Futurepop
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Futurepop is a recently-emerging electronic dance music genre, an outgrowth of electronic body music incorporating influences from synth pop (such as song structure and vocal style) and trance (uplifting, grandiose and arpeggiated synthesizer melodies). Profoundly influential, though also moderately controversial, in the gothic subculture and electro (music) and industrial music scene. The term was coined by Ronan Harris (of VNV Nation) and Stephan Groth (of Apoptygma Berzerk) while attempting to describe the style of music their bands produced.
In recent years the basic futurepop concept has been expanded upon in various ways, with bands like Pride and Fall, mind.in.a.box and Rotersand pushing the trance aspect of the genre, while others such as XPQ-21 have incorporated further influences from industrial and synthpop to create their own brand of futurepop music. Further, traditionally harder aggrotech bands are using futurepop-style melodic hooks in their songs, such as Suicide Commando and SITD.
Futurepop music is popular in the cyber, goth and general alternative electronic scenes. Music festivals that feature futurepop bands include Infest, Wave Gotik Treffen and M'era Luna.
List of Futurepop bands
- Apoptygma Berzerk
- Assemblage 23
- Bruderschaft
- Code 64
- Colony 5
- Covenant (later works)
- Cry Pandora
- Icon of Coil
- Lost Signal
- Melotron
- Mind.in.a.box
- Monofader
- Namnambulu
- Neuroticfish
- Pride & Fall
- Rotersand
- Solitary Experiments
- The Thought Criminals
- T.O.Y.
- Seabound
- S.P.O.C.K
- VNV Nation
See also
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