Electronic Music Stuff with Fat Roland

In the five days it has taken me to post my 2025 albums list, the US has invaded Venezuela, Bulgaria got rid of the lev, and Raye scored the first number one single of the year, something she also did in 2023.
My end-of-year blogging is always intense. I wrote thousands of words about a shedload of electronic music albums, and now my brain is fried. Some of those words were good words, and some of those words were really average words....

This is part of a series, posting between 30th December 2025 and 3rd January 2026
Squarepusher: Stereotype (Warp Records)
80-plus albums later – probably closer to 90 but no-one’s counting – and we finally come to my last entry of Fat Roland’s Best Electronic Music of 2025, subsection Top 20 Bangers. Except this next album is not from 2025. It’s a cheat. Don’t tell anyone...

This is part of a series, posting between 30th December 2025 and 3rd January 2026
Noumen: Altum (Central Processing Unit)
My top 20 albums of the year wouldn’t be a top 20 albums of the year without an album from those ever-reliable electro selectors Central Processing Unit. In previous annual lists, I have featured their artists Maelstrom, Silicon Scally, S>>D...

This is part of a series, posting between 30th December 2025 and 3rd January 2026
Lila Tirando a Violeta: Dream of Snakes (Unguarded)
Here is another electronic music album highlight of 2025. Make sure to read the rest of the series, although it may take you the rest of 2026 to read it all....