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About Electropop: Wikipedia
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About ELECTROPOP

Electropop (also called Technopop) is a form of synth pop music that is made with synthesizers, and which first flourished from 1978 to 1981 in both England and Germany. Electropop laid the groundwork for a mass market in chart-oriented synthpop, but later became seen by musicologists as merely a subgenre of synthpop. Numerous bands have since carried on the electropop tradition into the 1990s and 2000s.

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.

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.

Notable electropop musicians

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)

Seeing the success of the pioneers, many bands moved into synthesizer-based pop, such as:

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

1980s

* A Flock of Seagulls
* Blancmange
* Bronski Beat
* 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)
* Norman Iceberg
* Men Without Hats
* Modern Talking (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
* New Order (continued recording into 1990s, 2000s)
* Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (continued recording into 1990s)
* Pet Shop Boys (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

1990s

* Air (continued recording into 2000s)
* Fey (continued recording into 2000s)
* Joy Electric (continued recording into 2000s)
* Madonna (continued recording into 2000s)
* Orgy (continued recording into 2000s)
* Röyksopp (continued recording into 2000s)
* Sneaker Pimps
* Télépopmusik

2000s

* Alice in Videoland
* Annie
* The Bravery
* The Capricorns
* Cherry Bikini
* Clone - The MUS/Dr BRAIN
* CSS
* Cut Copy
* The Faint
* Firebird Band
* Firebrand Boy
* Fischerspooner
* Freezepop
* Frou Frou
* Futuro
* Goldfrapp (Black Cherry and Supernature)
* Hellogoodbye
* Hot Chip
* I Am The World Trade Center
* I SATELLITE
* Imogen Heap
* Junior Boys
* The Knife
* Kylie Minogue (Light Years, Fever and Body Language)
* Ladytron
* M83
* Maxx Klaxon
* Metric
* Miranda
* The Modern (band)
* Moenia
* Motormark
* Mr. Pacman
* The Mystic Underground
* Printed Circuit
* The Postal Service
* The Presets
* Protocol
* Regina
* Réplica
* Robots in Disguise
* Rogue Traders
* Scott Freeman Davidson and The Evidence
* Shiny Toy Guns
* Theatre of Tragedy
* The Ultrasonics
* The Unicorns
* Vive la Fête