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Greatest Dance Albums of All Time

  • 18-09-2009 12:04AM
    #1
    silvine
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    Enjoying the other thread about tunes of the year so figured I'd start one about greatest dance albums:

    Here's a few of mine:

    Underwold: Live Everything Everything
    Faithless: Outrospective
    The Prodigy: Music for the Jilted Generation
    DJ Shadow: Entroducing
    Daft Punk: Alive 2007


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  • #2
    Reginald P. DuM
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    Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
    Richie Hawtin - Decks FX and 909
    DJ Shadow - Entroducing


  • #3
    Hank Scorpio
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,631 ✭✭✭✭Hank Scorpio


    nice call OP

    Love them all but everything everything is just a level about the rest :)

    Oh the memories ;)


  • #4
    ghostdancer
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    Leftfield - Leftism
    Orbital - In Sides


  • #5
    Trance
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    I wouldn't call many of these "dance" albums but anyway..


    DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
    Booka Shade - Mememto
    Kraftwerk - Minimum-Maximum
    Disrupt - Foundation Bit
    Mad Professor - The Evolution of Dub
    Burial - Burial
    Burial - Untrue
    Clubroot - Boomkat
    Dub fx - Everythinks A Ripple
    Paul Kalkbrenner - Berlin Calling
    Daft Punk - Discovery
    The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
    Yagya - Rigning


  • #6
    francois
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    Dimension Intrusion F.U.S.E


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  • #7
    Zascar
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    Nice selection there...

    For now I'll add:

    Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
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    The one and only, the mindbending, the life changing, the incredible...

    027add37.jpg

    The Future Sound of London - Lifeforms

    Presuming this is not limited to 'dance', but all genres covered by this site, so ambient and electronic get in


  • #9
    VinylJunkie
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    Here you go
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=62132437&postcount=1


  • #10
    jtsuited
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    VinylJunkie wrote: »
    Here you go
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=62132437&postcount=1

    hahaha. beat me to it!!!:pac::pac:


  • #11
    Zascar
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    pmsl...


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  • #12
    g5fd6ow0hseima
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    francois wrote: »
    Dimension Intrusion F.U.S.E
    im just after getting this today, and currently listening to the opening track...

    funny


  • #13
    Yo Mamma
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    In no particular order..

    SLAM - Sci Fi Hi Fi
    Luciano - Sci Fi Hi Fi
    DJ Sneak - Sneak Beats (MOS Sessions)
    Mark Farrina - MOS Sessions
    John Digweed - Transitions 1 & 4
    Sasha - GU San Francisco
    Richie Hawtin - Transition
    SLAM - Ekspozicija 04
    Billy Nasty - JDJ Vol 1 (oldschool)
    Kimball Collins - UDJ of America Vol 1

    :pac:


  • #14
    Executive Steve
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    Artist Albums:

    Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 1 & 2
    Carl Craig - More Songs About Food and Revolutionary art
    Photek - Modus Operandi
    Breakage - This Too Shall Pass
    Goldie - Timeless
    Adam F - Circles
    Burial - Untrue
    Calibre - Second Sun
    Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
    Nightmares on Wax - Smoker's Delight

    Compilations and mixes i'm going to have to think about


  • #15
    welcomeinjam
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    Dj Shadow - Endtroducing (Not really dance but a few people have threw it in so why not)
    Aphex Twin - Drukqs
    Vitalic - OK Cowboy
    Boredoms - Super æ (If that counts)


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
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    A pretty unheralded one, but should be in every collection

    Model 500 - Deep Space
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  • #17
    Mr Floyd
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    Yo mama dont think dj mix compilations are relevant in this category.

    Heres a few..

    Carl Craig - Landcruising
    Carl Craig - More songs..
    Paperclip People - Secret tapes..
    Drexciya - Neptunes Lair
    Aphex Twin - Richard D James
    Slam - Headstates
    Sensorama - Love
    Herbert - 100lbs
    Kenny Larkin - Metaphor
    Dan Curtin - Art & Science
    Metro Area - Metro Area
    Ian O Brien - Desert Scores


  • #18
    Scubadevils
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    Some really great shouts here already, good to see Carl Craig there with his classic album, also absolutely agree on Model 500, an essential album.

    I've listed many of mine in this thread already but some repeated and others (that I must add to the other thread :pac: ) are....

    69 - The Sound of Music
    http://www.discogs.com/69-The-Sound-Of-Music/master/25496

    The Higher Intelligence Agency - Freefloater
    http://www.discogs.com/Higher-Intelligence-Agency-Freefloater/release/636

    Speedjack - Surge
    http://www.discogs.com/Speedjack-Surge/release/86947

    Detroit Escalator Company - Soundtrack [313]
    http://www.discogs.com/Detroit-Escalator-Co-The-Soundtrack-313/master/39264

    The Black Dog - All Albums!
    http://www.discogs.com/artist/Black+Dog%2C+The

    Autechre - from Incunabula (1993) up to Chiastic Slide (1997)
    http://www.discogs.com/artist/Autechre

    Spacetime Continuum - Emit Ecaps & Sea Biscuit
    http://www.discogs.com/Spacetime-Continuum-Sea-Biscuit/master/72766

    All of the Artificial Intelligence series....

    I'll add more later, dinner ready :pac:


  • #19
    FruitLover
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    I'm going to read "dance" as 'electronic' as I don't have any samba or waltz albums.

    Air - Premiers Symptômes
    Autechre - Incunabula
    Nightmares on Wax - Carboot Soul

    Most of my other favourites already mentioned.


  • #20
    harsea8
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    Maybe not the greatest of all time, but certainly a couple of my favorites from the old days

    Nexus 21 - Rhythm of Life
    http://www.discogs.com/Nexus-21-The-Rhythm-Of-Life/release/60825

    Depth Charge - 9 Deadly Venoms
    http://www.discogs.com/Depth-Charge-Nine-Deadly-Venoms/release/42674


  • #21
    g5fd6ow0hseima
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    Felixdhc wrote: »
    Autechre - from Incunabula (1993) up to Chiastic Slide (1997)

    It'd be interesting to hear your opinion on Autechre post C.S. Im currently going through a bit of an Autechre phase you see.....


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  • #22
    Scubadevils
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    Kathleen Grumpy Comic wrote: »
    It'd be interesting to hear your opinion on Autechre post C.S. Im currently going through a bit of an Autechre phase you see.....

    Are you new to them or just dipping back in?

    I don't really have an opinion after 1997 as any I heard were just that bit too obscure... I should probably try them though as never really gave them a proper chance - I did buy 'Quaristice' when it came out last year and I'd say listened to it twice, really wasn't clicking with me! Again, maybe I should give it another shot.


  • #23
    g5fd6ow0hseima
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    Felixdhc wrote: »
    Are you new to them or just dipping back in?

    I don't really have an opinion after 1997 as any I heard were just that bit too obscure... I should probably try them though as never really gave them a proper chance - I did buy 'Quaristice' when it came out last year and I'd say listened to it twice, really wasn't clicking with me! Again, maybe I should give it another shot.
    I agree with you calling their later music obscure. Their early to mid 90s stuff is as good as ive heard in electronic music. Tracks like Flutter and Eggshell are some of my all time favourites, but they went from that to utter ineffable music in my opinion - your waiting for a track to come around again and it goes off in another direction.... Glitch Noise?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4OvHLdnRI8


    classic!!!


  • #24
    Scubadevils
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    Yeah it was far too disjointed, as you say you think something is about to happen and it just goes off another way altogether. Funnily enough I do like that with some others such as Vladislav Delay, pretty fcked up music but it works for some reason.

    Many Autechre favourites but one that is really high up the list is 'Windwind' from Incunabula, amazing track...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SDEzROdM6I


  • #25
    Scubadevils
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    In keeping with the early to mid 90s ambient techno sound, another two gems are 'Basic Data Manipulation' & 'Texturology' from Beaumont Hannant...

    http://www.discogs.com/Beaumont-Hannant-Basic-Data-Manipulation-Tastes-And-Textures-Volume-2/master/23534

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-vFqb4AxMk


    http://www.discogs.com/Beaumont-Hannant-Texturology/master/74042

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-FjD5iyNvU


  • #26
    FruitLover
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    This is one of the first tracks that really sold me on IDM:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6gWG89to7c


    I find Autechre's later stuff (and a lot of IDM in general) to be too post-post-modern and wanky for its own good. The bottom line is that I want to listen to something that's nice (or at least interesting) to listen to; I don't want to have to don a beret while stroking my goatee to a load of random-sounding blips and clicks.

    Glitchcore is not my idea of music.


  • #27
    cranky bollix
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    My favourite autechre track - its off - tri repetae.gets played loud everytime towards the end of a session, savage when the big roaming bass kicks in
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLK70Ipe-tI


  • #28
    Scubadevils
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    Mr Floyd wrote: »
    Yo mama dont think dj mix compilations are relevant in this category.

    Heres a few..

    Carl Craig - Landcruising
    Carl Craig - More songs..
    Paperclip People - Secret tapes..
    Drexciya - Neptunes Lair
    Aphex Twin - Richard D James
    Slam - Headstates
    Sensorama - Love
    Herbert - 100lbs
    Kenny Larkin - Metaphor
    Dan Curtin - Art & Science
    Metro Area - Metro Area
    Ian O Brien - Desert Scores

    Thats a nice list... Some I don't know there, must check them out given the ones I do!


  • #29
    Zavi Discoma
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    Digitalism - Realism
    2ManyDJs - Most of the remixes
    Kidda - going Up
    Chemical Brothers - Surrender
    The Fabric Collection


  • #30
    jaykay2
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    Beacoup Fish - Underworld.

    Underworld at their peak.

    Need i say more...


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  • #31
    g5fd6ow0hseima
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    Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where

    (perhaps not of the greatest few, but certainly a favourite of mine)


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