Ethnic electronica (also known as ethno electronica or ethno techno) combines elements of electronic and world music and was developed in the 1990s. Electronic music is music that employs Electronic musical instruments and Electronic Music technology in its production The term world music includes Traditional music (sometimes called Folk music or roots music of any culture that are created and played by indigenous musicians The term ethnic electronica appears in music zines, in online music-related forums and blogs, and also in a title of a 2003 compilation "Another Life: A Journey Into Ethnic Electronica" (Love Cat Music)[1]. A zine (an abbreviation of the word Fanzine, or magazine ziːn "zeen" is most commonly a small circulation non-commercial Publication
Notable acts of ethnic electronica include Bryn Jones with his project Muslimgauze (before his death in 1999), Quest: Amazonia, the artists of asian underground movement (Asian Dub Foundation, Shpongle, State of Bengal, Transglobal Underground), Banco de Gaia, Zingaia, Afro-Celt Sound System, early work by Yat-Kha (with Ivan Sokolovsky[2]). Bryn Jones is the name of Bryn Jones (footballer (1912-1985 Welsh footballer Bryn Jones (footballer born 1939, footballer who played for Muslimgauze was the one-man musical project of Bryn Jones ( June 17, 1961 – January 14, 1999) a prolific British Asian Underground is a term associated with various British Asian musicians (mostly Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi and Sri Lankan who Asian Dub Foundation are a British electronica band that plays a mix of Breakbeat, dub, Dancehall and Ragga, also Shpongle (ˈʃpɒŋɡəl is a psychedelic Downtempo or Psybient music project Saifullah (Sam Zaman recording as State Of Bengal (aka SOB) is a British DJ and producer associated with the Asian Underground movement Transglobal Underground (sometimes written as Trans-Global Underground or simply as TGU) is a London -based music collective who specialise in a fusion of Banco de Gaia is an Electronic music band from England, formed by Toby Marks (born 1964 South London) in 1991 Zingaia is a musical group in the genres of contemporary World Music, New Age music and Ethnic electronica. The Afro Celt Sound System is a musical group which fuses modern dance rhythms ( Trip-hop, techno, etc Yat-Kha is a band from Tuva, led by vocalist/guitarist Albert Kuvezin. Among the commercial acts which work with this subgenre: Enigma, Deep Forest, Ivan Kupala. Enigma is German electronic musical project founded by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990 Deep Forest is a musical group consisting of two French musicians Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez. Ivan Kupala (Иван Купала is a Russian musical group from Saint Petersburg comprising Denis Fyodorov Alexei Rumyantsev and Alexei Ivanov
References
- ^ "Another Life: A Journey Into Ethnic Electronica" by Various Artists
- ^ (in russian language): СОКОЛОВСКИЙ, Иван : R.I.P. on zvuki. ru – this article calls Yat-Kha the first Russian ethnic electronica
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