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Electropop

Index Electropop

Electropop is a variant of synth-pop that places more emphasis on a harder, electronic sound. [1]

56 relations: A&M Records, Afrika Bambaataa, Artists and repertoire, BBC, Bitpop, Chillwave, Dance-pop, Electro (music), Electro house, Electroclash, Electronic dance music, Electronic music, Eurodance, Europop, F(x) (band), Futurepop, Gary Numan, Girls' Generation, House music, Independent music, Indie rock, J-pop, John Foxx, K-pop, Kaskade, Kraftwerk, Lady Gaga, LMFAO, Madonna (entertainer), Mountain Man (band), Owl City, Passion Pit, Pop music, Post-disco, Purdue University Northwest, Shinee, Simon Reynolds, Soft Cell, Sound of..., Super Junior, Synth-pop, Synthesizer, Taio Cruz, Techno, Teen pop, The Fame, The Guardian, The Human League, The New York Times, The Wire (magazine), ..., Trance music, Uplifting trance, Vaporwave, Visage (band), Warm Ghost, Yellow Magic Orchestra. Expand index (6 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa (born Lance Taylor; April 17, 1957) is an American disc jockey, singer, songwriter and producer from the South Bronx, New York.

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Artists and repertoire

Artists and repertoire (A&R) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bitpop

Bitpop is a type of electronic music and subgenre of chiptune music, where at least part of the music is made using the sound chips of old 8-bit (or 16-bit) computers and video game consoles.

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Chillwave

Chillwave is a music microgenre that emerged in the late 2000s.

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Dance-pop

Dance-pop is a pop and dance subgenre that originated in the early 1980s.

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Electro (music)

Electro (or electro-funk).

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Electro house

Electro house is a form of house music characterized by a prominent bassline or kick drum and a tempo between 125 and 135 beats per minute.

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Electroclash

Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music.

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Electronic dance music

Electronic dance music (also known as EDM, dance music, club music, or simply dance) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs, raves, and festivals.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Eurodance

Eurodance (sometimes known as Euro-NRG or Euro) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the late 1980s in Europe.

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Europop

Europop (also Euro pop) refers to a style of pop music that originated in Europe during the late 1960s and developed to today's form throughout the late 1970s.

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F(x) (band)

f(x) (Hangul: 에프엑스) is a South Korean girl group formed by S.M. Entertainment in 2009.

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Futurepop

Futurepop is an electronic music genre, an outgrowth of EBM, that evolved in the late 1990s with groups like VNV Nation, Covenant, and Apoptygma Berzerk.

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Gary Numan

Gary Anthony James Webb (born 8 March 1958), known professionally as Gary Numan, is an English singer, songwriter, composer, musician and record producer.

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Girls' Generation

Girls' Generation, also known as SNSD, is a South Korean girl group formed by SM Entertainment.

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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Independent music

Independent music (often referred to as indie music or indie) is music produced independently from commercial record labels or their subsidiaries, a process that may include an autonomous, do-it-yourself approach to recording and publishing.

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Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United Kingdom in the 1970s.

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J-pop

J-pop (often stylized as J-POP; ジェイポップ jeipoppu; an abbreviation for Japanese pop), natively also known simply as, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.

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John Foxx

John Foxx (born Dennis Leigh, 26 September 1947) is an English singer, artist, photographer and teacher.

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K-pop

K-pop (abbreviation of Korean pop) characterized by a wide variety of audiovisual elements.

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Kaskade

Ryan Gary Raddon (born February 25, 1971), better known by his stage name Kaskade, is an American DJ, record producer and remixer.

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Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk ("power station") is a German band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider.

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Lady Gaga

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), known professionally as Lady Gaga, is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.

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LMFAO

LMFAO (Laughing My Freaking A** Off) was an American electronic dance music duo consisting of uncle Redfoo and nephew SkyBlu.

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Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.

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Mountain Man (band)

Mountain Man is an American singing trio of young women described as indie folk rock with a traditional Appalachian-type folk sound.

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Owl City

Owl City is an American electronica project created in 2007 in Owatonna, Minnesota; it is one of several projects by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Adam Young.

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Passion Pit

Passion Pit is an American indietronica band from Cambridge, Massachusetts, formed in 2007 by band members, Michael Angelakos (lead vocals/keyboards), Chris Hartz (drums), Aaron Harrison Folb (bass/synthesizers), Giuliano Pizzulo (guitar/synthesizers), and Ray Suen (guitar/synthesizers).

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Post-disco

Post-disco is a term to describe an aftermath in popular music history circa late 1979–1986, imprecisely beginning with an unprecedented backlash against disco music in the United States, leading to civil unrest and a riot in Chicago known as the Disco Demolition Night on July 12, 1979, and indistinctly ending with the mainstream appearance of house music in the late 1980s.

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Purdue University Northwest

Purdue University Northwest (PNW) is a public university with two campuses located in Northwest Indiana, near Chicago and the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.

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Shinee

Shinee (Korean: 샤이니; Japanese: シャイニー; stylized as SHINee) is a South Korean boy band formed by SM Entertainment in 2008.

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Simon Reynolds

Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist, critic, and author.

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Soft Cell

Soft Cell are an English synthpop duo who came to prominence in the early 1980s, consisting of vocalist Marc Almond and instrumentalist David Ball.

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Sound of...

Sound of... is an annual BBC poll of music critics and industry figures to find the most promising new music talent.

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Super Junior

Super Junior (슈퍼주니어; Syupeo Junieo), also known as SJ or SUJU, is a South Korean boy band.

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Synth-pop

Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument.

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Synthesizer

A synthesizer (often abbreviated as synth, also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates electric signals that are converted to sound through instrument amplifiers and loudspeakers or headphones.

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Taio Cruz

Jacob Taio Cruz (born Adetayo Ayowale Onile-Ere; 23 April) is an English singer, songwriter, rapper and record producer.

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Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States during the mid-to-late 1980s.

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Teen pop

Teen pop is a subgenre of pop music that is created, marketed and oriented towards preteens and teenagers.

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The Fame

The Fame is the debut studio album by American singer Lady Gaga.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Human League

The Human League are an English synth-pop band formed in Sheffield in 1977.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Wire (magazine)

The Wire (sometimes stylised as WIRE) is a British avant garde music magazine, founded in May 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray.

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Trance music

Trance is a genre of electronic<!-- The source says electronic music, not electronic dance music ---> music that emerged from the rave scene in the United Kingdom in the late 1980s and developed further during the early 1990s in Germany before spreading throughout the rest of Europe, as a more melodic offshoot from techno and house.

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Uplifting trance

Uplifting trance (often synonymous with epic trance, energetic trance, anthem trance, emotional trance, or euphoric trance) is a broad subgenre of trance music.

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Vaporwave

Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and an Internet <!--- Multiple sources refer to it as an Internet meme, please discuss on talk before changing ---> meme that emerged in the early 2010s.

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Visage (band)

Visage were a British synthpop band, formed in London in 1978.

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Warm Ghost

Warm Ghost is an electronic experimental pop group based out of Brooklyn, New York, specializing in ambient synth pop.

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Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO) is a Japanese electronic music band formed in Tokyo in 1978 by Haruomi Hosono (bass, keyboards, vocals), Yukihiro Takahashi (drums, lead vocals) and Ryuichi Sakamoto (keyboards, vocals).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electropop

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