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experimental electronic

Last updated: Wed Oct 29 2025 02:54:39 GMT+0200 (Eastern European Standard Time)

Description

Experimental electronic encompasses boundary-pushing electronic music that prioritizes sonic exploration and unconventional production techniques over traditional song structures. Artists in this space blend digital synthesis, field recordings, and abstract soundscapes to create immersive, often challenging listening experiences that resist easy categorization. The tag represents a spirit of innovation where artists freely merge influences from ambient, glitch, psychedelia, and avant-garde traditions.

100 chronological releases

Place	Cover	Date	Artist	Album	Tags	Other places
36		1970	Bruce Haack	The Electric Lucifer	electronic	electronic pop # 50
85		1972	Faust	You Know Us	experimental electronic
48		1976	Cluster	Sowiesoso	ambient krautrock electronic	krautrock # 78
84		1979-09-25	Yellow Magic Orchestra	Solid State Survivor	electronic japanese	japanese # 19
34		1983	Lime	Relax	ambient electronic experimental electronic
89		1983-07-25	Severed Heads	Since the Accident	electronic experimental electronic industrial sound collage	sound collage # 53
73		1984	Ghédalia Tazartès	Une éclipse totale de soleil	experimental electronic improvisation sound collage	sound collage # 18 improvisation # 77
47		1985-09	Muslimgauze	Blinded Horses	ambient dub electronic ethnic experimental electronic instrumental tribal ambient	tribal ambient # 62
52		1987	Steve Roach	Trance Archeology	experimental electronic improvisation soundscape	soundscape # 27 improvisation # 63
18		1990	Controlled Bleeding	Our Journey's End	ambient chillout darkwave experimental electronic progressive electronic
69		1991-10	Kraftwerk	Mini Calculateur	electro electronic electronic pop electropop europe european experimental electronic german germany krautrock quartet synthpop techno	germany # 23 electronic pop # 72 quartet # 98
3		1992	The Tear Garden	Last Man to Fly	experimental electronic
67		1992	Clock DVA	Digital Soundtracks	ambient electronic experimental electronic
94		1992	Neneh Cherry	Broken Politics	art rock experimental electronic
81		1996	Faust	You Know Faust	experimental electronic
78		1998	Richard Devine	Richard Coleman Devine EP	acid techno alternative ambient american atlanta blues breakcore detroit downtempo drill and bass drill n bass drum and bass dub electro electronic electronica emo experimental electronic experimental techno folk glitch hardcore hip-hop idm illbient indie rock industrial instrumental japanese jazz punk rock reggae rock roots reggae ska techno trip-hop	acid techno # 42 illbient # 78 atlanta # 78 drill and bass # 81 experimental techno # 81 drill n bass # 92
92		1999	Raymond Scott	Soothing Sounds for Baby: Vol. 1	electronic electronica experimental electronic
90		1999-10-09	Arto Lindsay	Prize	electronic experimental electronic indietronica latin
40		2000	Bruce Haack	Electric Lucifer	electronic	electronic pop # 52
44		2000	Annette Peacock	An Acrobat's Heart	experimental electronic
41		2001	Kitaro	The Light Of The Spirit	new age	contemporary instrumental # 54 ethnic fusion # 64
19		2001-01-15	Richard Devine	Lipswitch	idm ambient glitch
68		2001-06-12	Kid606	P.S. I Love You	ambient digital hardcore electronic experimental electronic glitch idm	digital hardcore # 19
5		2001-10	Les Tambours Du Bronx	Live	experimental electronic percussion	percussion # 29
61		2002-01	AGF	Head Slash Bauch	experimental electronic glitch industrial
50		2002-08-30	System	System	experimental electronic
91		2003-03-11	Saafi Brothers	Liquid Beach	ambient techno experimental electronic	ambient techno # 64
15		2004	Terminal Sound System	Last Night I Dreamed of Armageddon	ambient experimental electronic glitch
66		2004-05-04	Frank Bretschneider	Looping I - VI (And Other Assorted Love Songs)	experimental electronic glitch microsound minimalism	microsound # 93
13		2005	Ophios	Nothing, Anymore		alternative electronic # 64
22		2005	Ophios	Blahegri	electronic experimental electronic instrumental progressive electronic
54		2005	The Gray Field Recordings	Hypnagogia	dark folk experimental electronic tribal
21		2006	The Life Force Trio	Echo Expansion	ambient downtempo electronic electronic rock experimental electronic idm jazz hop nu jazz
93		2006-01-15	Kola Kid	radio	experimental electronic
45		2006-01-31	Germlin	Youth Pixxel	experimental electronic
27		2006-09-01	RENEGADE ANDROiD	This is my Manager	ambient breakcore drill n bass electronic experimental electronic glitch idm industrial	drill n bass # 77
12		2007	Animal Collective	Crestone	experimental electronic experimental rock
35		2007-03-30	Boytchenko Paradise	Unkles	ambient dark ambient electronic experimental electronic glitch lobit noise soundscape ukrainian	lobit # 94
10		2007-06-18	Lezrod	Genki Vol. I	ambient colombia experimental electronic
11		2007-09-24	Muhr	poussière	ambient canada experimental electronic post-rock
49		2008-05-09	Flying Lotus	Los Angeles	electronic	los angeles # 4
70		2008-12-17	Electricwest	MOTH3R	america american downtempo experimental electronic instrumental	america # 69
63		2009	Various Artists	America the Beautiful (disc 2: Stun Gun)	experimental electronic experimental rock noise noise rock post-rock power noise rhythmic noise	rhythmic noise # 38 power noise # 63
25		2009-04-03	Clouds	Tuned To A Dead Channel	experimental electronic industrial jungle techno
96		2010	Peter and Kerry	Clothes, Friends, Photos EP		folktronica # 40 folk pop # 42 experimental pop # 87 experimental indie # 99
77		2010-10-25	Futures Passed	Creativity Placebo	alternative electronic drone ambient	indie electronic # 14 ambient electronic # 78 alternative electronic # 88 ambient noise # 93 drone ambient # 97
28		2011-05-15	the Picturesque Episodes	Cosmogenesis	avant-rock europe experimental electronic experimental rock lithuanian organic electronica post-rock	lithuanian # 57 avant-rock # 58 organic electronica # 80
43		2011-07-07	N-qia	qia songs	alternative asia asian chamber folk duo electronic pop experimental electronic experimental indie folktronica idm japan japanese	duo # 32 electronic pop # 55 experimental indie # 78
20		2011-08-22	Memotone	[BadPanda096] Bad Panda EP	britain british british underground electronic electronic pop europe experimental electronic jazz post-rock	electronic pop # 37 britain # 58 british underground # 87
30		2011-09-24	Monomate	Negative Emotions	ambient ambient pop electronic experimental electronic experimental pop hypnagogic pop lo-fi noise noise pop plunderphonics pop portland shoegaze	portland # 52
33		2011-09-24	Monomate	Positive Outlook	ambient ambient pop chiptune electronic electropop experimental electronic experimental pop experimental rock noise noise pop plunderphonics	experimental pop # 2
76		2011-09-30	Aperture Science Psychoacoustics Laboratory	Portal 2: Songs to Test By (Collectors Edition)	ambient ambient pop art pop art punk dark ambient electronic electronica experimental electronic experimental pop opera soundtrack	experimental pop # 44
4		2011-12-26	Raime	Hennail - Single	dark ambient experimental electronic
98		2012	Peter and Kerry	Benaize	electronic experimental electronic experimental pop folk rock folktronica indie folk indie pop indietronica lounge new wave synthpop	lounge # 2 folktronica # 52 experimental pop # 90
24		2012-04-03	KVLTIK	OKEAN	dark ambient darkwave drag experimental electronic one man band one man project russia russian synthwave witch house	drag # 71 one man band # 74 one man project # 81
100		2013-06-03	Fakear	Morning in Japan	alternative dream pop electronic electronica experimental electronic idm trip-hop
53		2013-07-20	Julianna Barwick	Nepenthe	ambient choral	choral # 98
59		2013-08-19	Julia Holter	Loud City Song	art pop	ambient pop # 3 indie electronic # 5 art pop # 7 experimental pop # 28 chamber jazz # 66
62		2013-08-20	Shigeto	No Better Time Than Now	idm downtempo	idm # 16
9		2013-11-15	Obsidian Kingdom	Torn & Burnt	alternative dub electronic electronica idm
2		2014-06-03	Sunglow	Nothing Doing	dance experimental electronic idm
74		2014-06-16	Akkord	HTH020	dark ambient drone experimental electronic techno
42		2014-10-15	russian.girls	Drepa mann/Halda áfram	experimental electronic
16		2014-11-27	Adventure Time	Echo Expansion	electronic experimental electronic experimental hip hop
87		2015-05-12	Tyondai Braxton	HIVE1	experimental electronic
39		2015-09-25	Julia Holter	Have You In My Wilderness	art pop chamber pop	ambient pop # 5 baroque pop # 23 art pop # 31 chamber pop # 76
65		2016-04-29	Doomsquad	Total Time	experimental electronic
75		2016-06-03	JK Flesh	Rise Above	dub techno experimental electronic	dub techno # 19
26		2016-10	Blank Blue	Echo Expansion	abstract hip hop ambient contemporary jazz downtempo electronic experimental electronic experimental hip hop idm instrumental jazz hop nu jazz
72		2017	FFF	Bloodclat Mentality	breakcore drum and bass electronic experimental electronic idm jungle
99		2017-08-11	Photay	Onism	electronic ethereal experimental electronic idm indie electronic	ethereal # 18 indie electronic # 90
88		2017-09-22	IAMX	Unfall	ambient electronic ambient techno coldwave dark techno electro-industrial electronica experimental electronic experimental techno glitch idm industrial techno	coldwave # 11 ambient techno # 45 industrial techno # 60 ambient electronic # 88 dark techno # 90 experimental techno # 94
56		2018-10-05	Rune Bagge	No Tomorrow	experimental electronic industrial techno
79		2019-05-17	Kangding Ray	Predawn Qualia EP	experimental electronic experimental techno	experimental techno # 85
83		2019-06-17	Bubblegum Octopus	Perfect Life & Other Stuff	cybergrind electronic experimental electronic experimental metal experimental rock grindcore metal	cybergrind # 65 experimental metal # 78
23		2019-09-26	Groke	The Dark Deep EP	electronic ethereal experimental electronic
29		2020-01-26	Strawberry Hospital	Grave Chimera - EP	blackgaze electronic electronicore experimental electronic trance trancecore
1		2020-03-20	Bubblegum Octopus	Big Battles	cybergrind electronic experimental electronic experimental pop experimental rock
95		2020-05-15	LustSickPuppy	RIDE IT	digital hardcore electro-industrial electronic experimental electronic experimental hip hop hardcore industrial new york techno	electro-industrial # 64 digital hardcore # 75 new york # 89
17		2020-05-23	A Bit Crusher	1	braindance experimental electronic	braindance # 72
97		2020-11-06	Mort Garson	Music from Patch Cord Productions	easy listening exotica experimental electronic space age pop	easy listening # 17 space age pop # 98 exotica # 100
31		2021-04-08	Hainbach	Landfill Totems	experimental electronic techno
7		2021-06-04	island people	Ii	ambient electronic experimental electronic	ambient electronic # 31
71		2022	THE DARKEST FUTURE	FLORAL SHOPPE 2	electronic experimental electronic london plunderphonics sound collage vaporwave	london # 14 sound collage # 16 plunderphonics # 24
46		2022	Ben Sloan	muted colors	electronic experimental electronic
64		2022-04-13	IVVVO	Bleached Butterfly	experimental electronic experimental rock grunge rave techno
80		2022-05-06	Kangding Ray	ULTRACHROMA	experimental electronic experimental techno neo-psychedelia	experimental techno # 89
38		2022-06-14	Hainbach	Core Memory	experimental electronic techno
55		2022-06-22	(((о)))	The Trial	dark ambient darkwave drag electronic electronica experimental electronic one man band one man project witch house	drag # 82 one man band # 85 one man project # 86
86		2022-08-01	Ott	Heads	dub experimental electronic reggae
6		2023	Various Artists	America the Beautiful (disc 1: Car Chase)	experimental electronic experimental rock noise noise rock post-rock power noise rhythmic noise
60		2023-02-24	Die Wilde Jagd	ophio	ambient pop avant-pop berlin school experimental electronic experimental pop krautrock progressive electronic psychedelic folk space ambient trip-hop	space ambient # 12 avant-pop # 21 experimental pop # 29 berlin school # 83
14		2023-03-24	The Blood of Heroes	Nine Cities	dub experimental electronic industrial noise
58		2023-04-25	Hainbach	Voice Magnetic	experimental electronic instrumental techno
82		2023-05	Black Aubergine	Black Aubergine	experimental electronic hardcore punk
51		2023-12-01	Kangding Ray	Helios Rave Draft	experimental electronic experimental techno	experimental techno # 73
37		2024	piernikowski	Beyond echo of time	ambient dungeon synth experimental electronic footwork idm minimalism	footwork # 8
8			AMUC	Nada	alternative electronic electronic electronica experimental electronic	alternative electronic # 62
32			The Eyes, They See	Consumer Commodity		alternative electronic # 72
57			Hue Honey	Victoria	chicago electronic experimental electronic instrumental lo-fi trap vaporwave	chicago # 15

Related genres

• electronic
• ambient
• techno
• noise
• electronica
• idm
• industrial
• alternative
• glitch
• instrumental