DJ Mag’s top albums of 2025

In 2025, electronic artists built worlds and told stories with their longform projects. For some, this meant conjuring familiar cityscapes and uncanny dreamstates via deep reggaeton psychedelia, mercurial ambience and abstract techno, while others unpacked personal narratives and socio-political reflections with visionary takes on club music, R&B, rap and Brazilian funk. Avant-pop auteurs, grime and gqom lodestars, and icons of dub techno and drum & bass each summoned dancefloors of their own design, while genre-blurring producers mapped routes to the afterparty with blissed-out downtempo songs and beatless brilliance. Some simply went off the map entirely, delivering some of the most thrilling electronic experiments we’ve heard in a long time. Here, DJ Mag offers its unranked overview of the albums that made the past 12 months so memorable for dance and electronic music in all its forms