Cratewise Editorial
Essential Electronic on Vinyl
Electronic music and vinyl have a complicated relationship — this is music made by machines, pressed onto an analog format.
From Dexx
But the best electronic records were built with analog synthesizers and recorded to tape, and vinyl brings out the warmth, the bass weight, and the imperfections that give the music its soul. These 25 records tell the story from Kraftwerk to the present.
— Dexx
25
Albums
25
Artists
1
Genres
1968–2013
Span
By Genre
By Decade
Top Labels
The List
1
Electronic19772
Electronic19923
Electronic20014
Electronic19985
Electronic19786
Electronic19987
Electronic19948
Electronic20079
Electronic199010
Electronic198311
Electronic199412
Electronic199713
Electronic199714
Electronic199715
Electronic197416
Electronic200317
Electronic201018
Electronic199519
Electronic199320
Electronic200721
Electronic201322
Electronic198023
Electronic198224
Electronic196825
Electronic1986
Kraftwerk—Trans-Europe Express
Aphex Twin—Selected Ambient Works 85–92
Daft Punk—Discovery
Boards of Canada—Music Has the Right to Children
Brian Eno—Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Massive Attack—Mezzanine
Portishead—Dummy
Burial—Untrue
Depeche Mode—Violator
New Order—Power, Corruption & Lies
Underworld—dubnobasswithmyheadman
The Prodigy—The Fat of the Land
Björk—Homogenic
Chemical Brothers—Dig Your Own Hole
Tangerine Dream—Phaedra
Four Tet—Rounds
Caribou—Swim
Autechre—Tri Repetae
Orbital—Orbital 2 (Brown Album)
LCD Soundsystem—Sound of Silver
Jon Hopkins—Immunity
Laurie Spiegel—The Expanding Universe
Suzanne Ciani—Seven Waves
Silver Apples—Silver Apples
Hiroshi Yoshimura—GREEN
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