| All genres of music were once revolutionary and | | | | social marketing platforms. |
| experimental. Over time some enter the mainstream | | | | Some of the first musicians to see the potential in all |
| and slowly lose their experimental edge. Nearly all | | | | of these were in the 1960s and 1970s. As analog |
| genres of popular music have followed this same | | | | synthesis became available, they incorporated it into |
| pattern: rock, jazz, electronica, to name a few. A | | | | their music, leading to the synthpop revolution of the |
| large amount of the experimental music being made | | | | late 1970s and 1980s. For the first time in history, |
| today continues to generally fall under the umbrella | | | | entire pieces of music were now able to be written |
| term of electronica, though the experimental bands | | | | and performed on electronic instruments: an event |
| of the previous generation have become the | | | | that would change popular music forever. |
| mainstream of today. By examining the music pushing | | | | Synthpop musicians were innovative in their choice of |
| today's boundaries, we can get a glimpse into the | | | | instruments, but it ended there. Typical synthpop |
| next generation of music. | | | | song structures were no different from their pop or |
| Over the last half a century, music has been | | | | rock counterparts. Over the 1980s, another |
| transformed by the digital revolution. Not only have | | | | generation of musicians pushed electronics to the limit |
| new instruments entered onto the scene, but the | | | | in a variety of subgenres. Industrial, IDM and Noise |
| entire music-making process has been changed. | | | | each offered their own sonic pallet, using similar |
| Recording studios have been turned into laptops; | | | | instruments to produce wildly different sounds. |
| bands become their own promotional managers over | | | | |