Electroclash
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
Do you know Frank Sinatra?
"Larry Tee's self-anointed genre which includes new acts like DFA, Vive la FĂȘte , Playgroup, 2 Many DJs, Miss Kittin, Fisherspooner, ... and of course a whole slew of old electro and No Wave and post-punk acts."--Sholem Stein |
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Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music. It emerged in the later 1990s and is often thought of as reaching its peak circa 2002/2003. It was pioneered by and associated with acts such as I-F, Miss Kittin and The Hacker, and Fischerspooner. The visual aesthetic of electroclash has been associated with the 1982 cult film Liquid Sky.
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Artists and recordings
- Frank Sinatra (Miss Kittin & The Hacker song)
- Fuck the Pain Away (2000) by Peaches
- Suis-je normale? (1980)
- Chicks on Speed
- Green Velvet
Synthpunk as antecedent
Synthpunk (also known as electropunk) is a music genre combining elements of electronic music and punk rock. It is an umbrella term that describes the combination of electronic music with the attitude of punk. Popular and important artists of the early electropunk period were Suicide from the United States, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft and Liaisons Dangereuses from Germany, and Nitzer Ebb and Portion Control from the UK.
Predecessors
- Disco Not Disco
- In the Beginning there Was Rhythm - Soul Jazz records
- Nine O'Clock Drop (2000) by Andy Weatherall
- DJ-Kicks: Playgroup (2002)
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