Electroclash describes a style of music that fuses New Wave and electronic dance music with somewhat campy and absurdist post-industrial detachment in addition to vampy and/or camp sexuality. The movement combines the 1980s electropop/New Wave/Italo disco sound by means of synthesizers and drum machines. Visuals that are affiliated with electroclash often resemble or directly allude to post-1970s Westwood and Warhol fashion/art scenes, the mid-'70s, Kraftwerk-ian German influences and early-'80s New York Downtown dystopian avant-garde.

The name derives from the early '80s electropop bands who provide the majority of electroclash's musical influence. Lyrics are generally tongue-in-cheek and punk inspired, and often more given to attitude and pose than poetics or theme; while the vocal delivery is typically atonal to the point of caricature.

Example electroclash artists include: Fischerspooner, ADULT., Felix Da Housecat, Add N to (X), The Hacker, Legowelt, Tiga, Miss Kittin, etc.