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Praeserpium Machinarum:
Since we have a hiphop thread, I thought we needed a combined recommendation/discussion thing about electronica.
You see I have never really heard electronica except a bit danish dub, so I decided to make a list of stuff to own.
I have these so far:

Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
Venetian Snares - Ross something something in hungarian
Aphex Twin - The Richard D. James album
Squarepusher - Music is Rotted One Note
Autechre - Tri Repetae++
Goodiepal - Narg Beacon
Pole - 1

But then I figured that some of those are a bit heavy to get into without any previous "experience", any more gentle way of getting into electronica?
uh and recommendations, lots of them!

Saturday:
Orbital - In Sides is a not very known album, but itīs incredible. From the golden age of electronic stuff (1995-1997, imho), 2 CDs full of ambient, beatiful sampling, great beats, nice progressions. not very danceable but itīs one of my favourite albums ever.
All Autechre is good.. .itīs one of my favourite bands ever. Check out Amber, and LP5... they are a weird band... with the years they started to evolve and evolve and evolve and now they are basically an avant-garde band. very difficult listen. but i still like them.
All Boards of Canada stuff is great... their other album, Geogaddi, is top stuff.
I donīt care much about Aphex Twin (imho, heīs incredibly overrated), but his Selected Ambient Works (one is called 85-92 and the other is II) are good, good quality stuff.
Other bands

Plaid
Múm
Manitoba AKA Caribou
The Books
DNTEL (the guy behind the postal service)
Kraftwerk / Depeche Mode (obvious ones)
Early Brian Eno (his ambient experiments, specially Music for Airports.. beatiful album... also his early albums are incredible, but itīs glam-rock, not electronica)
If youīre interested in early industrial, check Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Cabaret Voltaire, The Soft Cell, Download, Skinny Puppy.
Adult. , and Ladytron are often called Electroclash but i think they make actually pretty good music in their own.

Hatebunny:
hmmm, lemme think...

Wumpscut's some good ebm/industrial dance
The Echoing Green is some good electronica, inspired by new wave.
Freezepop is a good synthpop group whose music sounds like it was made on a gameboy.

Those aren't really 'electronica' in the same way you're describing it, though.

Future sound of London
Saint Etienne
Paul Van Dyk - Seven Ways
Most Nine Inch Nails Remix Albums (some of them suck, some of them rule)

I'll have to come back to this. All I can think of right now are mainstreamy dance things.

Praeserpium Machinarum:
interesting, I think it would easier to get into it if the music had vocals, like Lamb for example..

Saturday:
Lamb? mmmmmmmmmmm...................


you can check out then...

The Postal Service
DNTEL (has vocals)
The Notwist (indie-electronica, their album neon golden is pretty nice, this is definately a good start!)
Portishead (if you can still stand trip-hop)
Massive Attack (mezzanine and protection is quality stuff)
Also Primal Scream (vanishing point, xtrmntr), though iīm not a fan.

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