Essential Electronic Albums on Vinyl

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 ...

I'd usually take this time to explain a little bit about Twin Peaks but that can’t be necessary at this point. David Lynch and Mark Frost created o...

20th anniversary pressing of Portishead's classic 1994 debut, now on 180 gram vinyl. I don't care what kind of music you listen to, production-wise...

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...

You might've listened to this back when it first came out, but it's definitely worth a revisit. I know my ears were a little more biased a decade ...

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...

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

"Bump into each other..." Originally released in 1990, World Clique is the debut album from Lady Miss Keir, Supa Dj Dimitry, and Towa Tei, better k...

The long awaited solo debut from Jamie xx is finally here! It's been only six years since Jamie Smith made his debut with The xx in 2009, and in th...

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,...

"Remastered 2LP vinyl version of the classic 1987 compilation originally released via the legendary Factory Records. Substance compiles all of New ...

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...

2022 vinyl reissue on Daft Punk's Daft Life imprint. Nice to see people come around to this album years later, as the duo took some pretty big risk...

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 ...

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....

First Daft Punk, now Boards Of Canada. The first half of 2013 has been all about the masterfully orchestrated, slow-reveal album drop. It can be ar...

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

SBTRKT, the mysterious (masked) purveyor of cutting-edge dance sounds, drops his self-titled debut album on Young Turks. The London-based producer'...

Ryuichi Sakamoto’s landmark debut album, recorded in 1977-78 shortly after co-founding Yellow Magic Orchestra with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Taka...

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...

Nightmares On Wax's follow up their stellar Smokers Delight. George Evelyn continues on the downtempo journey with Carboot Soul. Definitely an albu...

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...

The highly-anticipated new album from LA-based producer Flying Lotus is here! Since emerging on the scene with 1983 in 2006, then breaking ground o...

It can be hard to be yourself while still being yourself. Somehow Bonobo (nee Simon Green) has managed to carve his own place in the world of elect...

”Philip Glass is an American composer. His music is considered to be minimal music, although he himself uses the term theater music. Glassworks was...

“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-...

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...

AUSSIE DUO ROBBIE CHATER & DAREN SELTMANN RELEASED THEIR FIRST ALBUM AS THE AVALANCHES ALMOST 17 YEARS AGO TO UNANIMOUS ACCLAIM. They didn’t g...

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

"Fun Fun Fun..." The fourth studio album from Kraftwerk, and the first one to grant them any sort of commercial success. Released in 1974, Autobahn...

IF YOU MUST OWN ONE AUTECHRE RECORD, THIS IS IT. Preceded by Incunabula, the duo's debut album which was curated as the seventh entry in Warp's in...

Wow, official 2LP vinyl reissue of this seminal 1992 rave album. I'm not gonna lie, this was my shit back then and it still kinda is (even though s...

Goodbye seventies! Vince Clarke formed Yazoo (called Yaz in the States for legal reasons) with Alison Moyet shortly after quitting Depeche Mode, an...

Released in 2001 on the Norwegian label Wall of Sound, Röyksopp’s Melody A.M. stands as a defining album in the Scandinavian electronic music scene...

"Double vinyl LP pressing. Play is the fifth studio album by electronic musician Moby, originally released in 1999. Moby's goal for Play was to ret...

When I was in middle school, I had a friend, James, who was a few years older than me and had just moved over from England. He already hated Americ...