Could someone please define "electroclash" and make serious recommendations

I recomend The Teaches of Peaches, by Peaches, that's the only electro clash I've heard. And I love it.

It's the loudest album (on CD) that I own

good:

1. golden boy & miss kittin ~ rippin kittin
2. swayzak ~ i dance alone

avoid:
peaches
fischerspooner

Gareth? Peaches are great! I bought the album and was immediately so happy I had to buy two giant peaches and eat them to give me enough energy to be even more happy.

if u lived in manchester u could have got a promo
copy for a pound as i did, because *no-one* up here gives a flying one
about the leccy clash 'movement' perhaps explaining why
fischerspooner have mysteriously cancelled outright their
debut uk tour *.

* see romo: lack of people at manchester showcase gig of,
circa 1996 at the boardwalk. emptiest, draughtiest concert i ever
attended in the north.

I'll send a little playlist of electroclash and bastard relavive sounds later today.

Futurism

This Is Not the 80s.

American Gigolo is great but it's less electroclash mix than the two above I'd have said, it's more a DJ mix where the others are compilations kind of.

I've only heard Felix's mix a few times, what the hell is it called that one in the white and blue box, it was very good if memory serves.

Vee - click on "Search" at bottom of any ILM page, then type "kittin" in the first box (keyword search), then hit the search button. Result: all the electroclash info you could ever want.

Good electroclash songs:

Tiga and Zynsomethingsomething - Sunglasses at night

DMX Krew - Make me

Miss Kittin - all of the album she did with Hacker.

Yellow Note vs. Pukka - Naked, drunk and horny

See in theory that sounds just fine to me, since I was actually around that stuff at the time - jesus I even went to see The Berlin Blondes at an art college gig in 1979 haha - but in practice most of what I've heard of what's called 'electroclash' doesn't sound much like that atall. Instead, it's massively skewed towards more recent and late-80's-onwards electronic dance music sounds, structures, rhythms and sampling/mixing practices: I found the 'muzik' CD a huge disappointment - 90% just sounded like bog-standard somewhat tinny contemporary dance to me, with some gobby DJ shouting their name in the background every so often....(it had one or two decent tracks, and one fantastic one with a superb slap-snare sound, great arpeggiating sequence, lovely melody on top...but I think it was the track before this 'stronger than pride' thing that everyone else seems to rate).
I think Fischerspooner, whatever else they might have (not) going for them, at least manage to *sound* the part quite impressively - that album sounds to me like something that *could* have been made back in the early 80's, albeit it has the sheen of contemporary production on it.
(I played it 'blind' to an equally old friend of mine, who knows nothing atall about electroclash/FS, and he remarked during it a few times - 'hey that sounds like early D.mode' - 'oh that sounds like K/werk'.....he didn't make these connections with anything on that 'muzik' CD though)

Still, I need to hear more of it.

And...once again...I can't recommend Luke Slater's Alright On Top LP enough - accidental electroclash it is, but fuckin' marvellous it is too (lovely Ricky Barrow on vox).

Any International Deejay Gigolos comp is a good starting point.

I'm not so keen about this kind of compilations for lounge bars or hype places, but I 've got to admit this one is very good. Here's the spotless tracklisting compiled by a french guy called Michel Gaubert

1. MATHEMATIQUES MODERNES « disco rough »
2. RAPTURE « house of jealous lover »
3. PRIMAL SCREAM « authobahn 66 »
4. ANN STEEL « my time »
5. LCD SOUND SYSTEM « losing my edge »
6. SAVAS PASCALIDIS « superman »
7. LADYTRON (soulwax remix) « seventeen soulwax remix »
8. SCISSOR SISTERS « confortably numb »
9. KNIFEHANDCHOP « hooked on ebonics »
10. ZONGAMIN « spiral »
11. MIGNON « bad evil wicked and mean »
12. PLASTIQUE DE REVE « rodeo electric »
13. BOLLYWOOD FREAKS « last night bollywood saved my life »
14. SEELENLUFT « manila » (headman mix)
15. KREIDLER « circulus » Morceau caché :
16. WALDORF « the fashionis » (fashionistus sakkral choir)

There's also an exclusive 15 minutes mix from 2 Many DJs I haven't heard yet.