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What an adventure! "Since I Left You" is my most played electronic record because it's something you want to experience from start to finish. The album originally started as a concept album of an intercontinental expedition for love. Although the idea was scrapped for being too ambitious, you can still feel these themes of love and exploration throughout album. In fact, "Since I Left You" is almost a love letter to music itself, sampling an unprecedented 3,500 tracks into a beautiful sound collage. While the number of samples sounds overwhelming, The Avalanches manage to make it coherent and even danceable (in contrast to earlier plunderphonics records by John Oswald).

I lament that we may never see more plunderphonics records (or records that rely on samples in general) again given how licensing fees make the creation process so daunting, but I don't know how an album in this genre could get any better than this. Definitely one of the best electronic albums of the 21st century, second only to Daft Punk's "Discovery" (possibly). Take a little journey with this album!