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Electronica vs Folktronica - What's the difference?

electronica | folktronica |

As nouns the difference between electronica and folktronica

is that electronica is electronics while folktronica is (music) a musical genre combining elements of folk music and electronica.

As an adjective electronica

is .

electronica

English

(wikipedia electronica)

Noun

(-)
  • Any of a wide range of electronic music genres.
  • * 2012 , Michael Campbell, Popular Music in America: The Beat Goes On
    • By mid-decade, electronica began to chart, in the music of acts such as Bjork, Chemical Brothers, and Moby, and the resources of electronica were integrated into other non-pop styles, such as the industrial music of Trent Reznor
  • * 2014 , Timothy D. Taylor, Strange Sounds: Music, Technology and Culture
    • New Age music like all musics, has its margins, and these are blurred with ambient, techno, and other electronica .
  • Electronic items in general.
  • The data trail of an individual on the public internet.

    • Derived terms

    * laptronica ----

    folktronica

    English

    (wikipedia folktronica)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (music) A musical genre combining elements of folk music and electronica.