Electronica/Club

Electronica is a wide term that includes any music with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology as a central aspect of the sound. Expirements with electronic music has began at the end of XIX century. But its true evolution has begun in the second half of XX century with the fast development of electronic music instruments.

Word "electronica" features a wide range of music genres. It includes electronic dance music, designed for nightclubs, but, at the same time, electronic music can be intended for foreground listening, musical illustration or something else. That is why electronic music can vary from fast and rhythmic compositions to very slow and meditative melodies.

Genre top albums

This Is Happening 2010
by LCD Soundsystem

An artful layering of the most unexpected sound discoveries, contagious samples, sparkling tunes and bewitching vocal parts comprise only a part of all the merits LCD Soundsystem's new record This Is Happening can boast

Immersion 2010
by Pendulum

Pendulum keep following their experimental course; and this is why their fresh long player, Immersion, is so much different from what the band has released before

Some Place Simple 2010
by Martina Topley Bird

The album Some Place Simple is a collection of songs from both of Martina Topley Bird’s albums performed with the accompaniment of live instruments on which the singer herself and her percussionist Ninja are playing

Heligoland 2010
by Massive Attack

After a seven-year break, the British electronica band Massive Attack recorded the disc Heligoland. This strong and delightful album is made in the classical style of the group and features many guest stars

Further 2010
by The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers seventh album Further signs its returning to the electronic synthesizer music from which the duo's success takes its start. The album is the first in the duo’s history to be recorded without any guest stars on vocals

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