Electronica music includes a wide range of music genres. These genres are used for many different reasons such as foreground music, for dance clubs and for background ambiance. For the year 2011 in particular, there have been many hits all through the year with many of the best ever produced music albums featuring in this year. Below we are going to look closely at actually the best ten electronica music of 2011.
Arguably the most alluring and atmospheric electronic album of 2011, and inarguably a masterpiece of dub techno intensity; “Pass me By” Fulfils all the promise of Andy Stott’s excellent 12-inches for the Modern Love label while smashing his legacy to pieces. Stott not only subverts the familiar dub palette, he achieves Jeff Mills’ highest honour by giving us something we’ve never heard before when it comes to this genre of music. Coming close in second position is Perc’s Wicker and steel album. The album that doesn’t just luxuriate in the austerity of dread; it wields a knife behind its back and occasionally gets violent with its well put brutal cuts. Perc made an album that sounded like rage depersonalized, clangourous meddling produced by shadows without bodies, bodies without organs.
The third album would be by Scott Tycho. Illustrator and musician Scott “Tycho” Hansen was drafting the initial concepts for this instrumental, psychedelic fusion of live sessions and electronics for years. He gave us a ten-track statement that captivates in spades, defying shorthand descriptors at every stroke. In forth place we have the machine drum album by Travis Stewart. Undisplaced in fifth position there is “Breaking the flame” by Surgeon. Though Surgeon’s last full-length album was released in 2001, he continued to make massively influential tunes with Regis as British Murder Boys until 2005. Still, the six years since those last releases have seemed like a lifetime in terms of the proliferation of the kind of deep bass music, drone techno, and industrial-tinged house Surgeon’s Anthony Child was instrumental in popularizing
In the sixth position we have the “drawn and quatered” by the veteran producer Dreadbeat. Up close in seventh would be non-other than Amon Tobin with his incredible “Isam” album. For Amon Tobin’s incredible ISAM live show, it was all about geometry—a blocky, 3D set played with audience perspectives, replete with mind-bending visuals to match Tobin’s exquisitely crafted bits and pieces. ISAM was clearly made to be bigger than just another record, and in touring behind it, Tobin has advanced himself to a new level.
In eighth position there is the “scintli” album by the London duo Andy Turner and Ed Handley. Scintilli exists beyond all genre classifications except the frowned-upon IDM. In ninth position we have an album from Jon Brooks, “as the Crow Flies” This was dedicated to the memory of Trish Keenan. Finally to end our top ten list of the most popular electronica music of 2011, there is Germany’s Moritz Friedrich who waited over ten years to drop his debut album as Siriusmo. Generally 2011 was a very successful year in terms of electronica music.