Top Ten Electronic/alternative Albums

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

The Scissor Sisters,,fun stuff

Holy cow, Synthfreak. Squarepusher is brilliant!