Synth Pop ExYu

Location:
YU
Type:
Artist / Band / Musician
Genre:
Electro / Pop / Other
Type:
Indie
Synthpop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. It is most closely associated with an era between the end of the 1970s and early-to-mid 1980s when the synthesizer first became a practical and affordable instrument. The style developed as musicians such as Gary Numan, Landscape, Depeche Mode, Ultravox, and Devo embraced the synthesizer as a lead instrument, taking advantage of its unique sound and capabilities.



Synthpop has its own stylistic tendencies which differentiate it from other music produced by the same means. These include the exploitation of artificiality (the synthesizers are not used to imitate acoustic instruments), the use of mechanical rhythms and feel, the use of vocal arrangements as a counterpoint to the artificiality of the instruments, and the use of ostinato patterns as an effect. Synthpop song structures are generally the same as in regular pop music.



The Yugoslav Synthpop was a rare bird! Handful of bands like Data, Bebi Dol, Denis & Denis, Videosex, D'Boys, Max & Intro, Beograd, Du Du A, The Master Scratch Band, Laboratorija zvuka, Oliver Mandic, ZZ Up or Sladjana Milosevic dared to use synthesizers in guitar oriented rock and new wave scene. Generally, they were seen as a lesser value musicians who did not needed to play, but were just singing and pressing preset buttons on their machines. However, many of them ignored the climate and created excellent songs in the range of their european peers. Those recordings now are collectors items and this page is dedicated to the memory of their work. .



Main influence on Synthpop is New Wave.



New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. The genre was fashionable during the 1980s and became somewhat popular again during the 2000s. New Wave music was initially rock music, with a punk attitude, mixed with other genres such as Funk, Disco, Reggae and Ska.



The Yugoslav New Wave scene emerged in the late 1970s in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and had a significant impact on Yugoslavian culture. It reshaped the cultural scene in the post-Titoist 1980s in Yugoslavia (President Tito died in 1980), and was, in a certain sense, combination of British and US-inspired New wave (but with some own Yugoslav distinguishing features) on one side and various conceptual or artisic movements related to Pop-Art, Avant-garde etc. on the other.



Some of the Synth Pop Ex Yu Stars:



VIDEOSEX

DENIS & DENIS

BEOGRAD

MAX & INTRO

BEBI DOL

DU DU A

THE MASTER SCRATCH BAND

LABORATORIJA

DATA

HAJMO!

VIA TALAS

BRAZIL

BASTION

D'BOYS

SLADJANA MILOSEVIC

DORIAN GRAY

LAKI PINGVINI

BORGHESIA

KOZMETIKA

U SKRIPCU

KARLOWY VARY

REX ILUSIVII

SAYONARA

OLIVER MANDIC

ZZ UP

STRUKTURNE PTICE

MIHA KRALJ

ALEKSANDAR MEZEK

VALENTINO



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Denis & Denis - Program tvog kompjutera



Denis & Denis - Telefon



Videosex - Kako bih volio da si tu (Live)



Videosex - Moja mama



ZZ Up - Ko Nekad u 8



Oliver Mandic - Pitaju me pitaju
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