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unusual facts about Electronica



5 Men and a Limo

This is abruptly interrupted by a sample from the 1985 electronica song "Oh Yeah" by Swiss band Yello, once LaFontaine ignores Douglas and introduces Al Chalk.

99 Flake

The pop-electronica duo The KLF used ice-cream van iconography and included the phrase "Make mine a 99" in their 1991 single version of "Justified and Ancient".

Aardvark Records

Aardvark Records is a British internet promotional music company started by Andrew Reeve and Alex di Savoia, which promotes the genres indie rock, Americana, alt country, dance music, electronica, adult contemporary and pop music.

Aborym

The album continued to expand on the band's experimentation with Electronica, with Aborym citing influences from drum and bass, jungle, techno, classical, EBM and industrial.

Alfa Matrix

Founded in 2001, the label releases various musical styles including aggrotech, industrial music, dark elektro, synthpop and electronica.

Allan Boesak

An anti-apartheid speech of his was sampled by British electronica group The Shamen on their album En Tact.

Ars Electronica

The "Ars Electronica Center - Museum of the future" is in Linz, Austria.

Black Devil Disco Club

The album is very similar to From Here to Eternity by Giorgio Moroder, an electronica album produced one year earlier at Musicland Studios, in Munich, Germany.

Bodyrock

"Bodyrock" is a song by American electronica musician Moby, released as the third single from his 1999 studio album Play.

Bring Back My Happiness

"Bring Back My Happiness" is a song by American electronica musician Moby released as the sixth and final single from his 1995 studio album Everything Is Wrong.

Cavity Job

Cavity Job was the first EP by Autechre, and was influential in the style and technique of the early electronica music genre.

Christopher von Deylen

Notable performers outside the electronica genre which von Deylen has performed with include Lang Lang, Colbie Caillat, Gregorian, Klaus Schulze, Mike Oldfield, Peter Heppner, Moya Brennan, Ana Torroja, Tarja Turunen, September, Sarah Brightman, and Sarah Howells .

Cowboy Style

Musically, the song is a country and electronica styled song, which lyrically, talks about her then-boyfriend Stéphane Sednaoui at time she wrote the song.

Do Make Say Think

In June 2009 at Luminato, Toronto's annual festival of arts and creativity, the band provided part of the live soundtrack for the outdoor screening (at Yonge-Dundas Square) of the 1919 silent German horror film Tales Of The Uncanny (Unheimliche Geschichten), alongside Canadian violinist Owen Pallett and electronica music artist Robert Lippok from Berlin, Germany.

EntropiK

In 2010 the duo's music gained further recognition through two international music competitions: The People's Music Awards, where they were runners up in the electronica category; and The Hitachi G-Tech Driven Creativity Awards, where they were runners up in the Professional Music category.

Farringdon station

In stream of consciousness lyrics, the electronica group Underworld refer to the station as the "tubehole on Farringdon Street" (sic) in their 1993 track Dirty Epic.

Feeling So Real

"Feeling So Real" is a song by American electronica musician Moby, released in 1994 as the second single from his renowned studio album Everything Is Wrong.

Francis Dhomont

Dhomont's work has won many international awards including at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France), the Magisterium Prize in 1988, Prix Ars Electronica in 1992 (Linz, Austria) and others.

Holy fuck

Holy Fuck, an improvisational electronica band from Toronto, Canada

J*S*T*A*R*S

Their debut release was a 12" vinyl, "Tripping The Light Fantastic" / "Ickey Plush" on the electronica label, Twentythree Records, which was also based in both Hull and Sheffield. Their first album, Put Me On A Planet (Steel Tiger Records) was named "One of the surprise hits of 2006" by Matt Anniss in the December 2006 issue of International DJ Magazine.

Jennifer jazz

Closely associated with the eighties East Village art scene, she was the lead singer and drummer for punk group the Guerilla Girls as well as Pleasure, an early electronica, dub and free jazz influenced band that featured Felice Rosser, Danny Hamilton, Richard Cleves, Martin Wheeler, Jemeel Moondoc and Daniel Carter.

Lake of Tears

This being the case, Brennare and Sahlgren retreated to the studio to record The Neonai, an electronica-influenced album relying on drum machines and uncharacteristically slick production values.

MDFMK

The band, with Lucia Cifarelli (formerly of the band Drill), took on a more futuristic sound, which also contained hints of trance and europop, primarily in the style of production, leaning towards what is now commonly referred to as 'electronica'.

Melina Soochan

Melina has been collaborating with several other established musicians such as singer-songwriter guitarist Sule Heitner, electronica producer Override and metal band The Agonist.

Observing Systems

Observing Systems is the fourth album from the German jazz-electronica band Tied & Tickled Trio, released in 2003.

Olivier Alary

Olivier has also composed music for several exhibitions at London's Victoria & Albert Museum; contributed to an installation by Doug Aitken at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris; and has received an honorary mention at the Ars Electronica Festival for his project Chlorgeschlecht.

Omnionn

Originally from the department or province of Ahuachapán, in the west side of El Salvador, Omnionn (Agustin Anaya) has and continues to be one of the most progressive and innovative producers of hip hop and electronica in Latin America.

Radio 1 Anti-Nazi Mix

Radio 1 Anti-Nazi Mix is a promotional mix album by British electronica duo The Chemical Brothers, released in the UK in May 1997 (see 1997 in music).

Roger Swallow

He has four decades of experience with electronica, including collaborative efforts with Florida's musician-laureate Jack Tamul, a renowned electronic synthesist, and then in one of the first pop music onstage electronic percussion experiments he played with the legendary Los Angeles band, Jules and the Polar Bears, with songwriter/vocalist Jules Shear and producer/keyboardist/programmer Stephen Hague.

Shanghai Restoration Project

The group's first eponymous release, inspired by the Shanghai jazz bands of the 1930s, combines traditional Chinese instruments with modern hip-hop and electronica.

Sherrin Varghese

A Band of Boys, formed in 2001, along with Karan Oberoi, Sudhanshu Pandey, Siddharth Haldipur and Chaitnya Bhosale is the India 's First and only Boy Band.He does live vocal electronica gutted with organic instrumentation on digital low ends.

Six Million Ways to Live

Six Million Ways To Live is an album by dub electronica band Dub Pistols, released in 2005.

Special Cases

In addition to a radio edit of the original song, the single release contains a remix by Canadian electronica artist Akufen, as well as "I Against I", a song performed with Mos Def that appeared on the soundtrack of the 2002 film Blade II.

Tegleg Records

Sporsmaal2 / Randomdotens (UK/FRANCE), melodic, drum n bass, electronica.

Tetine

Later in 2001, Tetine is signed by avant-garde electronica artist Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner's UK imprint Sulphur Records and released their fifth album entitled Tetine vs Sophie Calle / Samba de Monalisa - an acclaimed electronica project made in collaboration with the French artist Sophie Calle.

Th1rt3en

Th1rt3en - A 2011 album by Italian electronica/alternative musician Robert Miles

The Chillout Project

Since its release, the chillout compilations have featured tracks from diverse artists of the electronica, trance, ambient, and lounge music scene such as: Thievery Corporation, Groove Armada, Wamdue Project, Moloko, Bliss, Sade, Roger Sanchez, Chicane, Anggun, and Zero 7.

The Dark Poets

The Cradle of Fear EP was released for download only in 2011 from www.darkpoets.com Featuring a re-release of their 'oldskool' breakbeat Cradle of Fear tracks 'Breakbeat Haloween' & 'It doesn't matter' the EP also features British electronica artist Kontour on vocals - a rendition Breakbeat Haloween.

The Isness

The Isness is a 2002 album by experimental electronica group The Future Sound of London, released under the alias Amorphous Androgynous (except in the US, where it was released as FSOL for commercial reasons).

Toni Haimi

As Toni Sailor he is the current guitarist of British electronica band Sohodolls, which he joined in 2004.

Tribal Fusion

Artist Jeremiah Soto of Solace and Eventide Musical Productions produced some of the first Electronica Oriental albums, quickly followed by Turbo Tabla artist Karim Nagi, and beatboxing champion Pete List.

Tromatic Reflexxions

The project is a further collaboration between German electronica outfit Mouse on Mars and Mark E. Smith of UK band The Fall.

Water Music Records

Launched in July, 2000, Water Music Records releases, markets and distributes albums in various sub-styles of electronica including Chill Out, Lounge and Down-Tempo music.

When You Made The Mountain

"When You Made The Mountain" is an "environmentally-themed" electronica/dance single recorded by Opus III with vocals by Kirsty Hawkshaw released in 1994 as the lead single from their second album, Guru Mother.

Wipeout 3

Wipeout 3, continuing the tradition set by the first game, contains techno and electronica offerings from various artists, including The Chemical Brothers, Orbital, and the Propellerheads.

WUFM

WUFM primarily plays alternative Christian music across several genres, with the most played including pop-rock, hard rock, punk, and hip-hop, as well as occasional emo, electronica/dance, and hardcore/metal.


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