Resident Advisor's list of the Best Electronic Records from 2000 to 2025.
Historically, electronic music struggled with the album format. The sheer volume of club-ready genres that exploded after the late '80s helped project the sense of a golden age—but when it comes to LPs, you'll find it's actually a bit of a mirage. Many were narrow, padded with filler for CD runtimes, or generally a little undercooked. That, perhaps, is why electronic music has been given such short shrift in all-genre critics lists so far.
What binds the artists on this list together is the simple fact that they wanted to push themselves and the culture forward. Whatever the medium, they've been able to telegraph their intent, conjure and perfect a sound that didn't exist before, lay the groundwork for an underground movement to be built on top—or sometimes all three. These are the 100 records that stayed with us.
