Awesome Music/Electronic
- No love for dance music? Time to "Bring it On"!
- Drum and Bass has been particularly epic in the last few years, noticeably tracks like "Can You Feel" (Muffler), "Overdue" (Spor ft. Tasha Baxter), "Snow" (Seba), "Beautiful Lies" (B-Complex) and of course epic masterpieces like "Siren Song" (Fanu) and the utterly jaw-dropping "Yearning (Apex VIP)" by Unknown Error.
- Italo Disco songs like these or a random song in this online radio station. Catchy melodies and everything else that makes true 80s music.
- Kevin Johnson's eurobeat cover of "Never Gonna Give You Up" takes a song that's become meme status and makes it listenable.
- Fatboy Slim. "Right Here, Right Now!".
- "The Weapon of Choice... you can blow with this, you can blow with that..."
- Push the tempo, push the tempo, push the tempo, push the tempo.
- Gangster Trippin'.
- The Rockafeller Skank. That is all.
- It's a wonderful night, just gotta take it from me, it's a wonderful night, come on and break it on down.
- Hiroshi Watanabe, under the alias "cranky," puts outs some amazing rave music. Take for example, J219 "Ura-Rokkou mix", a remix of one of his own songs, or "R176".
- "Fourth Rendez-Vous" by Jean Michel Jarre was an ethereal techno-dance song. Then the 1998 FIFA World Cup came to France, and now you have "Rendez-Vous '98", a song that captures all the thrill and bombast of a FIFA World Cup finale.
- Which of course was an Apollo 440 remix of the original "Fourth Rendez-Vous", which can't fail to uplift the spirits of anyone who hears it. There's a reason that Jean Michel Jarre still uses it in his live performances. After all, the first live performance in Houston, Texas in 1986 is still utterly awesome even now.
- Also "Ethnicolor" which just might be his artistic peak and crowningest music of awesome. Especially after 6:20 or so. (The studio version is better, though)
- Of course, the album Rendez-vous has even more to offer. There's also Second Rendez-vous, especially live versions, and full length (as in nearly 12 minutes) live versions in particular: Crowning Music of Awesome meets Epic Rocking. But "Fourth Rendez-vous" has been an encore for some of Jarre's biggest shows for a reason, yes.
- Anything on Venetian Snare's epic album Rossz csillag alatt született. Here's the most well-known track: "Szmar Madar".
- Boards of Canada. Music Has The Right To Children is just about perfect. As for tracks, the sublime and just about a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming of its own, go with "Olson". Other than that, all their music could qualify.
- Daft Punk. Try this video, of the opening to their live set. Performing in robot costumes? Cool! Performing in a glowing pyramid? Awesome! Mixing together your very diverse albums of music in such a fantastic manner? Sweet! Doing so in a way that that builds the crowd up to a frenzy so big that it's hard to find a live video on YouTube of the opening that doesn't cut off only a few moments in? Insane!
- Can't forget the touch of starting the whole show off with Close Encounters of the Third Kind chimes!
- That's it? Try "One More Time", "Robot Rock", the underrated "Digital Love" and "Human After All", and any of their DJ Hero mixes, mostly the Queen ones. It's like they haven't put a foot wrong, and that's cool with me.
- And "Around the World" and "Harder Better Faster Stronger" at the same time, with a side of "Television Rules the Nation" for good measure.
- Alive 2007. The entire thing. It won a Grammy for a reason. You may have heard all of the songs before, but have you heard them mashed up with each other? The crowner would have to be "Prime Time of your Life/The Brainwasher/Rollin' and Scratchin'/Alive".
- Dafunk back to the punk, c'mon! Dafunk back to the punk, c'mon! Dafunk back to the punk, c'mon!
- "Derezzed". The main theme of their score of Tron: Legacy.
- Orbital, the full 15-minute version of "Are We Here?". Also Lush 3/Impact/Remind trilogy ESPECIALLY live. My God. "Belfast" is also good, but live it's unbelievable.
- "Rock Into the Future" by 1200 Micrograms.
- Their entire first record is pure CMoA. Every song maintains the psytrance but also does a good job reflecting the drugs in use. LSD is particularly epic and Mescaline uses samples from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas! Sweet!
- "Acid for Nothing" is equally amazing. Who'd guess that Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" would sound so awesome with a bass drum!
- A Crowning Music of Awesome with a Crowning Music Video Of Awesome to go with it: "DVNO" by Justice, featuring very professional parodies of Vanity Plates and other logos.
- Seconded. Even more insanely awesome by them? Their live mixing of "Waters of Nazareth" into "Phantom Pt 2"!
- Movie logos and vanity Plates not your thing? How about moving 80's pop shirts? For bonus points, it sounds like the Jackson 5 got with them!
- Darude. "Sandstorm". That is all. And if the original is too short for your taste, better go with an extended remix.
- Aphex Twin has been declared to be the pioneer of modern electronic music. Selected Ambient Works 85-92, Richard D. James Album, ...I Care Because You Do, drukQs, Come to Daddy, On EP, Analord, etc. should be apart of everyone's music library regardless if you're a fan of the genre or not.
- The "Come To Daddy" video is a good argument to metal fanciers that electronic music can be awesome and incredibly heavy. The imagery is more metal than most metal could ever hope to be, and the beat-sliced madness and horrific distortion is perfect!
- Regarding pioneers, Autechre has been arguably defining the very concept of electronic music since their debut LP Incunabula. They have changed styles several times and in the most unpredictable ways, ranging from the bizarre abstraction of Confield to the heavenly glory of Oversteps. Crowning Music of Awesome? Try "Treale".
- "A Glorious Dawn", a remix of Carl Sagan's narration from Cosmos. "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
- The Symphony of Science, by John Boswell, has produced three songs so far including the above in the same style. "We Are All Connected" and "Our Place In The Cosmos" are also absolutely amazing. I so want to hear more of these fantastic songs from this guy.
- "Porcelain" by Moby is a legendary song.
- No love for "Lift Me Up"?
- And from his earlier works, "Next is the E". and "Electricity". And "Go". And "Thousand". As in, 1000 BPM.
- "Fan Service" by Glomag, one of the nicest examples of chiptunes.
- Prodigy's "Breathe" "Firestarter" and "No Good (Start the Dance)", to name a few epic songs by them.
- Then there's "One Love" from their Jilted Generation era. Absolutely hypnotic.
- Two words: The Gamelatron.
- No mention of DJ Tiesto's "Elements of Life"? Or anything else by the man, for that matter.
- The whole Parade of the Athletes album, performed live on the opening ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympics for extra awesome. In particular, his mixes of Albinoni's and Barber's Adagios, "Heroes", and "Forever Today".
- If "Silence" isn't a CMOA, then nothing is.
- "Chicken on The Rocks" by Jean Jacques-Perrey & Dana Countryman. That combined with Randy Marsh and all of the South Park men bouncing on their testicular cancer-enduced ballsacks result in certain hilarity. Trust me, it's better than it sounds.
- Australian Drum 'n Bass band Pendulum: "Propane Nightmares", "Hold Your Colour", "Blood Sugar", and "Witchcraft" .
- Better yet, all their albums, starting with Hold Your Colour, then In Silico, finally Immersion.
- "Crush", their yet-to-be officially released remix of Calvin Harris' "I'm Not Alone", and their cover of Coldplay's "Violet Hill".
- Four letters: "SLAM".
- Black Moth Super Rainbow has unleashed numerous instances of this: For example, "Drippy Eye".
- Kraftwerk, anyone?
- The Man Machine, Machine, Machine, Machine, Machine, Machine, Machine, Machine, Machiiiine...MAAAAACHIIIIIINE
- Wir fahr'n fahr'n fahr'n auf die Autobahn...
- Tangerine Dream, anyone?
- Fuck Buttons. To quote myself from a youtube comment: "I'm probably being hyperbolic in the eyes of many, but Tarot Sport is, musically, the best album I've heard in the past decade. Fuck Buttons have the ability to make music that is amazingly catchy, while being polyphonic AND quite often polyrhythmic. And they do it on fucked up kids toys."
- Ferry Corsten. Exhibit A: "Fire".
- L.E.F., that and the album art, that is the most kick ass album art ive ever seen.
- Ferry's remix of Moby's "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?". And his remix of William Orbit's cover of "Barber's Adagio For Strings".
- And when Dutch artists combine, the result is exponentially more awesome. Ferry + Tiesto => "Gouryella." Ferry + Armin van Buuren => "Exhale". Ferry + Vincent de Moor => "Carte Blanche".
- FTW Industrial Music:
- :WUMPSCUT:, "We Believe We Believe", "Jesus Antichristus", "Mother","Wolf", "Fuckit"
- Combichrist: "I Want Your Blood", "What the Fuck is Wrong with You", "Sent to Destroy", "Shut Up and Bleed" and "This is My Rifle".
- Laibach: "Yisrael", a mashup of the Palestinian and Israeli national anthems.
- VNV Nation: "Industrial Love"
- Centhron: "Tanz im Sternefeuer" and "Einheit C"
- Skinny Puppy: "Useless", "Worlok", "Testure"
- Neuroticfish: "The Bomb"
- Assemblage 23: "Damaged"
- Xotox: "[Xo]toxic" and "Mechanische Unruhe"
- The Knife, full stop. "Heartbeats", "Marble House", and "Pass This On" are examples of how awesome the Dreijer siblings are.
- And Karin is Crazy Awesome in her own merit, each relisten to the Fever Ray album yields new quirks in the songs.
- "Score (Original mix)" by Slyder. Especially the buildup at 3:42. Definitely a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Even more awesome when driving to it in Grand Theft Auto 3.
- "Biocandy" by Chi-A.D.. Merely listening to it will get you high without drugs.
- How did we get this far without mentioning UNKLE? "Burn My Shadow" is just... epic.
- We can't forget his remix of "No One Knows." Eerie, yet beautiful.
- Renard Queenston: One of his best tracks is "The Castle".
- Eiffel 65. Full stop, end of story. There is no argument.
- Every remix by Skrillex. ESPECIALLY "Cinema" (the second link).
- This.
- WOAHOHOH LOYAL TO THE GAME
- "Sabres of Paradise".
- Hadouken!'s "Mecha Love" combines fast synth beats with great lyrics.
- One! Two! Three! FIYAAAAAAAAAAH!
- A couple of years before Fatboy Slim, Norman Cook headed a trio with two producers to form a group called Pizzaman. They were awesome. Here's one of their hits.
- Nero - "Innocence". That is all.
- According to ctrl+f, Vangelis has not yet received a mention. This is utterly unforgivable.
- Joujouka, especially "Rock is Sponge", featured in Rez's fourth stage.
- By the SoundCloud preview, it appears that Future Perfect's second album, Escape is going to be awesome.
- Dan Deacon. If you've never heard his music before, this would be the best introductory song.
- You all speak of awesome electronic music and not mention BT? For shame!
- Everything that The Living Tombstone has done.
- deadmau5 is called The King of Hau5 with good reason. Just listen to "Strobe", with its drop that can make a grown man cry. Or, if you're more a fan of hard, concentrated awesomeness, try "Animal Rights".
- So much of Above and Beyond. "On My Way to Heaven", "On a Good Day", "Thing Called Love", "Sun & Moon", I could go on...
- "Discord" by Super Ponybeat, even non-bronies can enjoy the awesome music produced by bronies.
- Iamamiwhoami. Just iamamiwhoami.
- DJ Shadow's Endtroducing. An hour of perfection.
- Andy Hunter proved that christian music can be awesome, by making a disc of Christian Techno. and it is incredible. Two noteworthy tracks include "Sandstorm Calling", which managed to make it onto the mobile edition of Lumines, and "Amazing", which is just plain epic.
- PhantomoftheOpera, done in a Techno style. The video is a nice bonus.
- Goldfrapp, all the time.
- "Falling Up" by Collide. If you can't stand waiting, skip to 3:27. It gets epic from there...
- The Chemical Brothers have produced several extremely awesome tunes, including Hey Boy Hey Girl, Galvanize and Do It Again. They are pretty much Britain's answer to Daft Punk.
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