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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] It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and ...
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Synthwave (also called outrun, retrowave, or futuresynth) is...
- List of Synth-Pop Artists
Synth-pop (also known as electropop or technopop) is a music...
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Melodrama is the second studio album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde. It was released on 16 June 2017 by Lava and Republic Records and distributed through Universal. Following the breakthrough success of her debut album Pure Heroine (2013), Lorde retreated from the spotlight, and travelled between New Zealand and the United States.
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- Jean-Michel Jarre – “Oxygene Part 4” This French musician’s career intersects disco, new age, and event/installation soundtracks, which doesn’t sound like a formula for either mass appeal or critical acclaim.
- Suicide – “Cheree” More punk than pop, more organ drone than punk, Suicide laid the groundwork for the producer-with-charismatic-vocalist archetype by presenting it at its most stripped down and primitive.
- Donna Summer – “I Feel Love” This song wasn’t merely the future of disco, positioned as it was at the end of Summer’s Giorgio Moroder-produced time-hopping concept album I Remember Yesterday.
- Kraftwerk – “The Model” The Dusseldorf electronic pioneers’ slot in this timeline could easily be occupied by “Trans-Europe Express,” but that motorik groove and its neighbors on the album of the same name were better and more importantly used as sample sources informing hip-hop from the old school.
Nov 21, 2023 · Synth-pop, short for synthetic pop, is a genre of music that emerged in the late 1970s and reached its zenith in the 1980s. At its core, synth-pop is a marriage of electronic music and pop song structures. Synthesizers, drum machines, and other electronic instruments take center stage, producing lush, futuristic soundscapes.
Feb 10, 2020 · 1. ValhallaDSP VintageVerb. The range of production quality across ’80s synth-pop was vast, from DIY home recordings all the way through to slick pro studio sounds. One thing you won’t hear is the glossy sheen of modern reverb plugins, for the simple reason that they didn’t really exist in the early ’80s. Try a dirtier approach instead ...
