In a world gone mad, Electronica became EDM.  The seeds that genre of music once planted as house, jungle, trip-hop, aggro, ambient and many other varieties blossomed into a holistic style of music that became popular throughout the world.  A world where DJ’s ascended the list of the highest paid entertainers dropping their diamond needles on LPs that suddenly became all the rage.

But wait.  Where did it all begin?

Nostalgia is the current craze in Electronic music.  As the original brand wrestles its audience back, Boards of Canada have returned after an eight-year hiatus to bring back ambient music that actually provokes thought.  Nostalgia is a key facet of the music from this duo.  BoC efforts have long been rife with gurgling analog synthesizers turning their ideas into wooshing, bubbling transmissions from what the future resembled in the 1970′s.

Daft Punk emerged from France’s famous class slowly but surely.  Stardust set the standard declaring “Music Sounds Better  With You.”  Air caught fire by slowing down and retrofitting the sound on Moon Safari.  A handful of others scattered across the electronic sky like digital fireworks catching the attention of everyone before disappearing back into zeroes.  Daft Punk was first on the scene and will likely be the last.

Prepare yourself for the hype surrounding this London all-female quartet.  The Savages‘ debut Silence Yourself is most thrilling post-punk album since Interpol returned us to the icy age with their initial transmission Turn On The Bright Lights.  Like that album, Silence Yourself takes the familiar components of inspiration and deconstructs them.  For example, “City’s Full” features that Joy Division-ian gallop drenched in U2-ish effects but manages to use its choppy lyrics to construct a work of minimal modern architecture.  Singer Camille Berthomier (under the headline-ready pseudonym Jehnny Beth) combines the striated vocal affectations of Paul Banks with the wavering wail of Patti Smith.  Swerving between a wall of noise and chilling silence, Savages reductively could be pigeonholed as Sleater-Kinney fronting Joy Division.