Electroclash describes a style of
fashion,
music, and attitude that fuses
New Wave,
punk, and
electronic dance music with somewhat
campy and
absurdistpost-industrial detachment in addition to
vampy and/or camp sexuality. The movement combines the
1980selectropop/New Wave/
Italo disco sound by means of
synthesizers and
drum machines. Visuals that are affiliated with electroclash often resemble or directly allude to post-
1970sWestwood and
Warhol fashion/art scenes, the mid-'70s,
Kraftwerk-ian German influences and early-'80s
New YorkDowntowndystopianavant-gardeà laLiquid Sky.