To list, say, five key full-length albums exemplifying the new electronic music would be mistaken. Today's electronic music is continuously in flux, continuously changing. Various-artists collections generally offer more filler than substance and rarely provide any sense of context.
Emphasis is on dub, the highly reverberant offshoot of reggae.
Volume Two is due soon, perhaps before the end of 1996. Amiri Baraka meet, respectively, My Bloody Valentine, Tomandandy and DJ Spooky. Recent documentary film about information-age innovators, mystics and extremists draws its soundtrack from work of Terre Theaemlitz, Single Cell Orchestra, Hardfloor and others. All five of these are relatively recent U.S. releases, so they shouldn't be too difficult to track down. And all, aside from the first, have related full-length albums.