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Electropop (also called Technopop) is a subgenre of synth pop music which flourished during the early 1980s, although the first recordings were made in the late 1970s. Numerous bands have carried on the electropop tradition into the 1990s and 2000s. Electropop is often characterised by a cold, robotic, electronic sound, which is largely due to the limitations of the analog synthesizers used to make the music.
Electropop songs are pop songs at heart, with simple, catchy hooks and dance beats, but differing from those of electronic dance music genres which electropop helped to inspire — techno, dub, house, electroclash, etc. — in that strong songwriting is emphasized over simple danceability. Electropop is closely intertwined with the New Romantic movement of the early 80s, and the synthpop and electroclash movements of the 1990s and beyond.
Downtempo/IDM Sub-Genres:
Acid jazz
Balearic Beat
Bitpop
Chiptune
Electro clash
Electropop
Minimal Electronica/Glitch
Nu jazz
Trip Hop (aka The Bristol Sound)
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