Lane 8 is one of the most exciting newcomers this genre has at the moment, and this sophomore release and DJ Mag Best of North America award winner, Little By Little, proves why. I simply couldn’t make a list like this without highlighting a new forerunner of electronic music. Go back and give this one a listen to appreciate just where this style really started. Boards of Canada “used a mixture of analog and digital techniques to give their music a wavering, mottled quality redolent of formats like film, vinyl, and magnetic tape that are susceptible to decay and distortion with the passage of time”, Pitchfork mentions, which in turn gives it a vintage, hazy feel that still somehow manages to sound timeless. They purposely did the exact opposite of what everyone else was doing and focused on creating a mood with interesting and thoughtful melodies. Drums and bass were pushed to the forefront for most artists, but not for Boards of Canada. Boards of Canada were daring to be different with Music Has the Right during this time, the trend was hyper-rhythmic, jungle-inspired, frenetic breakbeats, with densely layered and crisp production. A recent Pitchfork article called this ‘98 sophomore effort “the greatest psychedelic album of the ‘90s”, in case you needed more confirmation of its awesomeness. No better way to start this list than at the beginning Scottish duo Boards of Canada really paved the way here for almost every other album on this list. Boards of Canada – Music Has the Right to Children (1998)
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