Aotearoa Music Award for Best Electronic Artist
# 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.

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 | Album | Other nominees | Ref. |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2002 | Sola Rosa | Solarized | Rhian Sheehan - Paradigm Shift Shapeshifter - Real Time | |

### Best Dance Album (2003)

| Year | Artist | Album | Other nominees | Ref. |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2003 | Salmonella Dub | Outside the Dubplates | Rhombus – Bass Player Subware – Subware | |

### Best Dance/Electronica Album (2004 to 2009)

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

### Best Electronica Album (2010 to 2015)

| Year | Artist | Album | Other nominees |
| - | - | - | - |
| 2010 | Bulletproof | Soundtrack to Forever | P-Money – Everything Shapeshifter – The System Is a Vampire |
| 2011 | Tiki Taane | In the World of Light | State of Mind – Nil By Ear Concord Dawn – The Enemy Within |
| 2012 | Concord Dawn | Air Chrysalis | Bulletproof – Dub Me Crazy Six60 – Six60 |
| 2013 | Shapeshifter | Delta | K+LAB - Space Dirt Sola Rosa - Low and Behold, High and Beyond |
| 2014 | Opiuo | Meraki | 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 | Album | Other nominees | Ref. |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 2016 | Pacific Heights | The Stillness | Electric Wire Hustle – Aeons Opiuo – Omniversal | |

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

| Year | Artist | Other nominees |
| - | - | - |
| 2017 | Truth | Chaos in the CBD K+Lab |
| 2018 | Chores | Arma Del Amor Boycrush |
| 2019 | Tali | Pacific Heights Sweet Mix Kids |
| 2020 | Lee Mvtthews | State of Mind Truth |
