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Synthpop Music
Synthpop music is a type of music where the main instrument used for creating the music is a synthesizer. Often times the era of music most closest related with synthpop music is between the period of late 1970s and the early to mid 1980s at which time synthesizers first became inexpensive enough for musician to use widely. Synthpop music or synth pop was lead by synthpop artists and bands like Depeche Mode, Devo, Gary Numan, Ultravox and Erasure who all put out synthpop records and synthpop cds that embraced the synthesizer as their main instrument taking advantage of the very unique sounds and capabilities of electronic hardware. Synthpop music is often times mixed up the genre of music called electropop music which is mostly regarded as a subgenre of synthpop music that largely incorporates a definite robotic feel and mood to the electronic music. Also, the term synthpop music has also become a large used term in the industrial and gothic rock community to describe different types of alternative electronic. Some musicians and music artists who borrow and who are influenced from the synthpop music genre are Mesh, S.P.O.C.K, Wolfsheim, And One, Melotron and Beborn Beton. When not used to describe these gothic rock or industrial bands, synthpop music is usually used to refer to synth music driven pop acts from the early to mid 1980s.
Synthpop Bands, Artists and their Influences
Synthesizers have been used in rock music from the 1960s, most notably by The Beatles, but the instruments used by these synthpop bands where very complex and expensive. Synthesizers became better used by progressive rock and jazz fusion bands like Pink Floyd, Weather Report, Yes, Return to Forever and Emerson, Lake & Palmer. By the mid 1970s electronic music musicians such as Wendy Carlos, Jean-Michel Jarre and Vangelis, and the German synthpop band Kraftwerk were some of the artists who experimented with synthesizers and put out synthpop cds and synthpop vinyl record albums. During the mid 1970s, the band Suicide, a two person band from New York put together keyboards and vocals in avant-garde and harsh way. Suicide went on to influence other early synthpop music Pioneers such as Soft Cell and the Pet Shop Boys.
Synthpop Records and Synthpop CDs
Find all kinds of rare, hard to find and out-of-print Synthpop records and Synthpop CDs on MusicStack.
A-ha
And One
Anything Box
Beborn Beton
Blutengel
Book of Love
Bronski Beat
Camouflage
Cause and Effect
Celebrate the Nun
Cetu Javu
Client
Colony 5
Cosmicity
Covenant
Cue to Recall
De/Vision
Dekoy
Depeche Mode
Devo
Echoing Green
Erasure
Fischerspooner
Freezepop
Furniture
Gary Numan
Goldfrapp
Harold Faltermeyer
Hot Hot Heat
I SATELLITE
John Foxx
Joy Electric
Kraftwerk
Ladytron
Lowe
Melotron
Men Without Hats
Mesh
Moev
Monofader
Naked Eyes
Neuroticfish
New Musik
New Order
Pet Shop Boys
Printed Circuit
Real Life
Red Flag
S.P.O.C.K
Secession
Seven Red Seven
Soft Cell
T.O.Y.
Terminal Choice
The Capricorns
The Faint
The Mystic Underground
Tumor
Wave in Head
Wolfsheim
Synthpop Websites
Synthpop.net Web site forum for synthpop fans set up in a blog format.
All Synthpop Music Directory Large list of synthpop bands and synthpop artists.
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