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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