Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various styles of popular music characterized by the prominent use of electronically generated sounds and computer-based production techniques.
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- noun Any of a wide range of
electronic music genres . - noun Electronic items in general.
- noun The data trail of an individual on the public internet.
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Examples
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But, you know -- it's interesting, since the art of song writing seems to have taken a nosedive, I've gone the way of what they call electronica music.
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But, you know -- it's interesting, since the art of song writing seems to have taken a nosedive, I've gone the way of what they call electronica music.
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Jamie Lidell, an Englishman who has spent time on the Berlin electronica scene, bounded onstage wearing a gold-lamé jacket with a gold-tinsel wig.
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Jamie Lidell, an Englishman who has spent time on the Berlin electronica scene, bounded onstage wearing a gold-lamé jacket with a gold-tinsel wig.
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I'm going to be talking about electronica from the Japanese doujin and underground communities.
Anime Nano! 2010
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I'm going to be talking about electronica from the Japanese doujin and underground communities.
Anime Nano! 2010
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Even those not interested in electronica and techno are sure to enjoy Dark Room Notes’s music.
Band Spotlight: Irish Electro-Rock/Synthpop Band Dark Room Notes | Fandomania 2010
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"But electronica is the most urban musical genre," he adds, "and few cities are as urban as big Chinese metropolises have now become.
In China, Musicians For the Modern Era Ilaria Maria Sala 2010
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Beats me, but I guess it means a figure of that stature and not, as you say, someone who invented a genre out of his own protean imagination and virtuosity, all of which is just so alien to the idea of electronica to begin with.
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The rest of Major Lazer's debut album "Guns Don't Kill People…Lazers Do" posits the sound of Auto-Tuned vocals as a kind of sonic lingua franca linking Eurodisco and dancehall reggae and hipster electronica, which is interesting.
NYT > Home Page By ALEX PAPPADEMAS 2011
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