The new face on the punk playground has always been the birth of a new genre that occurs over a period when the teenagers feel the scene is getting a bit too conformable.
Within this vast world of punk (Punk-Rock), one of the newer faces has been Electro Punk.
The history of Punk which led to the genres:
Punk (also known as Punk-Rock), a rock music genre with a difference with lost of anger, emerged from the streets in the mid-seventies.
From the streets of the United Kingdom, Australia and the United States, it was rooted in the garage rock or proto-punk in the sixties as it was considered to mainstream and too little excess, thus the change.
Usually produced to be short, hard paced, and in an edgy or non-melodic style.
Punk usually ends up with very edgy singing styles with what was called stripped-down instrumentation and lyrically always anti-establishment or political hence the adoption of the anarchy symbol.
Distributed by independent labels by self-producing bands that did their recordings, and distribution, with the adoption of the DIY ethic.
First used by rock critics to link them to their heritage and origins of their music and that’s where the name came from, Punk rock.
This new music and style were fore-fronted in the States by bands like Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Television whereas in the UK we had Sex Pistols, the Clash, and the Damned with bring up the rear from Australia was the Saints.
The birth of a new Punk Genre:
The new face on the scene as one of the genres was Electro Punk also known as Synth-punk.
After many bands fusing different styles to form the different genres, the Electro Punk genre was created when punk bands fused with electric rock.
This was pointing the music into the future with no looking back.
This genre has it’s roots and origins when band members starting swapping their guitars for the now more upcoming and adaptable synthesizer.
Though starting in the late seventies from 1977 to about 1984 the name, Electro Punk, was only coined in the very late nineties by Damien Ramsey, a musicologist, composer, poet, and musician of choice.
The best of the bands in this genre are:
The Screamers – !975 to 1981
Liaisons Dangereuses — 1981 to 1982
The Units — 1978 to 1984
Suicide — 1970 to…
Deutsch Amreikanische Freundschaft — 1978 to…
Futurisk — 1979 to 1984
Just to mention a few
This new genre was later developed into even more well-known genres known today:
Industrial Rock
Noise Rock
Math Rock
Garage Rock
So not only does it come from a strong and hard background but gave birth to even stronger heavier music genres, which thank them for.
