It was always clear to me – and all at Classic Pop for that matter – that one synth-pop special was never going to be enough.
Merely uttering those magic words can bring on a good debate: for some purists, the parameters by which acts are granted access to this sanctified section of their record bags are ludicrously narrow; to those with less stringent criteria, synth-pop is a free-for-all that covers a huge swathe of electronic music. Whichever camp you stand in, we can (probably) all agree that synth-pop became a thing somewhere around the fertile collision betwixt 70s and 80s, with the sudden arrival of space-age machinery the catalyst for a genuine sea change. The possibilities must have seemed endless. And if mine is anything to go by, much of your own record collections will likely be made up of the future-friendly, fantastical, revolutionary records that resulted.
Beyond those architects who designed and built the circuit boards, the foundations of the movement can be found in the musicians who manipulated them: in dystopian film scores and sci-fisoundtracks; in the studios and clubs of Düsseldorf, Berlin and Munich; in the Italo disco pulse that fuelled Europe’s many dancefloors; in New York’s borderless clubland and San Fran’s vibrant wave of Hi-NRG; in France, Tokyo, Canada, and eventually, in the North of England.
Our first edition tracked that evolution through the decades and up to the present day. This second volume has its sights fixed on some of the scene’s key players and their roles in the revolution, from the cult visionaries and inventors that pushed the envelope to the pop masterminds that brought their synth-driven melodies to the ears of the masses.
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