Aotearoa Music Award for Best Electronic Artist

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.

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 AlbumOther nomineesRef. 2002 Sola Rosa Solarized Rhian Sheehan - Paradigm Shift Shapeshifter - Real Time

Best Dance Album (2003)

Year Artist AlbumOther nomineesRef. 2003Salmonella DubOutside the DubplatesRhombus – Bass Player Subware – Subware

Best Dance/Electronica Album (2004 to 2009)

Year Artist AlbumOther nomineesRef. 2004Salmonella DubOne Drop EastConcord Dawn – Uprising Shapeshifter – Riddim Wise LP2005Del Rey SystemDel Rey SystemAudiosauce – Contimental Drift Baitercell & Schumacher – The Wall of Bass Technique Mark de Clive-Lowe – Tide's Arising2006Concord DawnChaos by DesignRecloose – Hiatus on the Horizon Sola Rosa – Moves On2007ShapeshifterSoulsticeBulletproof – Shake The Foundations State of Mind – Take Control2008RecloosePerfect TimingMagik Johnson – You Are Sound Shapeshifter – Shapeshifter Live2009LadyhawkeLadyhawkeAntiform – City In Exile Sola Rosa – Get It Together

Best Electronica Album (2010 to 2015)

Year Artist AlbumOther nomineesRef.2010BulletproofSoundtrack to ForeverP-Money – Everything Shapeshifter – The System Is a Vampire2011In the World of LightState of Mind – Nil By Ear Concord Dawn – The Enemy Within2012Concord DawnAir ChrysalisBulletproof – Dub Me Crazy Six60 – Six602013ShapeshifterDelta K+LAB - Space Dirt Sola Rosa - Low and Behold, High and Beyond 2014OpiuoMeraki Bulletproof - #Listen Opiuo - Meraki Sorceress - Dose 2015 Electric Wire Hustle Love Can Prevail Shapeshifter vs The Upbeats – SSXUB Sola Rosa – Magnetics

Best Electronic Album (2016)

Year Artist AlbumOther nomineesRef. 2016 Pacific Heights The Stillness Electric Wire Hustle – Aeons Opiuo – Omniversal

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

Year ArtistOther nomineesRef. 2017 Truth Chaos in the CBD K+Lab 2018Chores Arma Del Amor Boycrush2019Tali Pacific Heights Sweet Mix Kids 2020Lee Mvtthews State of Mind Truth 2021Paige Julia Shapeshifter Sola Rosa2022LEAPING TIGER Julien Dyne TALI2023 colspan="3" 2024Amamelia deepState Elipsa2025Mokotron Chaii Lee Mvtthews

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