When I was visiting NYC yeeeears ago, I first heard Blu Mar Ten when I was leaving. Last thing I saw was a partially built One World Trade Center and this track has stuck with me:
Do you feel good? You will after listening to Maduk!
I used to be a flight attendant so travelled around a lot and most of the time, the airports were quite far off from the downtown area where our hotel was. So Id always zone out in the bus, staring out the window in this new country there and back the next day. So I have quite a few albums that whenever I listen to them, would always remind me of a certain place. For example:
Daft Punk - Ram: Hong Kong
AtariTeenageRiot - Is this hyperreal : Osaka, Japan
GnR - Appetite for Destruction: NYC
Ghost - Meliora: Zimbabwe
etc
EDIT: Chase & Status are boss as well, have both aggressive and nostalgia sounding tracks. From one of their older ones:
And this was. a classic in clubs: