Sonicnet list their
twenty-five essential electronic albums, and despite the never-ending fallacy of focusing on dance
albums and not tracks, this list is actually very good. Some surprising but very credible choices - Romanthony's
Romanworld, Plastikman's
Sheet One and The Paperclip People's
Secret Tapes of Doctor Eich nestled among more the more predictable inclusion of Portishead, Roni Size, Aphex Twin and The Chemical Brothers etc. Meanwhile it seems that Moby's
Play now has guaranteed presence on any list of this kind; have the American media signed some contract mandatorily requiring them to praise it at regular intervals?