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Synth-pop (also known as electropop or technopop) [1] [2] is a music genre that uses the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. With the genre becoming popular in the late 1970s and 1980s, the following article is a list of notable synth-pop acts, listed by the first letter in their name (not including articles such as "a", "an", or "the").
The following is a list of electro house artists This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Year Artist Song Label 1980: Donna Summer "Sunset People" [9] Casablanca: 1980: Viola Wills "If You Could Read My Mind" [10] Hansa: 1981: Boys Town Gang "Remember Me / Ain't No Mountain High Enough" [11]
Electro, old school hip hop: Years active: 1984–unknown: Labels: Jus Born ... (1984) which has been extensively sampled by hip-hop, house, techno, and EDM artists. [1]
Dennis Romero of Los Angeles Times in 1993 described the "Kraftwerk-sampling song" as "[i]nspired by Afrika Bambaataa's [...] 'Planet Rock '" and filled "with high-flying synthesizer loops, hard-driving beats and sparse, Chipmunk-style vocals-all elements", used in later techno songs as of September 1993.
Aside from the artists whose music was popular in the Detroit high school scene ("progressive" disco acts such as Giorgio Moroder, Alexander Robotnick, and Claudio Simonetti synth-pop artists such as Visage, New Order, Depeche Mode, The Human League, and Heaven 17), they point to examples such as "Sharevari" (1981) by A Number of Names, [156 ...
The outlets and artists of Skweee are still mostly limited to the Nordic countries. Starting in the late 1990s, the term "electro" is also used to refer two other fusion genres of electro, either blended with techno and new wave in electroclash. [40] [41] In 2006, Direct Influence, a six-piece Melbourne based electro/rock/reggae group was ...