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These electronic music artists are ranked according to their musical impact/influence, originality, lasting popularity, and artistic merit. Artists of all electronic music genres are considered with the exception of experimentalists of the Avant-Garde and other styles falling under the classical music umbrella.
Newly added names are in Red
Edited By: Zach
List Begun 7-13-07
1. Kraftwerk 2. Brian Eno 3. Tangerine Dream 4. Frankie Knuckles 5. Jean Michel Jarre 6. Juan Atkins/Cybotron 7. Derrick May 8. Kevin Saunderson/Inner City 9. Yellow Magic Orchestra 10. Aphex Twin 11. Wendy Carlos 12. Massive Attack 13. Klaus Schulze 14. New Order 15. Depeche Mode 16. Underworld 17. The Chemical Brothers 18. Paul Oakenfold 19. Orbital 20. The Prodigy 21. Daft Punk 22. The Orb 23. Afrika Bambaataa 24. Giorgio Moroder 25. Björk 26. DJ Shadow 27. Moby 28. Art of Noise 29. Portishead 30. Throbbing Gristle 31. Vangelis 32. LTJ Bukem 33. Can 34. Neu! 35. Leftfield 36. Carl Craig 37. Fatboy Slim 38. Silver Apples 39. Cluster 40. Autechre 41. Suicide 42. Cabaret Voltaire 43. Goldie 44. The KLF 45. 808 State 46. Roni Size & Reprazent 47. Basement Jaxx 48. Tricky 49. Richie Hawtin/Plastikman 50. Larry Heard
51. Tomita 52. The Human League 53. Shannon 54. Front 242 55. Gary Numan 56. Nine Inch Nails 57. Boards of Canada 58. The Future Sound of London 59. Sasha + John Digweed 60. Masters at Work 61. Yello 62. Air 63. Paul van Dyk 64. Marshall Jefferson 65. Joey Beltram 66. Jeff Mills 67. Madonna 68. Primal Scream 69. Todd Terry 70. Carl Cox 71. Armand Van Helden 72. The Black Dog/Plaid 73. Soul II Soul 74. LFO 75. Jesse Saunders 76. BT 77. Mouse on Mars 78. Underground Resistance 79. Kruder & Dorfmeister 80. Coldcut 81. Tony Humphries 82. Steve "Silk" Hurley 83. Coil 84. µ-Ziq 85. Cajmere/Green Velvet 86. Lil' Louis 87. Dave Clarke 88. The Crystal Method 89. Squarepusher 90. Faithless 91. Lords of Acid 92. C+C Music Factory 93. Pet Shop Boys 94. Skinny Puppy 95. Deep Dish 96. Photek 97. Drexciya 98. Todd Edwards 99. Josh Wink 100. Phuture
101. M/A/R/R/S 102. DJ Krush 103. Global Communication 104. Pete Tong 105. The Sabres of Paradise 106. A Guy Called Gerald 107. The Shamen 108. DJ Spooky 109. Sven Väth 110. Luke Slater 111. David Morales 112. DJ Hype 113. 4hero 114. Jamiroquai 115. The Happy Mondays 116. Slam 117. Nightmares on Wax 118. Wagon Christ/Plug 119. William Orbit 120. Jam & Spoon 121. Seefeel 122. Junior Vasquez 123. Omar Santana 124. Robert Hood 125. DJ Tiësto 126. Roger Sanchez 127. Basic Channel 128. 2 Unlimited 129. Hardfloor 130. Enigma 131. Lamb 132. As One 133. Howie B 134. Laurent Garnier 135. Deee-Lite 136. Juno Reactor 137. Technotronic 138. Pan Sonic 139. Depth Charge 140. David Holmes 141. Amon Tobin 142. B12 143. Pole 144. Dynamix II 145. Farley Jackmaster Funk 146. Alec Empire/Atari Teenage Riot 147. Sneaker Pimps 148. Meat Beat Manifesto 149. Fluke 150. Black Box
151. UNKLE 152. Felix da Housecat 153. Thievery Corporation 154. Propellerheads 155. Apollo 440 156. Morcheeba 157. Armin Van Buuren 158. Frankie Bones 159. Oliver Lieb/L.S.G. 160. Derrick Carter 161. Rob Playford 162. Ed Rush 163. DJ Pierre 164. Republica 165. Ace of Base 166. Everything But the Girl 167. Moloko 168. Astral Projection 169. Irresistible Force 170. Cristian Vogel 171. Dave Angel 172. Oval 173. Moodymann 174. Biosphere 175. Ken Ishii 176. Delerium 177. Röyksopp 178. LCD Soundsystem 179. Ferry Corsten 180. AUX 88 181. Groove Armada 182. The Real McCoy 183. Chicane 184. Snap! 185. Hallucinogen 186. Death in Vegas 187. Stereo MC's 188. The Avalanches 189. Junior Boys 190. Add N to (X) 191. Scanner 192. Goldfrapp 193. Les Rythmes Digitales 194. ATB 195. Cosmic Baby 196. Infected Mushroom 197. Lo Fidelity Allstars 198. Venetian Snares 199. Spacetime Continuum 200. CJ Bolland
Age of Love
Beastie Boys
Beaver & Krause
David Bowie
John Chowning
Chris & Cosey
Holger Czukay
D.A.F.
Miles Davis
De La Soul
Devo
Dr. Octagon
Einstürzende Neubauten
Enya
Erasure
Eurythmics
Faust
Robert Fripp
Garbage
Manuel Göttsching
Grandmaster Flash
Bruce Haack
Herbie Hancock
Ron Hardy
Hot Butter
King Tubby
Kitaro
KMFDM
Kool DJ Herc
Larry Levan
Ministry
Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co.
My Bloody Valentine
Nitzer Ebb
Mike Oldfield
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
David Parsons
Jean-Jacques Perrey
Lee "Scratch" Perry
Pink Floyd
Popol Vuh
Prince
Psychic TV
Public Enemy
Public Image Ltd.
Radiohead
Robert Rich
Steve Roach
St. Etienne
Raymond Scott
Stereolab
Tackhead
Talk Talk
Test Dept.
TONTO's Expanding Head Band
Tortoise
Rick Wakeman
Stevie Wonder
Classical/Avant-Garde
Pioneers of Electronic Music:
Milton Babbitt
Luciano Berio
Harold Budd
John Cage
Tod Dockstader
Philip Glass
Pierre Henry
Alvin Lucier
Pauline Oliveros
Steve Reich
Terry Riley
Pierre Schaeffer
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Morton Subotnick
Edgard Varèse
Milton Babbitt
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