Synthpop

The Yugoslav Synthpop was a rare bird! Handful of bands like Data, Bebi Dol, Denis & Denis, Videosex, D'Boys, Max & Intro, Beograd, Du Du A, The Master Scratch Band, Laboratorija zvuka, Oliver Mandic, ZZ Up or Sladjana Milosevic dared to use synthesizers in guitar oriented rock and new wave scene. Generally, they were seen as a less value musicians who did not need to play, but were just singing and pressing preset buttons on their machines. However, many of them ignored the climate and created excellent songs in the range of their european peers. Those recordings now are collectors items and this page is dedicated to the memory of their work. Main influence on Synthpop is New Wave.

New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. The genre was fashionable during the 1980s and became somewhat popular again during the 2000s. New Wave music was initially rock music, with a punk attitude, mixed with other genres such as Funk, Disco, Reggae and Ska.The Yugoslav New Wave scene emerged in the late 1970s in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and had a significant impact on Yugoslavian culture. It reshaped the cultural scene in the post-Titoist 1980s in Yugoslavia (President Tito died in 1980), and was, in a certain sense, combination of British and US-inspired New wave (but with some own Yugoslav distinguishing features) on one side and various conceptual or artisic movements related to Pop-Art, Avant-garde etc. on the other.

Some of the Synth Pop Ex Yu Stars:

VIDEOSEXDENIS & DENIS

BEOGRAD

MAX & INTRO

BEBI DOL

DU DU A

LABORATORIJA

VIA TALAS

D'BOY

SLADJANA MILOSEVIC

DORIAN GRAY

LAKI PINGVINI

U SKRIPCU

OLIVER MANDIC

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