Electroclash
エレクトロクラッシュ / late 1990s–early 2000s / Style / Subculture Style
A late-1990s and early-2000s scene language joining analog synth revival, new wave, punk, and club decadence through hard flash, clashing makeup, androgynous dress, and rough digital type. It deliberately restages electronic history as cheap and abrasive rather than pristinely futuristic.
At a glance
Visual cues
- Red, blue, and white hard flash against black
- Leather, vinyl, and metallic dress on narrow silhouettes
- Asymmetric eye makeup and clashing cosmetic color
- Angular sans, bitmap, and photocopied type mixed together
Best used for
- Electronic-music promotion that needs decadent machinery rather than polished futurism
- Exhibitions connecting turn-of-the-millennium club music, styling, photography, and type
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Dictionary entry
- Type
- Layer a narrow angular face with coarse bitmap type and stretch one word horizontally.
- Composition
- Offset the flash-lit figure and stack small venue and date details vertically in the remaining space.
- Material
- Mix black leather, PVC, silver, blown-out compact-camera flash, and crushed photocopy texture.
- Caution
- Black plus neon is generic club imagery. Add analog-electronic nostalgia, androgynous styling, and intentionally inexpensive digital texture.
- Further study
- late-1990s electroclash scene / new-wave revival and club photography / androgynous glam styling
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- New Romantic (ニュー・ロマンティック)Same Subculture Style lineage.Compare Electroclash and New Romantic
- Indie Sleaze (インディー・スリーズ)Same Subculture Style lineage.Compare Electroclash and Indie Sleaze
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