Coldwave

Unlike French Coldwave, the term Cold Wave was first used in 1979/1980 to describe the music of John Foxx,Gary Numan,Yellow Magic Orchestra,Kraftwerk and Devo as they were considered to be emotionless and sterile due to their heavy use of technology based sound(considered heavy at the time).By late 1980 with bands like Adam and the Ants,Blancmange,and OMD,using keyboards with a more upbeat sound the terms Electro Pop and New Wave were coined and ... more
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