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Artist: Jupiter Rising
Album: Electropop
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Electropop (also called technopop) is a form of electronic music that is made with synthesizers, and which first flourished from 1978 to 1981. Electropop laid the groundwork for a mass market in chart-oriented synthpop. Numerous bands have since carried on the electropop tradition into the 1990s and 2000s.

Electropop is different from synthpop because it is characterised by a cold, robotic, emphasized electronic sound, which was largely due to the early limitations of the analog synthesizers used to make the music. It often features alienated deadpan lyrics with a futuristic sci-fi edge .

Most electropop songs are Pop music|pop songs at heart, often with simple, catchy hooks and dance beats, but differing from those of electronic dance music genres which electropop helped to inspire â€” techno music|techno, house music|house, electroclash, etc. â€” in that songwriting is emphasized over simple danceability.

History
Many early electropop artists were United Kingdom|British and were inspired by David Bowie's "Berlin period" albums ''Heroes (album)|Heroes'' and ''Low (album)|Low''.<ref>Greg Villepique, ''Salon'', January 25, 2000. [http://archive.salon.com/people/bc/2000/01/25/bowie/print.html] Access date: August 11, 2008.</ref> Other main influences on electropop were the German band Kraftwerk<ref>Rachel Devitt, "Geeks o

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