Ethnic electronica

Ethnic electronica (also known as ethnotronica, ethno electronica or ethno techno) is a broad category of electronic music, where artists combine elements of various styles of electronic music, world

History#

In the Western Balkans, a Southern European subgenre of contemporary pop music known as “turbo-folk” (sometimes referred to as “popular folk”) initially developed during the 1980s and 1990s, with similar music styles in Greece (Skyladiko), Bulgaria (Chalga), Romania (Manele) and Albania (Tallava). It’s a fusion genre of popular music blending Serbian folk music with other genres such as pop, rock, electronic, and/or hip-hop. Other notable examples of 1980s ethnic electronica include Angolan kuduro, Mexican tecnocumbia and the Indian album Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat. In the late 2010s, the Ukrainian ethnotronica scene had a rise, when such artists as Go_A, Onuka, Yuko, Mavka became popular outside their country.

Notable artists#

Notable acts of ethnic electronica include Bryn Jones with his project Muslimgauze, the artists of the Asian underground movement—such as Talvin Singh, Nitin Sawhney, Cheb i Sabbah, Asian Dub Foundation, State of Bengal, Transglobal Underground Joi and Natacha Atlas, Mozani Ramzan, Shpongle, Ott, Zavoloka, Linda George, Ikarus, Banco de Gaia, AeTopus, Zingaia, Afro-Celt Sound System, Métisse, The Halluci Nation, early work by Yat-Kha (with Ivan Sokolovsky).

Genre family: Electronic music genres, World music genres