 | Trans-Europe Express by Kraftwerk
Buy used from: $10.97 One of the most influential recordings ever.
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 | Yellow Magic Orchestra by Yellow Magic Orchestra
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $8.55 I think they may have been the first to use the word "techno". Their 1979 album (also on this list) has a song called "Technopolis")
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 | Autobahn by Kraftwerk
Buy used from: $16.90 Kind of a transitional amlbum for the band. Title track is sooo hypnotic.
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 | Suicide (First Album) by Suicide
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.74 Dark. Beautiful. Minimal. Awesome.
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 | 20 Jazz Funk Greats by Throbbing Gristle
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.54 Their poppiest album (which is still not that poppy).
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 | Another Green World by Eno
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.99 What? You don't have this? Get it!
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 | 154 by Wire
Buy used from: $2.75 Their most experimental album.
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 | Low by David Bowie
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $4.33 Awesome Eno-produce techno-pop.
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 | Duty Now for the Future by Devo
Buy new: $12.98 / Used from: $9.99 Keeping the punk edge of their debut album, Devo added a more electronic feel to their second effort.
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 | Reproduction by The Human League
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $5.52 Their mainstream 80's material was decent, but this is much more interesting.
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 | Oxygene by Jean Michel Jarre
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.98 A little more poppy/accessible than some of the European electronic music of the mid 70's.
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 | 1974-1976 by Cabaret Voltaire
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $37.09 Their most experimantal material. Hard to belive they'd be on Ferris Beuller's wall 10 years later.
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 | E=MC² by Giorgio Moroder
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $16.79 As a producer, he was responsible for some of the most popular electro from the 70's. (i.e. Donna Summer's "Love to Love You")
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 | Star Peace by Droids
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $19.76 French Euro-disco
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 | For Your Pleasure by Roxy Music
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.71 Pre-post-punk? Does that make sense?
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 | Kingdom Come by Kingdom Come
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.25 One of the earliest albums to feature a drum machine.
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 | Exposure by Robert Fripp
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $13.99 The title track is way ahead of it's time.
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 | 71 Minutes of Faust by Faust
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $12.00 It's almost impossible to believe that some of this stuff was recorded in the early 70's.
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 | Neu! by Neu!
Buy used from: $5.98 Actually, more of a guitar, bass, drums rock n' roll band, as opposed to synth/electronica. But Klaus Dinger's robotic drum beat and the minimalist song structure make Neu!'s 3 albums arguably as influential as Kraftwerk on the last 30 years of electronica.
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 | The Man-Machine by Kraftwerk
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.96 A little poppier than much of their earlier work, but not a huge departure. Each Kraftwerk album is unique.
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 | I'm A Man by KEBEKELEKTRIK
Buy new: $15.31 / Used from: $12.29 Euro-disco. Early version of club music (but in a good way).
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 | Here Come the Warm Jets by Brian Eno
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.40 This could be considered the first new wave album. Very poppy, but also very avant garde for 1974.
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 | Reel to Real Cacophony by Simple Minds
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $4.91 Debut album from 1979. Darker than their later stuff, but nevertheless fairly poppy.
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 | There's a Riot Goin' On by Sly & the Family Stone
Buy used from: $22.47 Definately not a heavily electronic album by any means. But Sly used a drum machine on some of these tracks... in 1971!
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 | Heroes by David Bowie
Buy new: $24.98 / Used from: $18.99 Awesome Eno-produced techno-pop.
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 | Red 30th Anniversary Edition Remastered by King Crimson
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.49 "One More Red Nightmare" is pretty much the only reason I put this one on the list. The great thing about King Crimson is that each album is so much different from the last one.
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 | Solid State Survivor by Yellow Magic Orchestra
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $32.68 The track "Technopolis" was definately one of the earliest uses of the word "techno".
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 | Real Life by Magazine
Buy new: $9.93 / Used from: $6.88 The album's best known track, "Shot by Both Sides", is great. "Recoil" is a favorite of mine as well. The band was founded by Howard Devoto, who was briefly in The Buzzcocks.
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