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unusual facts about synthpop


Tinitus

Tinitus was an annual alternative music festival focusing on the sub-genres of alternative electronic music such as Industrial, EBM, Synthpop and Futurepop.


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Alfa Matrix

Founded in 2001, the label releases various musical styles including aggrotech, industrial music, dark elektro, synthpop and electronica.

All Things Bright and Beautiful

The title of the poem is also the title for the third studio album by the Synthpop act Owl City.

Billie Godfrey

She is the current principal female vocalist of the veteran British synthpop group, Heaven 17.

Camden Head

Synthpop band Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, originally from Camden, shot their video for Dance The Way I Feel upstairs in the Camden Head.

Distorted Reality

Distorted Reality is the synthpop band formed in 1997 by a collaboration between Martha M. Arce from Miami, USA and Christian Kobusch from Bielefeld, Germany.

Do the Strand

German synthpop band Alphaville did a cover version of "Do the Strand" in their 2003 album CrazyShow.

Elegant Machinery

Robert Enforsen joined the band as lead vocalist in 1989, and the band released their first demo, at which point they changed their name to Elegant Machinery, a name derived from the album by DATA, a British synthpop group of the 1980s led by Norwegian Georg Kajanus.

Funktronica

Like its precursor, the genre has known much more prominence in the United States, Australia and Canada, although some UK singers who contributed to the synthpop revival of the late 2000s, notably La Roux, maintain its low yet steady prominence worldwide.

Hey Ricky

The lead single "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" radically reinvented Manchester as a synthpop dance artist and was heavily promoted by the singer who displayed a new image complementing the track; "You Should Hear How She Talks About You" accrued gradual interest entering the Top 40 of the "Billboard" Hot 100 in July 1982 proceeding to the Top Ten that August with a career best peak for Manchester at #5.

History of Modern

History of Modern is the eleventh studio album by British synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD).

Hubert Kah

Hubert Kah is a German synthpop band, led by Hubert Kemmler (born 22 March 1961 in Reutlingen).

Leiahdorus

In 2000 this three track demo found its way to Todd Durrant of the synthpop label A Different Drum.

Lollobrigida Girls

Lollobrigida girls, also known as VIS Lollobrigida (VIS is a Croatian language acronym for 'band', used often in the 1970s) or Lollobrigida is originally a Croatian, Zagreb–based, female electro-pop/synthpop band.

Lustans Lakejer

They were initially influenced by 1970's artrock and postpunk acts like David Bowie, Joy Division, Magazine and Ultravox but adopted a more sophisticated synthpop and new romantic style on their most successful albums Uppdrag i Gèneve and En plats i solen.

Marsco

A photograph of Marsco and Glen Sligachan, taken by Richard Nutt, features on the cover of the second album by British synthpop band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), Organisation, released in October 1980.

Mutant Moments

Mutant Moments is a short EP, independently financed and produced by Soft Cell, a synthpop/new wave duo who would later achieve fame with their groundbreaking hit cover of the Gloria Jones song "Tainted Love".

OBK

The group was famous for introducing the electronic music in Spain in the 1990's (in the early 1980's some Spanish synthpop bands as Azul y Negro and Aviador Dro, among others, had gained great success also).

Rhythm of Youth

Rhythm of Youth is the debut album of Canadian synthpop group Men Without Hats, released in 1982 on Backstreet Records.

Rick Squillante

Squillante's mixes emphasized multiple genres including European Techno and Synthpop, highlighted by such bands as Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Yaz, Heaven 17 and Section 25.

Saalschutz

It combines the styles of Synthpop, Electropunk and Electroclash – as well as Metal, Garage Rock, Tribal House and Trance – creating a style similar to that of Knarf Rellöm, Räuberhöhle and (in parts) Egotronic.

Small town boy

"Smalltown Boy", the 1984 debut single of the British synthpop group Bronski Beat

Star of Love

The album included the tracks from the Australian limited edition, and a cover track of "Fiesta de los Maniquíes", a Spanish song by 1980s synthpop group Golpes Bajos.

Starforce: Alpha Centauri

The synthpop group The Human League took their name from one of the StarForce power groups.

Universal Poplab

The band's two members have very different backgrounds: Christer is an old-school synthpop fan, influenced by acts like Soft Cell and Yazoo, Paul is a classically trained musician with roots in jazz, electronica, trance and techno.

With a Little Luck

Written in Scotland, "With a Little Luck" would become Wings' follow-up single to the then best-selling UK Single of all time, "Mull of Kintyre" and was one of the first synthpop records to appear on radio and in the charts and the beginning of McCartney's period of involvement and experimentation with synthesisers.


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