The term electroclash describes a musical movement that combined synthpop, techno, punk and performance art.

Mar 3, 2025 · Electroclash artists, inspired by ’80s experimental music, used analog synths and vintage sequencers. The object was to create lo-fi DIY music that sounded purposefully out-of-date and cheap.

Apr 9, 2024 · After it surged from the keyboards of amateur musicians in the late-1990s to rule over the late-2000s pop queendom, a third wave of electroclash is upon us. It’s 2024, and the roughly 20-year...

At the turn of the 21st century, electroclash brought irony and anarchism to the dance floor with R-rated come-ons and unrelenting beats. This short-lived but highly influential movement helped shape what the best and most outrageous of alt-dance and EDM would eventually become, a neon-lined amalgam of disparate influences meant for pure and ...

Electroclash fuses electro, techno, synth-pop, new wave, punk and performance art. Early examples of the style include Miss Kittin & The Hacker's Champagne! E.P. and I-f's "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass".

Oct 1, 2020 · From roughly 1999 to the re-election of George W. Bush, the clubs in Brooklyn, Paris, and Berlin absolutely pulsed with a strange, twisted genre of electronic music, which gained the common name —...

Electroclash is often known as, and confused with, the genre known as electro, the original, hip-hop inflected form of the style. The term was invented by DJ Larry Tee, whilst the 1984 satirical Science Fiction film Liquid Sky has been cited as a focal …

Jun 10, 2021 · Electroclash, also known as synthcore, was a subgenre of electronic music, specifically indie electronic dance music (EDM), that simultaneously surfaced in America and Europe during the 1990s.

Jan 21, 2016 · Electroclash is a filthy, trashy, beautiful mesh of Synthpop and Techno with strong elements of early Punk and New Wave, and came into its prime in the early 2000's.

Feb 10, 2016 · For those of you who either weren’t there, or weren’t, like me, devouring the NME in 2002, electroclash was a short lived moment in time when it seemed like the whole planet was fixated on a...