A mostly media-made term for encompassing all forms of electronic music, as individual forms of electronic music aren't popular enough for record stores to devote full sections to. Generally, it will be found next to an equally small "dance" section that carries the more danceable stuff, while electronica section carries more listening music.
House, Trance, Techno, IDM, Jungle, Anything-core, Trip-hop, Acid/Electronic Jazz, Whatever-bient, and thousands of other obscure genres are generally stuffed into "Electronica"
by Spiffy Hamster August 18, 2005
A word the media came up with to refer to all forms of Electronic Music. Electronica is not a music genre. For more information, see Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music. Google it.
Neo: There is no Electronica.
by KK May 05, 2005
A word used by the media to describe the revival of electronic music in popularity in the mid to late 1990's. Specifically, it referred to electronic music with a sound influenced by rock (with live drums instead of electronically produced percussion) and a little bit of hip-hop (mainly breaks/samples). This style, while called electronica by the mass media, became known as Big Beat (which I will use to describe "electronica" from now on in the definition) by many others, and it included subgenres such as Chemical Breaks and Funky Breaks, too. Big Beat eventually fell out of fashion, mainly its focus on breaks made it unoriginal; there were only a few dozen breaks that producers used, so it became repetitive.
However, some of the people making big beat back during it's heyday are still producing this type of music, most notably The Chemical Brothers, who won the Grammy award for best electronic/dance album in 2006 (for the album "Push The Button").
However, some of the people making big beat back during it's heyday are still producing this type of music, most notably The Chemical Brothers, who won the Grammy award for best electronic/dance album in 2006 (for the album "Push The Button").
Person A: Did you listen to that new Fatboy Slim album? That was some great electronica!
Person B: It's big beat, not electronica. (Person B walks away from Person A and sighs.) Stupid media.
Examples of big beat groups: Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, The Prodigy (starting in 1997)
Person B: It's big beat, not electronica. (Person B walks away from Person A and sighs.) Stupid media.
Examples of big beat groups: Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, The Crystal Method, The Prodigy (starting in 1997)
by JasonMath February 14, 2007
a word made up by record company executives so they could more easily sell house, techno, jungle etc. . .
by electronica February 27, 2005
by Blonde at heart November 12, 2003
One of the best new rappers out there. Showed up on the scene in 2007, but only got big recognition with his "Exhibit C". He's working with Mos Def, Nas, and Just Blaze to get his name out there. His rhymes are deep, memorable, and intelligent. He'd beat Wayne, Jeezy or Gucci Mane any day.
Exhibit A, Exhibit C, and Act 1 are three songs that will stay with me for the rest of my life and I look forward to what he has in store for the future.
Exhibit A, Exhibit C, and Act 1 are three songs that will stay with me for the rest of my life and I look forward to what he has in store for the future.
"Question14 - Muslim Lesson 2: Dip over, Civilize a 85er.
I make the devil hit his knees and say the Our Father." -Exhibit C: Jay Electronica
"Build a home, teach a class, start a revolution
Free the mind, heal the body, talkin’ evolution"
-Just Began, Jay Electronica, J. Cole, Mos Def. etc.
"you can find the Christ where the lepers and the lames at? Life is like a dice game, one roll could land you in jail or cuttin cake blowin kisses in the rice rain. Nice whip nice chain a closet of skulls. The stench is like slave blood at providence hall."
- Exhibit A: Jay Electronica
I make the devil hit his knees and say the Our Father." -Exhibit C: Jay Electronica
"Build a home, teach a class, start a revolution
Free the mind, heal the body, talkin’ evolution"
-Just Began, Jay Electronica, J. Cole, Mos Def. etc.
"you can find the Christ where the lepers and the lames at? Life is like a dice game, one roll could land you in jail or cuttin cake blowin kisses in the rice rain. Nice whip nice chain a closet of skulls. The stench is like slave blood at providence hall."
- Exhibit A: Jay Electronica
by Raleigh Mayne March 07, 2010
One hell of a rapper. Birth Name: Timothy Elpadaro Thedford, commonly known as Jay Electrnica born in the Magnolia Projects in New Orleans. Went viral around 2007, but known for Exhibits A, B and C. On his myspace page he had his first popular song, 'Eternal Sunshine(The Pledge)'. As of late 2010 he is signed to Jay Z's Roc Nation record label.
by Fuck You and Your Crew February 26, 2012