Meanings
- uncountableentertainmentA genre of electronic dance music with influences from synthpop, trance, and EBM.
Music festivals that feature futurepop bands include Infest, Wave Gotik Treffen and M'era Luna.
2014, Nicolae Sfetcu, The Music Sound3 more examples
Modern industrial music subgenres and fusion-genres include EBM, futurepop, power-noise, aggrotech (terror-EBM), coldwave, elektro, dark-electro, and industrial-metal. Yes, it can be quite confusing.
2007, Raven Digitalis, Goth Craft: The Magickal Side of Dark Culture, page 37Despite—or more likely, because of—futurepop's sudden and visible popularity within the global industrial scene, it was subject to harsh criticism in the early and mid-2000s.
2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 296[…] a substantial offering of futurepop (e.g., Covenant, Wolfsheim, VNV Nation, Apoptygma Bezerk), a smattering of aggrotech (e.g. Suicide Commando, Combichrist), and a number of other subgenres.
2015, Isabella van Elferen, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture
Origin
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