Electronica
Electronica is a loose term for electronic music made more for listening than for the dancefloor, and it is also used as a catch-all for electronic music in general.
The word spread in the early 1990s around a British scene that made dance-based electronic music for home listening. In the late 1990s the American music industry adopted it as an umbrella for styles such as techno, big beat, drum and bass, trip hop, downtempo and ambient. The acts it covers are linked mainly by an openly electronic sound, so the meaning is loose and overlaps with IDM.
Artists it is known for: Aphex Twin, Autechre, Bonobo.
- Family
- Electronic & Dance
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A broad heading
- From
- United Kingdom, early 1990s
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 7%
About 5,600 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have electronica among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Electronica artists
Aphex Twin
Portishead
Massive Attack
Justice
LCD Soundsystem
Air
Martin Garrix
The Avalanches
Armin van Buuren
Boards of Canada
The electronica artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.