It's impossible to know how many songs exist in the world, though estimations place it between 100 and 230 million. Humans have produced more recorded music since the year 2000 than in any other period in history, a digital tsunami that has continued to mutate and expand in 2025. It would take multiple lifetimes to listen to all the new electronic music in a single year, let alone the past 25.So, how to get arms around the most enduring tracks of the quarter-century? We listened. And polled, and talked, and listened a lot more. Our picks travel the globe, make pit stops in dingy Chicago basements, dusty bush doofs and bailes de favela. They're weighted toward the productions that sparked sub-genres or movements, electrified clubs or stood out for their sheer uniqueness.Where else will you find the freakiest acid next to the soulful timbre of deep house, or laser-focused techno sitting alongside hauntological drone? This is the place. Welcome to Resident Advisor's best electronic tracks of the 21st century so far.https://ra.co/features/4481
>>128767144i dont know who any of those is and i dont care.Only Joel matters. and he doesnt seem to be there.
>>128767144https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Mtu4u-OJAM
>>128767159Ironically, one of his tracks is present there.
>>128767144also there is an extremely ugly tranny in the middle
>>128767170yeah and futher up from aphex twin theres another one
>>128767177Is that Arca?
>>128767177I dont know who the fuck is apex twin and i dont care
>>128767186ngl get out of /mu/ lol
>>128767180ionno, i do find it funny to see grouper in the same image tho lol
So many familiar tracks.
>>128767159holy fucking based
>>128767413https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK1mLIeXwsQ
some good picks including ur and james stinson at number 1 but is very embarrasing list if you include shit like the guy sophie, opn or the retarded mouse gimmick
>>128767144Who's the asian above Autechre?
>>128768628As stated above, only Joel matters.
https://clarointelecto.bandcamp.com/track/peace-of-mind-electrosoul
https://kelela.bandcamp.com/track/rewind
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 thrift in all-genre critics lists so far.This side of the year 2000, the format lies transformed. Democratisation of production tools and 24/7 connectivity have given rise to records that resonate just as strongly on the big, bad internet as they would rattling through a sub or on a pair of high-end headphones. The floodgates opened as curious virtuosos had more to say and more modes of expression.One key trend has been the absorption of musicians who traditionally work outside of electronic music. This inspired cross-pollination, but also for us, a quandary: if everyone uses hardware and modern production, can they all get in? On balance, we decided that if the record was majority electronic or couldn't have existed without a digital pulse, it was good to go, but a rock act working within a pop music structure with a layered bank of synths probably wasn't. Is it arbitrary? Sure. But isn't everything?(For more information on how we made the lists, including what did or didn't make the cut, head to the Editors' Letter here and full contributors at the foot of the page.)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.https://ra.co/features/4482
>Yves Tumor, Sophie and OPN all in the top 25 despite doing literally nothing to advance EDMBut because one is zesty, one is trans and one is Jewish, they're deserving of high spots. What a fucking joke. Don't even get me started on the absolute gall to put Kelela at #4 and having #2 be some woke garbage. This list is disgusting and might as well just be a Warp circlejerk.Oh, and Confield being almost halfway behind Drukqs in the list is disgusting. Even more abhorrent is the critical lack of IDM in favor of pushing footwork and other meme genres. Fuck RA and fuck you if you support this trash.
>>128776059Thought Archangel was going to be the number one track, was doubtful that the obvious pick for album was going to be number one when I saw the EP comp earlier in the list but here it is, called the top three pretty easilyNasenbluten in the top 100 though, based
>>128776128ra was kinda decent but since the early 10's they turnbed into shit for extramuscial reasons and overrating 10's electronic music onwards. quite a jokethey're woke or just have shit taste. like omar s "fuck resident advisor"
>>128776772I miss reading proangelwings and the lads.
>>128776923Rundown elaborate on that era?
Surprised to see I Wanna Dance with Numbers on there.I always though Richard X's album was underrated.
https://dvs1klockworks.bandcamp.com/track/black-russian
https://jackj.bandcamp.com/track/something-on-my-mind
Untrue number 1 is the right callYeezys being that high up is a bizarre call, esp with death grips only making an appearance as a footnote under a Jane remover record lmao
https://nonplusrecords.bandcamp.com/track/watching-you
>not a single Jon Hopkins track when RA always bum him?????
