{{Short description|Broad category of electronic music}} {{Infobox music genre | name = Ethnic electronica | stylistic_origins = {{hlist|World music|electronic music|electronica|new age music}} | cultural_origins = 1980s, worldwide | instruments = | other_topics = *Afro tech * Afrobeats * Asian underground * Azonto * Bachatón * Coupé-décalé * Funk carioca * Gqom * Kidandali * Kuduro * Kwaito * Mahraganat * Manila sound * Nortec * Psybient * Rabòday * Rara tech * Sambass * Shamstep * Shangaan electro * Trival * Worldbeat }}
'''Ethnic electronica''' (also known as '''ethnotronica''', '''ethno electronica''' or '''ethno techno''') is a broad category of electronic music, where artists combine elements of various styles of electronic music, world music and new age music. The music is primarily rooted in local music traditions and regional cultures, and can often engage in elements of popular music.
==History== {{See also|Turbofolk}} In the Western Balkans, a Southern European subgenre of contemporary pop music known as "turbo-folk" (sometimes referred to as "popular folk") initially developed during the 1980s and 1990s, with similar music styles in Greece (Skyladiko), Bulgaria (Chalga), Romania (Manele) and Albania (Tallava). It's a fusion genre of popular music blending Serbian folk music with other genres such as pop, rock, electronic, and/or hip-hop.
Other notable examples of 1980s ethnic electronica include Angolan kuduro, Mexican tecnocumbia and the Indian album ''Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat''.
In the late 2010s, the Ukrainian ethnotronica scene had a rise, when such artists as Go_A, Onuka, Yuko, Mavka became popular outside their country.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Modern Ukrainian Ethno Music to Listen to During Quarantine|url=https://en.hromadske.ua/posts/not-by-go_a-alone-why-ethno-is-in-vogue-and-other-ethnic-music-to-listen-to|access-date=2020-09-07|website=en.hromadske.ua|date=22 March 2020 }}</ref>
==Notable artists== Notable acts of ethnic electronica include Bryn Jones with his project Muslimgauze, the artists of the Asian underground movement—such as Talvin Singh, Nitin Sawhney, Cheb i Sabbah, Asian Dub Foundation, State of Bengal, Transglobal Underground Joi and Natacha Atlas,—Mozani Ramzan,<ref>{{cite web|title=Mozani Ramzan — Get Down With Some Malaysian Ethno-Techno|url=https://www.magneticmag.com/2012/01/mozani-ramzan-get-down-with-some-malaysian-ethno-techno/|publisher=Magnetic Magazine|access-date=January 23, 2012}}</ref> Shpongle, Ott, Zavoloka, Linda George, Banco de Gaia, AeTopus, Zingaia, Afro-Celt Sound System, Métisse, The Halluci Nation, early work by Yat-Kha (with Ivan Sokolovsky).<ref>(in Russian): [https://www.zvuki.ru/R/P/13188 СОКОЛОВСКИЙ, Иван : R.I.P.] on zvuki.ru – this article calls Yat-Kha ''the first Russian ethnic electronica''</ref>
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