I have no doubt that your favourite moment of 2025 was busting the 6-7 move with the new Pope while on a Jet-2 holiday (£200 for a conclave of four). However, my best moment was all of the excellent electronic music that was released throughout the year.
It's time for my annual best-of list. All the bleepy music highlights of 2025. I've been doing this list annually since 2009, with the exception of my stroke year of 2023 when my brain was all wonky. Let's set out some ground rules using bullet points because I am a grown-up and that's what grown-ups do.
• The list is not definitive. If I rewrote it next month, it would no doubt change. I will have missed something good off. If I have, leave a comment.
• I am no longer doing an overall Best Album. This has felt increasingly trite in recent years. There will be two tiers: a Best Album Summary featuring a few dozen albums, then a Top 20 Bangers with all of the top dogs, the boss cats, the first-place ferrets.
• I have excluded rereleases and compilations, although albums comprised of archive material are okay.
• My definition of "electronic music" steers towards IDM, braindance, home listening and experimental, so you're unlikely to see Deadmau5, Vengaboys, David Guetta or, erm, Bombalurina with Timmy Mallett. Although, you never know...
That's the ground rules, and if you don't like them, you can shove a Labubu up your nose. Whatever a Labubu is. I seriously have no idea.
There will be THIRTY blog posts – yes, thirty, count 'em – over the next few days, taking you through the Best Album Summaries then moving into the Top 20 Bangers.
What's the timeline? It's 30th December today. Instead of cramming all of my blog posts into the 30th and 31st, as I have done in previous years, I will take my time. I expect to finish on Saturday 3rd January 2026. Spilling into next year irritates my inner perfectionist, but I'd rather take my time. And people will still have their Christmas trees up on the 3rd, so whatevs.
Get ready. Have a notepad on hand. No, not a Silvine one. A fancy one, with coloured edges and a clasp.
Here goes...
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