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- DictionarySynth-pop
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- 1. a type of pop music featuring heavy use of synthesizers and other electronic instruments, originating in the early 1980s.
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Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. Wikipedia