As a musical genre, Cyberpunk varies. The first usage of the term for a style of music was the Voivod 'Nothingface' album, which was inspired by William Gibson's Neuromancer novel. This was the closest to 'punk' that the genre has produced. The music was a psychedelic thrash metal. For the heavy metal music band see Voivod (band). ... William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an author, mostly of science fiction novels, who lives in Canada. ... Published in 1984, Neuromancer was author William Gibsons first novel. ... Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music. ...
Contemporary usage in nightclubs refers to EBM and Future Pop, Industrial being too old fashioned and not having enough synth to reflect the futuristic elements in the Cyberpunk subculture. EBM can be an acronym for: electronic body music evidence-based medicine This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Futurepop is a recently-emerging musical genre, an outgrowth of EBM with synth pop influences. ...
Examples of Cyberpunk bands or groups include Atari Teenage Riot (see also Alec Empire and Digital Hardcore Recordings), Katscan, Goteki and Arkham Asylum (now known as 'Arkasai'). These groups are predominantly underground acts with ATR being the only group to acheive notable success. Despite underground status, these groups have released albums that were popular and successful in corresponding subcultures (see Goth, Industrial, EBM etc).
Cyberpunks have always been fighting what is cyberpunkmusic and what's not, and if there's special cyberpunkmusic at all.
Therefore, cyberpunkmusic is as undefinable as cyberpunk itself.
But some cyberpunks also listen to heavy metal styles and gothic for the darkness, and some people think that industrial music is the cyberpunkmusic style.
Cyberpunk writers tend to use elements from the hard-boiled detective novel, film noir, and postmodernist prose to describe the often nihilistic underground side of the electronic society that surged in the 1980s and 1990s.
Cyberpunk literature is often used as a metaphor for the present day-worries about the failings of corporations, corruption in governments, alienation and surveillance technology.
Certain music genres like drum'n'bass were directly influenced by cyberpunk, even generating a whole subgenre called neurofunk, where the bass lines, synths and beats try to give the listener the sensation of being inside a sprawl or crawling through cyberspace.
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