Recently a vinyl community I frequent held a month-long event where members shared their Top 30 LPs. I had a wonderful time coming up with my list and writing small reviews for each title. Unfortunately, I had a terrible time limiting my list to just 30, and it quickly grew to a Top 100. (And even then, I’ve cheated here and there with multi-disc box sets and discographies.)
But it all seemed too good not to share here at Innerspace so please enjoy a gallery of 100 of my favorite albums. Mouse over any thumbnail for artist and title info and click any image to expand and view the full-resolution photograph. All albums are presented alphabetically by artist.
Have I made any glaring omissions? Any indisputable electronic classics? Let me know! Perhaps we’ll have to push it to 200…
Enjoy!
Air – Moon Safari
Albert Ayler Trio – Spiritual Unity
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Vol II
Archie Shepp – The Magic of Ju-Ju
Beaver & Krause – The Nonesuch Guide to Electronic Music
Beck – Mutations + Diamond Bollocks 7in
Beck – Sea Change (Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs Limited Edition, Numbered, 180g Remaster on Pink wax)
Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children
Bonobo – Black Sands
Brian Eno – Ambient 1 – Music for Airports
Brian Eno and David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Can – Ege Bamyasi
Can – Future Days
Can – Peel Sessions
Can – Tago Mago
Captain Beefheart – Safe as Milk
Captain Beefheart – Trout Mask Replica
Carl Sagan – A Glorious Dawn (by Symphony of Science) single-sided 7″, reverse etched with the image of the Voyager Golden Record
Charles Dodge – Earth’s Magnetic Field
Cluster – Cluster II
Cluster & Eno – Cluster & Eno
Columbia Princeton Electronic Music Center
Cyril Richard – Alices Adventures in Wonderland w clothbound hardcover facsimile of the first edition
Del Close & John Brent – How to Speak Hip
Die Welt ist Klang – A Tribute to Pete Namlook
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
Dr. John – Gris Gris
Eduard Artemyev – Solaris OST (1972)
Eno & Hyde – High Life
Eno & Hyde – Someday World deluxe ed. w Art Print
Fraggle Rock
Fripp & Eno – (No Pussyfooting)
Future Sound of London – Lifeforms 2CD
Godspeed You Black Emperor – F A Infinity
Harmonia – Complete Works
Harry Partch – Delusions of the Fury
James Joyce reads Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
John Cage and David Tudor – Indeterminacy
John Cage – The 25-Year Retrospective Concert Of The Music Of John Cage
John Perry Barlow – A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kontakte
Klaus Schulze – (Don’t ask me to choose)
Klaus Schulze & Pete Namlook – The Dark Side of the Moog Vol 1-4
Kraftwerk I and Kraftwerk II (Crown label green and red wax)
Kraftwerk – Ralf und Florian
Kruder & Dorfmeister – The K&D Sessions
Last Poets – Last Poets
Lemon Jelly – lemonjelly.ky
Lemon Jelly – Lost Horizons
Lemon Jelly – Rolled Oats
Louis & Bebe Barron – Forbidden Planet
Low – Things We Lost in the Fire
Mannheim Steamroller – Fresh Aire Volume 1 (limited numbered edition distributed as a gift item to the employees of American Gramaphone)
Manos the Soundtrack of Fate
Manuel Gottsching – E2 – E4
Manuel Gottsching – Inventions for Electric Guitar
Marsha Gee – Peanut Duck
Miles Davis Fillmore Box Set
Miles Davis – In a Silent Way
Moondog – Moondog 1969
Moondog – Moondog And His Friends (first-ever release from 1953)
Morton Subotnick – Silver Apples of the Moon
M Ward remixing and remastering Jimmy Cauty (as Space) – This is Not What Space is About (Full-Length 2CD Unmixed Promo Only)
M Ward remixing and remastering The KLF – Live From the Lost Continent 2012
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come
Pacman Records and Picture Discs including a Square Picture Disc of “Pacman Fever”
Parliament – Osmium 180g picture disc signed by George Clinton at the harbor in Buffalo, NY
Philip Glass – Einstein on the Beach (Numbered Promo)
Philip Glass – Koyaanisquatsi
Pink Floyd – The Wall Performed Live Aug 06 1980 (Italian soundboard Bootleg)
Popol Vuh – Hosianna Mantra
Raymond Scott – Manhattan Research Inc
Red House Painters – Songs for a Blue Guitar
Sigur Ros – ( ) and Ágætis byrjun
Silver Apples – Silver Apples
Soul Coughing – Ruby Vroom
Spiritualized – Ladies & Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Steve Hillage – Rainbow Dome Musick
Sun Ra – Space is the Place (Blue Thumb)
Tangerine Dream – In the Beginning Box Set
Terry Riley – Persian Surgery Dervishes
The Avalanches – Since I Left You
The Black Dog – Music For Real Airports 3LP Numbered Set
The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (2xLP, Album, RE, 180 + CD, Promo)
The KLF – Chill Out
The Orb – Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
The Orb – The Blue Room
The Prisoner Official Soundtrack to the 1967 BBC series by the Six of One Prisoner Appreciation Society
Tom Waits – A Bit of Everything
Tom Waits – Orphans 7LP set, RSD 7in, Lowside of the Road, Under Review DVD
Underworld – A Hundred Days Off
Underworld – Barbara Barbara We Face a Shining Future
Underworld – Beaucoup Fish
Underworld – Born Slippy.nuxx
Underworld – Dubnobasswithmyheadman Collection
Underworld – Second Toughest in the Infants
Vangelis – Blade Runner transluscent red OST
William Basinski – The Disintegration Loops 9LP+5CD+Book Limited and Numbered Box Set
The KLF – “America, What Time is Love?” ltd. ed. 12″ French pic LP
Gas- Gas Box 10LP + 4CD + Book (Wolfgang Voigt)
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