Darkdancer

Very enjoyable squelchy dance vibes.

Quite refreshing in the context of this exercise, but nothing that really grabs me massively here. I remember the hits being very present around the late 90s/early 2000s and finding (Hey You) What's That Sound kind of annoying... they never grabbed me hugely at that time, and while it was mostly fairly enjoyable I can still see why.

This really doesn't interest me at all. 1 star or F.

Everybody wants to get down like that.

vocabulaire, dictionnaire

Enjoyable, but each song went on a bit too long. 3.

A lot of fun and good dance music. Apart from "Disco II Disco", I enjoyed the album. It's not groundbreaking or very important and probably shouldn't be on this list, but it's still good. Doing this 1001 albums thing has made me appreciate electronic music a lot more than I thought I would. Also, sick album cover.

Why is this a must hear? WHY?

Nothing too interesting, quite standard house music plus vocals. Didn’t grab.

liked it more than I thought I would

This was so repetitive but I loved listening - just so much fun. I guess I'm a Faux French Electronica Head. Also this is the first album on the list that I immediately repeated after listening. It's so stupid, that it is genius.

Hallo Chat-GPT, bitte generier mer es Album das nur so nach de 2000er schreit. Es Album wo mer Mensche zeige chan wenn sii seget "Beschriib mer d 2000 mit eim Gegestand". Was für en Start is Album mit Dreamin', da hani scho widermal sehr uf e 5er, oder zumindest e gueti 4er Bewertig gfreud! Aber durs Album isch denn doch trotz Vorfreud uf Elektronischi Musig de ganzi Funke ned so gsprunge. Es isch und bliibt hald immerno elektronischi Musig vode 2000. Han aber 3, 4 neui Awärter, die mal als Goetschmann Tranceport als Intro bracht werde chöntet. Alles i allem denn doch Abgrundet uf 3 Bravo-heftli

Guete versuech mit biz öpis disco und neus aber isch doch echli zu schlecht. Göaubs ich drop da zur abwechslig wieder mal e 2 higitali rhytme für euse darkdancer. Tönt au fast chli meh nach em ne mittelalter hexer als es 1999er musik produzent

Cool album, some really good sampling on this with good beats that make you want to hit up a disco club in GTA 4 and bust a move or two. I didn't love every song, but I liked about half of them a lot. I like the 8bit feel of a lot of it and overall the album is really solid. I've never heard of this guy or this album. Another solid find in the 1001 album crate dig. The album closer was great and this album has a very fresh feel that you could tell the artist was having a lot of fun making it.

Pretty great dance album. Has some duds but that's dance music for you. Music makes me lose control. Side note. I love the cover. It looks like ai with the glow, the way the buildings are tipping in different directions, the way the hands look kind of weird and over accessorized. Also, it looks like a pepsi ad, the DJ handing you a pepsi and cracking it open and the music comes out. It's awesome and I think it kind of reads like this is the world in a commercial. Listen to this music and you can pretend life is simple, all your friends are here and all you need to be happy is some wicked tunes and this refreshing pepsi.

From the cover to the content this absolutely encapsulates late 90's european dance music. It's repetitive but there are enough layers to it to not make it monotonous, and it's a dance album. You're not there to listen to it contemplatively, you're there to get up and move. I unabashedly enjoyed this. I miss the old bigbeat/breakbeat style that this has and how corny it could get without giving a shit. This is fun. I liked all of it, even though I had to find it on youtube because spotify only has the first 20 minutes or so.

nope. where is "0" stars?

Funky, not my normal style of music. Guitars are hypnotic and really keep you in The synths are nice, I like the choppy drums. However a lot of the songs sort of land flat for me. It feels like an album that is influential and important but also doesn’t really need to be remembered by me Just realized I was listening to like a half version of the album? Had to restart halfway Hmm idk something just isn’t connecting. I didn’t turn it off but definitely felt like a slog near the end. Damaged people did end up being saved to my likes. 4/10

No real standouts besides the last track. Very of its time.

Feels to much like a mixtape of a local wannabe DJ trying to convince others of how cool his tunes are than an actual album. It's not my really my genre but still I can enjoy the musical innovations of big Nineties dance outlets, like The Prodigy and Faithles. Les Rythmes Digitales doesn't even come near those, actually he might be the polar opposite. Even the Cover looks amateurish. The cover actually might be the only pioneering aspect of this record, since it looks like AI, which obviously did not exist in 1999.

Did some get a DJ studio for their birthday?? Disco/edm/dance music that would only be listenable on drugs while at a club. FAR too repetitious. Even if there's a minute that sounds good, it gets beaten to death for over 5 minutes. Crazee. "Music makes you lose control" Control "Music makes you lose control" Control "Music makes you lose control" Control "Music makes you lose control" Control "Music makes you lose control" Control "Music makes you lose control" Control "Soft machine" has a different voice and some cool music and then 'I got Lucifer rising in my head' 57 times!! If they removed this chorus/non-chorus rep bullshit, this would be a good song. "Brothers" and "Mdc vendredi" might be the least annoying songs here, just because they're instrumentals, but even these are a bit too repetitive. Production value is good. Production choices are insane! I don't think this is an album anyone Needs to hear again.

I see the album cover and right away I really REALLY doubt this is one of the top albums of all time. It looks like Robert Pattinson decided to be a DJ. But I have to put aside first impressions. We are here for the music. So up against any other music genre other than techno, this album fails miserably. Like there was a pissing contest with the goal to not get pee on yourself and this guy decided to turn around and piss in the wind. Isolated, I actually enjoy it. I enjoy the beats more than anything. Lyrically there are times he tries too hard to be edgy and then there are times he just doesn’t care and writes in a simple form. Like, I like this more than Moby. How much do I like Moby? I cannot say. I have no choice cut really. It all feels the same yet it’s different enough to be good. Fuck it, Choice cut: Hypnotize

i love to dance i love music i love paris i love blanket i love to sleep in paris

To the day I die I will likely never understand how techno became a thing, unless it's the drugs that I'm missing and that makes the repetition a desirable thing since you're not really able to focus on anything anyway. It was fine for techno, but that's like saying a kick in the shin is fine compared to a kick in the balls.

Little too long.

Big oof. (0/100)

Fun album! I loved this time. 90s into early 00’s was so fuggin fun!

Couldn't get through it, repetitive lyrics are a pet peeve of mine.

Timu Daft Punk.

What a vibe. Definite track suit music

Why was this 90 minutes. 5 would do

un álbum bastante inmaduro como para estar incluido en esta lista a mi parecer. Los beats son demasiado simples y repetitivos, suenan a lo peor de la época. Es una música poco elaborada que hasta para bailar es aburrida.

This would be a great album for mindless house-cleaning.

Real talk, I think this style of dance music is a joke. And I think I’d put this album as a prime example.

This one is pretty fun, I can appreciate it for what it is! I’d give a 4 star to it for the beats and some fun melodies, but can’t sit and just listen to it. Maybe in the right setting it could be a 5.

Repetitive and dull.

What is this?

On my catch-up tour of the list, this presents with more dance tracks than the usual. Made me want to move so added a couple tracks to songs I might walk to to get the heart rate up. Listened before? N Saved tracks? N Favorite tracks? Hey You What's That Sound, Take a Little Time ⭐⭐ ⭐ Grooving 3 stars

Badly dated, and a very dull listen.

hahahah, this was fun! not sure if i'd revisit it, but it was definitely a worthwhile listen. i liked the album's radio that came on afterwards too. good to just listen to while working or just getting some things done.

Ok for what it is. It something I’d ever listen to again

I can hear what it influenced but the added lyrics kinda ruined it

Clearly created by someone who understands grooves, hooks and the power of a great bass line. Not all songs hit, but those that do are really well written. The production is quite basic to my taste (stock drums, sparse soundscape and preset-sounding sounds), but the songwriting more than makes up for it. Some songs are literally annoying to listen to, I was considering deducting a star for the 2-3 bad songs, but i'll just pretend that the album didn't contain them.

Good for a genre that I don’t really vibe with.

I’m a sucker for a good techno funk album.

Strange one. Some really great dance tracks and some really lame and repetitive pop songs. Has been done much better, especially around its time.

Would probably love this at a rave in 1996. 2/5

Another mix of dross and quality; 2.5 stars

Some fun and funky tunes. Jaques Your Body Makes me Sweat, About funk, and Music makes you lose control are the standouts for me. The first track is just a bummer for some reason, almost turned me off the entire album. I'll likely pop this back on at some point.

this is 1000% gonna be ass isn’t it Update: yes

Pretty generic and monotonous. Another bland electronica album. 2/5 Won’t listen again

Too upbeat for my morning but lots of bangers in there

heavy breakbeat techno dance album.

Everything here is fine, but nothing here is impressing or worth revisiting. It sounds like a compilation album for teen comedy series music. I can't say I really disliked anything here outside of maybe 1 or 2 songs, but the entire thing is just so non-noteworthy. The album cover sure is some late 90's goodness though.

Intressant, men aning repetitivt och saknar känsla. Ingen jag vill lyssna länge på

- I enjoyed this way more than I should have, all things considered - some of the vocal stylings and maximalist sound effects are very silly and dated in a way that Daft Punk's Homework still manages to not be, but the line is thin - "ain't that fresh, everybody want to get down like that" right next to a Buffalo Springfield lyric is certainly a choice, but I can dig it - the textures and layering are all over the place, like a fun parfait of sound - when the unique stylings of frosted-tip electro-pop from the early 2000s become solidly retro and therefore cool again in another five years, this will be very, very fun to revisit but this challenged me in a fun way. I suspect that those who did not like this album with a passion and rated it poorly here are not fans of the genre (I'm also largely not), but I posit this: it's not exactly fair to judge this (or any) album using criteria that don't pertain to what it's trying to be or accomplish in the first place. this is a house/dance album: repetition and that "uns uns" sound is as part of the genre as distorted guitars are to rock or metal music. this is not inherently radio-friendly music (and perhaps not even headphone-friendly) because it wasn't created for that listening environment. but outside of the everyday meat and potatoes I'm used to, there are still both great and meh goat curries -- and this is, musically speaking, some enjoyable curry I'd order again.

In the right dance setting

I thought this might be a surprise 3 star. Started out ok. Got worse and annoying the more I listened to it.

Some of the songs sound alright in terms of the music but the lyrics themselves are extremely repetitive. The song called Sometimes sounds pretty nice.

Dnf. I'm sorry, this one is just excessively long (that's what she said). It started off as a one star, as my brain didn't even really parse it as music, but a few tracks later on were more enjoyable. Not something I'm going to seek out again, though.

Good EDM at times.

Not bad techno pop - but a lot of the songs were very repetitive, which was super annoying.

Best Eurodance I've ever heard. Surprisingly sophisticated, incredibly groovy. Absolutely will listen again.

Loved the big beat / mid 90s sound. Some of it is a bit bland, some of it is great. Never listened to it before but was surprised how good it was. Love the cover art!

I have no idea why this is determined as something I must listen to before I die. This feels more like an album of beats than anything cohesive. Lyrics are badly delivered pointless drivel and the beats are far too simplistic.

Not bad

Electro-pop. Drum machines, mind-numbing repetitiveness. This music has its place. Just not anywhere near me.

Of the 20 songs on the 2 discs, only 9 were available to hear on Spotify in the US.

Cool samples. Boring execution.

Gówno

Not my thing

- Classics that I recognise - Production tight - Balanced and very well mixed - Breadth of motif is interesting, lots of general stacking and repetition - second disc is far more recognisable

So many random background songs I forgot I knew

Starts off well, but falls off a cliff

I like the beats. This one made me want to move, though the vocals were pretty repetitive. Adding Mdc vendredi to my upbeat instrumentals playlist for doing deep work and Sometimes to my Deezer favorites. Apparently he worked with Scissor Sisters on Night Work and Magic Hour, so he gets bonus points from me for that. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): Sometimes, Mdc vendredi, Hey you what's that sound? My ratings are kind of based on general vibes and how many tracks I save to my Deezer profile -- ⭐⭐⭐: Liked it. Saved some tracks.

It was alright.

Oh well, I had a 17-album run of music other than generic, unremarkable, completely forgettable techno, so I suppose I was due. Ten thousand techno albums have been released just this year that were this good or better. This wasn’t bad. It just was the 400th techno album on this list, which all basically sound the same. “But this wasn’t techno! It was ambient breakbeat house acid chill dub synth electro jungle trance!!! Duh!” Shut up nerd. I was born in the 70’s. If it’s made on a computer, it’s techno. “This was actually made on a…” SHUT UP NEEEEERD!!!!!!

Sorry, but this is absolutely not my vibe. Had to skip through a lot of it. Some people live for this style of music, but I have never been able to find enjoyment in it. Maybe I just to be rolling face or something 🤷🏻‍♀️ It did lead to me searching how many songs have sampled these so that was fun to read about.

I had never heard of this band before, but this was a lot of fun.

EDM is either growing on me, or the last couple I've gotten has been better than every other one I've listened to. With the description and cover art I went into this album just knowing it was going to be a 1 and not finishing the album....... I liked most of this album. I don't see another scenario where I'd listen to it, but wasn't a bad listen. 2/5.

p848. 1999. A double album of mediocre 80s influenced dance music. Fuck no.

Just didn’t do much for me. Sounded outdated and repetitive.

Another album I have almost no opinion on, and with a two-sentence summary on this site, it looks like I am not the only one. When Jacques Your Body came on I immediately recognised it, it's another of those tracks which was so widely used as a bedding track when it came out. But overall I had no reaction other than that. Also the album art looks like an early 2000s secondary school IT textbook.

Horrible. 1.5/5

Kul album. Not really what I listen to ali vv cool tehno/edm

3.5*/5 [08.15.2025] 01.16.2026

Surprised how much I liked this. Upbeat, funky and insanely catchy dance tunes. Insubstantial maybe but great in the moment.

An interesting one, definitely too long but an album I think is entirely mood dependent. If I had been listening to this while doing nothing it would have likely grated me. Luckily it caught me in a good mood as I was cleaning so the first half at least was a vibe, but it did start to drag. Some interesting stuff, would definitely say it was ahead of its time but can't say its effect on the musicsphere was incredibly positive with the amount of trash euro-pop that came after. Soft Machine is an underated tune though, really cool beat and interesting production on that one!

You know, I didn't think it was that bad. There's too much of this on here but I don't mind it.

4/5. A great dance album. Throw any of these songs in the club and we moving the floor. This album is great to give as much attention I give when dancing, which is not a lot but it seems to accomplish that goal well. Adding some unique sounds along with the "in your face" beat creates simple but engaging music. It is definitely inspired by Daft Punk's Homework but feels fresh and hyper-produced instead of muddy, and from a basement. Neither is bad, each enjoyable in their own space. Just like Homework, I'm not listening to it every day but its enjoyable for sure. Best Song: Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat), Hypnotise, (Hey You) What's That Sound?

Mon dieu que c'était pourri ahahaha

thoughts: this feels like a weird missing link, a bridge between 90s eurodance and 00s indie electronica. it isn’t really great at either, but there are things about each they do okay with. actually, the parts where they go further back into more cold synth-y 80s vibes might be the best stuff on this album. songs: “music makes you lose control”, “hypnotise”, “about funk” rating: 5.7/10

another one that is very hard to understand how it is one of the 1001

A few of these had my head bopping along to the music. Not something I usually like, but this was a fun listen. My favorites were Music Makes You Lose Control and Soft Machine.

Prende le funk

its electronic with a a bit of pop music. I found it pretty boring and not even enjoyable as background music. Nothing creative really and I cannot see why this is on the list. I wouldn't even recognise a song straight after listening to it it is so generic. 2 stars

Fine? An odd choice and of it's time but the singles still go. Can remember this from when it came out and seemed slight then, good for him for his rightful success with Madonna and Kylie

Very boring and repetitive. The fact that this album is so important that I have to listen to it before I die is hilarious

The sound was great, some catchy parts with nice vibes, however, it was beyond repetitive and got aggressively annoying very quickly. I skipped through every song not even halfway through.

Sort of enjoyed a few of the early tracks but then it started to become far too repetitive for me. A couple of the songs I found difficult to listen to all the way through. Found some fun to dance to, but wouldn’t listen to the album again. Fav song: Music Makes You Lose Control Least fav: From: Disco To: Disco

Had a bad day so this will be biased but fuck this album honestly. Disco to disco is one of the worst ones I’ve heard yet. Rest of the album sounds like a shit version of the Sega all stars racing soundtrack. And why all the bloody remixes. It’s already remixed in the first place. Stop. Specific rating - 0.5 Fav song - dreamin Least fav- from disco: to disco

The list of songs this guy has produced is kind of insane and he's got three Grammy awards! This album doesn't reflect that at all. Thought there were a few pretty fun songs, but it was mostly just repetitive annoyance. Favourite song: Music Makes You Lose Control Least: Disco To: Disco

Nooooot good Bob, not good at all. This is like if Fusion Frenzy was intentionally a parody of itself.Disco II Disco was so bad I had to subtract a star 😂 1/5

Apparently this has been 'credited it for launching much of the electro-pop vogue of the 2000s'. I found it pretty inoffensive but uninteresting. Feels like a pick that was made because he didn't have enough electronic music in the 1001 and this came up in a Google search. Doesn't feel essential at all, but then I suppose it's not really my thing.

Electronic music that sounds like it was groundbreaking when it was first released. Now it sounds like what you hear when you walk through a casino in Las Vegas.

Never heard of it, which is always a bad sign. It might have been revolutionary when it was released but now it sounds like vast amounts of stuff. It's okay if you like that kind of thing.

listened to a couple of tracks, not my thing tbh. heard worse thouth

First song, danceable rhythm. Tap my feet. Not following lyrics but enjoy the upbeat pace. PROBABLY 3.75 SO GIVE IT A 4

fluctuates between decent and bad

Actually a pretty nice album, I enjoy it more because I'm already a fan of electro house and that is always a plus. I think my biggest issue with this one is that some songs can just be in one ear out the other type electronic music, but it's fun while its on

Absolutely giga ass. This deserves to be on interpols least wanted list. The synths sound like sonic the hedgehog if he was suffering from pancreatic cancer. The voice is stupid as fuck. But every once in a while... it sounds exactly as ass as the rest of the album. This is the music equivalent of being spit on by a hobo with neon hair. I would rather die slowly of radiation poisoning than listen to this abomination again.

Second half of the album genuinely hurt my ears. There was some bad, some mid and some good songs. The ups and downs were very noticable. Favourite Song: Sometimes Honourable Mention: Hypnotise

i enjoyed this, a solid 3 imo. Good dance album

First time listening the album. Québecois's quote : Écoutable en background quand tu chat sur MSN, mais sur une mixtape avec autre chose parce que c'est pas écoutable back à back. Translation : Listenable while chating on MSN, but only on a mixtape with something else because nobody could listen to this back to back.

Not for me.

Never heard of this group/artist. Was expecting more of a French influence based on the name. This didn't really do anything special for the electronica genre I felt. There were a few tracks that sampled/interpolated lyrics from other popular songs that just ended up sounding pretty weak. Much of this was just pretty...uninteresting. I've heard much better house/electronic music, especially around the time this was released. Wasn't totally unlistenable I guess.

I dunno, maybe this just isn't for me. I can imagine this being ok in the right setting but for just sitting and listening to it did nothing for me at all.

Irritating and repetitive. Reading through some of the lyrics was mildly interesting but the sounds were painful

Some catchy parts, and also some more eh parts. The catchy parts I really vibed with. Repetition is used well here

Ja its hip very cool Euro, no?

I think this album caught me on the wrong day

i groaned when i saw the album length but i actually really liked this! it sounded so retro and charmingly dated but also weirdly modern? idk. i had fun. im movin & groovin. this makes me want to get a corn dog at the mall and go rollerskating.

i can tell this isn't like, an AMAZING album by any stretch, but i'll be damned if i didn't enjoy it. good beats, funky synths and bass, classic 1999 album art, and a buffalo springfield interpolation? sign me UP favorites: dreamin, music makkes you lose control, soft machine, (hey you) what's that sound?

Not music that I can really get into, music for a club but not for listening to

Hated this a lot

It’s EDM. I enjoyed the first track, but then this got really old really fast. If I were in a club and any of these songs came on I wouldn’t mind dancing to them, but to sit down and listen to the entire album at once is not all that enjoyable.

I didn't expect to like this but it was actually pretty cool.

Some highs with lots of lows. Dreamin' has a cool melodic segment similar to Frankie Valli - Grease. Take A Little Time is so groovy it got me dancing. Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat) is perfect blend of scratchy, dark, and melodic. It's apparent that this album was ahead of it's time, but it doesn't do it for me as a whole.

This was okay for a listen, but I'm not sure why it is on the list of must-hear albums. Standout track: Soft machine

2.4 Made it halfway through before I had to start skipping tracks a minute or so in when it was clear what the "hook" was going to be on repeat for the next 5 minutes. Jesus that was a slog tbh. Sounds like something my brother would buy when he was 13 in an attempt to act cool to his mates. Cover is totally "I'm 13 and this is rad" energy. According to wiki this got listed in the top 99 albums to dance to. What the fuck. Who is dancing to this. How can you actually dance to this. Was that listed compiled based on school discos? Jesus wept I'd be straight out of the club if some of these tracks came on.

A few good jams, a bit repetitive

Pre-listening: Any time I have never even heard of the artist, I chuckle about it being an "album I need to listen to before I die," but let's see what *checks notes* Les Rythmes Digitales has for us today... I enjoy reading the Wikipedia pages of these albums for some context before I listen. Sometimes those pages are WAY too long to read in one sitting. That was not an issue with this one, lol. But it included enough information for me to gather that I will probably not like this album ("In a 2005 review of the album's re-release, Paul Sullivan of BBC called it 'ahead of its time' and credited it for launching much of the electro-pop vogue of the 2000s... In 2015, Thump placed it at number 97 on the '99 Greatest Dance Albums of All Time' list." Oh well, here goes... Post-listening: The lyrics to "Soft Machine" were hilarious. I do not believe they were intended to be. At the risk of hyperbole, this album's inclusion shakes my faith in this whole project. But only slightly. According to the history page, we are now 99 albums in, and I have really enjoyed it and even learned quite a bit. But I absolutely did not need to hear this album.

Me giving an electronic album 3 stars is the equivalent of any other genre of album getting 5 stars. Never heard of this before, which is probably not that shocking.

Oh yay, more techno...

for every banger, there were at least two songs i nearly turned off

wtf

Meh, niet m'n ding. Waarom deze lijst dit bevat in plaats van iets van Weezer of the Cranberries? Geen idee, maar er zal wel een publiek voor zijn zeker? 1.4

didn’t like it, was to boring for me

Cover 6 Got bops. Never heard this before. Pretty good 90s EDM.

One good song. Most of it is not available or is too weird. 3/5

A bit repetitive, but not annoyingly so. Good background music. Sadly, it took me a full minute to realize he's opening a pop top can on the cover. I bet it's a can of whoop-ass dance tracks.

A fun listen, but nothing that truly stood out. I enjoyed listening to the album, but don't think I will revisit it/add it to a playlist.

Quite the time capsule we've got going on here. Had some "funky fresh beats" but not something I'd consider everyday listening.

Rating: 6/10 Sounds like a Daft Punk rip-off but honestly still pretty good. Half the songs were very enjoyable and the other half meh.

Dance music! First couple of songs were ok but them not many made me want to dance. Well done but found it underwhelming.

"So what's this then?" "No idea. It was listed under 1001 albums to listen to before you die" "Must be good then" "Not really, it's a bit shit" "So why are you listening to it?" "Just in case it isn't shit, but turns out it is" Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ❌️ Forgettable ★☆☆☆☆

The album really took a turn for the worse once it started. The production is good, however, that’s mainly where my praise stops. The lyrics are nonsensical and the beats and vocals are annoyingly repetitive. I can’t believe they made an hour of this. If I just had one song, I could see it being a fun song to dance to and in that sense it’s fine, just not for me. Music Makes You Lose Control made me yearn for the Missy Elliott and Ciara version… 2.5⭐️

#643. Hey, uh, that sure was, um... something. 2/5: something

Wow, what a flashback! Had this one on CD when it came about, which was a long ago, so i had enough time to forget it. Some tunes bring back incredible teenage memories, which is why can't give this one less than 5 out of 5. JLC one love.

Pretty much every songs consists of a very repetitive vocal sample and some pretty generic rhythm on top of it. It's not bad, and there are some good songs here, but overall, this is a collection of probably the most generic electo house tracks I've heard. Fine but extremely basic and repetitive.

After the 2nd track it became unlistenable to me.

Album 834 of 1089 Les Rythmes Digitales -Darkdancer (1999) Rating : 1 / 5 I try to keep an open mind with this project, but this one just didn’t land for me at all. It felt like weird electronica for the sake of being weird—and I couldn’t connect with it in any meaningful way. Not much more to say. Just not for me.

Electronic music. Not quite as enjoyable as some of the other ones I’ve heard. Kind of irritating at points to be honest. Also I’ve gotten like 5 electronic albums in a row and I’m a little tired of it.

The song construction is not especially original, but this particular Y2K-is-near sound texture rubs me exactly the right way. A tasteful je ne sais quoi. 3.9

90s/00s Electronic Dance. Paar Banger. Viele nicht so

Całkiem ciekawe. Takie lekkie elektro, disco i nie wiadomo co. 3/5

meh 2/5

Het is niet slecht, maar ik kan hier ook echt zo niks mee

Utterly maddening. The 1980s and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

honestly iconic

Electronic music

Meh. 2/5

Strange experience, but not as bad as expected.

Cool album, nice electronic music, very enjoyable. Late 90s at its best.

That was a cool new discovery. I'm a fan.

favorites: hypnotise, damaged people Eh, I liked the vibes but didn't get any sense of cohesion.

Fine. Whatever. Too long again.

Once you get to hell they play this on repeat as they torture you and that's why he says Lucifer is rising Favorite: Hypnotise

Thought i was going to love this, I still like the singles, but it really is not nearly as good without those

Meh. I get the rhythm and electronica but it doesn't grab me. Maybe if there were no words...

egh... je ne sais pas (・へ・)

This album is fine, but I find it to be very unremarkable, especially compare to so much other great electronic music released around the same time from The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Crystal Method, Moby, Underworld, and many others.

Ugh. Bad electronica

Firstly, WTF is that album cover all about!?! Secondly, French electronica, on the whole, isn’t very good. You can tell whether electronic music is French in the first few seconds of listening to it because it has one short continuously operative sequence of twangy, nonsense sounds. They all do. It’s like The Gorillaz of electronic music. This is no different. At least Daft Punk managed to elevate their twangy French electronica beyond twangy French electronica. This did not. It’s just twangy French electronica.

Antecedente claro y evidente de sus coetáneos Daft Punk, con electro-funky-pop que aunque nota el paso del tiempo sigue funcionando. para muestra jacques you body, un pepinazo con el que es imposible quedarse quieto (la TV también tuvo que ver con este tema lanzado tres años antes in penas ni gloria). Con New Order en la lista de influencias (a quienes también produjo) el disco discurre por parámetros que luego tendrían influencia en reconocidos artitas a quienes supo rejuvenecer: Madonna (produjo su mejor disco en demasiados años: Confessions on a Dance Floor) y Pet Shop Boys (lo mismo con Electric). No sólo eso, también las sacó jugo a The Killers (Day and Age, con Human como mayor éxito). Sin embargo, hay discos mejores que podrían ocupar su lugar en la lista.

The first track sounded like what I imagined I'd be pulling out of my first Casio keyboard, jamming along with the demo backing track - success couldn't be far behind, and was mine for the taking. Unfortunately, much like my dreams of being a professional keyboardist, this album lost steam almost immediately, and became an unlistenable mess of disappointment.

Gear: HEDD Audio HEDDphone Two Artwork: 🥫🎧👨‍🦰 Production: 🎧🙂👌 Music: 🆗🥐🏠 Rating: 🕺💃/5

From Wikipedia: “Darkdancer is the second studio album by Les Rythmes Digitales, released in 1999. It peaked at number 53 on the UK Albums Chart. In 2005, it was re-released with an additional disc that included remixes, unreleased tracks, and music videos.” Lol. “Peaked at no 53 on the UK albums chart.” Seems like another winner… Fuck, I don’t care about this at all. Maybe someone who’s a fan of the genre would appreciate it. I’m two tracks in and so, so bored. Why is there so much edm in 1001? There have to be better options from 1999. Anyway, for what’s it’s worth, it sounds a little different than what I expected. But I just don’t care. It’s boring and I don’t want to listen to any more of it. Skimmed through first 3 tracks. Still better than Destiny’s Child “Survivor”. 1.3/5

Better than most of the Electronica on this list.

awesome music, i can't even lie, i love loopy house like music for ever and ever. i just wonder, why THIS album. i know so many other albums in a similar vibe which have a better grasp on the genre which are better which aren't on here (like cassius omg)

Some good songs and some rubbish songs but it was an alright electronic album.

This was not really my genre, but I loved it. The melodies and beats were fresh and cool sounding and it was really well produced and recorded. I listened to it twice. Five stars.

Not my thing, although "Take a little time" was one song that i picked.

Apparently I had listened and liked a track from this a while ago but never deep dove into the full album. This was a fun listen (with irregular capitalizations) that provided energy throughout. Highlights included "Music makes you lose control," "Sometimes," and "Mdc vendredi."

--Dreamin'...at least the album cover isn't lying --Music Makes you lose control...I like this one. Repetitive but with a solid groove and sound --Soft Machine...more of a pop song than the earlier dance tracks. I feel it's making interesting choices but I don't really vibe with it. Tryhard lyrics --Hypnotise...an annoying and boring first minute before it devolves into generic club music --Hey You...I like it until the vocals come in. Too repetitive but that's what the genre often does --Take a Little Time...throwback to late 80s/early 90s dance pop. I dig it --Disco II Disco...First I hated it, then I laughed, now I'm grooving. Perhaps still too weird for repeat listens --Brothers...more generic club stuff --MDC Vendredi...Not interesting enough to be 6+ minutes long --Jacques Your Body...I'm mixed on this one. I like the bass groove. Vocals are throwing me off --About Funk...takes too long to get going and once it does it's just kind of okay --Sometimes...oddly schmaltzy compared to everything else. Not for me --Damaged People...why are the weak tracks also the longest? Reaction: Not a fan of this, but you could argue I wasn't really listening to it in its "correct" environment. If you're someone that's into EDM, however, I'm sure Darkdancer has something on it for you to enjoy.

No.

Not my cup of tea. Could be good, but I'm not in the mood

Easy 1 star. DNF Best Song: N/A Rating: 2/10 (An Abomination to Sound) Stars: 1/5

Incredibly boring and uninspiring! Write a line, repeat it 100 times, next song do the same. Boring!!

It was all right. Some of it had a disco sound which I didn’t love, but a few of the songs were really good! Four of the songs were blocked out on Spotify. Liked the edm sound. Huge variation in the song styles.

Oh det er da fint nok hvis man gerne vil klippe sin hæk, eller andet hjernedødt arbejde, men jeg keder mig altså. Det virker ikke som om der er en pointe med det her dansable musik...

Fængende melodier og catchy grooves. Men samtidig har jeg svært ved at se storheden i albummet.

Aerbobics Class Music

At some point, one has to ask himself: "is this original, does this contribute somehow to our happiness, does this add some value to whatever"?!?!? The start was not bad but after some minutes the repetition ad nauseam really got me headaches! And from that point on the amount of repetitive beats, songs and themes was such that I struggle to keep listening to it. I do love electronic music but please, there's a limit to what you should praise in it :-/

It all sounded the same to me

Got very old very quickly

Second album. Faux French Electronica. Why is that a genre !? Ha. Not very innovative for 1999. Some of the tracks sound like New Order or the Eurythmics from ten of fifteen years before. Hypnotise for example. I prefer Daft Punk for this kind of thing. Is that a Ski Lo sample half way throug the album Haha! The album is well produced though.

I am shocked. Why did I enjoy this so much? This is so very fun. Absolutely reeks of the late 90’s in the best way. The album cover is awful, I love it. Not a fan of Disco II Disco. Favorite songs were Music Makes You Lose Control, Hey You What’s That Sound?, About Funk, and Sometimes.

As soon as I saw this album cover I thought, "Oh boy! This is gonna suck!" I was right This book is a fucking joke

Whilst this is a trendsetter for what was to come in the dance genre during the 2000s, as a whole i found the album falls into the trap where whilst a lot of the songs sound great individually, listening to the entire package drags by the end.

Not my cup of tea, really. But also, I listened to the whole album and enjoyed many of the cuts. Something new every day....

Yeah, not for me. too long.

Almost everything I liked about this album was sampled from somewhere else or came from a featured artist. Obscure french house music is not something anyone needs to hear before they die.

Turn of the century Synth-Pop / Europop / Post-Disco / Electronica - insipid, nothing to write home about.

Found it quite annoying.

Don't let the cover fool you—this album is an hour of club bangers that'll have you moving, whether you want to or not. I was completely prepared to dismiss this as yet another UK Dance record I would forget about the next day, but instead, I was greeted with incredibly solid and at times, hypnotizing beats that almost reminded me of everyone's favorite French electronic duo. Are the dated elements of 90s-2000s Dance there? Of course, but I got past them pretty quickly.

Pop the top on this effervescent synthesis of disco electronica and let the fizzy funk flow.

Boppy. If I throw a 90s ecstasy party I know where to go

I like this. It said "don't dream too hard, just dance" and then laid out some nice beats

It’s a dance album, but, I actually kinda liked it

This album should stay in the dark 🤮

at least the beats are interesting

*shakes fist at sky* THE FRENCH

No. Just no.

you know, it's ok, the cover I started hating but it's now kinda goated Will I listen to again: 14%

yeah...not for me

Meh

Oh wow, that slaps hard, I can not understand why I haven't heard of this band before?

- I saw this album cover and was like…this is going to be a 1. Maybe 2. I was wrong. This was fun as hell. Definitely 1999 dance pop. I loved it. Perfect example of never know what you’re going to get.

This album sounds exactly like what you would expect it to by looking at the album cover. I don't particularly enjoy electronic music anyway, but this felt especially droning at times. It was the same thing over and over again for each song :( My favorite tracks were Music Makes You Lose Control and Hey Your What's That Sound.

Music Makes You Lose Control 1001 Albums Generator 44 (06/03/2025) I have a massive issue with the electronic album choices of this list so far. Electronic music is a genre that I am not very well versed in besides the basics like Daft Punk, Justice, Aphex Twin, and a bit of Boards Of Canada, so it is one of the things I was most excited to learn about through this list. However, so far I have gotten 1. Suba - Sao Paulo Confessions (boring) 2. Kraftwerk - Autobahn (not bad, but not amazing) 3. Nitin Sawhney - Beyond Skin (terrible) And now the newest addition to this shitty electronica agglomeration, Darkdancer by Les Rythmes Digitales. Unfortunately, I knew from the moment that I saw the cover that this would not be the album to break the electronica curse that I seem to have found myself in. It might be the least cool album cover I've seen that is making an honest attempt at being cool. To be clear, this isn't as bad as Beyond Skin. Music Makes You Lose Control is fun and incorporates its titular sample in a catchy, memorable way. Soft Machine has a really strange syncopated beat that is initially hard to catch on to, but once you hear it, it's quite infectious. Hey You What's That Sound? is okay, with the highlight being the Buffalo Springfield interpolation that made the familiarity neurons in my brain start firing. Monkey happy. Mdc Vendredi and About Funk occupy a similar spot in my brain. Both songs overstay their welcome but they have some interesting aspects to them. The former has some ambient parts between the more standard dance stuff that are pretty cool as well as a good build up around the 3 minute mark and the latter settles into a great groove in its second half once it gets past its kind of annoying intro. The worst song on any album so far is the miserable Disco II Disco, which I saw described as sounding like someone strangling a duck. I would go to my local park and strangle ten ducks if it meant I never had to listen to this song again. My god, it is terrible. It's the first time in this challenge that I have actually skipped a song on second listen. Jacques Your Body Makes Me Sweat also has a really annoying vocal sample. Overall, the songs that I didn't explicitly mention range from bad to just below mediocre. Even the songs I mentioned as being highlights feature no reason for me to return to them. Why is this album almost an hour long? We will never know. Why is this album on the list? We will never know. 1.5/5, rounded down to a 1. Favs: Music Makes You Lose Control Mdc Vendredi About Funk Least Fav: Disco II Disco

i dont know if this is awful or if its pretty good. for now, it sounds pretty good

This feels like if Fatboy Slim preferred an 80's style aesthetic. It's alright and has cool moments/samples but it's also a little cheesy/annoying at times.

Why in this list?

Surprisingly good.

Extremely fine. I'm not the biggest fan of "dance" music, but this is peppy and decent.

Fairly typical dance-pop from the period, nothing particularly remarkable to distinguish it from countless acts doing the same thing. It tries to be fun but it sounds forced.

Boring and dull electronic music. So many better artists

A man of few words, outdated sounds and no real clue.

Rather generic and a bit pointless and dull, didn't really offer anything of any merit

Bleep bleep, weeble blew schlang bleep. Mildly annoying pop house. I think he said it best when he said,"Music makes you lose control, control, control. Music makes you lose control (control, control, control, control, control) Music makes you lose control, control, control. Music makes you lose control (control, control, control, control, control) Music makes you lose control, control, control. Music makes you lose control (control, control, control, control, control) Music makes you lose control, control, control. Music makes you lose control (control, control, control, control, control) Music makes you lose control, control, control. Music makes you lose control (control, control, control, control, control) Music makes you lose control, control, control. Music makes you lose control (control, control, control, control, control) Music makes you lose control, control, control. Music makes you lose control (control, control, control, control, control) Music makes you lose control, control, control. Music makes you lose control (control, control, control, control, control) Music makes you lose control, control, control. Music makes you lose control (control, control, control, control, control) Music makes you lose control, control, control. Music makes you lose control (control, control, control, control, control)"

There were a few tracks that were okay on their own, but as an album, it's all over the place, not good.

At first listen I can't really see how this would have been cutting edge in 1999. That being said, super fun and a very fun/silly 2000s feel that electronica has lost since

Meh. Too much for a workday.

Na

Oh God this is irritating. "From: Disco to: Disco" is tragic

I don't believe anyone actually enjoys listening to this.

Sounds like the PlayStation 2 loading screen half the time but some decent beats. Don't think I'll be returning to this but nice to break up the mix.

🎧I swear the first two tracks on here are good and then it alternated good/bad for the remainder of the album. For so many users this 1001 project is about discovery and I’m no exception. Darkdancer was a strong and exciting new listen for me. Speaking of Discovery, you can definitely hear some Daft Punk in here and I’m sure the robots were influenced by Les Rythmes (who is an English guy, not French…rather misleading name). Some nice trancey and vibrant techno that sounds ahead of its time for 1999, but plenty of retro 80s sounds in here too. Favorite tracks: Dreamin’, Hypnotise, Take a little time, About funk, Damaged people.

Really surprised to see this on here. Not because it's not great (it is), but I thought it was a bit too niche for this Americanized list. Haven't listened to it for ages but it holds together brilliantly. It could lose a couple of tracks (Soft Machine, Damaged People) but moves so quickly it just about gets away with it. 80s sounds are everywhere now but there was nothing uncooler in 1999 than trying to sound like you were from the 80s. Stuart Price really bucked the trend here, totally did his own thing and ended up spearheading the 80s revivial, ultimately ending up with him producing Madonna. She was lucky as he is a brilliant producer and had the midas touch for about a decade, starting with this.

This album kicked off with 2 bangers, then the third song was a fast skip with how bad the vocals were. The rest of the album was just kind of towing the line of mid and decent, with at least one other song I skipped.

Not my style of dance music

hard to shake the feeling this would be better in a club in europe on drugs

[pointing like leonardo dicaprio meme] omg, same sample as missy elliot there were a couple i recognized in here actually. great background music for cleaning & packing

interminable

No appeal.

Weird techno

Unusual techno vibe

Absolutely genre-defining, some absolute tunes on this one

Favorite Track: Music makes you lose control

Boy howdy, I mean to tell ya, that blew chunks.

I just didn't care enough to finish

Funky quack quack

Did not get far

Hit and miss but surprised how much I enjoyed this on the whole. Love "Take a Little Time" Hate "From: Disco To: Disco"

Not for me. Super repetitive. There’s a joke in this that stops being funny by the 3rd song.

This list is so bad. It’s been over a year and I haven’t discovered anything good that I haven’t heard.

Most of the digital rhytms we are served by these french act are repetitive and annoying. Some tracks even make me angry. Then again, we have Soft Machine, which is surprisingly rocking and good, and Hypnotise, which is almost catchy. These are in the minority, though.

Mischung aus Tunes und sehr nervigen Samples

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1999. Kinda fun electo club music

Nothing against the people who like this type of music, but it’s just so one dimensional and uninteresting. Never again.

Crap

Fun synth-pop/dancefloor time capsule. Lots of late-90s tricks and tropes. If you really like Daft Punk or Air, then you might kinda like this. But it isn't as smart as Daft Punk or as introspective as Air. Thoroughly infected with that instantly insatiable British goofiness. Not really with listening to unless it's loud and you're on the dancefloor.

2.5/5

I truly dug this album, enjoyed it much more than I was expecting. It’s had a serious 1980s Euro Synth New Wave Pop esthetic. It reminded me of early Daft Punk without being overly repetitive, or 25% more annoying. This may not be for everyone but I’m glad this list introduced me to this album.

This was OK. It really sounds like it belongs in the movie Hackers and has nods to Daft Punk as well.

A fun ride, felt current enough, even though I'm not well versed in the genre. Knew 3 or 4 songs allready. That could mean I heard them in a commercial or they were played on the radio. Considering France is a neighbour could be we had some fallout. Don't overanalyze this one and just have fun.

There's too much electronics on this list. I liked this better than Fatboy Slim, so that's that. 2.

This had some cool bass. Personal enjoyment: 3/5 Relevance to this list: 2/5

Not my thing.

I was quite keen to hear this again after 20+ years. Couldn't find the whole album on my streaming service but managed to track down 10 of the tunes on YT. Not as strong as I remember tbh. Not aged particularly well. Some good moments but in the main I found the production a bit wishy-washy.

Not usually my style but actually pretty good for background music. Pretty chill.

I had an open mind, listened to a couple of tracks. Instant dislike.

Given the reviews I was worried but I thought this alright

Another turn-off back to back

Started out interesting, ended interestingly, but a lot of duds. Stuart Price was born to Readingers holidaying in Paris and seemed to have quite the attachment to French culture after, hence the creation of a faux French dance album I guess. Best to stick to the producing and muscial direction, as he did.

1.9

Ok this is kind of cool mostly because it went beyond my expectations. The chance of revisiting is slim at most, however.

Actually pretty enjoyable and as noted for why it’s on this list, ahead of its time for 1999 (weren’t we all!)

Do I hate this? Surprisingly not. I don't like it either. I think my biggest issue with it being it could have been so much better. There is promise in many of the tracks but they all sound like demos, lyrically incomplete. Something to dance to? Perhaps. Something to listen to? Definitely not. 2/5

Cool to see where so many samples originated

A pretty good album, I enjoyed the music style. I liked Hypnotize the most.

Basic stock electro beats and echoey processed vocals does not equal good.

Note: Only about half of this album is available on Spotify. Note the second: You don't need to go looking for the rest of it. This is quite literally "You've heard one song, you've heard them all." I guess this is fine if you're all mollied up in the club, but for the rest of the day...well...it's backgroundish and repetitive. I guess as a representative of the genre it's OK, but it's pretty mid all in all.

3- Stars (7/15)

i am not really electronic music predisposed, but man this one really surprised me! a lot of the tracks here are fun, danceable, and groovy. i was genuinely floored listening to the first handful of tracks because it does feel unlike most electronic music i have heard. this album does run into a common problem i have with a lot of electronic music, where it does fall back on some repetitive and more boring motifs, but when this album is really cooking, it is a blast to listen to.

Some of it was catchy, but it was very repetitive. Not my style.

Bitchin' but a little repetitive, I get that's the style though. solid

Lots of classic beats. I recognized lots of samples to be used by future artists. Solid!

Pretty cool 90s dance music. Some great jams in here.

This is a fun enough album with some good production. There's a few tracks and moments that really remind me of Daft Punk, which is a bit of a knock against this album. Favorite track: "Hypnotise"

Daft punk only less fun. Casual electronic dance music, some of it is enjoyable. However , nothing grabs me, short of few catchy riffs.

Too repetitive and generic electronic record.

The cheesiness and length (under an hour) of this record are doing a lot of heavy lifting here. This isn't a good record. It's repetitive and boring. But it's better than most the electronic dreck on this list.

I genuinely tried to listen to this, but I only made it to Disco II Disco and just couldn’t take any more. The fact that this album made the list over any Modest Mouse or Yo La Tengo album is depressing.

Simultaneously sounds modern and dated at the same time, Sometimes +2

Faux French Electronica-- who knew?

Horrible album art part of me believes Ai will make better than that in a year. In this guy’s Spotify description he compares himself to daft punk… like he’s french and it’s electronic music but other than that… nah. Oh fuck this is Jacques Lu Cont like the guy who made them shitty killers remixes. And the guy is actually an English bloke with the name… stuart price. Well he was born in France but lived in Reading. Honestly he just gives me bit pretentious dick vibes. 2/5

first couple of songs are great, rest is just ok