futurepop (help)

[~kat]

Hello!
Can anyone help me to find some aticles about futurepop style? I mean description of the style, history of the style etc...
Thank you in advance

[~fondlemywax]

sigh...

'Futurepop' is a term coined by Ronan of VNV Nation, it describes a subgenre of EBM/Industrial which sounds like Apop/VNV/Covenant/A23. (that is to say, singing with the industrial beat, yet not screaming)

i hate the term futurepop, i use it as a curse. I stub my toe and yell 'oh futurepop'!

[~rivetbadtz]

As one of the biggest proponents of Futurepop, it is good to see people interested. I believe it is what saved the 'industrial/goth' scene in the late 90's from near extinction. A lot of people might balk at the term, but it's just fun. I think it is the next evolution and style... a kind of new EBM style fused with trance, synthpop, and industrial with forward thinking, new ideas...yet old themes spun with a twist.

Sure folks are perhaps fatigued from hearing VNV, APOP, and Covenant played a dozen times a night at the clubs...but thsi sound really brought in a new change to the club format.

As for articles on it, the only ones I can think of are some of the VNV Nation interviews.

*me, who hopes VNV gets the Depeche Mode like worship they deserve*

Bands I put in the Futurepop/EBM genre:

VNV Nation
Covenant
Apoptygma Berzerk
Funker Vogt
Assemblage 23
Icon of Coil
L'amme Immortelle
Angels in Agony
Seabound
Informatik
Melotron
(newer) Neuroactive
T.O.Y.

[~Dan1boy]

I agree, I don't understand why the term "Futurepop" gets such a bad rap. I find it a natural progression, if we must categorize genres, from Modern Synthpop. Personally, I can't stand the term, "Synthpop," anymore. It makes me cringe. Most likely because my tastes in music have drifted toward "EBM/industrial/trance-lite with melodic vocals" in recent years. (if one has to describe it)

The term "Synthpop" now carries a rather negative connotation with it, and since I am not one hopelessly stuck in 1985, that sound, and most of the bands who produce it, no longer holds my interest.

I like "now" music :-)

[~fondlemywax]

I'm just incoherent with rage here about that 'now music' remark. So don't mind me if I'm not making much sense.

please don't confuse modern synthpop with that electroclash stuff...

a lot of e.c. sounds lo-tech, but its 'retro' (it is 2003, after all) too.

modern synthpop is just a natural progression of new wave, just like 'futurepop' is to industrial/whatever. i shouldn't need to remind you that this music in this forum has a heavy base in 80's sound, yet with modern instrumentation and production methods.
If you don't like the term synthpop, use 'newer wave' or something.

why are you in this forum anyway if you hate it so much?

[~Ekstasis]

I gotta agree with Danboy. Modern synthpop is a complatley different entity then when synthpop started. Take some early DM and compair it to Iris. You can hear the influence, but still something completley different. Its like trying to compair the Beetles to say Creed. They both play pop-rock, but in a completley different way, and they still use the same instruments.

You even said it your self.
Originally posted by fondlemywax
modern synthpop is just a natural progression of new wave,

When things progress they change into something different. Its called evolutioin. We dont still call birds dinosaurs do we? They both came from the same place.

[~rivetbadtz]

Originally posted by Dan1boy
I agree, I don't understand why the term "Futurepop" gets such a bad rap. I find it a natural progression, if we must categorize genres, from Modern Synthpop. Personally, I can't stand the term, "Synthpop," anymore. It makes me cringe. Most likely because my tastes in music have drifted toward "EBM/industrial/trance-lite with melodic vocals" in recent years. (if one has to describe it)

The term "Synthpop" now carries a rather negative connotation with it, and since I am not one hopelessly stuck in 1985, that sound, and most of the bands who produce it, no longer holds my interest.

I like "now" music :-)

OMG you are a visionary!!! Indeed, at first a few years back I was like 'Ack! I like the word future, but POP???' But now I love it.
It's all about evolution...I mean that is fine a lot of bands seem content pretending it's 1984, but whats the point? It's all about the sound of the future. I tastes clearly in the last few years rest with EBM/Futurepop/Trance, as this is the only dance music I feel (IMHO)has that 'ooomph' yet has something futuristic and immersive about it.

I have to admit, when I first heard the term 'synthpop' again in the late 90's...and then heard all these so called 'modern' bands pretending like their freaking Depeche Mode...I was pretty offput.
Synthpop can be pretty weak at times when its bad, but really contagious when its good. Yeah, it is a bit on the lite side...but songs like Wolfsheim 'Once in a Lifetime' or Neuroticfish 'MFAPL' are really good examples(to me) of classic good newer synthpop.

The only real genre names that truly make me cringe are
'goth', 'industrial', and 'electronica'. yeeesh.

[~kat]

Thanks to every one! I know that some people don't like the therm Future pop, but in fact that it's exist, I need to find some critist (articles) about that style. If any one find something in th e net please, post the links here!
Thank you