The Post-Punk Explosion Part 2: Techno-Pop
b'For the longest time, the sounds of rock were made with voice, guitars, bass, drums, and keyboards like piano and organ\\u2026there were plenty of ways to manipulate the sounds of those instruments: effects pedals, studio tricks, happy accidents that happened when you least expected them\\u2026\\n\\nAnd for a couple of decades, this was plenty to work with\\u2026we discovered all sorts of techniques to create sounds that no one had ever heard before\\u2026\\n\\nBut when engineers started messing with electricity in new ways, it became possible for musicians to create sounds that not only we\\u2019d never heard before but never imagined hearing\\u2026this resulted in an explosion of new, amazing music that was based mostly (if not entirely) on electronic sounds\\u2026\\n\\nExperimentation started in the 60s\\u2026these sounds worked their way into prog-rock in the 70s\\u2026and at the very end of that decade, the technology had become cheap enough for young musicians in the last months of the original punk rock scene to adopt these music-making machines as their own\\u2026\\n\\nI\\u2019m talking about synthesizers, of course\\u2026and as bands in sharp suits and skinny ties released spikey new wave pop songs, another group went all-in with synths\\u2026and in the post-punk era\\u2014which is to say the late 70s and early 80s\\u2014we had the era of era of techno-pop\\u2026here\\u2019s how that happened\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'