Bjork. You can recognize that voice anywhere. I'd also venture Thom Yorke.

Ah, according to MuchMoreMusic. Sorry, I didn't see that until after I'd posted my suggestions. Ever consider expanding it, perhaps?

I vaguely remember hearing it years ago, I'll give it another spin. Thanks!

Great list! I agree with most of your suggestions (besides a few poppier ones) - if not always the order, but that's to be expected. I'm going to check out the ones I haven't heard of. Thanks!

BTW, I have a few suggestions (all of them acclaimed, and all have produced at least one widely regarded classic). I did a search for each on the list to ensure I'm not recommending repeats:

Biosphere
Producer of what is almost unanimously voted the best ambient album of all time (or at least one of the top 10, although the ambient mailing list votes it to the top year after year): Substrata. It's highly influential as well, a whole subgenre has formed based around his conception of ambient: "arctic" ambient. His other work is also really good - it's all essentially extensions of and additions to his unique sound - from the impressionism inspired Shenzou to the jazz-inflected Dropsonde. The best is, of course, Substrata, but it's all worth checking out, and all really good, really acclaimed, and really important in the ambient world. I'd recommend him for the top 50, at least.

Steve Reich - He should go somewhere in your ambient pioneers section, or perhaps even the list itself (since his work is still loved in the current electronic scene, and he still produces what one might call ambient music, to favorable reviews). His take on minimalism was a huge inspiration for ambient house, "minimal," minimal techno, early trance, and actually a huge amount else in electronic music. And, unlike most of the other electronic pioneers, his music is quite beautiful and very listenable - check out the endlessly lovable Music for 18 Musicians - it's the kind of album you know you're still going to love in 50 years. Besides this only semi-electronic work, he also created many very influential (if very annoying) early electronic works. Brian Eno, for example, has reported Reich as one of his most major influences, and inspirations for ambient music.

Simon Posford - Created both what is almost universally regarded as psytrance's best album - Hallucinogen - Twisted, and again what is almost universally regarded as psybient's best album (Shpongle - Are You Shpongled). He is also potentially one of the inventors of psybient. Widely influential and regarded both in and out of the goa scene.

My Bloody Valentine - Their work was primarily based around the electronic effects they applied rather than their guitar work, so I'd argue that they qualify under "electronic" - especially with the influence they've had on the purely electronic genres nu-gaze and space ambient, and on the semi-electronic ones post-rock, indie noise pop (Broken Social Scene), and space rock. If you haven't heard them, check out Loveless. If a band like Primal Scream qualifies, then My Bloody Valentine most certainly does. To boot, they were much more important musically than Primal Scream, and a widely cited by electronic artists as a major influence. Plus Loveless is usually seen near the top of "Best albums of the 90s" lists, and is one of the few albums Scaruffi declares a masterpiece. I'd put these guys in the top 40 at least.

Matthew Herbert - He has put out three essential, genre-bending albums: Bodily Functions, Around the House, and Scale, all using completely new self-developed production techniques and an incredible sense of musicianship. Bodily Functions and Around the House are now widely considered a major classics of electronic music (IE making pitchfork's 100 best albums of the 90s list), and I can certainly attest to that. Check out Harmonize as a good introduction, then listen to Bodily Functions, then his remix of Koppchen. It's quite varied stuff, but always incredible and unmistakably Matthew Herbert - which to me is the mark of a great artist. Also look into the way he works and does things, and the amazing influence his techniques have had. I'd recommend this guy for the top 30, actually - he was certainly more influential and acclaimed than say, Oakenfold (and IMO better).

Akufen - probably the most creative electronic artist of the last 8 years. Listen to his album My Way (especially Deck the House - that's a great place to start - but give it a few minutes - it makes sense in a short time) - it's a masterpiece. He produces the most cacophonous, detailed funk house music has ever put out; along with some beautifully atmospheric and organic ambient tracks (IE: Horror Inc - The Absent).

James Holden - The father of so-called neo-trance. Again, an incredibly versatile artist with an unmistakeable style - which has been dubbed "the Border Community sound." Check out the first CD of his DJ mix Balance 005 (CD 1, especially) for his incredible DJ mix, then Nothing (93 Returning mix) for what was basically the last good idea pure trance came out with, Horizons, then his remix of The Sky was Pink. I'd be very surprised if you listened to them and didn't give him a place somewhere on the list. It's all very critically acclaimed - Balance 005 especially (his magnum opus, and a modern electronic classic in general).

Michael Mayer - founder of Kompakt records, he essentially shot today's minimal scene out of the gate, on the massive success of his label and productions. Listening to them, you really understand why - try Amanda and Lovefood. Plus he put out the definitive (and probably altogether best) microhouse mix - Immer.

DJ Koze - he's been a huge trendsetter for the minimal scene for the last 3 years, and an integral part of it for about 9, and was one of the original artists to kickstart it. His last three major productions have essentially led the minimal scene in its next direction - whenever the scene is out of ideas, a pile of tracks show up exploring whatever tangent his latest track went off on. Check out Djungle Froot, All the Time, and I Want to Sleep. It's really innovative stuff (within the genre), and I think it at least makes him worthy of an honourable mention.

Steve Roach - another huge ambient pioneer. His (again, widely regarded, acclaimed, and influential) classic is Dreamtime Return, but there's quite a bit of good work in his discography.

A few others to check out as well: 4Hero (jungle/drum and bass pioneers, and arguably the inventors of atmospheric jungle; try Parallel Universe - they probably deserve top 70, IMO); Farben (another acclaimed microhouse/minimal master - his best being Textstar); m83 (perhaps the best nu-gaze artists around - Dead Cities, Red Seas, and Lost Ghosts is deeply beautiful); Vladislav (one of the inventors of microhouse, and a glitch pioneer; check out Luomo - Vocalcity); Isolee (the other potential inventor of microhouse, and the producer of its first great track and anthem - Beau Mot Plage. His newer album Wearemonster is also very critically acclaimed); Tim Hecker (best glitch ambient producer - his album Radio Amour is beautiful, widely lauded, very acclaimed, and influential; also a very important nu-gaze producer); Fennesz (Venice and Endless Summer are masterpieces and classics that commonly make decade top 10 lists - another integral nu-gaze and noise ambient artist. He is also very popular and has crossover appeal, which is very unique for ambient music - let alone noise ambient).

Also, like others have suggested, Astral Projection, Infected Mushroom, Juno Reactor, and Man With No Name - the big 4 psytrance artists (besides Simon Posford) who have produced a huge portion of the genre's major classics.

Hope you enjoy the suggestions! And great job with the list. (sorry for the enormous post, I got a bit carried away - but I think they're all good suggestions and would highly recommend any one of them to you - I only posted musicians that I truly believe are classic artists - and I've heard quite a bit of electronic music).

Actually, you win. The more I listen to it, the more it grows on me. It seems like a perfect representation of everything that trance (in its purest sense) is all about. Turns out I also had Acperience 1 and Acperience 3 mixed up (I've been downloading the Eye Q and Harthouse back-catalogues lately). They're similar, for sure, but the way Acperience 1 builds (versus 3) just gives it something really special.

I think I will, they showed a lot of promise as artists.

I checked it out, and it's awesome, but it's definitely darksynth/spacesynth, not really trance. Also, the beats fit new beat far better than trance - it's too slow, especially for psytrance.

Still, it REALLY sounds like trance. I went back and forth several times on whether it was trance or not (like with most proto-trance from 1991 or earlier). I'm still not 100% sure.

I find it OK, but it makes me think of products spinning around in front of me.