Electroclash

Electroclash describes a style of fashion, music, and attitude that fuses New Wave, punk, & electronic dance music with somewhat

Electroclash describes a style of fashion, music, and attitude that fuses New Wave, punk, & electronic dance music with somewhat campy and absurdist post-industrial detachment in addition to vampy and/or camp sexuality. The movement combines the 1980s electropop/New Wave/Italo disco sound by means of synthesizers and drum machines. Visuals that are affiliated with electroclash often resemble or directly allude to post-1970's Westwood and Warhol fashion/art scenes, the mid-70's, Kraftwerk-ian German influences and early-80's New York Downtown dystopian avant-garde à la Liquid Sky.

Electroclash, a form of music known predominantly to the underground, spawned in the late 1990s in the Hague, Munich, Berlin, New York City, and Detroit. The first example of electroclash is often cited as the Dutch artist I-F's 1997 track "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass." The movement emerged in 2000-2002 through Larry Tee's roving, fashion/art/hipster Berliniamsburg, and later at the Mutants club nights, at Club Luxx in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Many deem that Larry Tee coined the term "electroclash", and also began the Electroclash™ Festival which helped him in trademarking the word itself. Tee's early electroclash parties were defined by fringe members of society such as transsexuals, cocaine, a crowd dressed in revealing 1980s- sub-culture clothing. Music at such events consisted of obscure New Wave and disco remix records.