Top Ten Electronic/alternative Albums

Harold Budd- some of these should be included:

1984 The Pearl
1986 Lovely Thunder
1988 The White Arcades
1991 By the Dawn's Early Light
1993 Music for 3 Pianos
1994 She Is a Phantom [live]
1996 Luxa
1998 Walk into My Voice: American Beat Poetry
2000 The Room
2003 La Bella Vista
2005 Avalon Sutra/As Long As I Can Hold My Breath

Anything by Boards of Canada (Warp Label)
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 1 and 2
Global Communication 76:14 incredible!
Tetsu Inoue Fax Label material...smooth and chill
Ulrich Schnauss....fantastic
Bill Laswell just about anything as well
Early Autechre material Amber would be a great selection

oh there is so much the list can go on and on......:)

two new discoveres for me which are the among the best I have heard...new to me that is

Bugge Wesseltoft: Moving
Steve Kuhn: Trance

both are heavily influenced by jazz but are very chill and atmospheric...recording quality is quite good as well....Steve Kunn's album is visionary in that the orginal pressing was in 1976...waaay ahead of its time

Speaking of old stuff from the 70's..
klaus schulze released an album called "moondawn" in like 1973.. it is pretty analogue sounding but trance music none the less. similar but not exactly like some of the material released currently or in the 90s.. according to one web site, moondawn is the most accessible album for the american audience being that it was widely released states side in the 70s..

in other kraut bands.. the album zeit by tangerine dream is quite a classic.. some realllly wicked manipulations done to audio on that one.. again it is like early 70s..

but these albums are more on the avantgard tip instead of the alternative tip.. not that there is much of a distinction between the two but to me it is noticable...

I'm familiar with about 90% of the artists listen on this thread.

To my mind there is one artist that is head and shoulders above the rest both musically and sonically. O.K maybe just a head if I'm being concervative.

SHPONGLE