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  Electro house

  This article is about Electro house music which is called 'electro' frequently. For original Electro music, see Electro music. Electro house (or, shortly, electro) is a fusion genre of house music and electro (especially, electroclash), with the influence of indie rock. Stylistically, it combines...
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  Electro-hop

  Electro hop (sometimes called Electronic Hip hop, Electronic Rap or Robot Hip hop) is the fusion of electrofunk with hip hop or rap. The electro-hop movement had come about after seeing the underground electro movement on the East Coast gain popularity with artists such as Mantronix, Man Parrish,...
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  Electronic dance music

  Electronic dance music is electronic music that is produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered upon dance-based entertainment. The music is largely created for use by disc jockeys and is produced with the intention of it being heard...
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  Pop music

  Pop music is a music genre that developed from the mid-1950s as a softer alternative to rock 'n' roll and later to rock music. It has a focus on commercial recording, often orientated towards a youth market, usually through the medium of relatively short and simple love songs. While these basic...

• New Romantic

  New Romanticism was a youth fashion movement that peaked in the United Kingdom during the early 1980s. Originally centered around part of the Synthpop music scene, it has seen several revivals since then, and continues to influence popular culture. Developing in London nightclubs such as Billy's...

• Futurepop

  Futurepop is an electronic dance music genre, incorporating influences from synthpop (such as song structure and vocal style), uplifting trance (grandiose and arpeggiated synthesizer melodies and fast-paced synthesizer beats), and EBM (the worldviews presented in lyrics). The term was coined by...

• Electropop

  Electropop is a form of electronic music that is made with synthesizers, and which first flourished from 1978 to 1983. Electropop laid the groundwork for a mass market in chart-oriented pop and dance music. Numerous bands have since carried on the electropop tradition into the 1990s and 2000s....

• Pop rock

  Pop rock is a mix of pop music and rock music utilizing a catchy pop style with light lyrics, and (typically) guitar-based songs. There are varying definitions of the term, ranging from a slower and mellower form of rock music to a subgenre of pop music. Scholars have noted that pop and rock are...

• Synthpunk

  Synthpunk (also known as electropunk) is a music genre combining elements of electronic rock and punk rock. The term invented by Damian Ramsey in 1999 as an attempt to retroactively identify a small sub-genre of punk music from 1977–1984 that involved musicians playing synthesizers in place of...

• Queercore

  Queercore is a cultural and social movement that began in the mid-1980s as an offshoot of punk. Queercore expresses itself in DIY style through zines, music, writing, art and film. As a musical genre, it may be distinguished by lyrics exploring themes of prejudice and dealing with issues such as...