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The List

Artist	Album Name	Year	Description	Download	Album Art
Amon Tobin	Bricolage	1997	Electronic music with jazz influences. Very organic sounding, almost entirely realistic-sounding instruments.	Download
Aphex Twin	Richard D. James Album	1996		Download
Aphex Twin	Selected Ambient Works 85-92	1992	"They say next to no one heard the Velvet Underground's first album when it was released, but everyone who did went on to start a band. Listening to Selected Ambient Works 85-92, one can't help but imagine the seeds being planted in the imaginations of the lucky few who were there when it all began. Nestled in these simple, undeniably danceable tracks are the roots of contemporary IDM. And despite its somewhat primitive origins, the final product remains among the most interesting ever created with a keyboard and a computer."	Download
Aphex Twin	Come To Daddy	1997	WHAT IS THIS I DONT EVEN	Download (Standard) Download (FLAC)
Boards of Canada	Music Has the Right to Children	1998	This debut release from Boards of Canada has now become a standard of electronic music that is revered by critics and fans everywhere. Ethereal sounds and hypnotic beats drive the album through its 17 tracks. As with most electronic albums it is instrumental, save the occasional use of small vocal samples to further the songs' tonal atmospheres. On the last track the album finishes with an ironic message on the dangers of censorship. Elusive, mysterious, and beautiful, this album is an excellent exploration of modern electronic sounds.	Download
Boards of Canada	Geogaddi	2002		Download
Boards of Canada	Twoism	1995		Download (FLAC)
Daft Punk	Discovery	2001	"Discovery's first big score comes with the rousing "Crescendolls." The obscure Imperials sample makes the song with spirited "hey's" and "everybody y'all's" yelled out from a crowd. "Superheroes," which draws its repeated refrain from a late 70's Barry Manilow track called "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed," sates with a massive, fist-pumping kickdrum, complex chord changes, and light-speed keyboard bleeps. The snapping percussion and Phantasy Star II phaser synths of "Verdis Quo" recall a somber Flashdance-era Giorgio Moroder. And the 16-bit pitch-bent tones and Klymaxx electro-bass of "Short Circuit" would have felt at home on Trans Am's Surrender to the Night." A good dance/house album with a lot of pop influences as well	Download
Fuck Buttons	Tarot Sport	2009	A noise-influenced album filled with swirling, hypnotic sounds. This instrumental album goes in unexpected directions at unexpected times, giving the listener a slight sense of suspense, yet the core feeling is always one of joy and triumph.	Download
Justice	Cross	2007	"... is also a sensation-for-sensation's-sake record, something French house has always excelled out-- even when it's been more classy than crass. Cheekily disregarding so many things that good dance music is "supposed" to have-- especially, you know, bass-- and in a post-microhouse era where "quality sound design" is a fetishistic obsession, Justice's digital distortion, 128kb-grade hyper-compression, and sometimes aggressively un-funky house sprays good taste with its pissed-up, pissed-off 3 a.m. musk."	Download
Crystal Castles	Crystal Castles	2008	"Their debut LP partly picks from 7" and 12"s that have been available in some format since 2005, and it's every bit as difficult to pin down. The lead track samples DFA 1979's "Dead Womb" and places those vocals atop a cyclical synth loop while they get disembodied and chopped up-- both function as song-length hooks. But the thing's called "Untrust Us" (natch) and by the next one, they're making good on that claim. "Alice Practice" absolutely sears with megaphoned (emphasis on mega) barking and Ethan Fawn's Atari-laced keyboards going on the fritz and racking up free plays"	Download
Venetian Snares	Rossz Csillag Alatt Született	2005	"But to his credit, [Aaron] Funk takes a chipped, charcoal pencil and illustrates a forest of leafless trees filled with the pigeons that he daydreamt of while watching the birds at Budapest's Royal Palace. Even better, his beats work with the orchestration instead of pulverizing it for an ironic counterpoint. Funk's baroque strings fittingly strike the air, while just about every melody is played with grinded teeth and bloodshot eyes"	Download
Mahmoud Awad	Sheikh to the F.U.T.U.R.E	The Future	This artist is from the future. There are no current records of his life, where he lives, or anything about him. This album must be treated with great respect, because it is the first that has been sent back in time to us. Perhaps we will someday find out how this artist was able to send his album back in time.	Download