Top 5 favourite dance/electronic music albums

Thanks for the recommendation, but unfortunately even these aren't what I'm looking for.

The "Journeys" series features tracks from a moment when the scene was fragmenting -- what was previously known as hardcore (or breakbeat techno) evolved into darkcore and early drum and bass, while a separate techno/vocal house scene (then known as garage) broke away in parallel.

From what I can tell, the post-1992 house/garage scene is the "Journeys" series' focus. I was into the scene that preceded this fragmentation (clubs such as The Eclipse in Coventry and Milwaukees in Rushden). In my experience, CDs that claim to represent this scene and time feature the wrong track versions and are often padded out with chart stuff. The search continues.

I feel old now...

Been listening to the Back to Mine catalog recently, tis good.

Were you/are you a midlander? Not that I think this made a huge difference to the scene/music (though there was something of a north/south divide).

I'm wondering if we went to some of the same raves. I'm on a couple of early(ish) rave videos uploaded to youtube. They're great to watch and reminisce and I can even spot some old friends. There's no way I'm posting links!