Aotearoa Music Award for Best Electronic Artist

The New Zealand Music Award for Best Electronic Artist is an Aotearoa Music Award that honours New Zealand artists for outstanding dance-pop and electronica recordings.

Ladyhawke won the award in 2009 with her self-titled album.

The inaugural award was presented as Best Electronica Album in 2002 to Sola Rosa for their album Solarized. The following year the award was renamed Best Dance Album, then in 2004 the award was again renamed, this time to Best Dance/Electronica Album. In 2010 the award reverted to Best Electronica Album, and from 2016 it became Best Electronic Album. In 2017 the award was changed to Best Electronic Artist with the entry criteria changed to require either an album or a minimum of five single releases in the eligibility period.[1]

Salmonella Dub and Concord Dawn have each won the award twice, while Shapeshifter has been nominated six times but won only once.

Recipients

Best Electronica Album (2002)
Year Artist Album Other nominees Ref.
2002 Sola Rosa Solarized [2]

Best Dance Album (2003)
Year Artist Album Other nominees Ref.
2003 Salmonella Dub Outside the Dubplates [3][4]

Best Dance/Electronica Album (2004 to 2009)
Year Artist Album Other nominees Ref.
2004 Salmonella Dub One Drop East [5]
2005 Del Rey System Del Rey System
  • Audiosauce – Contimental Drift
  • Baitercell & Schumacher – The Wall of Bass Technique
  • Mark de Clive-Lowe – Tide's Arising
 [6]
2006 Concord Dawn Chaos by Design
  • Recloose – Hiatus on the Horizon
  • Sola Rosa – Moves On
 [7][8]
2007 Shapeshifter Soulstice
  • Bulletproof – Shake The Foundations
  • State of Mind – Take Control
 [9][10]
2008 Recloose Perfect Timing
  • Magik Johnson – You Are Sound
  • Shapeshifter – Shapeshifter Live
 [11]
2009 Ladyhawke Ladyhawke
  • Antiform – City In Exile
  • Sola Rosa – Get It Together
 [12]

Best Electronica Album (2010 to 2015)
Year Artist Album Other nominees Ref.
2010 Bulletproof Soundtrack to Forever [13][14]
2011 Tiki Taane In the World of Light [15]
2012 Concord Dawn Air Chrysalis [16][17]
2013 Shapeshifter Delta
  • K+LAB - Space Dirt
  • Sola Rosa - Low and Behold, High and Beyond
 [18]
2014 Opiuo Meraki
  • Bulletproof - #Listen
  • Opiuo - Meraki
  • Sorceress - Dose
 [19]
2015 Electric Wire Hustle Love Can Prevail
  • Shapeshifter vs The Upbeats – SSXUB
  • Sola Rosa – Magnetics
 [20]

Best Electronic Album (2016)
Year Artist Album Other nominees Ref.
2016 Pacific Heights The Stillness
  • Electric Wire Hustle – Aeons
  • Opiuo – Omniversal
 [21]

Best Electronic Artist (2017 to current)
Year Artist Other nominees Ref.
2017 TBA
  • Chaos in the CBD
  • K+Lab
  • Truth
 [22]

References
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  2. "2002 Winners". NZ Music Awards. Retrieved 22 October 2013.
  3. "Finalists for the 2003 New Zealand Music Awards" (Press release). Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. 9 April 2003. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  4. "Salmonella Dub's decade of sounds". The New Zealand Herald. APN News & Media. 2 August 2003. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  5. "Scribe Stands Out Again at Tuis". NZ Musician. 23 September 2004. Archived from the original on 24 May 2010. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  6. "Diversity Honoured At Vodafone NZ Music Awards" (Press release). New Zealand Music Awards. 6 October 2005. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  7. Hunkin, Joanna (18 October 2006). "On the red carpet: NZ Music Awards". The New Zealand Herald. APN News & Media. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  8. "Variety spices up music awards gongs" (Press release). New Zealand Music Awards. 19 October 2006. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  9. "Opshop 'stoked' over award nominations". Stuff. Fairfax New Zealand. 13 September 2007. Archived from the original on 3 December 2010. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  10. Hunkin, Joanna (19 October 2007). "Mint Chicks, Hollie Smith dominate NZ Music Awards". The New Zealand Herald. APN News & Media. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  11. "Flight of the Conchords sweep Music Awards". The New Zealand Herald. APN News & Media. 8 October 2008. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  12. Kara, Scott (8 October 2009). "Honours of night go to Ladyhawke". The New Zealand Herald. APN News & Media. Retrieved 3 December 2010.
  13. Sundae, Hugh (1 September 2010). "NZ music awards finalists announced". The New Zealand Herald. APN News & Media. Retrieved 1 September 2010.
  14. "Gin Wigmore scoops music awards". Stuff (Fairfax New Zealand). 7 October 2010. Archived from the original on 18 January 2011. Retrieved 18 January 2011.
  15. "Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards 2011 Winners" (Press release). New Zealand Music Awards. 4 November 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  16. Kara, Scott (3 October 2012). "Kimbra, Home Brew, Six60 top NZ Music Awards". The New Zealand Herald. APN News & Media. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  17. "2012 Vodafone NZ Music Awards Winners" (Press release). New Zealand Music Awards. 2 November 2012. Retrieved 30 June 2013.
  18. "Lorde, Aaradhna win big at music awards (+photos)". The New Zealand Herald. APN News & Media. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
  19. Jenkin, Lydia (16 October 2014). "This year's NZ Music Award contenders revealed". NZ Herald. APN. Retrieved 16 October 2014.Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards http://www.nzmusicawards.co.nz/award-category/best-electronica-album-2014. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  20. Jenkin, Lydia (20 November 2015). "Broods clean up at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards". NZ Herald. NZMA. Retrieved 23 November 2015.
  21. "BEST ELECTRONIC ALBUM 2016". NZ Music Awards. RMNZ. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  22. "Lorde to perform at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards". Radio NZ. Radio NZ. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
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