Aotearoa Music Award for Best Electronic Artist

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.

Ladyhawke won the award in 2009 with her self-titled album.

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 Electronica Album (2002)

Year	Artist	Album	Other nominees	Ref.
2002	Sola Rosa	Solarized	Rhian Sheehan - Paradigm Shift Shapeshifter - Real Time	^[2]

Best Dance Album (2003)

Year	Artist	Album	Other nominees	Ref.
2003	Salmonella Dub	Outside the Dubplates	Rhombus – Bass Player Subware – Subware	^[3]^[4]

Best Dance/Electronica Album (2004 to 2009)

Year	Artist	Album	Other nominees	Ref.
2004	Salmonella Dub	One Drop East	Concord Dawn – Uprising Shapeshifter – Riddim Wise LP	^[5]
2005	Del Rey System	Del Rey System	Audiosauce – Contimental Drift Baitercell & Schumacher – The Wall of Bass Technique Mark de Clive-Lowe – Tide's Arising	^[6]
2006	Concord Dawn	Chaos by Design	Recloose – Hiatus on the Horizon Sola Rosa – Moves On	^[7]^[8]
2007	Shapeshifter	Soulstice	Bulletproof – Shake The Foundations State of Mind – Take Control	^[9]^[10]
2008	Recloose	Perfect Timing	Magik Johnson – You Are Sound Shapeshifter – Shapeshifter Live	^[11]
2009	Ladyhawke	Ladyhawke	Antiform – City In Exile Sola Rosa – Get It Together	^[12]

Best Electronica Album (2010 to 2015)

Year	Artist	Album	Other nominees	Ref.
2010	Bulletproof	Soundtrack to Forever	P-Money – Everything Shapeshifter – The System Is a Vampire	^[13]^[14]
2011	Tiki Taane	In the World of Light	State of Mind – Nil By Ear Concord Dawn – The Enemy Within	^[15]
2012	Concord Dawn	Air Chrysalis	Bulletproof – Dub Me Crazy Six60 – Six60	^[16]^[17]
2013	Shapeshifter	Delta	K+LAB - Space Dirt Sola Rosa - Low and Behold, High and Beyond	^[18]
2014	Opiuo	Meraki	Bulletproof - #Listen Opiuo - Meraki Sorceress - Dose	^[19]^[20]
2015	Electric Wire Hustle	Love Can Prevail	Shapeshifter vs The Upbeats – SSXUB Sola Rosa – Magnetics	^[21]

Best Electronic Album (2016)

Year	Artist	Album	Other nominees	Ref.
2016	Pacific Heights	The Stillness	Electric Wire Hustle – Aeons Opiuo – Omniversal	^[22]

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

Year	Artist	Other nominees	Ref.
2017	Truth	Chaos in the CBD K+Lab	^[23]
2018	Chores	Arma Del Amor Boycrush	^[24]
2019	Tali	Pacific Heights Sweet Mix Kids	^[25]
2020	Lee Mvtthews	State of Mind Truth	^[26]

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