Editing Electropop (section)

===Early 1980s===
{{Main|Synth-pop}}
{{See also|Electronics in rock music}}

[[Depeche Mode]]'s composer [[Martin Gore]] said: "For anyone of our generation involved in electronic music, [[Kraftwerk]] were the godfathers".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopfeatures/9837423/Kraftwerk-the-most-influential-group-in-pop-history.html |title=Kraftwerk-the-most-influential-group-in-pop-history|date=2013}}</ref>

During the early 1980s, Japanese artists such as [[Yellow Magic Orchestra]] and [[Ryuichi Sakamoto]]<ref name="Baltimore">{{cite news|title=Sakamoto hears music's sounds, not its styles|work=[[The Baltimore Sun]]|author=J. D. Considine|date=March 23, 2000|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/51630773.html?dids=51630773%3A51630773&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AFT&type=current&date=Mar+23%2C+2000&author=J.D.+Considine&pub=The+Sun&desc=Sakamoto+hears+music%27s+sounds%2C+not+its+styles%3B+Performance%3A+The+popular+Japanese+pianist+is+moving+toward+acoustic+music+because+he+is+not+sure+he+can+rely+on+electricity.&pqatl=google|access-date=June 9, 2011|archive-date=February 10, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130210005526/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/baltsun/access/51630773.html?dids=51630773%3A51630773&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS%3AFT&type=current&date=Mar+23%2C+2000&author=J.D.+Considine&pub=The+Sun&desc=Sakamoto+hears+music%27s+sounds%2C+not+its+styles%3B+Performance%3A+The+popular+Japanese+pianist+is+moving+toward+acoustic+music+because+he+is+not+sure+he+can+rely+on+electricity.&pqatl=google|url-status=dead}}</ref> and British artists such as [[Gary Numan]], [[Depeche Mode]], [[Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark]], [[the Human League]], [[Soft Cell]], [[John Foxx]] and [[Visage (band)|Visage]] helped pioneer a new synth-pop style that drew more heavily from electronic music and emphasized primary usage of synthesizers.{{sfn|Reynolds|2005|pp= 296-308}}

{{Blockquote|Some fascinating new music began arriving on these shores; it was dubbed electropop, because electronic instrumentation — mainly synthesizers and syndrums — was used to craft pop songs. "[[Pop Muzik]]" by [[M (band)|M]] was one of the first. There was a gradual accumulation of worthy electropop discs, though they were still mostly heard only in rock discos. But in 1981, the floodgates opened, and "new music" at last made a mighty splash. The breakthrough song was "[[Don't You Want Me]]" by the Human League. |source= Anglomania: The [[Second British Invasion]], by Parke Puterbaugh for ''[[Rolling Stone]]'', November 1983.<ref>{{cite magazine |title= Anglomania: The Second British Invasion |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/anglomania-the-second-british-invasion-52016/ |access-date= 29 April 2019 |magazine= Rolling Stone}}</ref>}}