Futurepop

Futurepop is a recently-emerging electronic music genre, an outgrowth of EBM and Industrial music incorporating influences from synth pop (such as musical structure and vocal style) and trance (uplifting, grandiose and arpeggiated synthesizer melodies). The term was coined by Ronan Harris (of VNV Nation) and Stephan Groth (of Apoptygma Berzerk) while attempting try to describe the style of music their bands played.

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In recent years the basic futurepop concept has been expanded upon in various ways, with bands like Pride and Fall and mind.in.a.box pushing the trance aspect of the genre, while others such as XPQ-21 have incorperated even more influences from industrial and synthpop to create their own brand of futurepop music. Further, traditionally harder bands are using futurepop-style melodic hooks in their songs, such as Suicide Commando and SITD.

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Futurepop is popular in the cyber, goth and general alternative electronic scenes. Music festivals that feature futurepop bands include Infest, Wave Gotik Treffen and M'era Luna.

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