What Were The Best Years In Electronic Music History?

i'm curious what people think were the best years in electronic music history and why?

Where the fuck is 2010?

its between 1996 and 2001

70-84

1976. Why?

because of this:

and this:

and of course this:

2004 for me...

  On 8/1/2010 at 6:22 PM, Captain James Mission said:

one of my favorites

1992-2001

I need a "don't give a fuck" option for this poll. It's not necessarily when the music was released, its how good the music is.

Sorry Troon but this is a stupid question.

Where's the 1922 option? That year was killer.

1996

orbital - in sides

aphex twin - richard d. james album

the future sound of london - dead cities

meat beat manifesto - subliminal sandwich

neotropic - 15 levels of magnification

just to name a few

+ it's when i found boards of canada, autechre, pan sonic, funkstörung, scorn, oval and was inspired for the first time to start making my own trac's

The 1800s would have been a pretty cool time for electronic music, as it'd be nothing but crazy old men experimenting with lightning bolts & steam engines.

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What Were The Best Years In Electronic Music History?

why can't i find the year fuck you ??

still trying to collate till our eyes dilate.

Yeah this really is a stupid question, surely you require better data than this for your surveys.

did you both not have a year in which you were more inspired by everything electronic music then another?

a year when you first discovered an album that changed your life or a year that seemed so epic and memorable

that it sticks in your mind?

i don't see this as being that unreasonable or difficult a question.

  On 8/1/2010 at 8:11 PM, Capsaicin said:

I need a "don't give a fuck" option for this poll. It's not necessarily when the music was released, its how good the music is.

This

  On 8/1/2010 at 10:57 PM, troon said:

did you both not have a year in which you were more inspired by everything electronic music then another?

a year when you first discovered an album that changed your life or a year that seemed so epic and memorable

that it sticks in your mind?

 

i don't see this as being that unreasonable or difficult a question.

Generally the year I buy and listen to an album is not the year the album was released.

Pretty hard to pin it down to a single year. I find that a lot of music has inspired me through the many years that I've been avidly consuming it (electronic or any other kind), and difficult to say that one was more significant than another. Not a stupid thread to my mind, just a difficult one to respond to. For me, the first half of the 80s was pretty significant, lots of ace synth-pop (Human League, Heaven 17, John Foxx, Depeche Mode, New Order), plus I enjoyed the early output from ZTT, what with their endless 12" remixes and the early Art of Noise stuff. ZTT's early releases might seem high cheese now, but they still seem innovative to me and, erm, fun. Depeche Mode's 12" were ace as well, when they were simply extended versions of the original tracks as opposed to some shitty housed-up wank that referenced the original track purely by sticking the vocals over the top.

OK, I'll stick my neck out: 1982, when I first heard New Order's 'Temptation'. That's sort of electronic music.

n.b. tl;dr: Grumpy old man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbR6YZs8hqs

ffS ... + yes that hiss hurts but i'm too lazy to up ..

i don't see how it's a stupid question. it isn't like it's an unprecedented thing to ask.

I think it's a pretty interesting question, just a bit of sensory overload if you're trying to pin it down to one single year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3qS1ynyJss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE9uQhn_8w8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHriPTmPe-M

we must remember that melody and rhythm should come togeather ... lest intrest get distracted altogether, and we're left with nothing but the odd broken feather,

2001 for me, all of the idm superstars released very good albums: confield, druqks, go plastic, double figure..

93

95

2000

2002

2000 is my personal favorite...