2022: Music, by artist
So, just like my 2022 lists for comics and movies, I'm not gonna have something to say for everything on this list. There's almost, like, 400 albums and unless something really really sticks out, I'm not gonna put anything underneath it. I may have enjoyed, I may have just not remembered it fully.
Underworld
Beacoup Fish (Remastered)
Change the Weather
I can see why they changed their music so much! It ain't very good!
A Hundred Days Off
Second Toughest in the Infants (Remastered)
Oblivion with Bells
DRIFT Series 1 Sampler Edition
DRIFT Series 1
That's right, I listened to nearly all 7 fucking hours of this album, and you know what?! It's pretty good.
Scattle
Bravado
Visitors
Timelapse
Scattle
Entity
Squatters
Glory
Mirage
Aside
Barred
Backup EP
Close to Home
Dreams
Fractal
Gramps
Me
Mono
Scarlett
Shine
Slap
The Plug
Ad Hoc
Cruiser
Love Like This
Zen
I Feel You
Power
Get Back
Hunt/No Comply
Dropouts
Glass Candy
Overall, I think Glass Candy is a slightly better Chromatics, which isn't saying much.
B/E/A/T/B/O/X
The Beat's Alive
I Always Say Yes
IKO
Triobelisk
Zoneplex
Tri-tri-tri-obelisk Soundtrack
Return to Xrystal
The Soft Moon
Zeros
Criminal
Deeper
The Soft Moon
Exister
Tangerine Dream
Zeit
You're Always on Time
Cyclone (2018 Remaster)
White Eagle
Edgar Allan Poe's Island of the Fay
Oedipus Tyrannus
Quantum Gate/Quantum Key
Franz Kafka: The Castle
Green Desert
Finnegan's Wake
Tangram 2008
Views from a Red Train
Springtime in Nagasaki
Summer in Nagasaki
Underwater Sunlight
Le Parc
Phaedra Revisited: 35th Anniversary
Raum
Turns out Tangerine's still got the JUICE.
Hyperborea (Deluxe Version/Remastered 2020)
Tangram (Remastered 2020)
Simian Mobile Disco
Attack Decay Sustain Release
I didn't think too much of this when I started off, just some average club-friendly EDM, but the back half has some great instrumental tracks, and showed the potential of this band.
Murmurations
Good!
Welcome to Sideways
Whorl
Unpatterns
Delicacies
Temporary Pleasure
Burial
Antidawn EP
This is most definitely my favorite release this year. It's hard to explain why, just listen to it.
Burial
Chemz/Dophinz
Claustro/State Forest
Young Deat/Nightmarket
Distant Lights
Untrue
Rodent
Subtemple/Beachfires
Temple Sleeper
Rival Dealer
Kindred EP
Truant
Ghost Hardware
Street Halo
South London Boroughs
Streetlands EP
The Weeknd
Dawn FM
Autechre
Chiastic Slide
PLUS
SIGN
Oversteps
Quaristice
Untitled
LP5
Garbage
Tri Repetae
Incunabula
Confield
Draft 7.30
elseq 1
Exai
The xx
xx
Music that sounds like everyone making it is slowly falling asleep. I wanted to revisit the album and see if there was anything more to it than I remembered. There wasn't.
alva noto
Xerrox Vol. 1
Xerrox Vol. 2
I love the entire Xerrox Series, but this is the first one I listened to, so it's my favorite by default. Honestly, I don't care for too much else by alva noto.
Xerrox Vol. 3
Xerrox Vol. 4
HYbr:ID I
Unieqav
Univrs
Transspray
Transform
Prototypes
Modul 4
Young Fathers
DEAD
White Men Are Black Men Too
TAPE ONE
TAPE TWO
Filur
Deeply Superficial
Exciting Comfort
Justice
Woman
Woman Worldwide
I love this as an experiment, really combing through everything about their discography and trying to make a singular "Justice sound." It's the only time I've been excited to hear "We Are Your Friends."
Audio, Video, Disco
†
Franc Moody
Dance Moves
Dream in Colour
House of FM
EP
Mass Appeal
Into the Ether
Sparks
Whomp That Sucker
No. 1 in Heavern (40th Anniversary Edition)
I've listened to a fair share of Sparks albums and this is the best one, hands down. You don't have to bother with the rest, but you still can if you want to.
El Huervo
World's End
Do Not Lay Waste to Homes…
…Where You Must Rest Your Weary Bones
Flammarion
Meat Loaf
Bat Out of Hell
Kind of gay.
Magic Sword
Endless
The Weapon and the Soul
Volume 1 (Deluxe Edition)
WhoMadeWho
Watergate 26 (Mixed Tracks)
Knee Deep
This is just an EP, but I think it's got some neat experiments going on, and it's always worth a revisit.
Synchronicity
UUUU
Pretty good. Consistent with WhoMadeWho's output. If you liked the previous stuff, you'll like this.
Hot Chip
The Warning
Late Night Tales: Hot Chip
Freakout/Release
The best Hot Chip album in recent years. The singles are all pretty great, and there's nothing that turned me off. A good listen.
Datarock
A Fool at Forty is a Fool Indeed
California
Catcher in the Rye
In E
See What I Care
Com Truise
Wave 1
In Decay
In Decay, Too
Galactic Melt
Iteration
Persuasion System
Galacitc Melt (10th Anniversary Edition)
Fairlight
Silicon Tare
!!!
Wallop
MEGAM!!!X VOL. 1
Louden Up Now
Let It Be Blue
This is, by far, the worst !!! album. There's seeds of good thing in some of these songs, but there's just too much weird shit thrown in that ruins a potentially good album. The best example I can give is the title track: "Let It Be Blue." The chorus of the song is great, and in keeping with some of their better dance punk bops, but the verses have a weird, halting staccato to them that completely destroys whatever groove you might've found yourself in. This whole album is clearly a big experiment and I hope something good comes out of it, but I would never recommend listening to it.
2Pac
I feel like I'm gonna get people mad at me for saying this, but I honestly like his earlier albums better. That's not to say later albums aren't good, they are; they express a deep cynicism within the black community that I feel like others shy away from. You can also say that he predicted his own death, but he did that like, all the time, so I feel like you don't get as much credit for that. Or more credit? I don't know. I don't know much about rap in general. I don't know much about anything in general.
2Pacalypse Now
All Eyez on Me
Me Against the World
Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z.
Arrested Development
3 Years, 5 Months, and 2 Days in the Life of…
Deltron 3030
Deltron 3030
Liked it pretty well, but I got to track on the second album with The Lonely Island and decided that I needed to limit the Deltron experience to just this album.
The Wu-Tang Clan
Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Public Enemy
Fear of a Black Planet
Danger Mouse and Jemini
Ghetto Pop Life
Kurtis Blow
Kurtis Blow
Look, I have to start by saying that I have great respect for Kurtis Blow and I think that he's a talented trailblazer, but I can't help but find this funny. Every single song features a line wher Kurtis Blow introduces himself, which feels like something that would be in an 80s parody of a rap song. By far my favorite track is "Way Out West," where Kurtis Blow faces off against a guy named Ganymede. What's Ganymede's crime? He won't get down! Don't worry, Kurtis Blow teaches him a lesson that he'll never forget.
Funkadelic
Maggot Brain
Parliament
Mothership Connection
Boney M.
Straight-up, one of the best disco bands to ever do it. The later albums are a little rough, and you can tell their was some panic that they had to pivot away from disco. If I learned anything, pivoting away from disco is for cowards and anyone who tells you to do it is not your friend.
Nightflight to Venus
Love for Sale
Oceans of Fantasyv
Take the Heat Off Me
Eye Dance
Ten Thousand Light Years
Boonoonoonoos
Geto Boys
We Can't Be Stopped
What can you say, Texas brings the heat, baby. Really good stuff on here, and while "Mind's Playing Tricks on Me" is as iconic as it ever was,"Trophy," "Ain't Down with Being Broke," "Fuck a War," and most of the rest of the album is filled with solid stuff.
Jay-Z and Kanye West (sorry)
Watch the Throne (Deluxe)
Danny Brown
Atrocity Exhibition
This is my favorite album from Danny Brown. I think Danny Brown hits the same sort of themes that 2Pac does in his later work and I love the instrumentation on this.
Hot Soup
Old
uknowhatimsayin¿
XXX
Jay-Z/Linkin Park
Collison Course
Iconic. Amazing. The greatest collaboration in all of music and it will never be repeated again.
Sir Mix-a-Lot
Mack Daddy
I know I'm showing my ignorance, but I didn't expect the "I like big butts," guy to be so damn good. Aside from "Baby Got Back," I really enjoy "Testarossa." It's almost a breakbeat song. Someone's gonna be mad at me for saying that, and you know what? They're absolutely right.
Madvillian
Madvilliany
Air
Moon Safari
Ed Harrison
Neotokyo
Honestly thought that this was going to be another one of the hundreds of generic synthpop throwback bands (note: stop using 80s electronica as a benchmark for "cyberpunk" music), but it's closer to an orchestral arrangement featuring electronic instruments and samples. High marks for basically his entire discography.
TGR Fuel
Neotokyo Remixed 01
ntremixed02
Valley
Killing Joke
Night Time
Front 242
No Comment (Remastered)
Four Tet
Parallel
Busdriver
Perfect Hair
The Notorious B.I.G.
Ready to Die (The Remaster)
Vektroid
Seed & Synthetic Earth
Earth, Wind, and Fire
September
N.W.A.
Straight Outta Compton
Rick James
Street Songs (Expanded Edition)
Goddamn this man was talented, but it's too bad he gave his life to that white bitch (I mean cocaine, not an actual woman).
The Juan MacLean
The Future Will Come
I Want the Night
The Bright Light
In a Dream
Everybody Get Close
Change
The Glow of Love
Miracles
This Is Your Time
Change of Heart
Negativland
Listen to Negativland. That's it, just do it. Skip the Over the Edge series though, I didn't find most of that stuff funny.
Negativ(e)land Live on Tour
GUNS
SEGA SOUND TEAM
Ollie King Original Soundtrack
SPACE HARRIER II ~SPACE HARRIER COMPLETE COLLECTION~ ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
Out Run: Original Soundtrack (Vol. 1)
Out Run: Original Soundtrack (Vol. 3)
Ben Babbitt, et. al.
Kentucky Route Zero (Original Soundtrack)
Fantastic electric ambient album, and it was perfect for the game. Even if you don't want to play the game, I would recommmend this. Even the traditional folk songs are pretty damn great.
The Presets
Hi Viz
When I first tried to listen to this album, I was disappointed. "Do What You Want" seemed closer to "Are You the One" after the uh… kind of gay Pacifica (I feel I should remind you all that I am a gay man and it's okay for me to refer to things as pejoratively gay). i wasn't on board the first time around, as it's much closer to traditional EDM than it is to Apocalypso (the best Presets album, still). But after giving it a few years, I listened back through it and found that there was still plenty to like and is definitely a welcome change from Pacifica.Röyksopp
The Understanding
Profound Mysteries
Liked it!
Profound Mysteries II
Didn't like it!
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Through the Looking Glass
Fuck Buttons
Slow Focus
Street Horrrsing
Tarot Sport
Various artists
Monsters of Cock Rock Disco
Yeah, it's pretty good. "Chicken Dance" by DJ Donna Summer is on permanent rotation.
SUPER EUROBEAT PRESENTS INITIAL D ~D SELECTION~
Adam Wingard Presents The Guest II (Original Soundtrack)
Textures and Tones
From Furthest Signals
Prins Thomas Presents Paradise Goulash
Devo
Shout
This was the end of me trying to listen to Devo's back catalog. It's just not that good.
Hot Dad
TV
Synthdown
For someone who's known for just being an internet comedy music guy, I have to say that Hot Dad makes a really great instrumental synthpop album. Seriously, check it out.
El Huervo and Ratvader
Sambandh
Sacred Skin
Far Away
No Surprise
Tomas Barfod
Salton Sea
Love Me
Basement Music
Róisín Murphy
Take Her Up to Monto
Róisín Machine (Deluxe)
Hairless Toys
Overpowered
Ruby Blue
Riddarna
Under jorden
En anna tid
Rustie
Glass Swords
Teeth of the Sea
After hearing Wraith near the end of last year, I couldn't help but become a fan of Teeth of the Sea. It's weird, dark electronic ambient noise with prominent use of a trumpet. As I understand it, using a brass instrument technically qualifies this as a Ska band, and if that's the case, I have to say this is my favorite Ska band of all time. I also can't help but love a band that has a song named after a line in Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Everything from MASTER onward is great, but there's still some gold in those other albums.
Your Mercury
Highly Deadly Black Tarantula
MASTER
Orphaned by the Ocean
Hypnoticon
Depeche Mode
Violator (2006 Remaster)
Fischerspooner
Odyssey
Todd Terje
Mjøndalen Diskokblubb
Eurodans
Ragysh
Strandbar
Spiral
It's the Arps
Jungleknugen
Lanzarote
Todd Terje with Del Glyne Triangel
Maskindans
alva noto and Ruichi Sakamoto
Vrioon
Ashra
New Age of Earth
Blackouts
Correlations
Gaspard Augé
Escapades
Hey, it's one of the guys from Justice. And he's closer to disco than any Justice album. Of course, it doesn't feature any samples from the score of Tenebre, but nothing is perfect. Still worth a listen.
Ludacris
The Red Light District
Why didn't anyone tell me there was a Ludacris song that sampled the theme song from Austin Powers? I was just supposed to know that?!
JACK+JIM
Circa Infinity OST
Probably the best part of the game, tbh.
Pictureplane
Technomancer
Burning Chrome
Blackdown, Heatmap, and Burial
Shock Power of Love EP
Burial, Four Tet, and Thom Yorke
Her Revolution/His Rope
M|O|O|N
Rubber
Chlorophyll
Grift
MOON EP
Particles EP
Come Alone
Thundercat
Apocalyspse
It Is What It Is
The Golden Age of Apocalypse
Stealing Sheep
Not Real
Wow Machine
A weird experimental departure, but not unwelcome. I gotta give it another listen at some point.
Burial and Four Tet
Nova/Moth
Beach House
Once Twice Melody
Classixx
Faraway Reach
Not as good as Hanging Gardens! You screwed up!
Del the Funky Homosapien
I Wish My Brother George Was Here
Jamiroquai
Late Night Tales: Jamiroquai
GZA
Liquid Swords
Florence + the Machine
Dance Fever
Pretty good stuff: a classic Florence + The Machine album. Aside from the singles, I would recommend "Daffodil," in case you are curious.
Supertramp
Breakfast in America
Frankie Knuckles
Beyond the Mix
No Frills
Copy Cat
Assagai
Assagai
Boy Harsher
Country Girl Uncut
Golden Features and The Presets
Raka
Kanye West (sorry)
The College Dropout
A Tribe Called Quest
The Low End Theory
Again, I know I'm late to this (try not to judge me, though I can't stop you), but in my big chunk of rap listening this year, I found this to be pleasingly different and jazzy. I didn't love it, but I'll be listening to more A Tribe Called Quest in the future.
Jean-Michel Jarre
Hot take: only the Oxygène albums are any good.
Oxygène
Equinoxe
Magnetic Fields
Zoolook: 30th Anniversary Edition
Revolutions
Oxygène 7-13
Blanck Mass
In Ferneaux
D7-D5
Ted K (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Calm with Horses (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Animated Violence Mild
World Eater
Dumb Flesh
Blanck Mass
Next Life
Guru Meditation
Terminal 11
Harmless Chaos
Tracing Structures
With My Mind
Self Exorcism
Kaleidoscope Eyes
Eyes Pressed Against the Glass
The Heaviness of Hovering EP
Stunt Rock
This Is Stunt Rock, Vol. 3
My Own Prison
Regret Instruction Manual Issue Three: Will It Ever Stop?
November Drain
DJ Donna Summer
Panther Tracks
Edgar Froese
Considering Froese is Mr. Tangerine Dream, I couldn't help but be a little disappointed by his solo stuff.
Aqua
Ages
Stuntman
Pinnacles
Saint Vie
Through
Estación Inmortal
From Desolate Places and Forgotten Times
Echonomist
Strymonas
Nebula
Perel
Hermetica
Public Service Broadcasting
Bright Magic
What a great album! The rest, less so. I couldn't help but being disappointed.
Every Valley
The Race for Space
Thom York
5.17/That's How Horses Are
Modern Talking
Okay, so basically every Modern Talking song sounds the same. Luckily it's a pretty good sound. That being said, you only really have to listen to one of these. Your choice.
Ready for Romance
The First Album
Let's Talk About Love
In the Middle of Nowhere
Christina Vantzou
Great Composer, you can't go wrong with any of her work.
Multi Natural
No. 1
No. 2
No. 3
No. 4
Prins Thomas
9
Prins Thomas II
Prins Thomas III
Principe Del Norte
Principe Del Norte Remixed
Prins Thomas 5
Ambitions
Træns
Okay, so, my big problem is that this album fucking rocks cock and the rest of Prins Thomas' catalog doesn't come close. It's not that other albums are bad, but this is just so good.
8
Bruce Haack
The Electric Lucifer
Interesting if somewhat dorky.
Oneohtrix Point Never
R Plus Seven
Magic Oneohtrix Point Never (Blu-Ray Edition)
Betrayed in the Octagon
Zones without People
Russian Mind
If I remember correctly (debatable), I liked this one the best. Read into that what you will.
Replica
The Fall Into Time
Drawn and Quartered
Garden of Delete
Age Of
Love in the Time of Lexapro
Steve Roach
Empetus (Deluxe)
I was really blown away when listening to this album. It was like an American Tangerine Dream and I think I liked every track.
What Remains
Travelers
Structures from Silence
Okay, so, Steve Roach has like 1000 albums, and I had to stop because I just couldn't get that invested. I'm already a Tangerine Dream guy, this is just too much. Still, good on ya, Steve.
Umwelt
Subversive Territory
Galvanic Vestivular Stiumlation
Inhuman Series Vol. 1.2.3.4.
Days of Dissent
Abandon in Place
Superior Life Forms
Courtesy
Night Journeys
Lifeformed and Janice Kwan
Tunic (Original Game Soundtrack)
Great soundtrack for a great game!
Arushi Jain
Under the Lilac Sky
I'll tell you this, this has probably one of the best album covers I've seen this year. We all love analogue synthesizers, don't we folks?
Recondite
Taum
Modula
Exhibition
Autostrada Galattica
LEYA
Eyeline
The Fool
Whatever the Weather
Whatever the Weather
Drew McDowall
Agalma
Collapse
Unnatural Channel
The Third Helix
Theiz
Waiting on Closure
Moving Forward Into the Past
Mario Batkovic
INTROSPECTIO
This completely blew me away. I had no idea an accordian could sound like that, and it gave me chills. Skip the first track though.
Astrid Sonne
outside of your lifetime
Human Lines
Cliodynamics
Amazing! I love this composer's work, and I think this was my favorite album. Great stuff!
Ephermal camera feed
John Roberts
Wrecked Exotic
Glass Eights
Fences
Plum
Dialect
Keep Going… Under
Waterfall End Sequence
Gowanus Drifts
Loose Blooms
Inca Ore
Birthday of Bless You
Rival Consoles
Overflow
IO
Kid Velo
Odyssey/Sonne
Before this album in Rival Consoles discography, I though it sounded like generic EDM. There's some good stuff, but this is where his work starts to take an experimental and more ambient turn.
Howl
Night Melody
This one is my favorite.
Persona
Articulation
El Caso Figo (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Brooker Stardrum
CRATER
Oliver Coates
skins n slime
Towards the blessed islands
worriedaboutsatan
Bloodsport
Providence
Batu
Opal
Kelly Moran and Prurient
Chain Reaction at Dusk
JakoJako
Metemorphose
Bicep
Just EP
Bicep
Ørdop Wolkenscheidt
Very hit and miss stuff, but I think after In Coal Country marks where the work becomes more consistently good. IDK, you be the judge.
Music for an Empty Metropolis
Friend
Quantum Computer Deep Dream
The Interstellar Honky-Tonk
In Coal Country
The Detective (I)
The Detective (II)
Kommissar Brenkstrupp: Fragements of a Troubled Detective
Pye Corner Audio
Hollow Earth
Sleep Games
Stasis
Black Mill Tapes (10th Anniversary Box)
Entangled Routes
Let's Emerge!
Steve Hauschildt
Nonlin
Dissolvi
Jon Hassell
Seeing Through Sound (Pentimento Volume 2)
SPARKLE DIVISION
To Feel Embraced
Chrome Canyon
Director
Seefeel
Succour
Quique
Eric Zann
Ouroborindra
Jacob Haage and Sarah Assbring
Riptide
Children of Alice
Children of Alice
Mort Garson (A.K.A. Ataraxia)
The Unexplained by Ataraxia
Great creepy occult moog music, what's not to love.
Music from Patch Cord Productions
Mother Earth's Plantasia
Didn't You Hear?
So first off, this is the score for a movie that I'm having difficulty finidng a decent version of online, but regardless, I really liked this score. Except for the Opening and Closing title songs. But yeah, this is for a movie starring a young Gary Busey and I want to see it, regardless of quality.
Belbury Poly
The Willows
The Owl's Map
The Night Monitor
I can't help but a be a sucker for this stuff. As far as I know, the entire discography of the Night Monitor consists of sonic inerpretations of real British paranormal stories. The Perception Report records are a great place to start, and are varied enough to not just sound like the same song over and over again.
Spacemen Mystery of the Terror Triangle
Perception Report 2
Perception Report 1
Perception Report 3
Perception Report 4
This House Is Haunted
I just like the fact that this has a track titled "I Can't Make That Noise." Creepola.
Their Dark Dominion
Pye Corner Audio with the Advisory Circle
Ghost Box Study Series 07: Autumnal Activities
John Carpenter
Lost Themes III: Alive After Death
I liked this, but couldn't get into the rest of his work. I mean, music work, not his movies. I love John Carpenter and so do you.
Heatmap
Arklight EP
Heart Matrix
UNKLE
Psyence Fiction
Never, Never, Land
Where Did the Night Fall
This is the album where UNKLE start to go towards a sound I didn't care for. I didn't fully listen to anything that came after that.
DJ Cam
Abstract Manifesto
Orbital
Orbital 2
FJAAK
Don't Leave Me/Plan A
Robert Hood
Mirror Man
Hard, dark, and with a driving beat; it's unlike any techno album I had previously. Robert Hood is a master of his craft.
Minimal Nation
This is whre the sound I hear in Mirror Man began, and it also whips. I wasn't as into as many tracks, but still great stuff.
Galaxy 2 Galaxy
Galaxy 2 Galaxy: A High Tech Jazz Compilation
Björk
Homogenic
Post
It's craszy that people love Björk when "Hyperballad" is an ode to littering.
OVERWERK
Vessel
State
Opus III
Not bad, not great. Completely fine.
Mind Fruit
Guru Mother
Pedestrian Tactics
Fishtank Session EP
Nerds Trying to Dance
Mandré
Mandré
Mandré Two
M3000
Boduf Songs
Abyss Versions
Keinemusik
Send Return
Gramatik and Luxas
Deserts of Synthopia
Was pleasantly surprised that an album with such a dumb name and stupid-looking album art was actually really good! That being said, I couldn't listen to Gramatik's solo work because the first track on the album was a rap about crypt0. Gross.
Cyberpunk 2020 OST
The Condor OST
Mike & Rich
Expert Knob Twiddlers
Crooked Man
Crooked House
Carlos Toshiki and Omega Tribe
Downtown Mystery (Nighttime Version; +2)
Fucking great! What's not to love? Nothing, that's what. Some great Japanese pop, right here.
Luxas
Esploraziani Modulari
The Bridge
Kun
Opiate
While You Were Sleeping
Objects for an Ideal Home
Aqua
Aquarium
The first, and as far as I can tell, only good Aqua album. And even that is rooted in nostalgia and might be a stretch.
Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima
Both of these soundtracks go way too hard for being 16-bit era game soundtracks, but then again, the SEGA SOUND TEAM has some great soundtracks, so it shouldn't be that surprising. It is surprising how weird and experimental it can get at times, but that's what makes it great. More stuff like this, please.
Streets of Rage 3 (Official Game Soundtrack)
Streets of Rage 2 (Official Game Soundtrack)
Massive Attack
Mezzanine
Heligoland
Digitalism
World Wide Night
BRONSON
BRONSON
The KLF/The Justified Ancients of MuMu
I had never heard of this band until Jeff Gerstmann went on a weird, long, tangent on his podcast about how, when the pandemic started in 2020, he spent the rest of the year listening to The KLF. That Jeff Gerstmann also makes a mean podcast. Now, of course, since the KLF destroyed all their masters in 1992, these aren't the orignal albums, but reissues and compilations, so it's hard to get the full KLF experience without doing some work to get there and I simply didn't want to put in that effort.
Solid State Logik 1
This is probably the best compilation in my opion: it features all the hits, including the Stadium trilogy, "Doctoring the TARDIS" (disgusting), and some other classics. This is what proved why the KLF had such a reputation in Britain and had such a profound impact on Scooter. To me, anyway.
Come Down Dawn by The Justified Ancients of MuMu
Fantasitc chill out album (orignally released as Chill Out).
Solid State Logik 2
I think (don't quote me) that this is mostly the B-Sides for the singles that KLF released, and I don't think they hold up as well as the the stuff in SSL1.
The White Room (Director's Cut)
Christina Vantzou, Lieven Martens, Jan Matthé, and Christophe Piette
Serrisme
Lindstrøm and Prins Thomas
Lindstrøm &Prins Thomas
III
Bjørn Torske and Prins Thomas
Square One
Janice Kwan
Five Colour Bird
OSE
With & Without
Amon Tobin
How Do You Live?
Long Stories
Fear in a Handful of Dust
The Pale Faced Family on the Hill with Oliver Coates
The Pale Faced Family on the Hill
Prurient
Creationist
Absolutely loved this noise album. I reccommend seeking it out if you're interested in the genre at all.
JakoJako and Rødhåd
In Vere
The House in the Woods and Pye Corner Audio
The Spectral Corridor
GLOK
Dissident
Naughty by Nature
Naughty by Nature
Phyxix
Phyxix 2
Solvent
New Ways: Music from the Documentary I Dream of Wires (Deluxe Edition)
Lightning Bolt
Sonic Citadel
Being into weird, alternative comics, I've known about Lightning Bolt for forever, but I never bothered listening to an album. I know that the live show is really where it's at, but I still think the recorded stuff is great.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
EARS
Let's Turn It into Sound
Juliana Barwick
Healing Is a Miracle
Laurence Guy
Saw You for the First Time
BADBADNOTGOOD
IV
Lucy Gooch
Rushing
Jon Hopkins
Immunity
Cihangir Aslan
Roots
Tim Hecker
Radio Amor
Another great album by a great composer.
CRi
To You EP
Isaac Symonds and Yaehsun
Natura Sophia
Leon Vynehall
Nothing Is Still
Malibu
One Life
Lomea
Permanence
Brian Eno with Jon Hopkins and Leo Abrahams
Small Craft on a Milk Sea
Broadcast
The Noise Made by People
Boards of Canada
Hi Scores
Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm
Trance Frendz
Two Lone Swordsmen
Tiny Reminders
Slowdive
Slowdive
Floating Points
Shadows
upsammy
Bend
Prefuse 73
Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives
Really loved this. Some great experimental hip-hop beats.
Harald Grosskopf
Synthesist
Album art is sick as hell. And the album is solid too.
Cocteau Twins
Heaven or Las Vegas
I can't understand what the heck this broad is saying! What the frick!?
Two Door Cinema Club
Keep on Smiling
Pretty good Disco-ish album from the boys.
Souls of Mischief
'93 til Infinity
Pinkshinyultrablast
Everything Else Matters
Miserable Miracles
Boy 8-Bit
The Suspense Is Killing Me
Knightlife
II
Gacha Bakradze and Knightlife
Mapping/Cold Sweat
Boys Noize
Oi Oi Oi
Zongamin
O!
Hammock
Raising Your Voice… Trying to Stop an Echo (Deluxe Edition)
Andre Prahlow
Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye (Original Game Soundtrack)
Never played the game. It's not on Game Pass anymore, so I probably never will. Oh well, the soundtrack was good.
Blood Incantation
Timewave Zero
Boy, what a deceptive album cover!
Helios
Veriditas
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
G_d's Pee AT STATE'S END!
Marconi Union
Signals
A Winged Victory for the Sullen
Invisible Cities
Culture Beat
Serenity
Like you, I only knew Culture Beat for their hit "Mr. Vain," and I always appreciated it, but didn't expect much else from the band. After all, there are dozens of eurobeat bands that never really amounted to much beyond one big hit. I'm delighted to say that this album fucking rokcs. There are barely any tracks I would skip, and the audactiy to start your album with the THX noise is something I can't help but appreciate.
Submerger
Elements
Poemme
Frozen Passages
J.E.T.
Downfall's Memory
Pulselovers
Circles within Circles
Field Lines Cartographer
The Glimmering Plane
Another banger. I mean, if you're into that weird, ambient experimental music.
A Year in the Country
Undercurrents
Richard Moult and David Colohan
Hexameron EP
Simon Begg
Future Electronica
James Johnston
The Starless Room
Tenka
Hydration
Popp
Devi
Civilistjävel!
Järnnätter
Kelly Lee Owens
Inner Song
Anna Meredith
FIBS
Pauline Anna Strom
Angel Tears in Sunlight
Sam Prekop and John McEntire
Sons of
Auscultation
L'Étreinte Imaginaire
Bitchin Baja's
Bajas Fresh
Domingæ
Æ
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
I Can Hear the Birds
Friendly Chemist
Touch of Jupiter
2 8 1 4
新しい日の誕生
Not as a annoying as a band that uses unnecessary Japaneses titles could be.
Locust
The Plaintive
Leafcutter John
Yes! Come Parade with Us
TAKA
Theory
Fia Fiell
All in the Same Room
Daniel Avery and Alessandro Cortini
Illusion of Time
Casey Scott
Orrery
James Holden
A Cambodian Spring OST
Steve Moore
Beloved Exile
Trans-4AM
Sublunar Oracles
HELIOCHRYSUM
Forbidden Structures
William Basinski
The Disintegration Loops (Remastered)
You know this one. It's good.
Lowell Brams and Sufjan Stevens
Aporia
Yann Novak
Lifeblood of Light and Rapture
Donato Dozzy
Plays Bee Mask
Ubaldo
Casa
Auvinen
Akkosaari
Olivery Alary and Johannes Malfatti
u, i
Lifted
2
vernon
echoes from_stockholm
Asaph Sánchez
Renaissance
Multicast Dynamics
Lost Worlds
Murcof
The Alias Sessions
KUNTARI and Addictive TV
Paratronic
Microhm
Lost in Elastic Time
Drew McDowall and Hiro Kone
The Ghost of Georges Bataille
Lucrecia Dalt and Aaron Dilloway
Lucy and Aaron
Kali Malone
Cast of Mind
Helm
Axis
I remember liking this one. I don't remember why. This is extra concering, considering this is one of the more recent albums.
Aho Ssan
Simulacrum
The Bug and Dis Fig
The Blue
Don Zilla
Ekizikiza Mubwengula
Doesn't sound like much else I've ver listened to. A combination of EDM and Noise music, I think it's pretty great.
Pan Daijing
Jade
KAGAMI Smile
Blooming Flowers and My Shadow
58918012
Needletip
Pharmakon
Contact
FUMU
Almost, Never, Nearly Where?
Great, industrialish, noise music. I love almost all of it.