It’s my birthday today so my special gift to you is this fourth part of our end-of-year list. This one rounds up the best longplayers featuring electronic and dance music. As always it’s a bit hard to discern what’s an album and what isn’t these days when few releases get pressed on vinyl. At least five of the below are available on 12” and some of them on cd. The DJ Loser tape is arguably a compilation, but since none of the tracks were released before I think it should count anyway. The World Experience Center release is actually a double-album so there is a cd as well as the LP.
Best 15 releases of 2024
- Vel – There Is Always a Solution (Mama Told Ya)
- DJ Loser – Cosmic Serpent (D.N.A.)
- Cunt Remember – Forest Schranz (Magdalena’s Apathy)
- Karmasmatik – Matter Defiance (Mrama Division)
- Gutkein – Lost Anegelest Dust (N/A)
- Might Be Twins – Lonely (Nerve Trax)
- Truthspeaker – HYP.apophysis:godgene.4s24 (Infinity2)
- Spiderwrap – Excomunión (Magdalena’s Apathy)
- FOK – nih3x (Nypra)
- World Experience Center – 01:06:2023 (Post Hoc)
- UH – Abject Neocon (N/A)
- Filmmaker – Land of Hidden Variables (Opal)
- Anetha – Mothearth (Mama Told Ya)
- Roüge – Legacy (Midnight Mana)
- Ace of Demons – The Cheek (Live From Earth Klub)
As a bonus we’ve also listed our favourite compilations below, because that almost has to be a category of its own. And there have been so many great ones this year. Sunthoid, No Borders and TM8 have all released several worthy compilations, so I have just picked one from each label.
Best 15 compilations of 2024
- V/A – Mediative Absorption (Manic BB)
- V/A – Lives Like Mine (Underskin Novelties)
- V/A – Alliance VA01 (Alliance Club)
- V/A – Age of Aquarius (Black Holes)
- V/A – Synthetic Pleasures III (Synthetic Pleasures)
- V/A – Evolving Horizons (No Borders)
- V/A – Vertical Archery (Splinter Cell)
- V/A – Truth-Trance (Spektator)
- V/A – TM8 VA001 (TM8)
- V/A – Code Eon (Magdalena’s Apathy)
- V/A – Sunthoid V (Sunthoid)
- V/A – Under the Silver Ashes (Iridium)
- V/A – CPE002 (CPE)
- V/A – V.A. 02 (Yarrow Ballet)
- V/A – Body Alterations (Model Sex)
If you want to listen to tracks from (some) of these releases, as well as other electronic favourites from 2024 that didn’t make the list, here’s a handy playlist for you.
