headphone albums

I know this is pretty generic and done to death around here, but let's have another round of listing great albums that sound great on headphones in honor of my new half-decent headphone/amp setup. I'm geeking out on lossless audio and crystal clear production. does not have to be idm or electronic!

currently jamming some Terry Riley.

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Pole's a good choice

Can has done a binaural(dummy head recording) album..early IDM ;]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_Motion

give it a try..

cheers,

io

Super_Collider - "Raw Digits"

Kangding Ray - "Pruitt Igoe"

Pantha Du Prince - "Black Noise"

Prefuse 73 - "One Word Extinguisher"

Seefeel - "Succour"

Biosphere - Shenzhou; Cirque; Dropsonde

Jaga Jazzist - One Armed Bandit

Funkstorung - Appetite for Disctruction

Richard Devine - Cautella

Ween - The Mollusk

The Flaming Lips - At War with the Mystics

Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons

Brian Eno - Small Craft on a Milk Sea

Beck - Midnight Vultures

Jamie Lidell - Multiply

...kind of a random assortment, but all sound fantastic through headphones.

  On 4/25/2011 at 9:21 AM, Zephyr_Nova said:

Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons

yep

avey tare - down there

the campfire headphase (JOIN KRAMERS SESSION PARTY ON THE 26TH)

Timewind - Klaus Shulze

Oxygene/Equinoxe/Zoolook - J.M.Jarre

Dreamfish 1&2 - Namlook/Mixmaster Morris

Zoetosis - Telomore

Ambient Otaku - Tetsu Inoue

Lifeforms - FSOL

Musik - Plastikman

Generator - Keth Fullerton Whitman

Submers - Loscil

Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons

Peter Gabriel - Up

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

Devin Townsend - Terria

Devin Townsend - Infinity

Björk - Vespertine

Savath y Savalas - Golden Pollen

Underworld - Oblivion With Bells

those are good choices. most of the electronic ones I knew already. How about some rock/folk/jazz? maybe i need some Dark Side of the Moon.

Off the top of my head...

(any Loscil)

(Echospace, DeepChord, Variant, Intrusion, etc.)

Amon Tobin - ISAM

I concur. Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons.

Also

Mr. Bungle - California

Fantomas - Delirium Cordia. A headphone album if I ever heard one. The concept for the album is surgery without anesthesia, so I perceive the entire recording as being from the perspective of whomever is undergoing the operation.

Miles Davis - The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965. The first track doesn't count. Every other recording has brilliant stereo imaging. The presence of the musicians is outstanding.

Rafael Toral - Space

The Kronos Quartet - Nuevo

Beck - Midnight Vultures

I actually liked this album for the first time through headphones...It acquired a totally different atmosphere that way. Thrilling.

As far as Jazz goes, these ones never fail:

Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

- Mingus Ah Um

John Coltrane - Meditations

- A Love Supreme

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (get the remaster)

- Get Up With It

Herbie Hancock - Crossings

- Maiden Voyage

Yusef Lateef - The Blue Yusef Lateef

Bill Evans - Conversations with Myself

for Rock:

The Beatles - Revolver

- Abbey Road

David Bowie - Low

- Heathen

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

- Animals

Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity

- Powertrip

King Crimson - Lizard

- In the Court of the Crimson King

TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain

- Dear Science

The Rolling Stones - Aftermath

- Let It Bleed

and yeah those Mr Bungle albums are completely and utterly brilliant, as is Delirium Cordia.

  On 4/25/2011 at 11:13 PM, Wall Bird said:

I concur. Secret Chiefs 3 - Book of Horizons.

 

Also

 

Mr. Bungle - California

Yes, been a fan of both for years- Trey Spruance is the man is a really underrated multi-instrumentalist/arranger/producer.

Now that I come to think of it, the self-titled Ektoise album was very much created with headphones in mind... I put about a million layers in there

mhtrtc

a million now living will never die

kind of blue

in rainbows

some cold rock stuf

the software slump

Ha! I am thrilled that so many people here are digging on Secret Chiefs 3, Book of Horizons.

Portishead, Third is an especially lovely headphones listen. I wonder how many people who were hating on that album actually heard it through headphones. It's aural sex for me.

Elliott Smith, Figure 8

ohGr - SunnyPsyOp

crystal clear, mind altering sounds through yo headphones

Wisp - NRTHNDR

Nine inch Nails - any album, ghosts vol. 1-4 is good for chilling out

Brian Eno - small craft on a milk sea

muziq - billious paths