DESCRIPTION:
New song from the upcoming brand new work "Reykjavik 101"

Every year with a story
Every season with a colour
that defines
Every month with its flower
Every day with a God in the sky

but every night
I see the same moon
but every night
I've got the same thoughts
for you

I can't say you "goodbye"
my heart keeps you alive
Every time I say "stop"
it turns to be a lie

I can't deny
that I want you in my life
I can't pretend
though with you I did ascend

from fallen angel in Eden
to a new better man
happy to share your heaven

I need a way to let you go
I need a way to unchain my soul
I need a way

Prospekt Mira


In the end of the 1970s there appeared many artists, especially in England, who used synthesizer as their main instrument. For example Gary Numan, Ultravox, OMD and Human League. These artists were very much inspired by Kraftwerk.
In the beginning of the 1980s Depeche Mode was formed. They played a happy and naive sort of synthpop, like their hit single "Just Can't Get Enough" in 1981, until Vince Clarke left the band to form Yazoo (called Yaz in North America) and later Erasure. Depeche Mode's music then became more melancholic and dark.
Other English bands that started to release records around 1981 were Duran Duran, Eurythmics, Tears For Fears and Thompson Twins. These bands played some sort of synthpop, but they also used other instruments. From Canada came Rational Youth and from Sweden came Adolphson & Falk.
In 1984 there came synthpop artists like Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw and the German band Alphaville.
Other examples of synthpop bands from the 1980s are A-ha, Bronski Beat, Men Without Hats, New Order, Soft Cell, Visage and Yello.

In 1984 there also came a new type of pop-music called eurodisco, with many Italian artists like Scotch and Ken Laszlo, and German like Modern Talking and Fancy, but also from other countries like Baltimora from Northern Ireland. Eurodisco is also based upon synthesizers and it can often be hard to separate from synthpop. The music Pet Shop Boys was playing was also called eurodisco. In 1986 the status of synthpop was weakened and since then only music that is very much based upon synthesizers is called synthpop.
The synthesizer continued to be a very important instrument within the pop-music. Eurodisco came to England and the producer team Stock/Aitken/Waterman. They produced records for very many artists, like Kylie Minogue, Rick Astley, Bananarama and Dead Or Alive.
In 1987 the house music came to England. It originally came from Chicago (e.g. Frankie Knuckles), where it had started a few years earlier. House is synthesizer based, often monotone, dance music with sound effects.
In 1991 the techno music came to Belgium and the Netherlands. It originally came from Detroit, where it been played since the mid '80s (e.g. Derrick May). Techno is also synthesizer based dance music, but often heavier and darker than house music. From Germany came U 96.
In 1992 the eurodisco came back from Germany. It had changed a bit in style though. The typical eurodisco band is made of a German or Italian producer, a black rapper and a female singer. The music is based upon simple synthesizer melodies, rapping and simple choruses. Eurodisco is now often called only "dance".

Page, S.P.O.C.K, Sista Mannen På Jorden and This Fish Needs A Bike are four great Swedish synthpop bands.
Elegant Machinery, Bodies Without Organs, Daybehavior and Daily Planet are a few more examples of Swedish synthpop bands.

Examples of later synthpop bands are Anything Box from USA, Mesh from UK and And One from Germany.
Electronic, Saint Etienne and Kim Wilde are English artists with music close to synthpop.
Melody Club, Kamera and Bobby are Swedish artists with music close to synthpop.

Examples of genres within synthmusic:
New Romantics:
Visage, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Soft Cell, Culture Club
Electronic Body Music/EBM/Body:
Front 242, D.A.F., Nitzer Ebb, Spetsnaz, Sturm Café
Futurepop:
VNV Nation, Covenant, Apoptygma Berzerk, Assemblage 23, Icon Of Coil
Electroclash:
The Knife, Ladytron, Miss Kittin, Peaches, Alice In Videoland
Bitpop:
Welle: Erdball, Pluxus, Puss, Slagsmålsklubben, Jeans Team
Crossover:
Pouppée Fabrikk, Die Krupps, Rammstein, Deathstars, Pain
Industrial:
Einstürzende Neubauten, Laibach, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails
Bigbeat:
Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Wildchild, Cirrus
Eurodance:
E-Type, Culture Beat, 2 Unlimited, Corona, Sash!
Trance:
Astral Projection, Infected Mushroom, Tiësto, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten