Aotearoa Music Award for Best Electronic Artist explained

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.

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 Dance/Electronica Album (2004 to 2009)

YearArtistAlbumOther nomineesRef.
2004Salmonella DubOne Drop East [5]
2005Del Rey SystemDel Rey System
  • Audiosauce – Contimental Drift
  • Baitercell & Schumacher – The Wall of Bass Technique
  • Mark de Clive-Lowe – Tide's Arising
[6]
2006Concord DawnChaos by Design
  • Recloose – Hiatus on the Horizon
  • Sola Rosa – Moves On
[7] [8]
2007ShapeshifterSoulstice
  • Bulletproof – Shake The Foundations
  • State of Mind – Take Control
[9] [10]
2008RecloosePerfect Timing
  • Magik Johnson – You Are Sound
  • Shapeshifter – Shapeshifter Live
[11]
2009LadyhawkeLadyhawke
  • Antiform – City In Exile
  • Sola Rosa – Get It Together
[12]

Best Electronica Album (2010 to 2015)

YearArtistAlbumOther nomineesRef.
2010BulletproofSoundtrack to Forever [13] [14]
2011In the World of Light [15]
2012Concord DawnAir Chrysalis [16] [17]
2013ShapeshifterDelta
  • K+LAB - Space Dirt
  • Sola Rosa - Low and Behold, High and Beyond
[18]
2014OpiuoMeraki
  • Bulletproof - #Listen
  • Opiuo - Meraki
  • Sorceress - Dose
[19] [20]
2015Electric Wire HustleLove Can Prevail
  • Shapeshifter vs The Upbeats – SSXUB
  • Sola Rosa – Magnetics
[21]

Best Electronic Artist / Te Kaipuoro Tāhiko Toa (2017 to current)

YearArtistOther nomineesRef.
2017Truth
  • Chaos in the CBD
  • K+Lab
[23]
2018Chores [24]
2019
  • Pacific Heights
  • Sweet Mix Kids
[25]
2020Lee Mvtthews
  • State of Mind
[26]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nominations for 2017 Vodafone NZ Music Awards Open Today. Scoop. Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. 21 June 2017.
  2. Web site: 2002 Winners. NZ Music Awards. 22 October 2013.
  3. Finalists for the 2003 New Zealand Music Awards . . 9 April 2003 . 3 December 2010.
  4. News: Salmonella Dub's decade of sounds . . . 2 August 2003 . 3 December 2010.
  5. Web site: Scribe Stands Out Again at Tuis . NZ Musician . 23 September 2004 . 3 December 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100524141208/http://www.nzmusician.co.nz/index.php/ps_pagename/newsitem/pi_newsitemid/349 . 24 May 2010 . dead .
  6. Diversity Honoured At Vodafone NZ Music Awards . . 6 October 2005 . 3 December 2010.
  7. News: On the red carpet: NZ Music Awards . Joanna . Hunkin . . . 18 October 2006. 3 December 2010.
  8. Variety spices up music awards gongs . . 19 October 2006 . 3 December 2010.
  9. News: Opshop 'stoked' over award nominations . . 13 September 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110614072603/http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/44887 . 14 June 2011 . live . 3 December 2010.
  10. News: Mint Chicks, Hollie Smith dominate NZ Music Awards . Joanna . Hunkin . . . 19 October 2007. 3 December 2010.
  11. Web site: Flight of the Conchords sweep Music Awards . . . 8 October 2008 . 3 December 2010.
  12. News: Honours of night go to Ladyhawke . Scott . Kara . . . 8 October 2009 . 3 December 2010.
  13. News: NZ music awards finalists announced . Hugh . Sundae . . . 1 September 2010 . 1 September 2010.
  14. Web site: Gin Wigmore scoops music awards . Stuff (Fairfax New Zealand) . 7 October 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101010102412/http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/4207684/Gin-Wigmore-scoops-music-awards . 10 October 2010 . live . 18 January 2011.
  15. Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards 2011 Winners . . 4 November 2011 . 30 June 2013.
  16. News: Kimbra, Home Brew, Six60 top NZ Music Awards . Scott . Kara . . . 3 October 2012 . 30 June 2013.
  17. 2012 Vodafone NZ Music Awards Winners . . 2 November 2012 . 30 June 2013.
  18. News: Lorde, Aaradhna win big at music awards (+photos) . . . 22 November 2013 . 1 July 2014.
  19. News: Jenkin. Lydia. This year's NZ Music Award contenders revealed. 16 October 2014. NZ Herald. APN. 16 October 2014.
  20. Web site: Aotearoa Music Awards Best Electronica Album 2014. 2021-02-28. en-US.
  21. News: Jenkin. Lydia. Broods clean up at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. 23 November 2015. NZ Herald. NZMA. 20 November 2015.
  22. Web site: BEST ELECTRONIC ALBUM 2016. NZ Music Awards. RMNZ. 15 October 2016.
  23. Web site: Lorde to perform at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. Radio NZ. Radio NZ. 5 October 2017.
  24. Web site: Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards 2018 Winners Announced. 2021-03-02. UnderTheRadarNZ. en.
  25. Web site: Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards 2019 Winners Announced. 2021-03-02. UnderTheRadarNZ. en.
  26. Web site: Aotearoa Music Awards 2020 Winners Announced. 2021-03-02. UnderTheRadarNZ. en.

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