ethnic electronica

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EMERGED 1980 · WHAT IT GREW OUT OF WORLD MUSIC, ELECTRONIC MUSIC, NEW AGE · 4 TRACKS TO START WITH, 3 SOURCES

Ethnic electronica is a wide category of electronic music rooted in local folk and regional traditions, also filed as ethnotronica or ethno techno. Transglobal Underground, formed in London in 1990 and signed to Nation Records, joined Western dance music to Asian and African sounds. Asian Dub Foundation came out of a 1993 education workshop in Farringdon and mixed dub, ragga and South Asian music.

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