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Dark Wave, also written as '''Darkwave''', is an (''trad goth''). HISTORY The 1980s The first usage of the term appears to have been in the 1980s, to describe the dark and melancholy variant of New Wave and Post-punk music, e.g. the early , Anne Clark , Fad Gadget , Gary Numan , Psyche or Depeche Mode Source: Ingo Weidenkaff · Jugendkulturen in Thüringen · Die Gothics · Page 41 · 1999 · ISBN 3-933773-25-3. In the course of time, different Dark Wave genres, especially Coldwave , Gothic Rock and others, blended up with electronic music ( Synthpop , Ambient and Post-industrial ). Attrition , Clan Of Xymox , Die Form , In The Nursery and Pink Industry were some of the main bands playing this music in the 1980s and, while associated with the Gothic, Dark Wave and Post-industrial scenes, they had previously been something of an ill-fit in the those scenes. The 1990s from 1993]] After the New Wave and Post-punk movement faded between the middle and the end of the 1980s, Dark Wave survived and experienced a fresh impetus through the music of bands such as , Wolfsheim and Diary Of Dreams . All of these bands followed a straight-line path, based on the New Wave and Post-punk movement of the 1980s. At the same time, a number of German artists, including Das Ich , Goethes Erben , Relatives Menschsein and Lacrimosa , developed a more theatrical style, interspersed with German poetic and metaphorical lyrics, called Neue Deutsche Todeskunst (''New German Death Art''). Other bands, such as Silke Bischoff , In My Rosary , Engelsstaub , Annabelle's Garden and Canticum Funebris mingled dark Synthpop or Goth rock with elements of the Neofolk or Neoclassical genre. A curious act is the German artist Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows , which combined Gothic rock elements with Folklore and medieval sounds. Since 1993/94, in the United States, the term Dark Wave became (as the one-word variant ''Darkwave'') largely associated with the Projekt Records label because it was used as the name of their printed catalog and was used to market and promote German products of artists like Project Pitchfork in the US. The Projekt label featured bands such as , This Ascension and others · Pages 32/34 · Germany · April 1994 The label has also had a long association with Attrition , who appeared on the label's earliest compilations. Another label in this vein was Tess Records in the US, which featured This Ascension , Trance To The Sun , Faith And The Muse and, from 1997, Clan Of Xymox , who had returned to a sound more like their 1980s sound following almost a decade as the more Synthpop Xymox . WAVE-UNTYPICAL INFLUENCES A number of other US bands mixed elements of Dark Wave and Ethereal Wave with more modern electronic music to a high level of popularity. Love Spirals Downwards and Collide , for example, incorporated large elements of Trip Hop , while the The Crüxshadows have combined a range of contemporary Dance Music elements with their Synth-based Alternative Rock Style . SAMPLES CLIPS The Machine In The Garden - The Unaware (2000) Plastique Noir - Empty Streets (2006) Pink Industry - What I Wouldn't Give (1985) Opera Multi Steel - Un froid seul (1985) Les Maîtres - Souvenir (1983) Malaria! - Geld (1982) REFERENCES SEE ALSO |
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