Definition of electronica
: dance music featuring extensive use of synthesizers, electronic percussion, and samples of recorded music or sound
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As audiences will witness during Sunday’s gig at Wells Fargo Center, Depeche Mode have gone far beyond the twee-pop electronica of its first album, Speak & Spell.
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The arrangements vary, from ambient electronica and Appalachian Gothic to contemporary torch song and bluegrass gospel, with scarcely a hint of Cash’s trademark freight-train rhythms.
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Joining Jimeno is local witch house specialist Justina Kairtye, who produces brooding electronica under her Fee Lion moniker.
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In later years, their sound expanded to include electronica and heavy metal elements, creating even more taxonomic confusion.
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Long an innovator in New York’s downtown scene, by shifting readily among art rock, trip-hop and electronica, Yuka Honda embodies the Big Ears ethos.
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And Melanie Chen Cole’s fantastic sound design blends old-tymey music with haunting electronica to map the shifting emotional tones, while her projections just about douse us in the river’s chill.
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The record netted Sylvan Esso its first Grammy Award nomination (for best dance/electronica album) and other signifiers of mainstream success.
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Acts for SliceFest typically lean to jam bands and jam-electronica-rock hybrids.
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Origin and Etymology of electronica
probably from New Electronica, recording label of the British firm Beechwood Music Ltd.
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Definition of electronica for English Language Learners
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: a kind of popular dance music that is produced using electronic equipment (such as synthesizers)
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