Electropop

The main reason that electropop is a little different from synthpop is mainly because it is frequently characterized by a robotic, cold, electronic sound which is mainly because of the early limitations placed on the analog synthesizers which are used to create music. Normally, the lyrics that are alienated deadpan have some sort of science fiction nature to them, and they don’t use the theme of boy meets girl and then boy loses girl which was so very common among all of the chart topping mass market artists from the new wave somewhere around ’81 and onwards.

Most of the electropop songs are really pop songs when it comes to their heart and they often include catchy, simple dance beats and hooks, but they differ from those that are included within the electronic dance genre of music which electropop has helped to inspire - house, techno, electroclash, in which very strong songwriting is emphasized over the simple danceability.

History of Electropop:
Several of the early artists of electropop were British and they were inspired by the innovative artists like David Bowie and Brian Eno’s Berlin albums entitled Low and Heroes and Thomas Brown. Some of the other influences that affected electropop music were Kraftwerk the German Band, Yellow Magic Orchestra the Japanese electronic band. Cluster, CAN, Neu!, and Suicide were also influences upon this genre of music.

There was a really long history of electronic avant-garde experimental music, most notably within the northern continental region of Europe - however this was only able to marginally influence some of the British artists like Mike Oldfield whom can’t be viewed as electropop pioneers. In Britain, the influence of the electronic avant-garde music on electropop was mainly one of providing access to a large bank filled with technical expertise that has built up force over the decades, through organizations like London Electronic Music Studios and BBC Radiophonic Workshop which was patronized by the early pioneers by rock synth like Roxy Music, Brian Eno, Pink Floyd and Tangerine Dream.

There were many of the early artists of electropop that have chosen to record within the western portion of Berlin. In the latter part of the seventies and the early portion of the eighties, electropop was very strongly disparaged within the music press in Great Britain as the Memorial Space Patrol of Adolf Hitler. Once, the New Musical Express was able to print a photomontage that consisted of two pages reflecting Kraftwerk the band on the podium at the Nuremberg Rally. A little later on, there were several British bands that chose Nazi names, like A Certain Ratio, New Order, and Joy Division that were influenced by the movement of Jungle Wilde than the current German music.