Follow Me Like Lemmings: Quintopia takes you for a jump off the electronic music cliff.  (And yet, this is only the tip of the iceberg.)

1. Threshold - This is Steve Miller's Intro to "Jet Airliner."  You'll hear it on the radio sometimes, but always immediately followed by that song.  You have to admit that it makes a great intro track.
2. Venus Hum are  best known for their participation in Blue Man Group's cover of I Feel Love.  Check out the video for it sometime: Annette Strean is adorable!
3. Sasha does some very dark electronica.  This one  may not be one of their best, but it's the one I've known and loved the longest.
4. Chef d'Oeuvre is Appleton's most famous work.  The name is a pun on the french for "master work" and sample source for the piece: a Chef Boyardee commercial.  This piece plays on the audience's recognition of the unprocessed sample source and asks them to try to iddentify the samples in heavily processed form, never quite allowing them to hear the original sample in pure form.  I find it highly amusing and very playful.
5. O Superman (for Massenet) is Laurie Anderson's most famous piece, but everything she does is pretty awesome.  I saw her live on her Lost Art of Conversation Tour a couple years ago.  Anyway, this one topped the charts in the UK once, so I'd say it has mass appeal.
6. One of my favorite Dolby pieces to sing along with.  I saw him live with BT a few years ago.  Surprising he's still touring.  If you're not a Brit, you've probably only heard "She Blinnded Me With Science," but you should really check him out.  He's an outstanding musician.
7. Pierre Henry collaborated with a british psychedelic rock band for the first half of his "Mass for the Modern Age" album.  This track is the most well-known, especially now that it has inspired the Futurama theme song.  Check out the video for Fatboy Slim's cover of the track.  It's quite amusing.
8. Ghazala is a master of the art of tweaking: modifying electronic devices to produce sounds in a way they were not intended by attaching wired to their circuit boards.  In this track you can hear a tweaked "Speak n Spell" (what he calls the Incantor) among other things.
9. I absolutely love Paul Lansky's works, and the way in which he modifies speech to add my musical color to it.  This is a processed reading of Campion's "Rose-Cheekt Lawra," and I included it because it flowed well with the other songs on the album.  However, it is not my favorite Lansky track.  Check out everything on the "More than Idle Chatter" album if you get the chance.
10. Tenzin asked for more Four Tet after my last playlist, and I just really liked this one, so on it went.
11. I don't know much about 8-bit Operators, but they sure do put a playful spin on Kraftwerk!  This comes from a whole album of Kraftwerk covers.
12. Raymond Scott was an advertiser back in the 50s.  That is, he wrote music for TV ads.  He basically built by hand the Electronium, which was the most complicated analog synthesizer of its day.  It even had trackable beats!  Nothing like it existed for basically the next twenty years.  Now it sits in a museum somewhere, not functioning at all,  but I bet it would if they just replaced a few vacuum tubes and then figured out that crazy complicated interface he put on it!
13. Louis and Bebe Barron are basically Greenwich Village nobodies who never did anything of importance...except somehow land a contract with Paramount to produce the score for the film Forbidden Planet, the first film with an all-electronic score.  They hand-built electronic circuits that were designed to make all kinds of crazy noise before they released their magic smoke, then recorded them, heavily upsampled, onto analog tapes (the reel-to-reel kind).  So basically, what you're hearing here is the death rattles of several elaborate circuits, processed only by playing and recording them on tape decks.
14. Truax is the real father of granular synthesis, and this is by far his best work.  I recommend playing it at at least 3 dB with a quality subwoofer.  Lay back, close your eyes and enjoy the ride.  If you can afford it, and the system required to play it, you can get an octophonic version of this track, as this is how it was originally recorded.  You can also get an educational CD that steps you through the score and what parameters he modified on his custom-built synthesizer to produce each section of the piece.  This is also my favorite piece on this whole compilation.