Best electronic Music 2025

Written By douglas schmidt

The best electronic music of 2025 according to the Lunatic:


Acid

  • Decius - Vol. II (Splendour and Obedience) 

  • Ceephax Acid Crew - Slam Zone

  • Roy of the Ravers - Isle of Acid

  • Luke Vibert & Post Human - UCSP IV

  • Client_03 - Testbed Assembly



Ambient

  • Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranqulizer

  • Voice Actor & Squu - Lust 1

  • More Eaze & Claire Rousay - No Floor

  • Dylan Henner - Star Dream FM 

  • Area 3 - View



Ambient Techno

  • ex_libris - ex_libris 001-002 

  • Brendon Moeller - Blue Moon

  • Valentino Mora - Biotope

  • Coatshek - Sound Bath

  • Voices from the Lake - II



Bass

  • Impérieux - Fena

  • SSSLIP - Pond Gong

  • Blumitsu - Metamorphic 

  • Dogpatrol - Ya Playing Yaself

  • SYZ - VTLZM001 



Breakbeat

  • Andrea - Living Room 

  • Kid Spatula - Joozy

  • Volruptus - Overload

  • Hooverian Blur - Hypnotizer

  • not even noticed - Eteus



Breakcore

  • Ruby my Dear - Confiture À La Plague

  • Murrumur - Xenopoetry I

  • Machinegirl - PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X

  • Lil Kevo 303 - Toonz from the Crypt II

  • Purity://filter - Life After Trance 



Dance

  • Facta - Gulp 

  • Polygonia - Dream Horizons

  • Jurango - Taíno Gold 

  • Maara - Revenge from the Penthouse

  • Jackson Ryland - Hydroplaning



Downtempo

  • James K - Friend 

  • Car Culture - Rest Here

  • Erika de Casier - Lifetime

  • DJ Python - i was put on this earth

  • D. Tiffany - Each Morning



Dnb/Jungle (Ep)

  • Fracture & Tim Reaper - APHAFR001 

  • Fez The Kid - Body Mover

  • Nectax - Star & Shadow 

  • Pugilist & Tamen - Source

  • Tim Reaper - Pearshape



Dnb/Jungle (Lp)

  • Kloke - Lucidity

  • Opius & Dacamara - Sound of Hue

  • Eusebeia - Undertones

  • Rufige Kru - Alpha Omega

  • ASC - Next Time You Falll



Dub

  • Paul St. Hilaire - w/ The Producers

  • The Untouchables - Lost Knowledge

  • The Bug & Ghost Dubs - Implosion

  • Adrian Sherwood - The Collapse of Everything

  • Frenk Dublin - Echo Ltd 011



Dubstep

  • Beatrice M. - Midnight Swim

  • Carré - Body Shell

  • Introspekt - Moving the Center

  • Trois-quarts Taxi System - Plexus

  • Beatrice M. & Jan Loup - Shallow, Light & Safe 



Dub Techno

  • Cousin & Priori - Fly in Amber

  • Katatonic Silencio - Mantis 17

  • Stenny - Sharp Fragments

  • Sub Basics - Phase Drift

  • SBWT - More Water



Electro

  • VC-118A - Avian

  • Lost Trax - The Watcher

  • Annie Hall - Practical Optimism

  • Legowelt - Synths Below Sea Level

  • Cignol - Botnet



Electro-Pop

  • Smerz - Big City Life

  • Oklou - choke enough

  • Isabella Lovestory - Vanity

  • FKA Twigs - Eusexua

  • PinkPantheress - Fancy That


Electronic

  • Aya - Hexed!

  • Skrillex - F*ck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!! <3

  • DJ Koze - Music Can Hear Us

  • Jane Remover - Revengeseekerz

  • DJ Haram - Beside Myself



Experimental

  • Saint Abdullah & Eomac - Of No Fixed Abode

  • Nazar - Demilitarized 

  • Klein - Thirteen Sense

  • Heith - Escape Lounge

  • Bjarki - A Guide to a Hellthier Lifestyle



Footwork

  • DJ Elmoe - Battle Zone

  • Khadija al Hanafi - !OK!

  • username - LOOK WHAT YOU DID

  • Marsh Crane - Know what I mean

  • Pax - Get Rich or Try Dying



Hip-Hop/R&B

  • Nourished by Time - The Passionate Ones

  • KeiyaA - hooke’s law

  • Rochelle Jordan - Through the Wall

  • KAYTRANADA - AIN’T NO DAMN WAY!

  • dj blackpower - Dr. Gabber II



House

  • Michael J. Blood - Spaces in Between 

  • Ron Trent - Lift Off

  • Hieroglyphic Being - Dance Music 4 Bad People

  • K-LONE - sorry i thought you were someone else

  • Anthony Naples - Scanners



IDM

  • Barker - Stochastic Drift

  • Djrum - Under Tangled Silence

  • Rolando Simmons - Animatronics

  • Upsammy - Open Catalyst

  • Xenia Reaper - Nept Polarization




Indietronica

  • Mechatok - Wide Awake

  • Bassvictim - Forever

  • NEW YORK - Push 

  • ear - The Most Dear and The Future 

  • Frost Children - SISTER




Mutant Club

  • Blawan - SickElixir

  • Borez - Borez

  • Skee Mask - Stressmanagement

  • Simo Cell - FL Louis

  • Kop-Z - A Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamic System




Reissues (1991-2000)

  • Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves/Quoth (1993)

  • Dubtronix - Rass Clart Money (1994)

  • Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall (1994)

  • Squarepusher - Stereotype (1994)

  • Basic Unit - Timeline (1998)



Reissues (2001-2010)

  • Ilpo Väisänen – Asuma (2001)

  • Virgo - Landform Code (2001)

  • Moodymann - Black Mahogani (2004)

  • Autechre - Quaristice (2008)

  • Kettel - Through Friendly Waters (2010)




Techno

  • Aleksi Perälä - Vortex 1

  • Efdemin - Poly

  • Surgeon - Shell-Wave

  • Spekki Webu - Neural Network

  • Rrose - 2 or 2 Drops Of Height Have Nothing To Do With Savagery




Trance

  • Alvar - The Mist

  • Volodymyr Gnatenko - Mershiy

  • Alvar - Moon Ritual

  • Shjva - The Message 

  • Sleep D - Big Sky, Liquid Sun




Various Artists

  • Tectonic - Tectonic Sound

  • Principe - Não Estragou Nada

  • Time Dance - TD10

  • Soundway - Road Fever EP1

  • Analogical Force - Sixty




Worldwide (Central)

  • DJ Narciso - Capítulo Experimental

  • Slikback - Attrition

  • Guedra Guedra - MUTANT

  • Xexa - Kissom

  • Authentically Plastic - ROCOCO RUIN




Worldwide (East)

  • Yetsuby - 4EVA 

  • Prettybwoy - Tokyo Ice Age

  • Mount XLR - Phase I

  • Baalti - Mela

  • Josef Tumari - Jannat Turim



Worldwide (South)

  • Los Thuthanaka - Los Thuthanaka

  • DJ Babatr - Root Echoes

  • DJ K - RADIO LIBERTADORA! 

  • Lila Tirando a Violeta - Dream of Snakes

  • CRRDR - Latincore Legend

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