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Electroclash

Not to be confused with Electropunk or Electronicore.
Electroclash
Other names
  • Synthcore
  • retro-electro
  • tech-pop
  • nouveau-disco
  • new new wave
Stylistic origins
Cultural originsLate 1990s,[1] Netherlands, France, Austria, Germany (Munich[4]) and United States (Detroit and New York[5])
Derivative forms
Other topics
Fischerspooner, an American electroclash act

Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave[3]) is a genre of popular music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music.[6][7][8] It emerged in the late 1990s and was pioneered by and associated with acts such as I-F, DJ Hell, Miss Kittin and The Hacker, and Fischerspooner.[9][10]

  1. ^ a b Ishkur (2019). "Ishkur's Guide: Electroclash". Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. Retrieved November 16, 2023.
  2. ^ a b David Madden (2012). "Crossdressing to Backbeats: The Status of the Electroclash Producer and the Politics of Electronic Music". Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture: 27–47. Retrieved January 3, 2015. Electroclash combines the extended pulsing sections of techno, house and other dance musics with the trashier energy of rock and new wave.
  3. ^ a b Carpenter, Susan (July 28, 2002). "New Songs, Old Beats". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 9, 2022.
  4. ^ Hecktor, Mirko; von Uslar, Moritz; Smith, Patti; Neumeister, Andreas (1 November 2008). Mjunik Disco – from 1949 to now (in German). Blumenbar. p. 8. ISBN 978-3936738476.
  5. ^ Reynolds, Simon (2013). Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture. Soft Skull Press. Go to Berliniamsburg, the Brooklyn club at the epicentre of New York's eighties-inspired 'electroclash' scene, and you feel a peculiar sensation: it's not exactly like time travel, more like you've stepped into a parallel universe, an alternative history scenario where rave never happened.
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  7. ^ "The Electroclash Mix by Larry Tee". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 30 September 2012. Retrieved 18 April 2015.
  8. ^ Kellman, Andy. "Larry Tee Biography on Yahoo! Music". Yahoo! Music. Archived from the original on 18 March 2007. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
  9. ^ Juzwiak, Richard Moroder (30 September 2002). "Electroclash: In Limousines We Have Sex/In NYC We Have Clash - Article". Stylus Magazine. Archived from the original on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  10. ^ Gagne, Justin (2011). "Velle - Couture Soundtracks - Winter 2010". Velle. Retrieved 11 August 2016.

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