See How Dance Music Ranked in SPIN’s ‘300 Best Albums of 1985-2014’
SPIN’s list also includes electronic-leaning pop offerings by Robyn and M83, surprising (but welcome) appearances by Oneohtrix Point Never and DJ Rashad, Disclosure (really?), Burial (yes!), two albums each by dance punk heroes LCD Soundsystem and M.I.A., and of course, two seminal albums by Daft Punk.
Check out our list-within-a-list, culled from SPIN’s ‘300 Best Albums of the Past 30 Years (1985-2014),’ and if you’d like to go through the collection in full (and you should), do that here.
296. Various Artists, Total 4 (Kompakt, 2002)
276. Frankie Knuckles, Beyond the Mix (Virgin, 1991)
255. The Field, From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt, 2007)
253. Caribou, Swim (Merge, 2010)
251. M83, Saturdays = Youth (Mute, 2008)
250. Basement Jaxx, Rooty (Astralwerks, 2001)
245. Air, Moon Safari (Astralwerks, 1998)
235. Oneohtrix Point Never, Replica (Mexican Summer, 2011)
231. M.I.A., Arular (XL, 2005)
229. DJ Rashad, Double Cup (Hyperdub, 2013)
225. Portishead, Third (Island, 2008)
217. Orbital, In Sides (FFRR, 1996)
204. Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (R&S, 1992)
200. Moby, Everything Is Wrong (Elektra, 1995)
186. The Avalanches, Since I Left You (Sire, 2000)
184. LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening (DFA/Virgin, 2010)
180. Four Tet, Rounds (Domino, 2003)
173. Disclosure, Settle (Cherrytree/Interscope, 2013)
161. Massive Attack, Mezzanine (Virgin, 1998)
146. Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works, Vol. 2 (Sire, 1994)
125. The Knife, Silent Shout (Brille/Rabid/Mute, 2006)
98. Boards of Canada, Music Has the Right to Children (Warp, 1998)
93. Daft Punk, Homework (Virgin, 1997)
82. Tricky, Maxinquaye (Island, 1995)
71. Aphex Twin, Richard D. James Album (Sire, 1996)
69. Björk, Post (Elektra, 1995)
67. Robyn, Body Talk (Cherrytree/Konichiwa, 2010)
64. The Chemical Brothers, Dig Your Own Hole (Astralwerks, 1997)
61. Portishead, Dummy (Go! Discs, 1994)
47. LCD Soundsystem, Sound of Silver (Capitol/DFA, 2007)
42. M.I.A. Kala (XL/Interscope, 2007)
39. Burial, Untrue (Hyperdub, 2007)
18. Björk, Homogenic (Elektra, 1997)
9. DJ Shadow, Endtroducing… (Mo Wax, 1996)
4. Daft Punk, Discovery (Virgin, 2001)