The Electronic 100
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No. 32
Phaedra
Tangerine Dream
1974🇩🇪Berlin School
No. 31
Oxygène
Jean-Michel Jarre
1976🇫🇷Cosmic synth
No. 1
Trans-Europe Express
Kraftwerk
1977🇩🇪Electro
No. 71
Suicide
Suicide
1977🇺🇸Proto-synth punk
No. 72
From Here to Eternity
Giorgio Moroder
1977🇮🇹Electronic disco
No. 73
Supernature
Cerrone
1977🇫🇷French disco
No. 6
Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Brian Eno
1978🇬🇧Ambient
No. 19
The Man-Machine
Kraftwerk
1978🇩🇪Synth-pop
No. 33
Solid State Survivor
Yellow Magic Orchestra
1979🇯🇵Synth-pop
No. 74
The Pleasure Principle
Gary Numan
1979🇬🇧Cold synth
No. 11
Computer World
Kraftwerk
1981🇩🇪Synth pioneer
No. 75
Dare
The Human League
1981🇬🇧Synth-pop
No. 28
Power, Corruption & Lies
New Order
1983🇬🇧Synth-pop
No. 69
Enter
Cybotron
1983🇺🇸Detroit electro origin
No. 30
Another Side
Fingers Inc.
1988🇺🇸Deep house
No. 46
90
808 State
1989🇬🇧UK acid house
No. 25
Violator
Depeche Mode
1990🇬🇧Synth-pop
Chill Out
The KLF
No. 42
Chill Out
The KLF
1990🇬🇧Ambient house
No. 17
The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
The Orb
1991🇬🇧Ambient house
No. 47
Frequencies
LFO
1991🇬🇧Bleep techno
No. 90
Blue Lines
Massive Attack
1991🇬🇧Trip-hop
No. 3
Selected Ambient Works 85–92
Aphex Twin
1992🇬🇧Ambient techno
Waveform Transmission Vol. 1
Jeff Mills
No. 44
Waveform Transmission Vol. 1
Jeff Mills
1992🇺🇸Hard techno
No. 18
Orbital 2
Orbital
1993🇬🇧UK techno
No. 34
Sheet One
Plastikman
1993🇨🇦Minimal acid
No. 8
Music for the Jilted Generation
The Prodigy
1994🇬🇧Breakbeat rave
No. 12
Dummy
Portishead
1994🇬🇧Trip-hop
No. 13
dubnobasswithmyheadman
Underworld
1994🇬🇧Progressive techno
No. 16
Selected Ambient Works Volume II
Aphex Twin
1994🇬🇧Ambient
No. 45
Minimal Nation
Robert Hood
1994🇺🇸Minimal
No. 26
Timeless
Goldie
1995🇬🇧Jungle
No. 27
Leftism
Leftfield
1995🇬🇧Progressive house
No. 29
Tri Repetae
Autechre
1995🇬🇧IDM
No. 39
Maxinquaye
Tricky
1995🇬🇧Trip-hop
Black Secret Technology
A Guy Called Gerald
No. 48
Black Secret Technology
A Guy Called Gerald
1995🇬🇧Jungle
No. 70
Deep Space
Model 500
1995🇺🇸Detroit techno
No. 14
Endtroducing…..
DJ Shadow
1996🇺🇸Sampledelia
No. 24
Richard D. James Album
Aphex Twin
1996🇬🇧Drill'n'bass
No. 49
Biokinetics
Porter Ricks
1996🇩🇪Dub techno
No. 61
Feed Me Weird Things
Squarepusher
1996🇬🇧Drill'n'bass
No. 76
Dead Cities
The Future Sound of London
1996🇬🇧Electronica
No. 95
Dreamland
Robert Miles
1996🇮🇹Dream trance
No. 7
Homework
Daft Punk
1997🇫🇷French house
No. 10
Dig Your Own Hole
The Chemical Brothers
1997🇬🇧Big beat
No. 15
Homogenic
Björk
1997🇮🇸Art pop
No. 37
More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art
Carl Craig
1997🇺🇸Detroit techno
No. 38
New Forms
Roni Size / Reprazent
1997🇬🇧Drum'n'bass
No. 62
Modus Operandi
Photek
1997🇬🇧Precision drum'n'bass
No. 63
Silentintroduction
Moodymann
1997🇺🇸Detroit deep house
No. 78
Substrata
Biosphere
1997🇳🇴Arctic ambient
No. 5
Music Has the Right to Children
Boards of Canada
1998🇬🇧IDM
No. 9
Mezzanine
Massive Attack
1998🇬🇧Trip-hop
No. 40
Moon Safari
Air
1998🇫🇷French downtempo
No. 43
Interstellar Fugitives
Underground Resistance
1998🇺🇸Militant techno
No. 64
First Floor
Theo Parrish
1998🇺🇸Raw house
No. 77
You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Fatboy Slim
1998🇬🇧Big beat
No. 20
Play
Moby
1999🇺🇸Electronica
No. 36
Neptune's Lair
Drexciya
1999🇺🇸Detroit electro
No. 21
Since I Left You
The Avalanches
2000🇦🇺Plunderphonics
No. 50
Pop
GAS
2000🇩🇪Ambient techno
No. 65
Tourist
St Germain
2000🇫🇷Jazz-house
No. 2
Discovery
Daft Punk
2001🇫🇷French touch
No. 66
Melody A.M.
Röyksopp
2001🇳🇴Nordic downtempo
No. 79
Endless Summer
Fennesz
2001🇦🇹Glitch
No. 23
Geogaddi
Boards of Canada
2002🇬🇧IDM
No. 51
Rounds
Four Tet
2003🇬🇧Folktronica
Alcachofa
Ricardo Villalobos
No. 59
Alcachofa
Ricardo Villalobos
2003🇨🇱Microhouse
No. 96
OK Cowboy
Vitalic
2005🇫🇷Electro rave
No. 35
Silent Shout
The Knife
2006🇸🇪Dark synth
No. 4
Untrue
Burial
2007🇬🇧Dubstep
No. 22
Sound of Silver
LCD Soundsystem
2007🇺🇸Dance-punk
No. 41
†
Justice
2007🇫🇷French electro
No. 60
From Here We Go Sublime
The Field
2007🇸🇪Loop techno
No. 92
Random Album Title
deadmau5
2008🇨🇦Progressive house
No. 94
Berlin Calling
Paul Kalkbrenner
2008🇩🇪Berlin techno
No. 52
Cosmogramma
Flying Lotus
2010🇺🇸Beat music
No. 68
Swim
Caribou
2010🇨🇦Psychedelic dance
No. 81
Splazsh
Actress
2010🇬🇧Abstract techno
No. 82
Crooks & Lovers
Mount Kimbie
2010🇬🇧Post-dubstep
No. 85
Black Noise
Pantha du Prince
2010🇩🇪Crystalline techno
No. 53
James Blake
James Blake
2011🇬🇧Post-dubstep
No. 58
Space Is Only Noise
Nicolas Jaar
2011🇺🇸Auteur electronics
No. 67
Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
M83
2011🇫🇷Epic synth
No. 80
Replica
Oneohtrix Point Never
2011🇺🇸Experimental
No. 100
Visions
Grimes
2012🇨🇦DIY synth-pop
No. 54
Immunity
Jon Hopkins
2013🇬🇧Melodic techno
No. 56
Random Access Memories
Daft Punk
2013🇫🇷Disco-funk
No. 57
Settle
Disclosure
2013🇬🇧UK garage house
No. 83
Double Cup
DJ Rashad
2013🇺🇸Footwork
No. 84
Amygdala
DJ Koze
2013🇩🇪Eccentric house
No. 91
True
Avicii
2013🇸🇪EDM
No. 93
Worlds
Porter Robinson
2014🇺🇸Dream electro
No. 55
In Colour
Jamie xx
2015🇬🇧UK bass
No. 86
Elaenia
Floating Points
2015🇬🇧Jazz electronics
No. 97
99.9%
Kaytranada
2016🇨🇦Dance-R&B
No. 87
Bicep
Bicep
2017🇬🇧Nostalgic breaks
No. 89
Arca
Arca
2017🇻🇪Deconstructed club
No. 88
Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides
SOPHIE
2018🇬🇧Hyperpop
No. 98
Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022)
Fred again..
2022🇬🇧Emo-house
No. 99
Good Lies
Overmono
2023🇬🇧UK bass
Curation notes
- Sources crossed: Rolling Stone's dance lists, RateYourMusic charts and per-scene canons — then editorial calls.
- Artist albums only: no compilations, no DJ mixes (which rules out the DJ-Kicks and Fabric classics).
- At most three albums per artist — Kraftwerk, Daft Punk and Aphex Twin are capped, not exhausted.
- Narrowly missed: Autobahn, Syro, Burial's debut… — the list is a snapshot, not a verdict.