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[o00o]

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?

Edited by o00o, 03 January 2012 - 09:51 AM.

[Kanakori]

DrukQs

[logakght]

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

[Kanakori]

Xtal is always present and never gets old.

[CJM]

Kanakori, on 03 January 2012 - 10:06 AM, said:

Xtal is always present and never gets old.

also I have always some Stinson with me...

...and Company Flow's Funcrusher Plus

[Kanakori]

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.

Edited by Kanakori, 03 January 2012 - 10:23 AM.

[Cryptowen]

Jandek
Tonetta

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

[StocKo]

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.

[Kanakori]

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.

[StocKo]

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

[kokeboka]

Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Beach Boys - Purple Chick Smile
Actress - Splaszh
Daft Punk - Discovery

[EleminoP]

Aceyalone - A Book Of Human Language
J Dilla - Donuts
Quasimoto - The Unseen
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum
cLOUDDEAD - Ten

[chassis]

Bytes

[couch]

(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.

[Mellow U]

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.

[chimera slot mom]

logakght, on 03 January 2012 - 10:01 AM, 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

Edited by chimera slot mom, 03 January 2012 - 11:24 AM.

[GRVGLTCHR]

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

[couch]

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

[Ascdi]

Prince

[Joseph]

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

Edited by Joseph, 03 January 2012 - 12:42 PM.

[modey]

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

[joshuatx]

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...

Mellow U, on 03 January 2012 - 11:15 AM, said:

The B-52's - S/T, Wild Planet, Cosmic Thing
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, Meddle
Slint - Spiderland

EleminoP, on 03 January 2012 - 10:58 AM, said:

Quasimoto - The Unseen

StocKo, on 03 January 2012 - 10:35 AM, said:

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

chimera slot mom, on 03 January 2012 - 11:21 AM, said:

Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Jean-Jacques Perrey & Luke Vibert - Moog Acid
DJ Shadow's first two

GRVGLTCHR, on 03 January 2012 - 11:37 AM, said:

µ-Ziq - Tango N' Vectif (2Cd Vers.)

Edited by joshuatxuk, 03 January 2012 - 01:06 PM.

[vamos scorcho]

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'

[Npoess]

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

Edited by Dropp, 04 January 2012 - 10:28 AM.

[impakt]

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