Definitions

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  • noun music An early synthpop genre with a cold, robotic sound.

Etymologies

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techno- +‎ pop

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Examples

  • Hine was the producer of the Fixx, a London-based "technopop" dance band that had charted three Top 40 hits in the U.S. the previous year.

    I Tina Turner, Tina 1952

  • Posner's sound is almost certainly Pop in terms of strict genre, but he's really somewhere between that and hip-hop, blending smooth R&B vocals with technopop beats.

    Daniel Roberts: Artwork Revealed for Mike Posner Debut Album 2010

  • A tune that appears as an Abba-esque technopop number on the early album might show up in the guise of a slow, rambling ballad on the later one.

    The Merritts of Recycling 2007

  • This entire resurgence of odd technopop is fascinating to me, like a lot of the ambient music that came out after grunge became popular.

    An Object Lesson in Pop Sensibilities | Live Granades 2009

  • When Gill first saw the film, directed by Luc Jacquet, it was in French, with a technopop score, and the filmmakers had scripted actual dialogue for the penguins -- as if they were animated.

    Periscope 2008

  • July 20th, 2006 at 7: 07 pm technopop: technology - v - culture … abundant musicality … and whatever else is on our minds » Dear Bill Kristol: says:

    Think Progress » Kristol Suggests People of Iran Would Embrace U.S. Attack, Triggering Regime Change 2006

  • SIMON: They weren't using quite some of the technopop accompaniment, I'm guessing, right?

    Brazilian Girls: A Multilingual Musical Affair 2005

  • From inside the bar came the tinny drone of technopop.

    Surrender, Dorothy Meg Wolitzer 1999

  • A semblance of normalcy returned to the retirement community as the sounds of classical music, current technopop, sports, soap operas, and the occasional furtively tuned-in erotic movie resonated contentedly from apartment vid speakers.

    Codgerspace Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • Here he tries his hand at spare technopop, with help from members of the band Brazilian Girls.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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