Top 41 Live Electronic Acts and Bands of All Time

Some electronic artists transcend DJ sets to deliver full live performances that are truly unforgettable. These are the acts that proved electronic music belongs on the biggest stages in the world.

1. 1
   Daft Punk

   French duo whose Alive 2007 pyramid tour is widely considered the greatest live electronic show in music history.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Kraftwerk

   German pioneers whose conceptual live shows, with band members as robots, set the template for live electronic performance.
   976pts
3. 3
   Groove Armada

   Tom Findlay and Andy Cato's project, known for full live band shows of hits like At the River and Superstylin'.
   765pts
4. 4
   Fred again..

   London producer and Grammy winner whose emotional, improvised live sets built from voice-note samples made him a defining live act of the 2020s.
   730pts
5. 5
   Basement Jaxx

   Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, whose carnival-like live shows with singers, dancers and percussion made Where's Your Head At a festival anthem.
   717pts
6. 6
   Radiohead

   British band who progressively incorporated electronic elements into live performance in innovative theatrical ways.
   647pts
7. 7
   Eric Prydz

   Swedish producer whose HOLO show used holographic projections and whose EPIC productions set new standards for dance music stage design.
   647pts
8. 8
   Nine Inch Nails

   American industrial act led by Trent Reznor known for intense, technically advanced and emotionally devastating live performances.
   597pts
9. 9
   Paul Kalkbrenner

   Berlin producer who performs only live rather than DJing, filling arenas with his melodic techno after the success of Berlin Calling.
   542pts
10. 10
    Underworld

    British group known for the epic, immersive quality of their live performances built around classic rave anthems.
    542pts
11. 11
    Fatboy Slim

    Norman Cook, the big beat star whose 2002 Big Beach Boutique show drew around 250,000 people to Brighton beach.
    542pts
12. 12
    Air

    Versailles duo Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, whose dreamy Moon Safari songs translate into lush live band performances.
    542pts
13. 13
    Bjork

    Icelandic artist whose live shows combine electronic music, orchestral elements and highly theatrical staging.
    542pts
14. 14
    Gorillaz

    Virtual band conceived by Damon Albarn whose live shows merge animation, live musicians and electronic production.
    542pts
15. 15
    The Chemical Brothers

    British duo known for visually stunning, aurally powerful live electronic performances since the mid-1990s.
    542pts
16. 16
    Flume

    Australian producer and Grammy winner whose glitchy future bass and towering visual stage shows made him a festival headliner.
    478pts
17. 17
    Leftfield

    British duo Paul Daley and Neil Barnes known for bass-heavy, immersive live electronic shows.
    478pts
18. 18
    Pet Shop Boys

    Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, whose theatrical, art-directed tours from Performance to Dreamworld turned synth-pop into stage spectacle.
    478pts
19. 19
    Aphex Twin

    British artist known for confrontational, overwhelming live performances incorporating custom visual environments.
    478pts
20. 20
    New Order

    Manchester band that wired synthesizers and sequencers into live rock performance, from Blue Monday to their festival headlining sets.
    478pts
21. 21
    Pendulum

    Perth-born outfit that turned drum and bass into a full live band spectacle, headlining festivals with guitars, live drums and MC Verse.
    404pts
22. 22
    Tangerine Dream

    Berlin synth pioneers famed in the 1970s for improvised concerts in cathedrals and concert halls, documented on live albums like Ricochet.
    404pts
23. 23
    Depeche Mode

    Basildon synth-pop band that became a stadium act, captured on the 1988 Rose Bowl concert film 101 and decades of sold-out tours.
    319pts
24. 24
    Jon Hopkins

    English producer whose Mercury-nominated albums Immunity and Singularity come alive in intense audiovisual shows built around live manipulation.
    319pts
25. 25
    Massive Attack

    Bristol collective known for politically charged, visually arresting live performances with text projections.
    319pts
26. 26
    Orbital

    British duo known for improvised, joyful live sets centered on their iconic head-torch rigs.
    319pts
27. 27
    Justice

    Paris duo whose towering wall of amps and glowing cross made their live shows legendary, captured on the album A Cross the Universe.
    319pts
28. 28
    LCD Soundsystem

    American group led by James Murphy known for emotionally cathartic, ecstatic live sets.
    319pts
29. 29
    Moby

    New York producer who took his multi-platinum album Play on the road with a full live band, singing, drumming and playing guitar himself.
    319pts
30. 30
    Faithless

    Maxi Jazz, Rollo and Sister Bliss, whose festival-closing renditions of Insomnia and God Is a DJ made them one of dance music's great live bands.
    319pts
31. 31
    The Prodigy

    British group who combined electronics with rock energy for one of the most intense live experiences in music history.
    217pts
32. 32
    Moderat

    Berlin supergroup of Modeselektor and Apparat, whose arena shows with immersive Pfadfinderei visuals became benchmarks of live electronic music.
    217pts
33. 33
    Four Tet

    British producer Kieran Hebden who has developed a distinctive, warm and emotional live electronic show format.
    217pts
34. 34
    Yellow Magic Orchestra

    Tokyo trio Haruomi Hosono, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Yukihiro Takahashi, whose 1979 and 1980 world tours brought synthesizers and sequencers to the stage.
    217pts
35. 35
    The Crystal Method

    Los Angeles big beat duo Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan, whose 1997 album Vegas and hard-hitting live sets made them America's answer to the Chemical Brothers.
    217pts
36. 36
    Modeselektor

    Berlin duo Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary, renowned for chaotic, high-energy live sets mixing techno, bass music and hip-hop.
    217pts
37. 37
    Porter Robinson

    American producer whose Worlds and Nurture live shows, with original animation and live vocals, inspired his own Second Sky festival.
    217pts
38. 38
    Deadmau5

    Canadian producer Joel Zimmerman, whose LED mau5head and towering cube stage redefined the electronic live show in the 2010s.
    0pts
39. 39
    Caribou

    Dan Snaith's project, performed by a four-piece live band with twin drummers, celebrated for the albums Swim and Our Love.
    0pts
40. 40
    Jean-Michel Jarre

    French synth pioneer who set world records for concert attendance with giant outdoor shows in Houston, Paris and Moscow.
    0pts
41. 41
    Röyksopp

    Norwegian duo known for elaborate costumed live shows and guest vocalists, touring their chill-out and electro-pop catalogue worldwide.
    0pts

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