These three horses ain't dead yet.

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lol:)
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Daft Punk comes to mind. but 1 of theirs sucks mightily. at least when compared to the 1st 2.

but if i throw in the Alive 2007 album i would say DP has made 3 good ones. but they weren't consecutive. and 1 isn't a studio album.

But The Crystal Method has a few.
The Chemical Brothers.
Royksopp.
ATB
Paul VanDyk
BT
Hybrid
Way Out West

All of these groups have at least 3 albums. If you can't name a group/act with 3, then I'm guessing that it just isn't your kind of music.

I've heard enough by most of the acts you listed that I wasn't interested.

House acts tend to stick with singles and compilations and mixes. Not really an album-based genre. The big names drop albums and some mid-tier acts do. They rarely do it for me. I can't think of one with a run of 3 great or even good ones.

Had to be pressed on vinyl.
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could also do that for most other iterations of squarepusher, anything aphex, almost anything autechre (not draft and untilted), lifeforms - ISDN - dead cities for FSOL, brown album - sniv - in sides for orbital, 99% - satyricon - sublim for MBM, not - rest proof - double for plaid, freq - advance - sheath for LFO, scat - horse - LSD for coil, endtroducing - psyence fiction - private press for shadow if he counts, twoism - music - geo for BoC, any 3 of the 4 gas albums, moon safari - 10,000 - talkie for air if they count, felt - black - super for goldfrapp, the 3 lcd soundsytem albums... not counting the periphery releases, including my favorite, "their" disc of early, pre-album material, and on that note any proper amon tobin non-soundtrack/remix album succession, dead - before - saturdays for m83, doll - higgins - winter for vsnares

yeah, i figured someone would mention that "burningn'n tree" was a comp of singles, but it works so well as an album i didn't care.

and even if you take that out and replace it with "music is rotted one note," i think tom jenkinson would be a very strong contender.

and as i said, one could make the case for him without it

also forgot bjork: debut - post - homo (or post - homo - vesp)

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i have no problem with some 4/4

>endtroducing -
>psyence fiction - private press for shadow if he counts,

Meaning he could but I don't think that does. For two reasons, one of them being your own.


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i didn't say 'preemptive strike' even though it's arguably a stronger "album" than 'psyence fiction.' i don't really count that as a group album even though it didn't bear the shadow name. my real hesitance is he is a hip-hop artist first and foremost.

>i didn't say 'preemptive strike' even though it's arguably a
>stronger "album" than 'psyence fiction.'

I actually read private press as preemptive strike :( so yeah that was one. the other was

>i don't really count
>that as a group album even though it didn't bear the shadow
>name.

I mean yeah we know it but still technically won't make it.

Oddly enough I think if you take e, ps & pp it paints a pretty clear electronic picture.


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but in my mind i always count 'psyence fiction' as the followup to 'endtroducing' even if unofficially so

>but in my mind i always count 'psyence fiction' as the
>followup to 'endtroducing' even if unofficially so

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yes i'm in the minority with that

i'm in the endtroducing is over-rated camp

>Oddly enough I think if you take e, ps & pp it paints a pretty
>clear electronic picture.

http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2752471&mesg_id=2752471&page=#2753086

now that you've made an exhaustive list... choose which one you'd put as the strongest. or at least take the open ones to task and settle on their best triple play.
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but for instrumental music those orbital albums have sentimental value, and if i can bend the rules a little then the u.s. version of 'the richard d. james album' - 'come to daddy' EP - 'drukqs' is probably my favorite

Music for the Masses
Violator
Songs of Faith and Devotion

Trans-Europe Express
Man Machine
Computerworld

tough question if you don't count ep's or comps

I basically love all their albums.

Dummy, self-titled, and Third. Yeah, Third isn't nearly as good as the other two, but it's still solid.

but disqualified because of how little electronic i consider 'third' even with "machine gun"

I don't consider dummy an electronic album either. I'd sooner call it hip hop without rapping.

yeah, the more i thought about it, the stranger it seemed *for me* to nominate them. live instruments, samples of records, samples of them playing live instruments. it just felt out of place to me. same with nominating in either direction 'mezzanine,' one of my favorite albums.

i would call Portishead hip hop, soul before electronic, though they are the latter

Vocal Studies
Outtakes (yes)
One Word Extinguisher

but i was going by strictly p73 albums, and 'surrounded' is a beautiful mess but a mess nonetheless... and i don't think his last 3 are quite strong enough to put in the same category as those i rattled off

dont know too much about too many electronic artists tho

"Dead Ringer," "Since We Last Spoke," and "The Third Hand."

POW!!!!

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Francis.

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o_o

Because, uhm. . . yeah.

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pretty sure um... yeah

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i knew it was coming

no comment

OKC?

"Beautiful Tomorrow"
"Aquarian Angel"
"Noesis"

It took me a while to get use to "Noesis" but it turned out to be just as good as "Aquarian Angel" but nothing Jay do will top the first Blue Six album "Beautiful Tomorrow" though.

"Love's Arrival" (2001)
"Where Life Begins" (2003)
"Loose Fingers / Soundtrack From The Duality" (2005)

I love his earlier stuff as well but the last three that he did were/are my favorites as far as three albums in a row of dopeness, I didn't care for his "Dance 2000" & "Alien" albums but it's not bad at all just not ones I particularly care for, I did finally cop a reissue copy of "Sceneries Not Songs: Vol. 1" which was dope too.

because they didn't release any bad albums.

okay, i may be exaggerating. but catalogue is rock solid.
(even though they never did anything else as great as "west end girls")

Though I think 'Actually' is the only really solid album they made. But every album definitely has good songs....

Please
(disco)
Actually
Introspective
Behaviour

But that stuff was way more pop than anything else. Sure, they used electronics, but let's not get carried away.

In the same vein, the Blue Nile is an honorable mention.

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I'd call them an electronic act. Why not?

. . .with "electronic" music.

I mean, Tangerine Dream and the Pet Shop Boys don't exactly fit in the same section.

Although I'm a fan of both.

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Not sure if that definition holds up to well. Kraftwerk has some songs with conventional songwriting structure...Computer love being a good example. Come to think of it....alot of their songs follow conventional verse/chorus/middle 8 structures.

I'm guessing you wouldn't classify Depeche Mode as electronic either?

I can kinda see what you mean. The majority of electronic music doesn't have a songwriting/compositional structure. Not sure if it's a necessity in my mind though.

Strangely, I've been hearing alot of rumblings in articles/blogs about electronic acts trying to branch out into more focused songwriting as of late. I'm all for it.

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>I'm guessing you wouldn't classify Depeche Mode as electronic
>either?
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Not the Human League either.

Even though they're pretty good for those first few albums, too.

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if your sound is heavy on synths and drum programming then you qualify... doesn't mean you can't also be pop or rock (but let's not get carried away a la 'ok computer')

>Strangely, I've been hearing alot of rumblings in
>articles/blogs about electronic acts trying to branch out into
>more focused songwriting as of late. I'm all for it.

Wouldn't that just make their music contemporary pop? Because that's what pop and R&B sounds like today:electronic music with "focused songwriting" (=verses, choruses etc.).

Anyway, Pet Shop Boys "Introspective"-album definitely qualifies as electronic music if you by electronic music mean "EDM", their other famous albums are pop IMO.

I guess imcvspl call it "electronic music" so that it would cover stuff that's less danceable or not an outgrowth of EDM like maybe New Age, EBM Non-techno ambient or modern classical or even "Power electronics" (think Whitehouse). However, if you do that, you might as well include "electronic pop" as well; "electronic music" is a useless genre descriptor...

I'm not sure if it's anymore useless than any other genre descriptor that's broad without being a sub-genre or something like that.

But I agree about your description of modern pop music. I actually really like Katy Perry's stuff. Really catchy songs imo. And a perfect example of how modern pop can be characterized as electronic music with conventional song structures. I like the direction. And I think Madonna has a big hand in that direction....even in the 00's...she was still steering the ship to some degree.

It only explains the methods used, not the outcome. *I* don't think that's very substantial. Of course, other wide genres definitions are not particularly useful either ("rock" anyone?) but I would still say that electronic music is as useless descriptor as it gets. "Blues" is IMO the best genre-descriptor because it pretty much makes it clear not only what type of chord-progressions, tonal language and structure it *generally* uses but also the performance style.

Amon Tobin...
Squarepusher...
Stereolab?

I wouldn't call Stereolab electronic but they tend to lean in that direction.

"Bricolage", "Permuatations", and "Supermodified".

I think a case can be made for Aphex Twin.

Completely changed their sound three times and it worked three times. Best house duo of all time.