Slant Magazine: The 25 Greatest Electronic Albums of the 20th Century

In celebration of the coup that failed to overthrow the music industry (but continues to flourish on dancefloors, headphones and television commercials around the globe), Slant Magazine asked 300 music journalists, DJs and record label-folk to tell us what they thought were the most important electronic albums of the 20th Century.


# TITLE ARTIST

1 Trans-Europe Express Kraftwerk

2 Blue Lines Massive Attack

3 Selected Ambient Works: 85-92 Aphex Twin

4 Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld The Orb

5 Dummy Portishead

6 Ambient 1: Music For Airports Brian Eno

7 Endtroducing... DJ Shadow

8 Exit Planet Dust The Chemical Brothers

9 Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers

10 Homogenic Bjork

11 Orbital 2 Orbital

12 Substance New Order

13 dubnobasswithmyheadman Underworld

14 Innovator Derrick May

15 76:14 Global Communication

16 (Who's Afraid Of?) The Art of Noise Art of Noise

17 Utd State 90 808 State

18 Homework Daft Punk

19 Leftism Leftfield Buy

20 Music For The Masses Depeche Mode

21 Maxinquaye Tricky

22 Music Has The Right To Children Boards of Canada

23 Bytes Black Dog Productions

24 Everything Is Wrong Moby

25 The White Room Klf