Electropop (also called Technopop) is a form of synth pop music that is made with synthesizers, and which first flourished from 1978 to 1981. Electropop laid the groundwork for a mass market in chart-oriented synthpop, but later became seen by musicologists^{[citation needed]} as merely a subgenre of synthpop. Numerous bands have since carried on the electropop tradition into the 1990s and 2000s. Synth pop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... The 2000s are the current decade, spanning from 2000 to 2009. ...

Electropop is different from synthpop because it is often characterised by a cold, robotic, electronic sound, which was largely due to the early limitations of the analog synthesizers used to make the music. The alienated deadpan lyrics usually have a science-fiction edge to them, and do not use the "boy meets girl, boy loses girl" theme that was so common among mass-market chart-topping new wave synthpop from about 1981 onwards. New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Most electropop songs are pop songs at heart, often with simple, catchy hooks and dance beats, but differing from those of electronic dance music genres which electropop helped to inspire — techno, dub, house, electroclash, etc. — in that strong songwriting is emphasized over simple danceability. }} For popular forms of music in general, see Popular music. ... Electronic dance music (EDM) is a broad set of percussive music genres that largely inherit from 1970s disco music and, to some extent, the experimental pop music of Kraftwerk. ... Techno is a form of electronic dance music that became prominent in Detroit, Michigan during the mid-1980s with influences from electro, New Wave, Funk and futuristic fiction themes that were prevalent and relative to modern culture during the end of the Cold War in industrial America at that time. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Electroclash describes a style of fashion, music, and attitude that fuses New Wave, punk, & electronic dance music with somewhat campy and absurdist post-industrial detachment in addition to vampy and/or camp sexuality (what the hell does that even mean?). The movement combines the 1980s electropop/New Wave/Italo disco...

History

(Early electropop should not be confused with the early disco-synth hits of 1978-1980, such as Blondie's "Heart of Glass", Sparks's "No.1 in Heaven", and M's "Pop Muzik".)

Almost all early electropop artists were English, and were inspired by innovative artists such as Thomas Brown and the Bowie/Eno 'Berlin' albums Heroes and Low, and also by the German pioneers Kraftwerk, Neu!, Cluster, and CAN (all of whom had been heavily influenced by The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows). There were also influences from the band Suicide in the USA, and from about 1981 from the innovative Japanese trio Yellow Magic Orchestra. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... David Bowie (IPA: []) (born David Robert Jones on 8 January 1947) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, producer, arranger and audio engineer. ... Brian Eno (pronounced ) (born Brian Peter George St. ... Heroes was an album by David Bowie. ... Low is a 1977 album by David Bowie, widely regarded as one of his most influential releases. ... Kraftwerk (pronounced [], German for power station) are a German musical group who have made significant contributions to the development of experimental, electronic, New Wave, synthpop and techno music. ... Neu! (the German word for new, pronounced noy) were a German band, probably the archetypal example of what the UK music press at the time dubbed Krautrock. ... Cluster is a German musical group whose output prefigures ambient music. ... Can was a musical group formed in West Germany in 1968. ... The Beatles were an English rock band from Liverpool whose members were John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr. ... Tomorrow Never Knows is the final track of The Beatles 1966 studio album Revolver, but it was the first to be recorded for the album. ... Suicide is an American rock music group intermittently active since 1971 and composed of Alan Vega (vocals) and Martin Rev (synthesizers and drum machines). ... Yellow Magic Orchestra were a Japanese electropop band, formed in 1978. ...

There had been a long history of experimental avant-garde electronic music, notably in northern continental Europe, but this only marginally influenced some British artists such as Mike Oldfield (Tubular Bells) who cannot be seen as electropop pioneers. The influence of avant-garde electronic music in the UK on electropop was largely one of giving access to a huge bank of technical expertise built up over decades, via organisations such as the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and the London Electronic Music Studios which was patronised by early rock synth pioneers such as Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Tangerine Dream, and Pink Floyd. Many early electropop artists also chose to record in West Berlin. Michael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music and more recently dance. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, one of the sound effects units of the BBC, was created in 1958 to produce effects and new music for radio, and was closed in March 1998, although much of its traditional work had already been outsourced by 1995. ... Electronic Music Studios (London) Ltd. ... Brian Eno (pronounced ) (born Brian Peter George St. ... Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry (vocals and keyboards). ... Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. ... Pink Floyd are an English rock band that earned recognition for their psychedelic rock music, and, as they evolved, for their avant-garde style and for being pioneers of progressive rock music. ... Boroughs of West Berlin West Berlin was the name given to the western part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ...

Electropop was strongly disparaged in the British music press of the late 1970s and early 1980s as the "Adolf Hitler Memorial Space Patrol" (Mick Farren, exemplifying the suspicions of left-wing journalists). The New Musical Express once went so far as to print a two-page photomontage showing the band Kraftwerk on the podium of the Nuremberg Rally. Slightly later, many British bands chose names from Nazi nomenclature, such as New Order, A Certain Ratio, and Joy Division, due to the influence of the Die Junge Wilden movement then current in German music. Hitler redirects here. ... Mick Farren is a UK Underground/counterculture radical and anarchist. ... The New Musical Express (better known as the NME) is a weekly magazine about popular music published in the UK. It is unlike many other popular music magazines due to its intended focus on guitar-based music and indie rock bands, instead of mainstream pop acts. ... Kraftwerk (pronounced [], German for power station) are a German musical group who have made significant contributions to the development of experimental, electronic, New Wave, synthpop and techno music. ... The Nuremberg Rally (officially, Reichsparteitag, literally reich party day) was the annual rally of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) in the years 1923 to 1938 in Germany. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... No U.K. act crystallized independent, punk-influenced funk more than Manchesters A Certain Ratio. ... Joy Division were an English rock band that formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. ... The term Junge Wilde was originally applied to trends within the art world of the late 1970s and early 1980s, and was only later used with reference to politics. ...

Electropop later fed into, and its synthesiser sound became intertwined with, the British New Romantic movement of the early 80s. Early electropop laid the groundwork for acceptance of later electronic acid/rave and progressive dance music, which appeared from New Order's seminal 1983 "Blue Monday" single. Within ten years of electropop's 'death' around 1982, the cultural meaning of its 'blips and beeps' had been shorn of the taint of modernism, and firmly attached to rave culture's neo-romantic 'nostalgia for the archaic'. This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... For Modernism in an American context, see American modernism. ... This article is about a form of party. ... The term neo-romanticism is synonymous with post-Romanticism or late Romanticism. ...

Electropop - notably the mid-career work of Kraftwerk and the first single by The Human League ("Being Boiled", 45rpm)- was extensively plundered to create the early hip-hop sound in the USA. Hip hop (also spelled hip-hop or hiphop) is both a music genre and a cultural movement developed in urban communities starting in the 1970s, predominantly by African Americans. ...

Electropop later fed into the synthpop and electroclash movements of the 1990s and beyond, and underwent a revival at the end of the 1990s (witness the Random tribute album to Gary Numan) with electroclash, which arose out of the staleness and exhaustion of the commercialised rave/house music scene. For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Electroclash describes a style of fashion, music, and attitude that fuses New Wave, punk, & electronic dance music with somewhat campy and absurdist post-industrial detachment in addition to vampy and/or camp sexuality (what the hell does that even mean?). The movement combines the 1980s electropop/New Wave/Italo disco...

Notable electropop musicians

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1960s

• Bruce Haack (continued recording into 1970s, 1980s)

Bruce Clinton Haack (1931-1988) was a musician and composer, and a pioneer within the realm of electronic music. ...

1970s

• Kraftwerk (continued recording into 1980s, gap during 1990s, reappeared in 2000s)
• Ultravox with John Foxx (Foxx later left for a solo career in electropop).
• The Normal ("Warm Leatherette"/"TVOD", 1978)
• Fad Gadget
• Thomas Leer ("Private Plane", 1978)
• The Human League (continued recording into 1980s, 1990s, 2000s)
• Gary Numan (continued recording into 2000s)
• Throbbing Gristle ("Hot on the Heels of Love", 1979)
• Bill Nelson ("Furniture Music", 1979)
• Yellow Magic Orchestra (continued recording into 1980s, 1990s)
• Telex (continued recording into 1980s, gap during 1990s, reappeared in 2000s)

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• Japan (continued recording into 1980s)
• New Musik (1979-1982)
• M
• Sparks (US Band that moved to the UK, still recording today)
• Space (French band)

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1980s

• A Flock of Seagulls
• Blancmange
• Bronski Beat
• Buggles
• China Crisis
• Communards
• Depeche Mode (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Thomas Dolby (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Duran Duran (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Erasure (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Eurythmics (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• John Foxx (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Heaven 17 (continued recording into 1990s)
• Howard Jones (continued recording into 1990s)
• Human League (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Norman Iceberg (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Men Without Hats (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Modern Talking (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• New Order (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (continued recording into 1990s)
• P-Model (continued recording into 1990s)
• Pet Shop Boys (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Red Flag(continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Rational Youth (continued recording into 1990s)
• Soft Cell (re-emerged with a one-off album in 2002)
• Talk Talk
• Tears for Fears (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Thompson Twins
• Yello (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
• Yazoo (Yaz in the U.S.)
• Fad Gadget
• Visage

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1990s

• Air (continued recording into 2000s)
• Fey (continued recording into 2000s)
• Joy Electric (continued recording into 2000s)
• Kylie Minogue (continued recording into 2000s)
• Madonna (continued recording into 2000s)
• Orgy (continued recording into 2000s)
• Placebo (continued recording into 2000s)
• Röyksopp (continued recording into 2000s)
• Sneaker Pimps
• Télépopmusik (continued recording into 2000s)

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2000s

• Alice in Videoland
• Annie
• Belanova
• The Bravery
• The Capricorns
• Camille Davila
• CSS
• Captain Ahab
• Cherry Bikini
• Codebreaker
• Cut Copy
• Dannii Minogue
• Dover
• Dragonette
• Ebon
• Electrosexual
• The Faint
• Fischerspooner
• Freezepop
• Frou Frou
• Futuro
• Girls Aloud ¹
• Goldfrapp
• Gravy Train!!!!
• Hadouken!
• Hellogoodbye
• Hilary Duff ^{2 3}
• Hot Chip
• Humming Urban Stereo
• I Am The World Trade Center
• I SATELLITE
• Imogen Heap
• Junior Boys
• Kylie Minogue
• The Knife
• Ladytron
• LCD Soundsystem
• Lo-Fi-Fnk
• M83
• Madonna
• Maxx Klaxon
• Matinée Club
• Metric
• Mixel Pixel
• Motormark
• The Mystic Underground
• Pnau
• Printed Circuit
• The Postal Service
• The Presets
• Protocol
• Rachel Stevens ^{4 5}
• Rainy Day on Main Street
• Red Flag
• Regina
• Réplica
• Robots in Disguise
• Sam La More
• She Wants Revenge
• Shiny Toy Guns
• Sneaky Sound System
• Soviet
• Storybox
• Sugababes
• Tonite Only
• Theatre of Tragedy
• The Ultrasonics
• The Unicorns
• THESWIMMINGPOOLS
• Van She
• Vive la Fête
• White Rose Movement

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Los Angeles, California based underground electro-pop duo made up of Sophie Boscallini (vocals) and Armand Abagliani (synths, guitars, programming). ... Cryptanalysis (from the Greek kryptós, hidden, and analýein, to loosen or to untie) is the study of methods for obtaining the meaning of encrypted information without access to the secret information which is normally required to do so. ... Cut Copy are a band from Melbourne, Australia. ... Danielle Jane Minogue (born October 20, 1971), known as Dannii Minogue, is an Australian singer-songwriter and occasional actress and fashion designer. ... Dover is a Spanish rock band from Madrid who sing in English in most of their songs. ... Dragonette are a part-Canadian part-British electropop music band. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... Electrosexual is a french electronic music producer. ... The Faint is an indie rock/synth pop band. ... 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Further reading

• Q/Mojo magazine collaboration Depeche Mode & The Story of Electro-Pop - is a 124-page history published in 2005. It uses a Depeche Mode cover as the 'hook' to get people to buy it, but actually covers the history of early electropop in great depth.

• Electronic Music: The Instruments, the Music & The Musicians by Andy Mackay, of Roxy Music (Harrow House, 1981)