An Album a day, #3: Psychic TV, "Mouth of the Night," 1985

In between Brian Jones homages, Brian Wilson impersonations, and industrial instrumentals, Genesis P-Orridge & co. found the time to make this album of electronic music to accompany a modern dance piece. A very approximate description would be that it fits... somewhere between radical exotica, minimalism, and 60s tape loop experiments. A few years later, when he discovered acid house and trance, Mr. P-Orridge remixed portions of it over dance beats, but the original is much better.

An Album a day, #2: "Transmitting from Heaven," Exist Dance label anthology, 1993

An album a day, # 2: "Transmitting from Heaven," Exist Dance label anthology, 1993. Though at first glance it may look like a compilation, actually all tracks were composed by Mike Kandel, usually with Tom Chasteen, under a variety of monikers, each corresponding to an electronic genre (or sub-genre)--instrumental tr...ip-hop, trance, etc. Probably the best intelligent album of electronic dance music (but not necessarily of "Intelligent Dance Music," or IDM, which can often mean "kind of boring") made in the U.S. in the 1990's. Or ever.

An Album a day, #1: Saint Etienne, "Tiger Bay," 1994