featured electronic albums
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- Battles
- Dross Glop
- These eclectic reworkings of Gloss Drop tracks by leading lights in hip-hop, dance, and experimental rock reaffirm that Battles are up for anything.
- Soulsavers
- The Light the Dead See
- The U.K. production duo team with Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan on this cinematic, rainy day soundtrack.
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- Paul van Dyk
- Evolution
- Featuring the blissful "Eternity" with Owl City's Adam Young, this 2012 release is a welcome return to form from the veteran trance producer.
- Various Artists
- Kitsuné America
- The oh-so-chic French label Kitsuné collects songs from like-minded American artists, with mostly fun and always stylish results.
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- Rye Rye
- Go! Pop! Bang!
- Baltimore's hyperkinetic Rye Rye makes her long awaited debut on Go! Pop! Bang!
- Kindness
- World, You Need a Change…
- Kindness' debut is a downer dance party that synthesizes various forms of dance music past and present into a satisfying new sound.
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- Ben Salisbury / Geoff …
- Drokk: Music Inspired…
- Portishead's Geoff Barrow and composer Ben Salisbury deliver an authentically geeky "imaginary soundtrack" to cult comic Judge Dredd, channeling John Carpenter's…
- Santigold
- Master of My Make-Believe
- Four years and a dozen producers later, Santigold returns with an album that expands on the best parts of the debut.
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- Squarepusher
- Ufabulum
- Verified electronic music genius Squarepusher returns with a blistering set of glowing mini-symphonies, intricate without becoming obtuse.
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- The Chemical Brothers
- Don't Think
- This live set, filmed at Japan's Fuji Rock Festival, shows the brothers can work it out with a show that's only gotten bigger and brighter.
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- Mouse on Mars
- Parastrophics
- After six years away, Mouse on Mars return with some of their most sophisticated and playful music yet.
- Lazer Sword
- Memory
- Memory reveals a sleeker, sexier version of Lazer Sword -- and the duo has never sounded better.
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- Gang Colours
- The Keychain Collection
- Following a track on a Brownswood Bubblers compilation and an EP, Gang Colours' debut album sticks to a subdued hybrid of downtempo and U.K. garage.
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about electronic
Reaching back to grab the grooves of '70s disco/funk and the gadgets of electronic composition, Electronica soon became a whole new entity in and of itself, spinning off new sounds and subgenres with no end in sight two decades down the pike. Its beginnings came in the post-disco environment of Chicago/New York and Detroit, the cities who spawned house and techno (respectively) during the 1980s. Later that decade, club-goers in Britain latched onto the fusion of mechanical and sensual, and returned the favor to hungry Americans with new styles like jungle/drum'n'bass and trip-hop. Though most all early electronica was danceable, by the beginning of the '90s, producers were also making music for the headphones and chill-out areas as well, resulting in dozens of stylistic fusions like ambient-house, experimental techno, tech-house, electro-techno, etc. Typical for the many styles gathered under the umbrella was a focus on danceable grooves, very loose song structure (if any), and, in many producers, a relentless desire to find a new sound no matter how tepid the results.