Best Electronic Songs of All Time

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   One More Time

   Daft Punk · from Discovery (2001)

   Euphoric, filtered French-house joy.

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   Block Rockin' Beats

   The Chemical Brothers · from Dig Your Own Hole (1997)

   Big beat at its most propulsive.

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   Firestarter

   The Prodigy · from The Fat of the Land (1997)

   Snarling, breakbeat aggression.

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   Teardrop

   Massive Attack · from Mezzanine (1998)

   Hypnotic trip-hop with a heartbeat pulse.

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   Glory Box

   Portishead · from Dummy (1994)

   Smoky, cinematic and aching.

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   Xtal

   Aphex Twin · from Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (1992)

   Warm, melodic ambient techno.

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   Archangel

   Burial · from Untrue (2007)

   Ghostly, rain-soaked night music.

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   Praise You

   Fatboy Slim · from You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998)

   A joyful, sample-built smash.

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   Porcelain

   Moby · from Play (1999)

   Fragile, downtempo beauty.

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    D.A.N.C.E.

    Justice · from Cross (2007)

    A choir-sampled electro anthem.

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    Latch

    Disclosure · from Settle (2013)

    UK house revived for a new generation.

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    Midnight City

    M83 · from Hurry Up, We're Dreaming (2011)

    A euphoric synth hook and sax outro.

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    Get Lucky

    Daft Punk · from Random Access Memories (2013)

    Nile Rodgers' funk guitar and Pharrell's falsetto — disco as nostalgia.

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    Firestarter

    The Prodigy · from The Fat of the Land (1997)

    The breakdown that collapsed festival tents in 1997.

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    Setting Sun

    The Chemical Brothers · from Dig Your Own Hole (1997)

    Lennon's 'Tomorrow Never Knows' reconstructed as rave.

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    Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?

    Moby · from Play (1999)

    Gospel samples and ambient electronics: the crossover that worked.

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    Feel Good Inc.

    Gorillaz · from Demon Days (2005)

    De La Soul's verse and Albarn's chorus — cartoon pop at its finest.

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    All My Friends

    LCD Soundsystem · from Sound of Silver (2007)

    The piano loop and the escalation and the most piercing lyric of the 2000s.

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    Blue Monday

    New Order · from Power, Corruption & Lies (1983)

    The best-selling 12-inch single in history, still.

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    Personal Jesus

    Depeche Mode · from Violator (1990)

    Blues guitar, synths, and a reach-out-and-touch-faith chorus.

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    Unfinished Sympathy

    Massive Attack · from Blue Lines (1991)

    The string arrangement and Shara Nelson's voice: the birth of trip-hop.

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    Remind Me

    Royksopp · from Melody A.M. (2001)

    The most yearning melody in Scandinavian electronic music.

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    Sing

    Four Tet · from There Is Love in You (2010)

    The most beautiful thing in modern electronic music — a genuinely contested opinion.

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    Archangel

    Burial · from Untrue (2007)

    The ghost of jungle and garage rebuilt as something entirely new.

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