Music

A few years back, in the great tradition of “new wave,” the American record industry branded a certain wide-ranging genre of music “electronica,” thinking it would make lots of money. It didn’t, at least not for long, which might explain why so much interesting stuff only comes out overseas nowadays. Micro-genre purists (the same ones upset that Prodigy’s more-fun-than-trendy new album just got nominated for a Grammy, the same ones who somewhere along the line secretly decided “techno” was a more specific category than everybody else thought) hate the word “electronica” to death. All the more reason to use it, probably.

CIARA FEATURING MISSY ELLIOTT

“1, 2 Step”

(LaFace square-bizzed electro-dance single)

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DJ THOMAS

Tropical Hot Dog

(Myutopia Recordings dance-oriented post-punk-and-otherwise DJ mix album)

JASON FORREST

The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash

(Sonig import dance-mash-up album)

“Stepping Off” (MP3)

GHOST CAULDRON

Invent Modest Fires

(!K7 import undie-hip-hopped rocktronic dub-dance-duo album)

“Fear” ft. Anti-Pop Consortium (MP3)

“Whole World” (MP3)

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GLIMMER TWINS

Serie Noire 2

(Eskimo import electro-dance DJ mix album)

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KID SPATULA

Meast

(Planet Mu import avant-electronica double-disc album)

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K.I.M.

Miyage

(Tigersushi import ambient vegetarian avant-and-ethnic-detritus DJ mix album)

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MYXCHA

“Still Not Free”

(Phenom Latin-freestyle-style “theatrical pop” single)

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PRODIGY

Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned

(Maverick big-beat rocktronica album)

SUPERPITCHER

Here Comes Love

(Kompakt import glam-rocked microhouse album)

Stream “Traume” and “Happiness”

SUPERSILENT

Supersilent 6

(Rune Grammofon import electronic-improv shoegaze-noize album)

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BEST OF DANCE ANTHEMS VOLUME 1

(UBL trancepop disco compilation)

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