Electronica

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 5, 2005

Electronica

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").

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)

by JasonMath February 15, 2007

ETD (Electronically Transmitted Disease)

To send a bug to everyone in your friends list in under 45 seconds

clicking a link not knowing what will happen then having it cause your friends to become unaware of inheriting an ETD (Electronically Transmitted Disease)

by Alastardark June 5, 2010

Educational Electronica

Please see the entry for 'Educational Electronic Music'.

Educational Electronica (EE) is also known as Educational Electronic Music (EEM)

by ElectronicaEducator March 19, 2014

Pace Electronics

A disgusting company in the Seinfeld universe that you do not want to share a bathroom with

"I mean, we share it with Pace Electronics, it's disgusting!"

by Johnhammer May 17, 2020

Vocal Electronica

The term given to an emerging genre of music that includes both Vocal Trance and Dance. DJ's combine the slower, sexier sounds of Vocal Trance with the up-tempo, high energy beats of Dance to create a multitude of emotions on the dance floors. The angelic vocals, uplifting melodies and high energy beats can create an intense emotional response which can lead to a natural euphoric state. More popular in Europe, it's making a slow migration to the commercially driven market of the USA

The DJ expertly mixed the varying beats and sounds of vocal electronica to create a rollercoaster of emotions on the dancefloor.

by BlackSwanFL February 4, 2010

electronica

Electronica does not exist. Not as a genre or a description. It was coined by the North American music press to refer to the second wave of electronic music's explosion in the late 90s, and exists purely as a marketing buzzword, not any actual quantifiable branch of music (the first wave of electronic music, incidentally, they called 'techno', and, having driven the word into the ground beyond all sense of meaning, they couldn't keep using it if they wished to re-market the music). Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, Prodigy's 'Fat of the Land', Chemical Brothers and other big-time stars of that period were all called "electronica" at one point or another, but the person who really popularized it in the public consciousness was Madonna and her shallow, William Orbit-produced piss-poor attempt at appropriating trance music as something she invented (Ray of Light). She used that word all the damn time in interviews. God I hate her. So yeah: There is no such thing as electronica. -Ishkur

"I don't listen to electronica. I do listen to EDM, though."

by Aerta June 22, 2009