Synth-pop - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synth-popSynth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop ) is a genre of new wave music and pop music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the Krautrock of bands like Kraftwerk. It arose as a distinct genre in Japan and the United Kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the ne…