Futurepop

"Future Pop" redirects here. For the Perfume album, see Future Pop (album).
Futurepop
Stylistic origins
Cultural originsLate 1990s and 2000s, Western Europe
Typical instrumentsSynthesizer, music software

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.[1][2]

It developed in Western Europe as an outgrowth of both the EBM and electro-industrial music cultures and it began to emerge in the late 1990s with artists like VNV Nation, Covenant, and Apoptygma Berzerk.[2][1][5] Other leading genre artists were Assemblage 23,[1][4] Icon of Coil,[1] Neuroticfish,[6] and Rotersand.[3][7]

Futurepop is associated with the cybergoth subculture.[3] It has become popular in alternative dance clubs, particularly in Germany. Music festivals that feature futurepop bands include Infest, Amphi festival, Wave Gotik Treffen and M'era Luna.[2]

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  2. ^ a b c d e Axel Schmidt, Klaus Neumann-Braun: Die Welt der Gothics. Spielräume düster konnotierter Transzendenz. 2004, ISBN 3-531-14353-0. p. 273.
  3. ^ a b c Isabella van Elferen: Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny, University of Wales Press, 2012, ISBN 0708325130, p. 165.
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  6. ^ Froidcoeur, Stéphane (2009). "Assemblage 23 – I've never been fond of the 'future pop' moniker". Side-Line Magazine. Archived from the original on 2013-09-06.
  7. ^ David Horn, John Shepherd, Paolo Prato: Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 11: Genres Europe. Bloomsbury Academic 2017, ISBN 978-1501326103, p. 223.
    "The futurepop genre, as exemplified in the music of Apoptygma Berzerk, Covenant and VNV Nation, saw EBM merging with synthpop while adopting features of trance and contemporary EDM."