From Duran Duran to Van Halen to Whitney Houston, ’80s acts used the latest electronics to give pop music a futuristic sheen that still coats today’s Gaga- and Pitbull-dominated charts. Most Western listeners consider Germany’s Kraftwerk or Ohio’s Devo to be the originators of synthetic pop, but the true godfathers of electro are Japan’s Yellow Magic Orchestra.

From Duran Duran to Van Halen to Whitney Houston, ’80s acts used the latest electronics to give pop music a futuristic sheen that still coats today’s Gaga- and Pitbull-dominated charts. Most Western listeners consider Germany’s Kraftwerk or Ohio’s Devo to be the originators of synthetic pop, but the true godfathers of electro are Japan’s Yellow Magic Orchestra.

(Source: Wired)

  • June 18
  • , 2012
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