Depending on your age and where you live, the word "electroclash" either conjures up vivid memories of the early 2000s or sounds like something you vaguely read about once on some electronic music blog.

While the Strokes, Interpol and Yeah Yeah Yeahs were reshaping rock music in New York, a group of similar-minded dance music lovers were creating electroclash, a fusion of techno, New Wave, electro, rap and rock. We gave the genre a proper obituary, but here are the artists that made the brief movement indelible.