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Back to Mine - Groove Armada

CD-Charts > Music > Electronica
by: Groove Armada

Release Date March 06, 2000
This album is an all time classic. If you don't get it first time round have another listen coz it's grower. I'm on my 3rd copy because i literally wore the others out i play it that much!

CD-Charts Position 152
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Decksandrumsandrockaroll

CD-Charts > Music > Electronica
by: Propellerheads

Release Date December 01, 2002
Every so often, an album of truly funky genius pops up and makes you want to write a movie just to set scenes to the songs. Unfortunately for anyone just arriving at the Propellerheads' seminal work, you've largely been beaten to it. Rarely a year goes by when there's no film released with at least a few bars from this album hidden away on it.

Where, to give just one example, would The Matrix have been without Spybreak to accompany the excellent `Government Lobby' scene?

This album shines from the opening bars of Take California, right through to the Jungle Brothers' remix of the same track (though cleverly renamed `You Want It Back') over an hour later. There are some lull's, but never a moment when you are not being taken ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 153
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A Different Story Vol.1: Mixed By the Freestylers

CD-Charts > Music > Electronica
by: Freestylers

Release Date September 03, 2007
Yeah loving the mix, takes me back to some of the mixtapes I played in the car so much, and of course loving the bonus cd has
only one problem, Tronik House - Uptempo is not there instead you get Rhythm Quest - Closer To All Your Dreams TWICE!!!

its terrible when this kind of thing happens to an album, it would be nice however for customers to be offered a free download of the missing track.

CD-Charts Position 154
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Clear

CD-Charts > Music > Electronica
by: Bomb The Bass

Release Date August 01, 2002
Tim Simenon's 1995 album could be compared to Massive Attack and Portishead albums from around the same time. It's definitely got that Bristol sound, rolling dubby basslines, crisp vinyl-sounding beats. The fact it's got that feel makes it seem a bit dated but overall it's very serious but it just shines with quality from a brilliant producer. It's also good that there's a few tracks with a bit more 'kick' thrown in for good measure.

There's some high-quality guest appearances as well- Sinead O'Connor, Benjamin Zephaniah, Will Self, Justin Warfield. Well worth a listen.

CD-Charts Position 155
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As If to Nothing

CD-Charts > Music > Electronica
by: Craig Armstrong

Release Date April 15, 2002
An often misused and inappropriate word in the english vocabulary, but believe me this is spot on when describing the work of my fellow Scot.

Never heard of Craig Armstrong ? Possibly.

Never heard any of his work ? Unlikely

So much of his work is played on TV [ commonly as background music, even on Programmes like Football Focus & MOTD. ]

My first introduction to the work of Craig Armstrong was in a friends car during a long drive on winters night, when with this CD playing loudly I was literally blown away.

This is music to positively chill to.

Only problem Craig, there isn't enough of it around, and how I long for some new material.

Going back to the heading GENIUS, ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 156
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Switched-On Bach

CD-Charts > Music > Electronica
by: Wendy Carlos

Release Date September 20, 2004
Like Bach? Like Electronica?
If you do, you need to buy this platinum selling album.

An album of straight classical keyboard virtuosity in experimental timbres.
Before this album, nobody had ever heard of a "synthesizer".
After this album, everybody knew the name Moog.(Rhymes with Vogue!)

Wendy Carlos? Genius! Pure genius.

There aren't that many genuinely seminal albums - but this is one of the very most original and best.

CD-Charts Position 157
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The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld - Deluxe Edition

CD-Charts > Music > Electronica
by: The Orb

Release Date July 10, 2006
Set phasers to stun and fasten your seatbelts. Psychonauts stand by!!! This is a classic album and I think one of the defining soundtracks of modern club life. A staple survival tool for late night/early dawns.

CD-Charts Position 158
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Outlaw

CD-Charts > Music > Electronica
by: Alabama 3

Release Date May 23, 2005
My ex used to say that this band were a novelty, a joke band like that idiotic Crazy Frog, simply because they had a sense of humour.and weren't afraid to use it. Needless to say, she was wrong. Alabama 3 aren't a joke band, but they're a band that see the joke in life. Life is by it's very nature a ridiculous construct. In some respects we shouldn't even be listening to music, but out there chasing dinner and hunting things with spears. Come here, Bambi, you look tasty.

Like normal, Alabama 3 are an obscure mish-mash of a wide variety of influences -and. "Outlaw", their fourth album, refuses to mess with their so far magic (but commercially unsuccessful) formula, and offers a further twelve platters of country western blues gospel techno communist ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 159
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The Best of Natacha Atlas

CD-Charts > Music > Electronica
by: Natacha Atlas

Release Date May 23, 2005
As a German living in the Middle East - Gulf region: Oman, Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Quatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, ... - I truly do appreciate the music from that area. The rhythm is always mystical and very highly personal. You can feel the instruments and the musical tones which the artist wants you to feel. The musician wants to take you on a trip. They want to take you to a world unlike any other. And in this album, the very popular female singer NATASAHA ATLAS manages to do just that.


A Portrait: NATACHA ATLAS

Natacha Atlas (born March 20, 1964) is a Belgian singer known for her fusion of Arabic and North African music with Western electronic music. She once termed her music "cha'abi moderne". Her music has been influenced by many styles ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 160
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Everything Is Wrong

CD-Charts > Music > Electronica
by: Moby

Release Date October 16, 2000
This isn't consistently brilliant like Play or consistently good like 18, but it does have some simply outstanding material on it. The opening Hymm, for exapmple, and Into the Blue, God Moving Over the Face of the Waters and When it's Cold I like to Die. Those are the dreamy, whistful spacey ones. Also exceptional is Everytime You Touch Me, and I don't usually like that sort of thumping club music. It's tracks like All That I Need is to be Loved that I don't like. I find them discordant and jarring.