Electronic Music in Australia

The Electronic music dominated in the 1990’s but takes elements from funk, house, techno, trance and numerous other genres. Early inventors of the genre in Australia include Severed Heads, which was formed in 1929 and were the first electronic group to play the Big Day out. The band had long-term success, winning an ARIA Award in 2005 for Best Original Soundtrack for the clarified family Doctor, where lead singer Tom Ellard said the band would never fit into normal music.

The Avalanches received widespread acknowledgement through the globe for their debut album which was considered as one of the greatest Australian albums ever made.

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The genre has been viewed with positive insight up to the point of University of Adelaide offering an Electronic music unit, teaching studio production and music technology. The cultural rock bands such as Regurgitator have created an original sound by joining heavy guitars and electronic influence, and rock electro groups. The genre is considered to be most popular in Melbourne, with multiple music festivals held in the city. Additionally, Cyclic Defrost, which is the only specialist electronic music magazine in Australian began in 1998 and is still based in Melbourne.  Recently band likes Angelspit, Cut Copy, the Presets, Miami Horror, Bag Raiders, the Potbelleez, Art vs Science,Polo Club, Empire of the Sun  and Pnau have made a name for themselves in the genre. The success of the Presets at the ARIA music awards of 2008 and the Potbelleez in the normal media was indicative of the increasing growing popularity of electro house in Australia.

The individual DJ’s are also pioneering the electronic music scene internationally. Dirty South DJ was rated 59 in the 2009 DJ Mag top 100 DJ poll. In the recent years the electronic festival such as Stereosonic has overtaken other genre of music festival to have the largest number of people in Australia.