Essential releases you always have with you

I have a bunch of essential releases I always have with me. Thats

All analords, SAW II, Richard D James LP, I Care... LP, The Tuss

All LPs by BoC

Oversteps, All Quaristice LPs / EPs, Amber

Kid A, Hail to the Thief

Machinarium LP

Double Figure, Scintilli

around that I build a very large collection that changes depending on mood. what are your essentials you always put on a new computer, in your car or on your mp3 player first and never remove them?

DrukQs

Most of the Steve Roach discogs.

All Aphex (incluiding the Alarm Will SOund)

All BoC

All Autechre

Feed Me Weird Things

Rifts

All Harold Budd/Eno collabs

and many others

Xtal is always present and never gets old.

  On 1/3/2012 at 7:06 PM, Kanakori said:

Xtal is always present and never gets old.

also I have always some Stinson with me...

...and Company Flow's Funcrusher Plus

Oh fuck you like company flow? Me too, i preffer Little john from the hospital because of the nasty feeling, i also have downloaded the other albuns with lyrics, however didnt have the patience to listen to them yet because liking rap and hip hop is always a tiresome process because I have to look for the lyrics and understand them and shit.

Jandek

Tonetta

Mainly because those guys are so prolific it would take ages to hear all their stuff even once.

J Dilla - Donuts

Autechre - Envane, Oversteps.

Battles - Gloss Drop.

Gorillaz - Demon Days.

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon, Meddle, Atom Heart Mother etc.

Oh yeah, Donuts, demon days and dark side of the moon are all time releases to me too, but DSOTM and DD wore off a bit... still love them though. We should be friends.

Yeah I agree

Always fun to see how some releases seem to put everyone on the same wavelength !!! Those are the real classics !

Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You

Beach Boys - Purple Chick Smile

Actress - Splaszh

Daft Punk - Discovery

Aceyalone - A Book Of Human Language

J Dilla - Donuts

Quasimoto - The Unseen

Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum

cLOUDDEAD - Ten

Bytes

(not listing artists for the obvious ones)

electronic-y albums

Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld

Geogaddi

SAW2

Sheet One

Approach by Subheim

Burial

Tri Repetae (just the main album, the EP it comes with fits more with Amber stuff and doesn't vibe with TR imo)

I have about twice as many albums from rock/metal/blues genres.

My iPod never goes anywhere without a complete AE/Gescom discography (and that includes three chronologically ordered compilations of non-album tracks and another three of remixes). Also, all the RDJ stuff and everything by GAS is a must as well. DeepChord 10-14. The Beatles mono remasters from 2009. The entire Basic Channel, Maurizio and Rhythm & Sound catalogs too. The following albums are also essentials:

Starflyer 59 - Gold

Radiohead - Kid A

The B-52's - S/T, Wild Planet, Cosmic Thing

Studio 1 - Studio Eins

Beck - Mutations, Sea Change, The Information

Tommy Dorsey & Frank Sinatra - The Song Is You 1940-1942 5-CD set

Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours, Where Are You, No One Cares, Only The Lonely, Point Of No Return

Black Sabbath - S/T, Paranoid, Master Of Reality, Volume 4

Cake - Fashion Nugget

Casino Versus Japan - Go Hawaii, WNPTB, Hitori & Kaiso

Freescha - Kids Fill The Floor, WCIOY

Signaldrift - Compass, Set Design

Pub - Single, Legless, Do You Regret Pantomime

Vladislav Delay - Anima, Multila, Entain

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, Meddle

David Bowie - Diamond Dogs, Hunky Dory

Sleep - Holy Mountain, Dopesmoker

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

Soilent Green - Pussysoul

Sepultura - Chaos AD, Blood-Rooted

Queens Of The Stone Age - S/T, Era Vulgaris

Smashing Pumpkins - MCIS, Siamese Dream, Pisces Iscariot, TAFH, Adore

Eliane Radigue - Trilogie De La Morte

Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70 with Ginger Baker - Live!

Fela Kuti - Confusion/Gentleman, Zombie, Coffin For Head Of State/Unknown Soldier

Fluxion - Vibrant Forms 1 + 2

Helmet - Meantime, Betty, Aftertaste

Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power

Slint - Spiderland

The Orb - Orbus Terrarum

Pinback - S/T, Blue Screen Life

Tool - Aenima

There's loads more but that's pretty close to an emergency "don't leave home without it" list.

  On 1/3/2012 at 7:01 PM, logakght said:

All Aphex (incluiding the Alarm Will SOund)

All BoC

All Autechre

All Harold Budd/Eno collabs

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Pink Floyd - Piper at the gates of dawn

Kenny G - Songbird (chatmm nostalgia)

Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss

Loop Guru - Duniya

J Dilla - Donuts

Afroman - Waiting To Inhale

Saru - Machine

Jean-Jacques Perrey & Luke Vibert - Moog Acid

Public Enemy's first two

DJ Shadow's first two

Global Communication - 76:14

most by Carbon Based Lifeforms

most by Bonobo

most by Funki Porcini

most by DJ Krush

most by DJ Cam

most by The Beatles

most by Johnny cash

most by Bob Marley

most by Vidna Obmana

Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Frank Zappa - Hot Rats

RDJ - Discography

Ae - Discography

BoC - Discography

µ-Ziq - Tango N' Vectif (2Cd Vers.)

Ceephax Acid Crew - Self titled

Venetian Snares - Moonglow / This Bitter Earth

Well, to compliment my rather small electronic list above here's stuff from other genres. It's always growing.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Nick Cave - Let Love In

Radiohead - Kid A

The Black Angels - Directions to See A Ghost

(now we get metal, I'm not that familiar with rock much anymore)

Burzum - Hvis lyset tar oss

Emperor - Prometheus... (yea...don't hate)

Incantation - Diabolical Conquest

Dead Congregation - Graves of the Archangels

Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick

Opeth - Blackwater Park (musically I like My Arms, Your Hearse more...but lyrically BWP means more to me)

Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun and Through Silver In Blood

Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God

Sunn O))) - Black One

Prince

Nothing. Even my very favorite albums I have to spend time away from or they get tiresome. In fact the more I love an album the more I have to discipline myself not to listen to it all the time. So my absolute favorites I listen to maybe 2 or 3 times a year.

Like for example autechre is my fav band but right now I have none of their stuff on my iPod

I don't usually favour specific albums, but i always have at least one album by the following bands on my mp3 player:

Autechre

Eloy

Peter Gabriel

Coldplay

Genesis

King Crimson

Talk Talk

O Rang

Nik Kershaw

Simple Minds

Killing Joke

Tears for Fears (their first two albums)

PVT (Church With No Magic has been on my mp3 player since it was released)

Cocteau Twins

Talking Heads

I use my iPod on road trips via a auxillery line. None of that driving with headphones/ear plugs bullshit.

Aphex

BoC

Squarepusher

Flying Lotus (esp Los Angeles and older)

Radiohead

Beatles

Chemical Brothers

FACT Mixes

Burial

Kode9

R.E.M.

Drexciya

Older IDM like Seefeel, Artificial Intelligence comps, etc

Sigur Ros

Smashing Pumpkins

Wolves In The Throneroom

Old Burzum and Darkthrone

Nas - Illmatic

Madvilliany

Randomly I have like 3 CDs in my car I never listen to...Kanye, Quasimoto and this album by a Western Fiddle group called the Quebe Sisters

I love WATMM...

  On 1/3/2012 at 8:15 PM, Mellow U said:

The B-52's - S/T, Wild Planet, Cosmic Thing

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, Meddle

Slint - Spiderland

  On 1/3/2012 at 7:58 PM, EleminoP said:

Quasimoto - The Unseen

  On 1/3/2012 at 7:35 PM, StocKo said:

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon, Atom Heart Mother

  On 1/3/2012 at 8:21 PM, chimera slot mom said:

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Jean-Jacques Perrey & Luke Vibert - Moog Acid

DJ Shadow's first two

  On 1/3/2012 at 8:37 PM, GRVGLTCHR said:

µ-Ziq - Tango N' Vectif (2Cd Vers.)

for me...

mouse on mars - idiology, autoditacker. pretty much all their albums

my bloody valentine - loveless

beck - midnite vultures and most of his others

squarepusher - go plastic

I would say that beck is the most recent addition to my 'permanent car cds'

Most of these artists albums:

Autechre

Boards Of Canada

Burial

Monolake

Biosphere

James Stinson

Basic Channel

Clubroot

Kevin Martin (The Bug, King Midas Sound, Techno Animal etc.)

Photek (Studio Pressure)

Nas (Illmatic)

Wu-Tang Clan

Ultramagnetic MC's

Public Enemy

Eric B & Rakim

Talk Talk

Tim Hecker

William Basinski

Stars of the Lid

Murcof

Arovane

Shed

Prefuse 73

I've got all burial tracks on my mp3 player, nothing else.