators and appreciators of dance music. By calling in vocalists like Noel Gallagher, and playing concert venues like Brixton Academy to support the album as opposed to DJing in clubs, The Chems were able to appeal to an audience more used to gig-going and guitar music as much as they were able to appeal to the dance music faithful. If a pub quiz threw up a question about a game-changing drum 'n' bass or jungle album in the '90s, chances are it'd be Goldie's 'Timeless' scrawled on the result papers, rather than Photek's debut album. Some of the most popular EDM subgenres of the 90s include techno, house, trance, drum and bass, and trip hop. But they were also masters of an instant hook: the blissful Stella (included here) had broken out across all scenes, and hinted at huge commercial potential. And you can hear that here: loved up German hooligans Rolf Ellmer (Jam El Mar) and Markus Lffel (Mark Spoon) fill large sections of this record, especially its opening, with gurgles and burbles straight out of the chillout rooms of rave-hippy clubs like Megadog and Megatripolis. Its influence can be traced to all those who have attempted to push the boundaries of dance music, filtering into the work of Fever Ray, MIA, Gorillaz, and even the electronic-influenced rock of Alt-J and These New Puritans. Aurora Mitchell. The video for Stress is a now legendary piece of work that shows a bunch of trouble-making teens riot around a city bearing cross logos on their jackets, cross logos that are now instantly recognisable to anyone with even a passing interest in dance music. UK garage which Skinner ploughed so furtively for much of his debut had reached its commercial zenith the previous year and the super club bubble of the late 90s had well and truly burst. Mention German techno in the early 1990s, and you likely thought of furious Cologne acid, the metallic pound of Tresor, and general Schnell! However, with Sheet One he proved techno could go long form, move away from pure dancefloor, while retaining a stark clubland authenticity. In 1990 their 'Mr Kirk's Nightmare' marked the shift from summers of love into hardcore, and month by month 4 Hero, Dego's Tek 9 and Mac's Manix pseudonym, and their Reinforced label expressed the extremes of darkness and euphoria as the breaks sped up and things got ever gnarlier. The whole thing is all killer, no filler, even when tracks extend to ten and eleven minutes: this is essentially George Clinton's p-funk mob at the height of their powers Bootsy Collins basslines swinging and swaggering through the 10-dimensional afrofuturist cartoon vision, every part of the band including massed vocalists and brass locked in with inhuman precision. Yet in between this there's the serene '124' and suave, Pink Panther-esque title track proving jungle artists aren't only inclined to make tunes for a grotty dance. But with his tales of first time Es, kebab shop fights and neglected loves, Mike Skinner managed to build a bridge between two generations of British ravers. While Richard D James sound here is pretty singular, you can hear traces of it through acid and ambients recent past. Aurora Mitchell. Funster. 1' was instrumental in pushing techno towards the raw, hard-edged direction it has taken. But it would take the release of his self-titled debut in 2011 to make a caustic change to the dance music landscape. PC. Like all the thunderbolts that send shockwaves through our scene and out into the real world, their phenomena is twofold: Guy and Howard, just 22 and 19 when Settle drops in the summer of 2013, introduced a legion of teenagers to the sugar rush of house and garage and, in turn, to the joys of raving and high quality ecstacy. What followed was the likes of Errol Alkan, Trash, Justice, The Klaxons and the blog house movement, artists and nights inspired not by the po-facededness of techno and house or the cheesiness of trance, but the carefree attitudes and character-driven music of LCD Soundsystems tongue-in-cheek vision of disco. Their live show was a PA wherein producer Liam Howletts mates Keith, Leeroy and Maxim leapt about in primary coloured, pyjama-style costumes that made them look faintly like childrens TV characters. 'Modus Operandi' (translated as 'mode of operation') might not be a record those with a casual interest in music are familiar with, but it did signal a significant change for jungle by coming out on Science, the dance-orientated sub-label of Virgin Records. Jasmine Kent-Smith. 1.505.566.5827 sjci@sjci.org Monday Friday 8 AM - 5 PM. Louis Anderson-Rich. The Beatles Sgt. Opening with the distorted monologue asking House, what is house?, listing pioneers such as Phuture, Kraftwerk and Mr. It's become the most referenced album ever in Mixmag to the point where "I was into X until I heard Homework" has become a banned DJ interview clich. Joe Muggs. It was an overwhelming period of extremes and excess; vodka Red Bull was outselling lager, DJs were becoming mega-rich superstars and Mitsubishi pills were making clubland intensely emotional. Diatribes on Detroit imposters and applauding crowds weave through an amorphous being that gave us our first full-length look into the producers weird and wonderful world. Recorded with help from 20 musicians across a string of studios and sessions, it unfolds as one continuous piece of music across its two sides and 1 hour 49 minutes run-time, dragging listeners on the metaphysical journey that has come to dominate the way people talk about and attempt to craft dance music and DJ sets. But anyone who'd grown up listening to pirate radio in the time UK garage was transitioning into a darker sound would've known exactly what Dizzee's coming together of chaotic kicks, harrowing melodies and tales of LDN life was. On Limit To Your Love, James strips the folksy love ballad down to raw piano and vocals, adding a car shaking, single-note sub-bass. Over a decade and two more albums later, Justice are still one of the worlds most sought-after acts but when all is said and done, Cross not only changed the game for them, it changed it for all of us. Even after he won the 2003 Mercury Prize there was no name-check for the genre in the Guardian's article announcing his accolade. House music is bubbling fervently in the Chicago underground while being systematically ignored by the mainstream, and the first sounds are slowly drifting their way over to the UK. It is one of the most well-known and successful electronic dance music albums of all time. Joe Muggs. Described by Mary Anne Hobbs last year as, Avant-garde, timeless, Untrue is a classic piece of dance music history. Most of what the listener hears in Endtroducing.. are sounds ripped from various vinyl releases and while the initial reaction may be to categorize this as hip hop, the styles presented range from jazz, funk, soul, drum n bass, electronica, trip hop and other forms of downbeat music. Funster. Kraftwerk occupied a strange space in popular culture at the time of Trans Europe Express release. This power surge then lit up wider pop culture as four singles from Settle landed near the top of the UK singles chart, paving the way for number ones from Duke Dumont, Breach, Ben Pearce and the rebooted Storm Queen in the months after the albums release. Dubstep is probably the last major genre to have taken electronic music by surprise in such a way; it was nurtured on pitch black dancefloors by those in the know before a rapid explosion in popularity, catching so many off guard. Joe Muggs. Charlie Case. Joe Muggs. The record had quicker lasting appeal and impact too, with two tracks, Rotar and C/Pach manifesting as samples in jungle pioneer Photeks music. Web27 Funk Wav Bounces Vol. Its a sound that has been replicated overtly by artists such as Com Truise and Tycho, became one of many basis of influence for internet subgenre vaporwave and has inspired many an ambient producer working today. Plastikman would go on to other creative heights but Sheet One remains Hawtins opening shot and his meisterwerk. And their second album was the one that set them on the path to becoming a globe-conquering festival behemoth. The album was It arrived at the height of his power, when hed established a global network of footworkers and Teklife devotees thanks to relentless touring and a no borders attitude to spreading the sound. Then along came this smooth, machine-like sound with Summer's shimmering vocals overlaid on top, and dance music was transformed. Arca probably falls more in this category than anyone else and has been sculpting a beautifully-jagged and urgent sound for the last five years. He was able to strip what he learnt back to its essence on cuts such as Helikopter and Glob, but was just as at happy pushing off into the stratosphere on zonked tracks such as the delicious Koma and stunning Gak. When he did, though, the results were exquisite, and his 1986 album World Of Echo is an unquestionable masterpiece. D.A.N.C.E, Phantom Pt 2, Valentine Waters of Nazareth; you know the score, absolute bombshells, the perfect mix of unashamedly fun and intrinsically French. Influenced by hip hop and Rage Against The Machine, Howlett combined industrially enhanced breakbeats with occasional bursts of caustic guitar, as on the single Voodoo People, with the closing The Narcotic Suite even including a prog rock-ish flute solo. It is undoubtedly one of the most monotonous and time-consuming things to do; not to mention the new And perhaps no one did this more elegantly than Massive Attack. His legacy can be found all over, from the label Audika Records set-up solely to release his catalogue of experiments to the spate of club nights and music projects named after his output (such as Lucky Cloud, Kiss Me Again, Wild Combination, Let's Go Swimming and Jame Blakess 1-800-Dinosaur outfit) to an endless list of artists sampling his music, including Kanye West for The Life Of Pablo cut 30 Hours. LFO was a bass bin-wrecker of a rave anthem, fuelled by a weighty bassline, laser sharp synths, and an anthemic spoken word vocal refrain. Downtempo Space Ambient Progressive Electronic atmospheric instrumental futuristic soothing space hypnotic ethereal repetitive N 1 in Heaven Sparks 3.77 3,853 58 Pink Floyd The Tonally, the mood is impossible to pin down, rooted in a reverb-soaked melancholy but endlessly exploratory and playful, hitting at a kind of gloomy-euphoria that the likes of New Order, Frank Ocean and more recently Yaeji have achieved considerable success with. Gnarly, frantic, anarchic electronica that went all in on samples and all out on carnage; Its one of those albums that gives you the chills when you listen back because every song holds a specific memory, it represents an era of independence. World tours, ridiculous stage design, stadiums full of people gagging for the drop Skream experienced it all. Attitudes, personalities and characteristics that are completely unique to one person set them aside from the over-saturated crowd. Obviously the entire boom-click mnml generation of the 2000s took them as a starting point, but perhaps even more so, everything in Burial's misty city dreamscapes and all the legions of emotional headphone voyagers that have followed in his wake is an extension of Basic Channel's world of gigantic shapes moving through the fog. They invented electro-pop. Thomas H Green. There were pure synthesiser records before this, from both academic composers and underground heads, but this was the one that perfectly captured that sense of music that takes you back to the womb. The euphoric synth trills and angelic whispered vocals sampled from an 80s atmospheric vocal compilation that open Selected Ambient Works 85-92 have come to be one of the most influential ambient tracks ever. It came three years into Photek's career, in which he'd carved a reputation for producing apocalyptic tracks like 'The Seven Samurai' or hyper-percussive classics like 'Consciousness'. Russell was a true trailblazer, so far ahead of his time that music is still catching up to his developments. His debut album Internal Empire has a sense of urgency and panic while at the same time feeling carefully considered and formulaic. The Beatles Sgt. Enos fingerprints can be found in the chill-out music that came to define backrooms during the 90s, the records of IDMs golden boys Aphex Twin, Oval and Autechre, and what would a RDHD record or countless other modern techno records sound like with all their dark ambience removed? It continues to stoke creative fires and artistic intrigue today, with the likes of Pet Shop Boys and New Order citing Cowley as a significant influence, and labels such as Dark Entries and Macro contributing to a spate of posthumous reissues and unearthed releases. Following Talking Da Hardest, in 2008, Giggs released his debut studio album, Walk In Da Park, and I remember it clearly: being in the ends and it replacing everyones love of US rap, for two years straight: namely anything released by 50 Cent, whose Get Rich Or Die Tryin LP had literally run our roads since its 2003 debut. Patrick Hinton. Its influence was almost immediate with a slew of poor sound-a-likes including Just Jack and Hard-Fi retreading Skinners everyman tales, while Skinner himself was instrumental in bringing through UK talent like Kano and Professor Green. Harrison Williams. Learn more about Mailchimp's privacy practices here. And this LP will forever be an insight into what it was like when it was just a well-kept secret. But Tangerine Dream deserve a special place in history for their discovery of how to switch off gravity in this 40-minute musical levitation. 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