Top Ten Electronic/alternative Albums

thanks Marakanetz,

Henry hk you would probably dig the Squarepusher album Music Is Rotted One Note. Imagine electric era Miles rockin' it with Aphex Twin. Crazy good stuff. You might also like some of DJ Cam's stuff. Everyone in the world should own the DJ Shadow album Endtroducing.

1.Rapoon - "Raising Earthly Spirits"
2.Zoviet France - "Digilogue"
3.Penumbra- "Scandinavien"
4. Rapoon - "Fires in the Borderland"
5.Gas -"Pop"
6. Ambient Isolationism - "4-1,2"
7. Electric Birds - "Strata Frames"
8. Coil- "Musik to Play in the Dark - 1"
9. Bark Psychosis - "Hex"
10. David Sylvian- "Blemish"

Here's my 10 (or so . . .), not necessarily in any order.

All of these are well recorded, but as Cdelplato did above, I used an * to indicate those that are especially well recorded.

Mike Oldfield: Songs of a Distant Earth*; Ommadawn (HDCD)
Bill Laswell: (he lead, plays in many, many bands)
- Material - Halucination Engine*
- Sacred System Chapter One
Tangerine Dream: Riccochet
Haslinger: Score
Jan Hammer: First Seven Days * (recently remastered onto cd)
Klaus Schulze: Time Wind
Brian Eno: Another Green World
Brian Eno & J.Peter Schwalm: Drawn from Life *

Also, I will second the following nominees from above:
- Peter Gabriel: Passion
- Massive Attack: Mezzanine
- Radiohead: all listed, but especially The Bends, and OK Computer

And finally, though I'm really not sure I understand what "alternative" is, I think given many of the bands listed above, I would list the following as alternative:

Tool: Lateralus

thanx synthfreak. will check it out. a few more to add for those like jazz and are beg to check out chill out or electronica...or the other way around...in addition to the cinematic orchestra

touch acoustra: self titled album. jazz fusion band chills out
dj koop: dj uses elements of jazz
the bad plus: piano trio rocks, chills, and bops