Indietronica, also known as indie electronic , indietronic, indietronics and lap-pop, is a music genre that combines indie rock and shoegaze with elements of electronic music styles such as IDM and glitch.

While it is believed that the genre was born in the late 1990s, an example of which being The Notwist's esteemed album Shrink (1998), the 2002 compilation titled Indietronica Vol. 1 by Sónar Music solidified and popularized the term.

Recently, the genre has been further expanded by several crossover projects between indietronica and alternative hip-hop artists, specifically between the Morr Music and Anticon labels.

Notable artists

• +/-
• Air
• The Anniversary
• Architecture in Helsinki
• Bailey
• Boards of Canada
• Broadcast
• Caribou
• Casiotone for the Painfully Alone
• The Chap

• Datarock
• Dntel
• Efterklang
• Electric President
• Figurine
• The Firebird Band
• The Go Find
• Grandaddy
• Her Space Holiday
• Hot Chip

• I Am the World Trade Center
• Imogen Heap
• Khonnor
• The Knife
• Lismore
• Lali Puna
• Mice Parade
• Mouse on Mars
• Ms. John Soda
• múm

• The Notwist
• Oppressed by the Line
• Out Hud
• The Postal Service
• Schneider TM
• Stereolab
• Styrofoam
• Temp
• Ulrich Schnauss
• Weevil

Record labels

• Morr Music
• Monika Enterprise
• Rabid Records

References

• Pitchfork Media review coining the term lap-pop (2003)

See also

• Alternative dance
• Dance-punk

Electronic music | Alternative music

Indietronic