Electro (or electro-funk) is a genre of electronic music and early hip hop directly influenced by the use of the Roland TR-808 drum machines, and funk. Records in the genre typically feature drum machines and heavy electronic sounds, usually without vocals, although if vocals are present they are delivered in a deadpan manner, often through electronic distortion such as vocoding and …

Music. Electro (music), a genre of electronic music which originated in the early 1980s Electronic music in general or its other subgenres such as electro house and electropop; Fiction. Electro (Marvel Comics), a villain featured in Spider-Man comics Elektro (comics), a fictional robot that appears in comic books published by Timely Comics Electro (Transformers), a cartoon …

Caractéristiques. Le terme « electro » définit un genre de musique électronique. Son tempo moyen varie entre 120 et 140 BPM, sa rythmique syncopée étant fondamentalement construite sur le modèle de base « kick-snare-kick-kick-snare-kick » dont l'exemple-type est le morceau Numbers de Kraftwerk.L'electro est ainsi une musique explicitement « machinique ».