melotronic
adj.— «Bickley-based musician Graham Smith has just completed an album called Eleven, inspired by the first Moon landing. The style of music is electronica / ambient, though Graham refers to it as “melotronic”—melodic electronic.» —“Graham Smith” News Shopper (Petts Wood, Kent, United Kingdom) May 29, 2007. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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