Synth/Electronic LP recommendations

Agree. Orbital has had a fabulous career. Ditto about the 'Insides'. Orbital's last the Blue was in many ways departure from their signature sound, but still very good. The last thing you want in these electronic albums is someone singing vocals. Surprising Orbitals not only pulls off with Lisa Gerrard singing but it becomes high light of the album that you repeat for and tickled pink (that is the best I can come up with;-))in anticipation. I think Orbita had pulled similar vocal tracks before with great success.
Agree on Madonna's Ray of Light LP-A stand out.
Agree times 3 on Aphex Twin later work. The last good album was the 'Druqks'. Although, the LP contained some handful great keyboard melodies ever made, the rest was his drill and bass, although the excellent kind in this album, is in stark contrast to the beautiful keyboard/piano melodies. 'The Richard D james Album is another standout and serious piece of work. The 26 for cash was not bad. Now he is putting out non stop unremarkable stuff on Vinyl. May be he should take a high road and retire?

I picked up "The Mix" by kraftwerk recently. It jumps up near the top of may favorite albums in this category immediately along with "Mix Up" by Patrick O'hearn.

Both have outstanding sound quality.

"The Mix" does a nice job of taking Kraftwerk's classic groundbreaking material from the 70's and bringing it up to date and relevant to those that appreciate good modern club/synth/pop type music.

"Mix Up" is simialr in end result but a more significant twist upon O'Hearn's 80's "New Age" tunes into something completely different that many fans of the original's cannot stomach.

I've been enjoying Depeche Mode of late.

Heard cuts from their "Violator" album on Radio Paradise and finally picked it up.

Good stuff. The recording is awesome!

I've been wearing out Violator for over 20 years now. A Top 10 of all time for me.

IMO the DMode's best stuff is the instrumentals that appeared on some of their singles.

I can't recall if anyone has mentioned Massive Attack but if not they deserve a lot of mention. I use their albums a lot at shows- Protection, Mezzanine, 100th Window (3LP 45rpm edition!) as well as their new one.

Hawkwind has a new LP out on 180gr clear vinyl. Tim Blake is now doing keyboards. Its the first Hawkwind that has kept my interest in years!