Pop Electronic Music

As electronic pop music (often called electro) pop music is called, is where the use of electronic instruments like synthesizers, samplers and drum machines in the foreground. As umbrella terms for the electronic style of pop music sometimes the terms are used synth pop and electro pop, but also describe the separate genres within the electronic pop music.

Is used there since the 1980s, electronic technology in the entire pop spectrum, only those electronic pop music is considered to be exploited in the possibilities of electronics in the field of sound synthesis and can be described as an essential element of music

As has become synonymous with dance music and sometimes dance or naturalized, a concept particularly in the non-English-speaking world, the “massentauglicheren” refers to the style of electronic dance music.

The 1970

Since the late 1960s put more and more rock bands, an electronic musical instruments, but first for sound experiments that had nothing to do with a little pop music mass-compatible. The British prog rock (eg Pink Floyd) and the German counterpart to the Krautrock (eg, Tangerine Dream), provided in 1970 for a first major wave of electronic music instruments in rock music.

In the early 1969, the song popcorn by Gershon Kingsley, an early version of the Moog synthesizer began – 1972 had the band Hot Butter Popcorn with a remake of a great success. Lasting was the influence stemming from the Krautrock tradition of German group Kraftwerk, who created from 1974 (highway) to create a symbiosis of simple melodies, electronic sounds and a catchy, technology-oriented image. The style of this band and other groups that time was sometimes referred to as the Cosmic rock or space rock.

At the same time also took to the electronic experiments in the musical New Age movement.

Also from this period dates the album Oxygène by Jean Michel Jarre. It was one of the first fully electronically-rehearsed albums that hit the taste of the masses and synthesizer music to a wider audience made accessible. Due to the purely instrumental arrangements and the conscious rejection of classical (pop) song structures are not of Jarre’s early works, like the German synth pioneers like Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze usually counted to synth pop.
The 1980s
The late 1970s and early 1980s were a turning point in the electronic pop music. Were synthesizers in the 70 years of age because of its cost only a few top earners among the musicians, then found themselves increasingly (relatively) cheaper and more compact instruments on the market (especially the manufacturer ARP Instruments, Korg, Moog, Oberheim, Roland and Yamaha), the for a wider circle of musicians were affordable.

The result was a veritable boom in synthesizer bands that released their first music on the also generated large numbers of independent labels. Many of these bands clearly relied on power plant, with a trend but more compact, catchy and danceable songs became apparent. More and more bands used a synthesizer as a separate sound sources and created so many new styles. These ranged from close to the traditional pop electropop standing up to “alternative” styles such as Electro and Minimal Electro Wave.

Thanks to its novel sounds, the original arrangements, and not least its good danceable, many synthpop bands were also commercially successful, which in the course of 80 years (from about 1983/84), the formation of dancefloor-oriented, commercialized styles such as Italo-disco ( Gazebo, Righeira, Savage) and Euro Disco (Fancy, Bad Boys Blue, CC Catch) had resulted.

In Germany, meanwhile, the German New Wave was created, a German-language version of the New Wave, which was largely influenced by punk and avant-garde. The use of electronic instruments was widely used, such as DAF, Der Plan or Die Krupps.

Initially by large segments of the music press has been attacked yet, fast electronic music style icon. A variety of bands that actually belonged to the otherwise traditional pop music, has now applied analog synthesizer sounds that fit the time feeling of the 80s. For example, the U.S. would be here early Madonna, as well as current hits (“Holiday,” “Die Another Day”) call, and even musicians like Paul McCartney built times analog synthesizer sounds into their songs.

Were initially monophonic synthesizers and analog, so the mid-80s, more and more devices and polyphonic-playable sampler came on the market. While some electronic bands changed their sound and sometimes even taking a leading role (such as Depeche Mode with the use of samplers), others disappeared from the scene.

From 1985, electronic music, however, had finally prevailed on a broad level, and there were bands like Modern Talking, Pet Shop Boys, Bananarama, or Art Of Noise on the plan, but not the synth-pop, but to € Disco and more genres of electronic music can be attributed.
From the 1990s until today

From around 1988/1989 came more and more influence from techno and house in the foreground. The result was the so-called dance music, which is essentially traditional pop music with house beats was, however, some newer items like the black horses involved. The musical style was provided by Trance 1993 “verpoppt” and sung melodies, leading to the so-called Euro beat.

From 1996, remembered it his way back to the roots of electronic pop music, especially on the British synthpop. More and more bands tried to continue the original ’80s-style pop. The culmination of this movement was reached with the electroclash wave around 2001, in which elements from the punk rock and electro were processed. To date, this combination of ’80s aesthetics and modern production methods worldwide success.
Styles of electronic pop music

The electronic pop music today consists of a wide range of musical styles, which adhere to the Melodious, “Trendy” little in common.
Close to the traditional pop styles

In the early days of electronic pop music synthesizers, samplers and drum machines were used as normal instruments, the structure of the songs but remained similar to the traditional pop music. It was here the following styles:

* Synth pop, a style in which the synthesizer held a major role as a tone generator (eg, Depeche Mode)
* Electropop, synthpop in the compared to the synthesizer more the role of an instrument under many assumed
* Italo Disco, Disco slower than the euro, most of the performers come from Italy (eg Gazebo)
* Hi-NRG, a faster development of Euro disco that started the transition to dance music

Styles of the Industrial and Wave Culture

In the mid-1970s, the synthesizer was used in styles of the underground, especially in the industrial environment. Here they had the capability to create moods and enhance, for example by surface noise or sounds. As part of the New Wave was in the 1980s, the focus on dance floors:

* Minimal Electro
* Electro Wave
* Electronic Body Music

House and techno styles with influence (“Dance Music”)

These styles originated from the late 80s, but especially in the 90s and were designed primarily danceability:

* New Beat, a native of Belgium primal form of dance music with influences of EBM and Acid-range (eg Technotronic)
Dance * € (Euro Dancefloor), a combination of Hip House, Disco and Euro techno elements (eg, SNAP!)
* U.S. dance floor, a harder version of the Dance € (eg Reel 2 Real)
* Dream House, a mix of dancefloor and trance music (such as Robert Miles)
* Happy Hardcore, a quick, techno and trance influenced further development of euro dance (such as Mark ‘Oh)
* Future Rock: a blend of € beat, trance and modern electropop (such as VNV Nation)

Retro-style around the turn of the millennium

Awoke from 1996/97 in the scene again the interest in the sound of the early days of electronic pop music, particularly from the period 1980th This was combined with various new elements, for which soon found themselves new coinages:

* Electroclash: one to punk and techno-enhanced elements, “harder” style of synthpop