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I'm scrolling through bands of today, and I see a few things that don't catch my intrest: Some of them have totally taken the spirit of it from wide-eyed fun to low-brow darkness. So messy. I don't mean to rag on them but they're starting to turn it into a private genre! Mainstream won't even look at it anymore because of the over-the-top crudeness its starting to take up. I just wish one day it'll start to get organized so everyone can see our genre as something to get into again...

I understand what you're saying, but I don't think you can in fairness label the whole genre that way.

Today's synthpop has spread out in all directions stylistically. I agree that much of what is produced today is dark, industrial, impersonal, and

A lot of modern synthpop has gone the way of (crappy) futurepop and EBM. It's that really drawn-out synthpop with no "catchability." In my opinion, Freezepop does the best modern synthpop of today (from what I've heard so far). Very retro sound, simpli

Well put Natephish. I agree.

My current favorite is Neuropa. They are very catchy and melodic, reminiscent of early Erasure. [8D]

i am convinced that the future of synthpop lies in new and different areas, not just in recycling the past. take for instance the artist "john b". his songs "electronic", "celebrity", and "midnight air" are simultaneously hommages to the sounds of the pas

Synthpop has now become techno. Pure and simple. But I happen to enjoy the new trance music a lot.

If it's any help a new band not sounding 'clubby', but the musical lovechild of metamatic john foxx with the first dep mode lp is the
group Mr Jones Machine - New Wave. it arrived a couple of weeks ago and is great and a nice change to the standard dance

[quote][i]Originally posted by geoffolehane[/i]
<br>Synthpop has now become techno. Pure and simple. But I happen to enjoy the new trance

I really don't want this to soud as homophobic as it does, but my problem with most of the synthpop I've heard in the last 10 years is the really faggy vocals the male singers affect. The vocals are so fey and forced with no balls to them at all. Add th

I agree, Ollie.
That bugs me too.

You don't mean DM, Do you?[:(!]

I myself am a fan of industrial darksynth, but to a certain extent. there was mention of the dislike of "faggy" vocals. In comparisant to dismembered and primitive stuff i'll take "faggy" any day.
The point i'm making is this: sure synthpop is about fut

[quote]Originally posted by Abercrombie-Ai
[br]I'm scrolling through bands of today, and I see a few things that don't catch my intr

even as a big mo.. I have to agree that too much of the modern synthpop is techo ladden with "faggy" vocals - "faggy" in that they don't have any emotion to the lyrics.

try macondo (here is a link to listen to some of their tracks) it is a a guy voca

[quote][i]Originally posted by human clone[/i]
"over-the-top crudeness"? Are you talking about synthpop in general, which bands are your re