 | Confield by Autechre
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $2.49 Autechre are pioneers of electronic music and Confield is probably their most abstract work. If you're new to this kinda stuff chances are you don't know what to think of it. There's no melodies and few rhythms. It's an exploration, imagine the sound of a deserted sci-fi factory with some robots gone crazy. (If this one is too strange for you, try the Tri Repetae++ )
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 | Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2 by Aphex Twin
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $2.98 Another godfather of electronic music.
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 | Geogaddi by Boards of Canada
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.74 Minimal sounds.
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 | Copia by Eluvium
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.49 Minimal, ambient with piano lines.
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 | Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street by Jon Hassell
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.00 Ambient jazz.
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 | The Last Resort by Trentemøller
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $54.50 The Trentemoeller and the Booka Shade are the most dancable albums in this collection. Music that merges minimal, jungle and deep house.
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 | Movements by Booka Shade
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $12.53 |
 | Music by Cavelight by Blockhead
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.95 From here on it's a bit of instrumental hip hop, DJ work at its finest. Beats, loops, samples. Check out "Daylight" and "Insomniac olympics" to get a taste.
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 | Rounds by Four Tet
Buy used from: $8.50 More hip hop. Take a listen to "Unspoken", a 9:30 track with a piano hookline take from Tori Amos' "Winter".
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 | Supermodified by Amon Tobin
Buy used from: $2.88 On a side note: if you like these hip hop sounds, give RJD2 and DJ Shadow a spin. Excellent as the ones here (but way more vocals/vocal samples)
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 | Chewing on Glass & Other Miracle Cures by Sixtoo
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $2.28 |
 | Kakusei by DJ Krush
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.23 Trip hop.
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 | Khmer by Nils Petter Molvaer
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $8.89 Fusion jazz, beats and a brilliant trumpet player. By the way, all of the records on this page I call 'jazz' are from the famous ECM label. If you haven't heard of these guys before you missed a lot.
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 | Holon by Nik Bartsch's Ronin
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $8.00 |
 | Being There by Tord Gustavsen Trio
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.99 For my personal taste the best piano trio this world has to offer.
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 | Coruscating by John Surman
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $9.69 Jazz meets chamber music.
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 | Tango: Zero Hour by Astor Piazzolla & New Tango Quintet
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.75 Tango from the creator of 'tango nuevo'. Stylewise it doesn't really fit in with the other albums in this list, but it's absolutely amazing.
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 | Bodysong by Jonny Greenwood
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $3.49 Radiohead's Johnny Greenwood writes a soundtrack.
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 | Ghosts I - IV by Nine Inch Nails
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.61 Ah, we're getting to rock territory. Four instrumental CDs from the most influential industrial musician. And you can also download the record for free from the net. Trent Reznor realeased them under a creative commons license.
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 | Mr. Beast by Mogwai
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.67 My favourite post-rock band. Seriously I have no clue which album to recommend as all are beyond awesome. Mogwai plays anything between piano sketches, electronic noise and walls guitar power (they perform live with three guitars and a bass). Check "Glasgow Mega Snake" and "Friend of the night" to get an impression.
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 | Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined by Mono
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.98 Epic instrumental guitar music from Japan. If you like this post rock stuff, don't forget to look for Explosions in the Sky, God is an astronaut, Sigur Ros, I like Trains, This will destroy you, Red Sparrowes, Aereogramme ... ...
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 | f#a# (infinity symbol) by Godspeed You Black Emperor
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.89 Post rock, fully orchestrated musical cinematography. Honorary mention: A silver mount Zion, Saltillo, Emerine.
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 | Australasia by Pelican
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $3.89 Instrumental post metal. Heavy guitar soundscapes.
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 | Panopticon by Isis
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.97 The pinnacle of post metal. I'm not going to waste words to describe them - simply watch their 2005 live performances of "In Fiction" and "Grinning Mouth" on youtube.
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