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Electronica includes a wide range of contemporary electronic music designed for a wide range of uses, including foreground listening, some forms of dancing, and background music for other activities; but unlike electronic dance music, it is not specifically made for dancing. The term was first used in the United States in the early 1990s with regards to post-rave global-influenced electronic dance music. Genres such as techno, drum and bass, downtempo, and ambient are among those encompassed by the umbrella term, entering the American mainstream from “alternative” or “underground” venues during the late 1990s. Prior to the adoption of electronica for this purpose, terms such as electronic listening music, trance and intelligent dance music (IDM) were used.

The All Music Guide categorizes electronica as a top-level genre on their main page, where they state that electronica includes “dozens of stylistic fusions” ranging from danceable grooves to music for headphones and chillout areas.

After beginning as an underground genre in the early 1990s, electronica has grown to influence even mainstream crossover recordings. Elements of electronica are used today by many popular artists in mainstream music.

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July 2008
Sunday 27 July 2008
Gnarls Barkley Deerhoof, Fallou Dieng	Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, United States	33 people attending 7 shouts
DJ Tiësto	Palladium Ballroom Dallas, United States	6 people attending 3 shouts
August 2008
Friday 1 August 2008
Lollapalooza 2008 at Grant Park Radiohead, Bloc Party, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Kanye West, Iron & Wine, Cat Power, Gnarls Barkley	Grant Park Chicago, United States	1,661 people attending 7,386 shouts Buy Tickets
Friday 8 August 2008
All Points West Music & Arts Festival at Liberty State Park Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Cat Power, Kings of Leon, Metric, Underworld, The Roots, The Go! Team	Liberty State Park Jersey City, New York, United States	953 people attending 273 shouts
Friday 15 August 2008
Underground Sound 4 at Murphysboro Shpongle, Hallucinogen, Skazi	Murphysboro Murphysboro (Illinois), United States	31 people attending 10 shouts
Friday 22 August 2008
Outside Lands Festival 2008 at Golden Gate Park Radiohead, Beck, Jack Johnson, Broken Social Scene, Regina Spektor, Wilco, Stars, Manu Chao	Golden Gate Park San Francisco, CA, San Francisco, United States	584 people attending 151 shouts

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inyerface wrote:
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everyone who uses this tag is retarded.

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gozombie wrote:
yesterday evening

GOZombie

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ferniczer wrote:
yesterday evening

by the way.. music I'm just one of some 3000 users who came up with that idea :P surprisingly..

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ferniczer wrote:
yesterday evening

and stop tagging everything with electronic/electronica or I'll tag every item on this site (with some exceptions) as 'music'

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deauthorized wrote:
Tuesday morning

COME ON GIVE ME A BREAK, people stop using the ELECTRONICA tag. It's called ELECTRONIC. E. L. E. C. T. R. O. N. I. C. No 'A'.

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