![]() Their influence on underground music is well documented, having left an impact on dance music and alternative rock, but their reach was much wider than that. But there are few artists as instrumental in bringing electronic music to as wide an audience as Depeche Mode did through their 30-plus year career.įormed in 1980 following a handful of short-lived bands under the names Composition of Sound, No Romance In China and French Look, Depeche Mode began life as a simple, buoyant pop band with ambition that seemingly looked no further than the disco floor, but soon grew into a much broader and more sophisticated pop phenomenon. And Kraftwerk was one of the earliest synth-pop bands in popular music. ![]() Karlheinz Stockhausen was one of the earliest composers to record with electronic signals. Leon Theremin invented one of the earliest synthesizers. Electronic music has its share of heroes, from pioneering DJs to genre-bending producers, inventors, iconoclasts and boundary-pushing ensembles.
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