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'''Electroclash''' describes a style of music that fuses [[new wave music|new wave]], [[Punk rock|punk]], & [[electronic dance music]]. The movement combines this [[1980s]] sound (using [[synthesizers]], [[drum machine|drum machines]], etc) with visuals from the post-[[1970]]s [[Vivienne Westwood|Westwood]] & [[Andy Warhol|Warhol]] fashion/art scenes, with a decidedly mid-70s German influence. It mainly developed in the mid to late [[1990s]] in [[New York City]] and [[Detroit]] but came to prominence in 2000 - 2002 through [[Larry Tee]]'s [[Mutants (club night)|Mutants]] and [[Berliniamsburg]] nights at [[Club Luxx]] and his [[Electroclash™ Festival]] (which he used to trademark the word "electroclash") in [[Williamsburg, Brooklyn|Williamsburg]].

'''''Red Shift''''', by [[Alan Garner]] ([[1973]]), is a complex novel for teenagers and adults set in three intertwined time periods (Roman Britain, the siege of Barthomley Church, and a caravan site near the M6), spanning over a thousand years but one geographical area: south [[Cheshire]], [[England]]. Garner evokes the essence of place, allowing his characters to echo each other through time, as if their destinies may be predefined by the soil on which they walk. These are themes explored more tangibly in his easier, earlier work ''[[The Owl Service]]'', but brought here to maturity in a weave of rapid, impressionistic dialogue.

The name derives from the [[Electropop]] bands who provide the majority of the musical influence. Lyrics are generally punk inspired, often angry and more given to emotion than technique while the vocals are generally atonal in nature. A hyper-sexual [[post-feminist]] stance is often evident in the themes of many Electroclash outfits. In late 2004-2005, the Southern California Electroclash scene started to branch out from its NY counterparts. Led by [[a kiss could be deadly]], the SoCal Dance/Punk scene incorporates more guitar and live drums, while still remaining very synth heavy. The subjects and song lyrics are often darker than those of the East Coast bands.

The three stories resonate with one another - as well as the same setting, the landscape changing over time, they each revolve around a relationship between a young man and young woman. And how this relationship is taken to the breaking-point by the circumstances they find themselves in and by their own turmoil of fractured self-identity. They don't understand themselves. They don't understand the times they're living in. They're trying to. The world is moving on. As the unfolding of the stories progresses, it seems that the lives of the characters caught in the stories is more dislocated and alienated as the stories move through historical time. Perhaps this is the "Red Shift" - things and people moving away from each other more quickly as historical time marches on. But there's also another loop - time isn't linear, There's something that anchors stories to a particular place, and the story will play out, regardless of the protagonists.

==Representative artists and ensembles==

The three stories are all depressing and bleak. But there's a sense that the characters are finding connections to something mythic, beyond the mundane. But they don't understand what it is. The earlier characters seem to have more of a clue. These connections are impled through the structure of the storytelling, and by a couple of story devices (the axe-head and red garment appearing in each story. And the characters' names and predispositions).

* [[A1 People]]

* [[Adult. (group)|Adult.]]

* [[Aier Sauft]]

* a kiss could be deadly

* [[Alice in Videoland]]

* [[Ambra Red]]

* [[A.R.E. Weapons]]

* [[Avenue D (band)|Avenue D]]

* [[Cazwell]]

* [[Chicks on Speed]]

* [[Client (band)|Client]]

* [[Crazy Girl]]

* [[Death in Vegas]]

* Di$h and ShiQuana

* [[De-Regulator]]

* [[DJ Hell]]

* [[Dr. Wundt & Perfection]]

* [[Felix da Housecat]]

* [[Fairlight Children]]

* [[Fischerspooner]]

* [[Freezepop (band)|Freezepop]]

* [[Generation Aldi]]

* [[Goatlords]]

* [[Hong Kong Counterfeit]]

* [[Hungry Wives]]

* [[Ju Ju Babies]]

* [[Kompleksi]]

* [[Ladytron]]

* [[Larry and the interns]]

* [[Larry Tee]]

* [[Lesbians On Ecstasy]]

* [[Mindless Self Indulgence]]

* [[Miss Kittin]] & [[The Hacker]]

* [[Misty Martinez]]

* [[Morplay]]

* [[Mount Sims]]

* [[My Robot Friend]]

* [[Nitsch & Glienser]]

* [[Noblesse Oblige]]

* [[Peaches (artist)|Peaches]]

* [[Phiiliip]]

* [[Prance]]

* [[Sophia Lamar]]

* [[Soylent Gringo]]

* [[Spray (band)]]

* [[Stalker7]]

* [[Station Wagon]]

* [[Stuart Price]]

* [[Tiga (musician)]]

* [[Temposhark]]

* [[Tobell von Cartier]]

* [[The Droyds]]

* [[The Most]]

* [[The Laws]]

* [[Vive la Fête]]

* [[W.I.T.]]

* [[Zoot Woman]]

==See also==

In terms of reading the book, Alan Garner takes the "show, don't tell" method to extremes. It's a book that intrigues on first reading. Its emotional subtleties become clearer on repeated readings. When you get to the stage where you're decoding Jan's letter to Tom, reproduced in code inside the covers of the book, you know this book has got to you!

*[[Electrocrass]]

*[[Dance-punk]]

*[[Tech house]]

==External links==

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* [http://www.electroclash.com/ electroclash.com] - Larry Tee's Electroclash site

* [http://www.euroclash.com euroclash] - A more comprehensive list of artists.

Satirizing Electroclash:

[[Category:1973 books]]

* [http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1455416 How to make electroclash] - An [[Everything2]] node

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* [http://www.phinnweb.org/313ctr0/electroclash/ The Great Electroclash Swindle @ pHinnWeb]

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