Electronica is both a broad group of electronic -based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to refer to electronic music generally.
23-546: Nicolette (full name Nicolette Love Suwoton , born 1964) is a Scottish singer-songwriter of Nigerian parentage, residing in London for most of her life, and has also lived in Nigeria, Switzerland, France, and Belgium. Her music, although falling broadly into the field of electronica , is characterised by many influences, including, jazz , classical , blues , folk and African . She has released three solo albums, as well as
46-645: A Grammy Award . In 2012, the label released Swedish House Mafia 's Until Now which featured the single " Don't You Worry Child ." The album reached number 14 on the Billboard 200 while the single made it to number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 . That year, the Universal Music Group (UMG) purchased EMI, bringing Astralwerks under UMG control where it remains today. As part of the corporate restructuring, Astralwerks became an imprint under
69-404: A "UK Electronica Festival" was first held. At that time electronica became known as "electronic listening music", also becoming more or less synonymous to ambient techno and intelligent techno , and was considered distinct from other emerging genres such as jungle and trip hop . Electronica artists that would later become commercially successful began to record in the late 1980s , before
92-652: A DJ mix album for the DJ-Kicks series, and featured on "Three" and " Sly ", two songs on Massive Attack 's 1994 Protection album. She has worked with many other collaborators in the electronic music field, including Plaid , Alec Empire , and 4hero . She signed to the Talkin' Loud label in 1996. In 1999 she set up her own record label, Early Records , upon leaving Talkin’ Loud to release quirky pop anthems. According to Nicolette, Early Records' music policy is: "innovative pop music." Nicolette's 2005 album, Life Loves Us ,
115-449: A Long Way, Baby (1998), among many others. 1999 saw the releases of Basement Jaxx 's Remedy and Cassius ' 1999 , the latter of which had three singles peak in the top 30 of the U.S. Dance chart . That year, Peter Wohelski also left his position as general manager of the label and was replaced by Errol Kolosine. In the early 2000s, Astralwerks releases included Air 's 2001 album, 10 000 Hz Legend (which reached number 88 on
138-508: A commercially viable alternative to alternative rock music. New York City became one center of experimentation and growth for the electronica sound, with DJs and music producers from areas as diverse as Southeast Asia and Brazil bringing their creative work to the nightclubs of that city. Electronica benefited from industry advancements in music technology , especially electronic musical instruments , synthesizers, music sequencers , drum machines , and digital audio workstations . As
161-404: A higher budget, increased technical quality, and with more layers than most other forms of dance music , since it was backed by major record labels and MTV as the "next big thing". According to a 1997 Billboard article, "the union of the club community and independent labels " provided the experimental and trend-setting environment in which electronica acts developed and eventually reached
184-473: A top-level genre, stating that it includes danceable grooves , as well as music for headphones and chillout areas. In other parts of the world, especially in the UK, electronica is also a broad term, but is associated with non-dance-oriented music, including relatively experimental styles of listening electronic music. It partly overlaps what is known chiefly outside the UK as intelligent dance music (IDM). In
207-475: A wide variety of musical acts and styles, linked by a penchant for overtly electronic production; a range which includes more popular acts such as Björk, Madonna, Goldfrapp and IDM artists such as Autechre , and Aphex Twin . The North American mainstream music industry uses the term as an umbrella category to refer any dance-based electronic music styles with a potential for pop appeal. However, United States–based AllMusic still categorizes electronica as
230-485: Is coming out in 2024. Electronica The original widespread use of the term "electronica" derives from the influential English experimental techno label New Electronica, which was one of the leading forces of the early 1990s introducing and supporting dance-based electronic music oriented towards home listening rather than dance-floor play, although the word "electronica" had already begun to be associated with synthesizer generated music as early as 1983, when
253-503: The Billboard 200) and the 2003 re-issue of Motorbass ' Pansoul . In 2005, the label released Kraftwerk 's first live album, Minimum-Maximum , and a Brian Eno compilation called, More Music for Films . In 2007, EMI reorganized its distribution arm, which ultimately saw Glenn Mendlinger take over for Errol Kolosine as the label's general manager. In 2009, the label released David Guetta 's One Love . The lead single off that album, " When Love Takes Over ," would go on to win
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#1732787718517276-618: The Billboard 200. Her 2017 follow-up, Hopeless Fountain Kingdom , would top the chart. In 2018, it was announced that Astralwerks would move from New York City to its current home base of Los Angeles. Glenn Mendlinger also stepped down as general manager and was replaced by Toby Andrews. In September 2018, the label announced that it had "relaunched" with a spate of new signings and a new staff at their Los Angeles offices. The new signings included Axwell & Ingrosso and Illenium . Marshmello , another recent Astralwerks signee, released
299-491: The Capitol Music Group. In 2013, the label signed both Porter Robinson and Deadmau5 (along with his Mau5trap imprint). The following year, Astralwerks signed singer Halsey to a record deal. Also that year, Robinson released his debut studio album, Worlds and Deadmau5 also released his Astralwerks debut, While(1<2) . Halsey's debut studio album, Badlands , came in 2015 and peaked at number 2 on
322-872: The Grammys , produced a project that became known as Re:Generation. Astralwerks Astralwerks (or Astralwerks Records ) is an American record label primarily focused on electronic music that is now owned by Universal Music Group . Its material is distributed via Capitol Music Group in the United States. The label was founded in 1993 and, in its early years, featured prominent British acts like The Future Sound of London , Fatboy Slim and The Chemical Brothers . In recent years, its roster has expanded to include acts like Halsey , Marshmello , Porter Robinson , Illenium , Zhu and numerous others. In 2018, Astralwerks' headquarters were moved from its original home of New York City to Los Angeles. Astralwerks
345-467: The North American mainstream music industry adopted and to some extent manufactured electronica as an umbrella term encompassing styles such as techno , big beat, drum and bass , trip hop, downtempo , and ambient , regardless of whether it was curated by indie labels catering to the "underground" nightclub and rave scenes, or licensed by major labels and marketed to mainstream audiences as
368-560: The late 1990s and early 2000s , electronica was increasingly used as background scores for television advertisements , initially for automobiles. It was also used for various video games, including the Wipeout series , for which the soundtrack was composed of many popular electronica tracks that helped create more interest in this type of music —and later for other technological and business products such as computers and financial services. Then in 2011, Hyundai Veloster , in association with
391-716: The mainstream. It cites American labels such as Astralwerks (the Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, the Future Sound of London , Fluke ), Moonshine ( DJ Keoki ), Sims , and City of Angels (the Crystal Method) for playing a significant role in discovering and marketing artists who became popularized in the electronica scene. Madonna and Björk are said to be responsible for electronica's thrust into mainstream culture, with their albums Ray of Light (Madonna), Post and Homogenic (Björk). In 1997,
414-583: The song " Happier " featuring Bastille which reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topped several Billboard charts. In October 2018, the label partnered with gaming personality Ninja on a compilation album that was released in December and featured original songs from Tycho , Alesso , and 3lau , among others. In 2021, Astralwerks and Blue Note Records collaborated on a series of jazz/electronica albums titled Bluewerks. In 2023, it
437-546: The technology developed, it became possible for individuals or smaller groups to produce electronic songs and recordings in smaller studios, even in project studios . At the same time, computers facilitated the use of music " samples " and " loops " as construction kits for sonic compositions. This led to a period of creative experimentation and the development of new forms, some of which became known as electronica. Wide ranges of influences, both sonic and compositional, are combined in electronica recordings. Electronica includes
460-699: The term had come into common usage, including for example the Prodigy , Fatboy Slim , Daft Punk , the Chemical Brothers , the Crystal Method , Moby , Underworld and Faithless . Around the mid-1990s, with the success of the big beat -sound exemplified by the Chemical Brothers and the Prodigy in the UK, and spurred by the attention from mainstream artists, including Madonna in her collaboration with William Orbit on her album Ray of Light and Australian singer Dannii Minogue with her 1997 album Girl , music of this period began to be produced with
483-709: Was brought on as the head of A&R . Wohelski is credited with discovering the Chemical Brothers and bringing them into the Astralwerks fold. Their 1995 debut studio album, Exit Planet Dust , sold 750,000 copies in the United States. The duo's 1997 follow-up, Dig Your Own Hole , reached number 14 on the Billboard 200 chart. Other albums released under Astralwerks in its first five years included Seefeel 's Quique (1994), Soul Oddity 's Soul Oddity (1996), μ-Ziq 's Lunatic Harness (1997), Photek 's Modus Operandi (1997), and Fatboy Slim's You've Come
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#1732787718517506-745: Was founded in New York City in July 1993 by Brian Long as an electronic and dance imprint of Caroline Records . Long had previously helped curate an electronic music compilation that was released on Caroline called Excursions in Ambience . Caroline's parent company, Virgin Records , sold the label to Thorn EMI soon after Astralwerks' foundation. The first album released on Astralwerks was Tales of Ephidrina by Amorphous Androgynous, an alter ego of The Future Sound of London . In 1994, Peter Wohelski
529-694: Was released through the label. One single and a 6-track EP were released from the album in the following year. In 2007, Nicolette's "No Government" was re-released and remixed by DJ Tocadisco and Makossa & Megablast. In 2008, Nicolette contributed vocals to John Tejada's album Where , she sings and co-wrote the track "Desire". She released a single called "Love" with DJ Cam in March 2010. More recently she worked with Samuel Yirga on his album and released an EP. She also acted in Solveig Anspach 's film " Queen of Montreuil ". Her latest album "The Infinitive"
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