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Definition of electronica
: dance music featuring extensive use of synthesizers, electronic percussion, and samples of recorded music or sound
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Meanwhile the late-90s major label electronica boom began to fade.
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As the crowd tightened and hushed for the set, which included Vernon's falsetto, Dessner's guitar, and flute and French horn electronica, the mood felt decidedly inclusive, collaborative and experimental.
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Successive Washed Out releases expanded Mr. Greene’s vocabulary across additional decades, incorporating live instruments and invoking psychedelia, trip-hop and ambient electronica: anything that could dissolve into a midtempo haze.
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An artistic and commercial success created with producer Joel Little, it was distinguished by its innovative blend of electronica and dream pop as the platform for her distinctive lyrical perspective.
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The highs and lows of navigating his new fatherhood is what Estornel poured into the record, a deep dive of ambient electronica, breakbeats and melodies, with dub and techno flourishes and guest vocalists.
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A collider of classical music, rock, and electronica, Planetarium is unfailingly ambitious and intermittently dazzling.
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With an emphasis on rock, rap and electronica, the Halloween weekend festival will roar into New Orleans' City Park, Oct. 27-29.
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Led by composer and vibraphonist Matt DiBiase, this eight-piece collective of Oberlin Conservatory graduates combines jazz, fusion, R&B, rock and electronica.
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Origin and Etymology of electronica
probably from New Electronica, recording label of the British firm Beechwood Music Ltd.
ELECTRONICA Defined for English Language Learners
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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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