featured electronic albums
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- Calvin Harris
- 18 Months
- Collaborations with Rihanna, Kelis, Florence Welch, and Ellie Goulding, among others, help make Harris' third album a shiny showcase of modern pop.
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- Neneh Cherry / The Thi …
- The Cherry Thing Remixes
- One of 2012's great collaborations, The Cherry Thing gets creatively and appreciatively remixed by a host of heavy hitters.
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- Daniel Lopatin / Tim H …
- Instrumental Tourist
- Hecker and Lopatin apply their hypnotic sounds to a set of songs using ethnic instrument presets, with intriguing and often lovely results.
- Basshunter
- The Early Bedroom Sessions
- Two of the EDM superstar celebrity DJ's early efforts are collected on this archival set.
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- Hercules & Love Affair
- DJ-Kicks
- A remarkably fluid, decades-spanning house set that incorporates tracks from heroes, collaborators, and Andrew Butler himself.
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- Pillowfight
- Pillowfight
- Producer Dan the Automator and singer/songwriter/violinist Emily Wells partner for an album that recalls the best bits of trip-hop.
- Example
- The Evolution of Man
- The rapper searches his soul, atones for his sins, and cranks out a dancefloor confessional that's hooky and euphoric.
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- Nosaj Thing
- Home
- Jason Chung's downcast second album, following an xx remix and a Kendrick Lamar production, features Chaz Bundick and Kazu Makino.
- Pantha du Prince / The …
- Elements of Light
- Hendrik Weber's collaboration with a Norwegian percussion ensemble is occasionally dazzling, alternately a logical progression and a dead end.
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- Horace Andy
- Broken Beats
- Dub meets left-field house music as the reggae legend teams with a set of electronica producers on this remix effort.
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- Darkstar
- News from Nowhere
- Now completely disconnected from dubstep, the London trio's surprising second album is avant pop -- lighter yet more complex than their debut.
- Raime
- Quarter Turns Over a Living…
- Dark and assured debut LP from the purveyors of electronic unease, Raime.
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- Nico Muhly
- Drones
- This release includes the Drones & Piano, Drones & Viola, and Drones & Violin EPs, as well as an extended new work.
- Robert DeLong
- Just Movement
- An innovative, creatively inspired mix of electronic dance music and singer/songwriter reflection.
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- Junkie XL
- Synthesized
- The Dutch producer takes a trip through dance-pop's past, genre-jumping his way through this exciting effort.
- Mark Stewart
- Exorcism of Envy
- Dub versions and reconstructions of material from The Politics of Envy, released earlier in 2012.
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- Various Artists
- Pop Ambient 2013
- Kompakt's 13th ambient compilation is highlighted by a return from Leandro Fresco and Terrapin's cover of Pink Floyd's "Cirrus Minor."
- The Twilight Sad
- No One Can Ever Know:…
- This collection of remixes by A-list and up-and-coming artists gives the band's electronic leanings more depth and dimensions.
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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.