Darkwave music
| Dark wave | |
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| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | Late 1970s to early 1980s, Europe and Australia |
| Typical instruments | Electronic |
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Dark wave (or darkwave) is a music genre that emerged as dark form of new wave and post-punk, typically fusing gothic rock and synth-pop elements. The label began to appear in the late 1970s in German music media, coinciding with the popularity of these genres. Building on those basic principles, dark wave is characterized by introspective, sorrowful atmospheres and lyrics and often employs electronic instrumentation. In the 1980s, a subculture developed primarily in Europe alongside dark wave music, whose members were called "wavers" or "dark wavers".
The term was coined in Germany in the 1980s to describe a dark and melancholy variant of new wave and post-punk music and was first applied to musicians such as Bauhaus,Joy Division,The Sisters of Mercy, Dead Can Dance, Tears for Fears, Cocteau Twins, The Cure,Siouxsie and the Banshees,The Chameleons,Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, and Anne Clark.
The movement spread internationally, spawning such developments as French coldwave. Coldwave described groups such as KaS Product, Martin Dupont, Asylum Party, Norma Loy, Pavillon 7B, Résistance, Clair Obscur, Opera Multi Steel, Museum of Devotion, The Breath of Life, and Trisomie 21. Subsequently, different dark wave genres merged and influenced each other, e.g. synthwave (also referred to as "electro-wave" in Germany) with gothic rock, or used elements of post-industrial music. Attrition,In The Nursery, Party Day and Pink Industry (UK), Clan of Xymox (Netherlands), Mittageisen (Switzerland),Parálisis Permanente and Los Monaguillosh (Spain), Die Form (France), and Psyche (Canada) played this music in the 1980s. German dark wave groups of the 1980s were associated with the Neue Deutsche Welle, and included Asmodi Bizarr, II. Invasion, Mask For, Moloko †, Maerchenbraut, Pink Turns Blue, Unlimited Systems, and Xmal Deutschland. In the United States, Eleven Pond were the most prominent darkwave act, releasing just one album, Bas Relief, in 1986.
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