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Futurepop
Futurepop is an electronic music genre that has been characterized as a blend of synth-pop, EBM and dance beats, based on trance and techno. It developed in Western Europe as an outgrowth of both the
Characteristics#
Futurepop is mainly characterized by its “technoid” Tom Shear of Assemblage 23 described the style ironically as “mostly people who can’t sing over ’90s era trance patches”.
Etymology#
Ronan Harris of VNV Nation credited himself with the term “futurepop” during a discussion with Apoptygma Berzerk vocalist Stephan Groth to describe the sounds of their music and similar groups at the time. According to Sorted Magazine writer “Girl the Bourgeois Individualist”:
See also#
- Post-industrial music
- Genre family
- 20th-century music genres, Electronic body music, Electronic dance music genres, Trance music