WAcoustica is a 2005 album by the American chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound. The album consists of acoustic arrangements of electronic tracks originally composed by Richard D. James, and originally appearing on his albums Selected Ambient Works Volume II, Richard D. James Album and Drukqs.
WRichard Hyman is an American jazz pianist and composer. Over a 60-year career, he has worked as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, electronic musician, and composer. He was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters fellow in 2017. His grandson is designer and artist Adam Charlap Hyman.
WAll Hours is the sixth studio album by American band Ivy, released by Nettwerk on September 20, 2011. Following 2005's In the Clear, the members took a hiatus from music, allowing Andy Chase and Adam Schlesinger to work on side projects and Dominique Durand and Chase to begin raising a family. After reuniting in 2008, they started work on a project exploring a new sound following concerns that their songs would become obsolete and unimaginative due to their break. All Hours features 11 songs written and produced by Chase and Schlesinger; they take influence from electropop, indie pop and synth-pop music. Unlike their previous albums, All Hours experiments more with electronic music and contains tracks reminiscent of the music from the 1980s.
WThe Ancient & Arcane is the debut studio album by American electronic music producer Varien. The album was released on August 5, 2015 by independent electronic music label Monstercat.
WBig Fish Theory is the second studio album by American rapper Vince Staples. It was released on June 23, 2017, through Blacksmith Records and distributed by Def Jam Recordings. Featuring an avant-garde style that leans toward electronic club music genres such as house and Detroit techno, it contains production work from Christian Rich, Zack Sekoff, Sophie, Ray Brady, Jimmy Edgar, GTA, Justin Vernon and Flume, among others; as well as vocal contributions from a variety of artists including Kilo Kish, Kendrick Lamar, Juicy J, Ty Dolla Sign, Damon Albarn, Ray J and ASAP Rocky.
WBlack Origami is the second album by Indiana producer Jlin, first issued for streaming on May 11, 2017 and on other formats by Planet Mu on May 19, 2017. Produced in a year from 2015 to 2016, it features collaborations with William Basinski, Holly Herndon, Fawkes, and Dope Saint Jude. The title of Black Origami describes the structure of the music: the songs are complex pieces that take advantage of silence as much as sounds, similar to how an origami makes intricate art based on plain paper. Two tracks from previous Jlin extended plays appear on Black Origami: "Nandi" from Free Fall (2015) and "Nyakinya Rise" from Dark Lotus (2017).
WBoys and Diamonds is the debut studio album by husband-and-wife electronica duo Rainbow Arabia. It was released on German electronic record label Kompakt on February 28, 2011, and on March 1, 2011 in the United States.
WBreakthrough is the first studio album by American alternative-hip hop producer The Gaslamp Killer. It was released on Brainfeeder on September 17, 2012. The album features guest appearances from Gonjasufi, Daedelus, and Samiyam, among others.
WCall My Life is the debut studio album by American drag queen and singer Blair St. Clair, released in June 2018. She is the first queen from RuPaul's Drag Race to have a debut album top one of the Billboard charts.
WChannel Pressure is the debut studio album of electronic music duo Ford & Lopatin, consisting of producers Daniel Lopatin and Joel Ford. Following the group's abandonment of their previous name "Games" for legal reasons, they recorded the album at Gary's Electric Studios in Brooklyn, New York. It was released on June 7, 2011 as the first album to be issued on Software, Lopatin's own label under the Mexican Summer imprint.
WCompletionist is the second studio album by American Christian metal band Blood of the Martyrs. This is the first album to feature David Sanders on guitar and Michael Pak on drums and Bobby Huotari on Bass and the last to feature vocalist/keyboardist Lee Zook.
WCtrl Alt Delete is the first studio album by American record producer Free the Robots. It was released on Alpha Pup Records on March 30, 2010. "The Eye" features a guest appearance from Ikey Owens. A music video was created for "Jupiter".
WNina Sky is an American musical duo composed of identical twins Nicole and Natalie Albino. Their debut single "Move Ya Body", released from their self-titled debut album in 2004, was a success, reaching number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their second album, Nicole & Natalie, was released in July 2012. Their third studio album, Brightest Gold, was announced for 2016 release through Tommy Boy Entertainment.
WDark Energy is the debut album by American electronic music producer Jlin, released in 2015 by Planet Mu. It received acclaim from critics and was named the best album of 2015 by The Quietus and The Wire.
WDark Web is a studio album by American producer Keith Rankin, known by his stage name Giant Claw, released in September 2014 worldwide by the labels Orange Milk Records, Noumenal Loom, and in Japan by Virgin Babylon. Dark Web depicts the idea of existing cultures and music coming together to form, in the words of Orange Milk, "new compositional tools." As such, its melodies are executed from a combination of half-second-length snippets of vocal samples from pop and R&B songs. Dark Web follows Giant Claw's typical style of samples and MIDI compositions but with more influences of modern music than Rankin's previous records. Dark Web garnered a favorable critical response for its odd tone and landed in the year-end lists of publications such as Tiny Mix Tapes and CMJ.
WDilapidation Celebration is a collaborative extended play by the Los Angeles-based electronic duo Slander and the Houston-based electronic producer Kayzo. Dilapidation Celebration was released on October 27, 2017, by the independent electronic music label, Monstercat.
WDiscipline is the tenth studio album by American recording artist Janet Jackson. It was released on February 22, 2008 by Island Records. It's her only album released by Island Records, after her five-album deal with Virgin Records was fulfilled with the release of 20 Y.O. (2006). Jackson worked with producers such as Darkchild, Ne-Yo, Shea Taylor, Stargate, Johntá Austin, Jermaine Dupri, Tricky Stewart, and The-Dream on the album. Jackson's long-time producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis did not contribute to the project. The album was executive produced by Island Urban president Dupri and Jackson. The album experimented with the electropop, house, and dance-pop genres and also contained R&B and hip hop-oriented tracks.
WEndless Fantasy is the second studio album by the American chiptune band Anamanaguchi. The album was released on May 14, 2013 in the US through the band's own dream.hax record label. It was released on September 30, 2013 in the UK by Alcopop! Records.
WEnjoy Your Rabbit is a 2001 electronic music album by American musician Sufjan Stevens. It is a song cycle inspired by the animals of the Chinese zodiac. The album was reworked and rearranged for string instruments and released in 2009 as Run Rabbit Run.
WErebus I is the third extended play by American electronic music producer Notaker. It was released by Canadian record label mau5trap on July 6, 2018. It contains five songs, including collaborations with American DJ and producer BlackGummy and Canadian electronic music duo Eminence. The first single "Corrupted" was released on June 26, 2018.
WExo is the first studio album of Chicago-based electronic duo Gatekeeper, consisting of musicians Aaron David Ross and Matthew Arkell. It was released on July 17, 2012, on the label Hippos in Tanks. The EBM, IDM and acid techno album departs from the synth-heavy style of Gatekeeper's past releases, in that most of the melodies are performed by a sampler with a sound palette of high-definition Hollywood film sound effects. Gatekeeper was inspired to follow this HD aesthetic from an experience at World Heritage Sites which made them feel "really spiritual and charged up" to create the first track on the album, "IMAX." Exo was promoted with a visual exploration video game with environments designed by Internet artist Tabor Robak using the game engine Unity. Reviews for Exo from music journalists were favorable in general, holding an aggregate 70 out of 100 on Metacritic as of February 2017.
WGenesis is the second extended play by American electronic music producer Notaker. Genesis was released on October 24, 2017, by the independent electronic music label, Monstercat.
WThe Headbangers Ball is the fourth extended play by American electronic music duo Slander. Canadian independent electronic label Monstercat released the EP on November 29, 2018. The extended play was released with three singles, a North American tour and later gathered generally positive reviews.
WHeta Himlen is the debut studio album release by the American electropop music artist, The Jellyrox.
WI Am the Messiah is the only album by MC Honky, released in 2002. Supposedly a middle-age disc jockey from Silverlake, California, MC Honky is promoted by, and widely considered to be, Mark Oliver Everett of Eels.
WIntuitive American Esoteric is the name of a limited three-volume, multi-label series of LP records by Nautical Almanac member Twig Harper, released between 2005 and 2006. Each album features a standard cut recording on side A and a handmade lathe-cut recording featuring numerous locked grooves on side B. Regarding the first two records in the series, Harper commented:"I released "Intuitive American Esoteric" vol 1 +2 on LP, one side was mastered normally the other side were examples of lathe cuts. For volume 1 I cut the lathe master plate real scratchy and distant. On vol 2 the lathe side was experiments of sine waves cut on top of each other, at various depths and frequency."
WJulie Ruin is the independent solo debut album by Kathleen Hanna under the name Julie Ruin in 1997, recorded while taking a break from Bikini Kill. Hanna recalled:[It] was made as Bikini Kill was in breaking up, a guy who worked across the street from my apartment building was stalking me and I was being treated, in my own community, like a historical oddity. The solo record helped me remember that I was just a fucking person who liked being creative.
WThe Kid is the sixth studio album by American electronic musician Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith. It was released on October 6, 2017 by Western Vinyl. It's a concept album about the human life cycle and was described by the artist as "a journey from birth to death", while Smith depicts the four stages of life in the tracks of The Kid.
WLiving Proof is the 24th studio album by American singer Cher. It was first released on November 6, 2001 by WEA and distributed in North America by Warner Bros. Records in 2002. After the commercial success of Believe (1998), Cher began work on her twenty-fourth studio album in 2000. Rob Dickins was chosen as the executive producer for the album, enlisting producers such as Johan Åberg, Chris Cox, Tony Moran, Bruce Roberts, Wayne Rodriguez, Stargate, Chicane, Ray Hedges, and Mark Taylor. Its music incorporates dance-pop, disco and house styles.
WLouie Vega Starring...XXVIII is an album by Louie Vega, released on February 26, 2016 by Vega Records. The album earned Vega a Grammy Award nomination for Best Dance/Electronic Album.
WMetropolis is the sixth extended play by Los Angeles-based dubstep producer Kompany. It was released by English record label Never Say Die on February 1, 2019. It contains four songs, including features of Singer-songwriter Karra and British grime collective Virus Syndicate.
WMirrors is the fourth studio album from American singer and songwriter Nivea, released on September 26, 2019 by Hill Music Group. Mirrors musically differs from Nivea's previous albums.
WMoney Sucks, Friends Rule is the debut studio album by Dillon Francis, an American electronic music producer known for being one of the pioneers of moombahton and moombahcore. The album features collaborations from artists such as Major Lazer, Martin Garrix, Mad Decent label-mate DJ Snake, rapper Twista, Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie and more. It was released on October 27, 2014 on Mad Decent in collaboration with Columbia Records.
WMoody Coup is the second studio album of Co La, the project of Baltimore electronic music producer Matt Papich. The album follows a more indefinable music style yet cleaner sound than Co La's previous record Daydream Repeater (2011). Using both synthesizers and samples, the album involves song recordings and foley of everyday life being "enhanced and embellished to a point of transcendence," its official press release summarized. It was released on May 7, 2013 by the imprint Software and garnered generally positive reviews from critics upon its release.
WMusic Is My Medicine is a collaboration album between Clutchy Hopkins and Lord Kenjamin. It was released in 2009 under the Ubiquity Records label.
WThe New Abnormal is the sixth studio album by American rock band the Strokes, released on April 10, 2020, through Cult and RCA Records. It was their first album in seven years, following Comedown Machine (2013), and their first release since the Future Present Past EP (2016).
WOut of Light is the debut studio album of American electronic music producer and DJ Slushii, consisting of 13 songs, that was self-released under his label, Slushii on 4 August 2017.
WPath.Finder is the fourth extended play by American electronic music producer Notaker. It was released by Canadian record label Monstercat on April 8, 2019. It contains six songs, including features of Singer-songwriter Karra and Eric Lumiere. The two singles "Into the Light" and "Each Other" were each released on January 31, 2019, and on March 18, 2019, respectively.
WPharma is a double album by American vaporwave producer Alex Koenig, also known as Nmesh. It was issued on August 4, 2017 on the imprint Orange Milk Records. It follows the same vaporwave style as other Nmesh albums like Nu.wav Hallucinations (2013) and Dream Sequins (2014) but is more "off-kilter" than those records and depicts samples from "collective memory" rather than the media Koenig experienced as a child. The album was critically well received.
WPrototype is the debut album of garage duo Experimental Products. This album was produced and released by the duo on vinyl in 1982. Wilde and Gross also produced the album's cover art.
WRay of Light is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, released on February 22, 1998 by Maverick Records. After giving birth to her first child, Madonna started working on the album with producers Babyface and Patrick Leonard. Following failed sessions with them, Madonna pursued a new musical direction with English producer William Orbit. The recording process was the longest of Madonna's career and experienced problems with Orbit's hardware arrangement, which would break down, and recording would have to be delayed until it could be repaired.
WSilver Apples of the Moon is the debut album by American composer and musician Morton Subotnick, released by Nonesuch Records in July 1967. It contains the titular composition which is divided into two parts. A showcase for the Buchla 100 synthesizer, an early analogue synthesizer that the composer helped develop, it was the first piece of electronic music commissioned by a record company.
WSpark Seeker is an album by American reggae singer Matisyahu, which was released on July 17, 2012. It is his fourth studio release, and follows 2009's Light. Spark Seeker debuted at #19 on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of 16,000. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard Reggae Chart. The album was recorded in Los Angeles, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel.
WSun is the ninth studio album by American musician Cat Power. Her first album of all-original material since 2006's The Greatest, it was released on September 3, 2012, in the United Kingdom and in the United States on September 4, 2012, via Matador Records. The album was issued in a variety of formats, including a limited edition deluxe LP containing a 7-inch vinyl of bonus tracks.
WThat's Harakiri is the debut studio album by Milwaukee electronic music producer Sd Laika, released on the label Tri Angle in 2014.
WTransit was the second collaborative album between keyboardist Ira Stein and oboist Russel Walder, released in 1986 by Windham Hill.
WTwitch is the second studio album by American rock band Ministry, released on March 12, 1986 by Sire Records. Recorded mostly in London and West Berlin during 1985, it was produced by the band's frontman Al Jourgensen and On-U Sound Records owner Adrian Sherwood. It stepped away from the synthpop-oriented form of their debut studio album With Sympathy (1983) and moved toward a darker, more aggressive sound, heavily influenced by industrial dance groups Cabaret Voltaire and Front 242.
WTwo Fold Pt. 1 is the fifth studio album by Lafayette-based electronic producer Martin Vogt, commonly known as his stage name, Haywyre. The album was released by Canadian record label Monstercat on 31 March 2014.
WVampire Weekend is the eponymous debut studio album by American rock band Vampire Weekend, released on January 29, 2008 by XL Recordings. The album was produced by band member Rostam Batmanglij, with mixing assistance from Jeff Curtin and Shane Stoneback. Its cover photo is a Polaroid picture from one of their early shows in Columbia University. Released after a year of building internet buzz, the album showcased the band's unique hybrid of indie pop, chamber music, and afropop influences.
WVantablack is a collaborative extended play by French electronic band Dirtyphonics and Los Angeles-based electronic rock producer Sullivan King. Vantablack was released on 3 November 2017, by the independent electronic music label, Monstercat. The EP features six songs, all of which were produced by both producers.
WYeezus is the sixth studio album by American rapper and producer Kanye West. It was released on June 18, 2013, through Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Records. West gathered a number of artists and close collaborators for the production, including Mike Dean, Daft Punk, Noah Goldstein, Arca, Hudson Mohawke, and Travis Scott. The album also features guest vocals from Justin Vernon, Chief Keef, Kid Cudi, Assassin, King L, Charlie Wilson, and Frank Ocean.
WYou Are Not Alone is the second album from hip-hop group and songwriting duo Kinetics & One Love. Released on August 28, 2012, the album features guest appearances from Termanology, Wynter Gordon, Nitty Scott, Jon Bellion, Time Out Club's KTSB and the Lower East Side-based rapper and poet Accent. It also features guest production from Kenna Okoye. Within its first two hours on sale, the album broke the top ten on the iTunes hip-hop chart and climbed to #55 on the all albums iTunes chart. It also charted at No. 57 on Billboard Magazine's R&B/Hip-Hop chart and No. 32 on its Heatseekers chart. Upon its release, You Are Not Alone was reviewed by Billboard Magazine, MTV's Buzzworthy, Vibe Magazine, Complex Magazine,The Source Magazine and XXL Magazine.
WYou Once Told Me is the first officially released studio album from Andain, succeeding ten years of various works and performances.