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Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; [10] also called techno-pop [11] [12]) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. [13]
As the techno sound evolved in the late 1980s and early 1990s, it also diverged to such an extent that a wide spectrum of stylistically distinct music was being referred to as techno. This ranged from relatively pop oriented acts such as Moby [96] to the distinctly anti-commercial sentiments [97] of Underground Resistance.
Synth-pop (also known as electropop or technopop) [1] [2] is a music genre that uses the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. With the genre becoming popular in the late 1970s and 1980s, the following article is a list of notable synth-pop acts, listed by the first letter in their name (not including articles such as "a", "an", or "the").
From dark alt-pop to mind-melting techno-rock, the 10 acts to look out for in 2025. Culture Staff,Roisin O'Connor and Annabel Nugent. December 30, 2024 at 11:57 PM.
In its early development, electronic music was associated almost exclusively with Western art music, but from the late 1960s, the availability of affordable music technology—particularly of synthesizers—meant that music produced using electronic means became increasingly common in the popular domains of rock and pop music and classical ...
Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; [34] also called techno-pop [35] [36]) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. [37] It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco.
Techno-pop is another term for the musical genre known as synth-pop. Technopop may also refer to: Technopop (developer), an American videogame developer "Technopop", a song by The Buggles from the 1980 album The Age of Plastic; Techno Pop, a working title (later re-release title) for the 1986 album Electric Café by Kraftwerk
Their sound over their five studio albums mixed punk rock with various electronic-based genres such as electronic rock, [18] synth-pop, and disco. Their first album is widely regarded for setting the stage for subsequent post-punk, synth-pop and industrial rock acts. [19] The Screamers were labeled "techno-punk" by the Los Angeles Times in 1978 ...