Synth-pop
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Synth-pop is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of s
The Prophet-5, one of the first polyphonic synthesizers. It was widely used in 1980s synth-pop, along with the Roland Jupiter and Yamaha DX7.
Kraftwerk, one of the major influences on synth-pop, in 1976
Yellow Magic Orchestra in 2008
Gary Numan performing in 1980
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark are an English electronic band formed in Meols, Merseyside in 1978 by Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys. Regarded as pioneers of electronic music, the group combined
Lead vocalist and co-founder Andy McCluskey in 2011
Longtime instrumentalist Martin Cooper in 2018
Keyboardist and co-founder Paul Humphreys departed in 1989.
McCluskey and Humphreys performing in 2011