Futurepop

Futurepop is a recently-emerging electronic dance music genre, an outgrowth of electronic body music incorporating influences from

Futurepop is a recently-emerging electronic dance music genre, an outgrowth of electronic body music incorporating influences from synthpop (such as song structure and vocal style) and uplifting trance (grandiose and arpeggiated synthesizer melodies). The term was coined by Ronan Harris (of VNV Nation) and Stephan Groth (of Apoptygma Berzerk) while attempting to describe the style of music their bands produced .

In recent years the basic futurepop concept has been expanded upon in various ways, with bands like mind.in.a.box and Rotersand pushing the progressive trance aspect of the genre, while others such as XPQ-21 have incorporated further influences from industrial and synthpop.^{[citation needed]} Further, traditionally harder aggrotech bands are using futurepop-style melodic hooks in their songs, such as Suicide Commando and [:SITD:]. That kind of music more than often produces powerful club hits ranked highly at numerous national alternative charts like the deutsche (german) alternative charts, nordic alternative charts, dutch alternative charts or the Hellenic Alternative Charts.