Essential Electronic Albums on Vinyl

Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 was released in 1992 by R&S offshoot Apollo Records after Richard D. James had just two singles to hi...

Long out of print album for lovers of plants and synthesizers finally reissued! Originally released in 1976, Mort Garson's Mother Earth's Plantasia...

After a spell of being aggravatingly out of print, Daft Punk's Discovery finally repressed on their own Daft Life imprint. Here's Woodman's OG Lab ...

Bjork's fantastically diverse debut solo album from 1993. Those of us who were around back then probably remember seeing the "Human Behaviour" vide...

Daft Punk's 1997 debut album took the raw foundation of Chicago house to prog rock levels of high concept and grandiosity... looking over the odd ...

Best album of the 90s? Possibly maybe! For her second album, Bjork and her cast of collaborators escaped to the Bahamas to record at Compass Point ...

Groundbreaking third album from Iceland's queen of pop, Bjork. With the release of Homogenic Bjork shed her Icelandic pixie image. The album's star...

Vespertine was a departure from the sultry downtempo and chic IDM of Bjork’s previous albums, trading big room extravagance for reticent experiment...

2022 vinyl reissue on Daft Punk's Daft Life imprint. Around the time of this album's release, DP were the world's most talked about live act. We co...

Have you heard of these guys? I think they're French. Cross is every bit as good as everyone expected. It's crammed with already-classics ("Waters ...

Armed with the mighty Yamaha CS-80 synthesizer, Vangelis conjured up this epic soundscape to Ridley Scott's quintessential cyberpunk film, Blade Ru...

It’s hard to imagine a world today without Kid A. In October of 2000, the incorporation of sampling, synthesizers and computers in rock music was a...

An indispensible artifact from an era when the Aphex Twin could do no wrong. In the mid 90s, Richard D. James led the charge of the IDM world, live...

Finally reissued! Boards Of Canada's highly anticipated follow up to their Warp debut gets a long overdue repress. Geogaddi arrived four years afte...

If you're like me, you already own and cherish every Bjork LP up to the release of Greatest Hits (and none of the ones that came after. But if not,...

Originally released in 1995 by Aphex Twin, I Care Because You Do was his third full length effort. It was the first of his albums to break away fro...

Another in-demand repress from the Warp crew! Boards fourth full length album released with no pre-hype, very typical of this low key Scottish duo....

Original Lab review: Third full length from the UK trip hop powerhouse. I know you've all been waiting for another installment from our favorite do...

Reissue of NOW's most popular album from 1995, Smoker's Delight, from the good folks at Warp. I always thought the cover and title had a lot to do ...

Debut full length from American indie pop duo Phantogram. Eyelid Movies was originally released back in 2009 and found Sarah Barthel and Josh Carte...

It was natural that people were let down after the first Portishead. You couldn't get better than that. I never really gave it a chance, but years ...

LA's Flying Lotus is being setup as the next Madlib-Diplo-DJ Shadow-type producer cash cow. The hype is well-warranted in my opinion, as Flying Lot...

Thievery Corporation's sophomore full length from 2000. This album was my go-to on my daily commute from Oakland to SF. At the time it was the perf...

While 2007 may have been the year of Daft Punk, 1997 was when the seed was planted in our collective consciousness. The French duo dropped their st...

“Fuck 'em… and their law!” God, what a truly amazing record this is, an artifact from when XL was strictly a rave label, decades before Adele and R...

2LP reissue of Dilla's lost masterpiece. Available briefly as a vinyl EP back in 2003 on the small German label Mummy, Stones Throw has gone super-...

Swirling solo album from Animal Collective's Panda Bear. The first thing that strikes you here is the wild psychedelic artwork, followed by the Nur...

Third album from Kieran Hebden, aka Four Tet, originally released back in 2003. This is the one that all the critics love, and it's easy to see why...

La Roux's eponymous debut album finally available again on vinyl, for the first time since it was released in 2009! Original Lab review: It certain...

The Brothers gonna work it out! Undoubtedly, the best album the Chemical Brothers ever made. Collecting their earlier work as the Dust Brothers and...