Excellent Electronic Albums

[GhostontheNet]

Having seen the interest in various kinds of electronic music in the "Bubblegum Pop" thread, I'm going to open up this thread for two purposes:

1. To help spread the information about excellent electronic music (The "Last CD threads" do not include albums one has had in their collections for a long time).
2. To help define for curious newcomers the defining points of various styles of electronic music, noting that using synthesizers is not the same as making techno, which has its own little musical theories and progressions.

Here, I'm going to leave "electronic music" open to any style of music that makes consistent use of any kind of synthesizer. Among these styles of music would be New Wave, Synthpop, Techno, Trance, Industrial, Darkwave, EBM, Ambient, New Age, etc. Let it be warned that the subcultures surrounding different styles of electronic music are vastly different - in particular, do not enter an Industrial or Gothic club dressed like a raver if you value your life. For the purposes of clarity, so we don't get somebody expecting uber-dance music picking up beatless ambient music, I'm going to ask that the descriptions follow this guideline:

Artist : Album : [Genre]
Brief Description

Or, if its a compilation, use this:

[Compilation] Album : Label : [Genre]
Brief Description

As an additional request, I'm going to ask that if the music contains explicitly Anti-Christian themes (as several electronic artists do) that a brief warning is mentioned in the description. Similarly, since this is a Christian site, try to mention if a group is Christian. Also, "really good" or "really cool" does not count as a description because it doesn't give us the least idea of what makes the music tick.

Now, to start off the list and give examples:

Front Line Assembly: Epitaph : [Industrial]
Post-collapse Industrial music with apocalyptic aphorisms

The Future Sound of London: Accelerator : [Techno]
Spy-movie influenced techno for corporate espionage

Wendy Carlos : Clockwork Orange: Wendy Carlos' Complete Original Score : [Electronic]
Note-perfect electronic remakes of classical music for the brutal droogs in derby caps of dystopian London

Kitaro : The Best of 25 Years : [New Age]
Serene New Age music with a traditional Japanese and natural environmental influences.

ThouShaltNot : The White Beyond : [Industrial/Synthpop]
Insanely diverse, intelligent, and ever catchy mixture of Synthpop and Industrial music with Christian philosophical themes.

[GhostontheNet]

Umm, if anybody else wishes to list any albums, they are welcome to. Continuing:

[Compilation] Squaredance : KFSS Studios : [Techno]
Spunky techno remixes of classic Squaresoft tunes. Project head works for the glory of God. ( http://www.majesticmix.com/ )

Mentallo & the Fixer: Where Angels Fear to Tread [Industrial]
Harsh horror influenced Industrial with sociopolitical themes

The Sisters of Mercy: Floodland [Gothic/New Wave]
Synthesizer laced Gothic with New Wave influences with themes of alienation from social corruption

Lycia : Estrella : [Darkwave]
Spookily beautiful and serene darkwave, like poisonous flowers

[That Dude]

Mortal : Nu-En-Jin (Industrial)
Sci-Fi influenced industrial.

Ultrabeat - Trip To A Planet Called Heaven (Techno/Trance)
Catchy techno that at times is worshipful.

[That Dude]

Accidentally double posted.

[GhostontheNet]

Mortal : Nu-En-Jin (Industrial)
Sci-Fi influenced industrial.

What kind of sci-fi influences I'm curious? I mean, sci-fi can cover anywhere from near future technology to space opera. All of my albums this round explore Christian themes.

Echoing Green : The Winter of Our Discontent (Synthpop)
Bittersweet Synthpop as beautiful and desolate as winter months.

Mentallo & the Fixer : Love is the Law (Industrial)
Insane experimental Industrial music, never heard anything like it.

Audio Paradox : The Iniquity of Time (Industrial)
Horror and Cyberpunk influenced Industrial rock

Paradoxx : Atomika (Synthpop)
Clever and spunky synthpop with just a touch of Gothic and Industrial flair

The Awakening : Ethereal Menace (Gothic Futurerock)
Updates the traditional old-school Gothic rock sound with Industrial accents while flawlessly maintaining the electric guitars in the old style, explores themes of dangerous pitfalls in the world. It is to Gothic rock what Futurepop is to EBM.

[GhostontheNet]

Does nobody have any good CDs that use synthesizers? For those of you unaware, a synthesizer is an electronic instrument producing sounds electronically rather than through more manual vibrations (like a guitar or flute).

The Future Sound of London : Dead Cities (Techno)
Fleshes out post-collapse sounding Cyberpunk soundscapes with very diverse styles of Electronic music

Juno Reactor : Labrynth (Techno)
Technological War Requiem making symbolic use of Natives and Conquistadors

Regenerator : War (EBM)
Eschatological Electro-Body-Music focusing upon themes of the divine spiritual war on evil. Just wish the inside art was more modest.

Covenant : Skyshaper (EBM)
Spunky, catchy, and highly dancable EBM with just a touch of oblique Blade Runner influence, a passable bridge into EBM and then to Industrial for Techno fans.

[That Dude]

Mortal's stuff on that CD is christian themed and each song is almost like a story in it's own right...One is about a teraformed planet, another about a guy on a space patrol who lost his love to some evil creature.

[ShiroiHikari]

Well, if we're talking about techno, I rather like DJ Tiesto. Two of my favorite albums are Summerbreeze and Magik 5.

[GhostontheNet]

Well, if we're talking about techno, I rather like DJ Tiesto. Two of my favorite albums are Summerbreeze and Magik 5.

We are talking about techno, as well as any other genre of music that uses synthesizers. Would you please give us a little bit of a description of "What do these albums sound like?"

[joeblade]

i was going to say ultrabeat but you already took that lol
joy electric is pretty cool and i know a lot of people have heard him
i think his last cd was ministry of archers

the one people probably don't know but i really like is fire fly
http://www.myspace.com/catchfirefly

[GhostontheNet]

i was going to say ultrabeat but you already took that lol
joy electric is pretty cool and i know a lot of people have heard him
i think his last cd was ministry of archers

the one people probably don't know but i really like is fire fly
http://www.myspace.com/catchfirefly

For the purposes of clarity, so we don't get somebody expecting uber-dance music picking up beatless ambient music, I'm going to ask that the descriptions follow this guideline:

Artist : Album : [Genre]
Brief Description

Or, if its a compilation, use this:

[Compilation] Album : Label : [Genre]
Brief Description

Also, "really good" or "really cool" does not count as a description because it doesn't give us the least idea of what makes the music tick.

[joeblade]

you could have just typed please put the genre next time and so you know i have no idea what the genres are since i dont really know that much about electronica type music

[GhostontheNet]

you could have just typed please put the genre next time and so you know i have no idea what the genres are since i dont really know that much about electronica type music

My complaint was actually threefold. Not only did you not tell us what style the music was (Joy Electric is Synthpop), but you left your description at "It's cool", which I specifically requested that descriptions of music not be reduced to. This is because "It's cool" gives neither me nor anybody else reason to not relegate it to the vast hazy abyss of CDs that somebody thinks is cool but which are quickly forgotten because they have no framework of mind to know what exactly the music feels like or sounds like. You also did not list any albums that stand out as excellent at all. Therefore, there is no other reply possible but to restate what I said in the original thread.

[That Dude]

Atra (Piano and Synth Driven Metal.)
I don't know the name of their CD but they have music up on Myspace and Purevolume. Imagine Zao with haunting piano melodies and beautiful synth beats.

[joeblade]

My complaint was actually threefold. Not only did you not tell us what style the music was (Joy Electric is Synthpop), but you left your description at "It's cool", which I specifically requested that descriptions of music not be reduced to. This is because "It's cool" gives neither me nor anybody else reason to not relegate it to the vast hazy abyss of CDs that somebody thinks is cool but which are quickly forgotten because they have no framework of mind to know what exactly the music feels like or sounds like. You also did not list any albums that stand out as excellent at all. Therefore, there is no other reply possible but to restate what I said in the original thread.

I was just throwing some suggestions out there to a slow/inactive thread you made about music I find interesting but lack much knowledge in. Thanks for treating me like a jerk.

[That Dude]

OK...If you guys have any thing else to say against each other you should PM the other one. Thanks for your suggestions Joe, though next time could you try and post what genre you think it is with a brief discription of what they sound like...And Ghost, next time try and be a little more tactful in the way you reply.

[GrubbTheFragger]

Since after reading into the thread I saw that you are talking about some techno and some industrial. I would like to second That dude's recomendation of Mortal and then say add

Andy Hunter: Christian Techno/Trance music that has been focused in several mainstream movies. Matrix Reloaded is one that comes to mind. His album Life is my favirote. For a good example listen to the song To life to Love on his myspace. Also Atra is also very good thanks that dude for getting me into them XD

http://www.myspace.com/andyhunter

EDIT: Sorry forgot the discription of what kind of music he really is. Myspace classicfies him as Progressive, Electronica and Alternative. The song (To life To love) as I said above is a excellent song but it is only a short demo. Go is a great song also

[That Dude]

So I'm the reason you got into Atra? Cool!

[GrubbTheFragger]

So I'm the reason you got into Atra? Cool!

Yes you are indeed the reason. You posted something about them in the headbangers Unite thread and I listened to them and I really liked them.