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7 | Primary Stylistic Influences: |
8 | + GothRock, PostPunk, SynthPop, ElectronicMusic |
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11 | Secondary Stylistic Influences: |
12 | + DreamPop, {{Ambient}}, {{Industrial}}, occasionally {{Techno}}, {{Trance}}, ClassicalMusic and/or World Music |
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15 | Dark Wave is to SynthPop what GothRock is to [[NewWaveMusic New Wave]]; [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs This is Your Premise on Goth.]] In essence, Dark Wave is Goth's brooding angst, but with a greater reliance on synthesizers rather than guitars. |
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17 | Dark Wave is related to, but is not a subgenre of {{Industrial}}. Whilst both genres are electronic, DarkWave is generally softer. Naturally there is some overlap; some Dark Wave artists will often put an EBM or Futurepop style song on their album to broaden its dance floor appeal. {{Industrial}} artists can also be heavily inspired by DarkWave; creating some utterly harrowing works of pure {{Angst}} / {{Wangst}} in the process. More folk-influenced acts typically overlap with neofolk, while mixing the genre with classical typically results in neoclassical; depending on the type of folk used, neofolk and neoclassical very well may overlap. |
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19 | Generally, however, it is fair to characterize DarkWave as {{Goth}}ic NewWaveMusic or SynthPop. Synthesizers will be the predominant instrument, although guitars can be used in moderation. |
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22 | !! Examples of DarkWave acts include: [[index]] |
23 | |
24 | * AAIMON (Crossed with heavy influence from the Witch House genre) |
25 | * ADULT. (Crossed with [[{{Techno}} Detroit techno]] and old-school [[{{Industrial}} EBM]]) |
26 | * AFI: Starting with ''Crash Love,'' have been moving in this direction before fully embracing it with ''Burials,'' albeit with more orchestral than electronic elements. |
27 | * Ash Code |
28 | * Music/{{ASP}} |
29 | * Ataraxia |
30 | * Attrition |
31 | * Music/{{Autumn}} |
32 | * Music/AuralVampire |
33 | * Music/{{Austra}} (Crosses over with DreamPop) |
34 | * Bella Morte |
35 | ** Music/TheRainWithin (Crosses over with UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}}) |
36 | * Belmez Faces |
37 | * Bestial Mouths |
38 | * Music/TheBirthdayMassacre (Crossed with IndustrialMetal. Definitely one of the more YMMV entries on this list) |
39 | * Black Tape For A Blue Girl |
40 | * Blaqk Audio |
41 | * Music/{{Blutengel}} |
42 | * Boy Harsher |
43 | * The Break-Up |
44 | ** Blakk Glass |
45 | ** The Labrynth |
46 | * Butterfly Messiah |
47 | * The Cassandra Complex |
48 | * Music/{{Celldweller}} |
49 | * Music/CharliXCX (Older material) |
50 | * Chiasm |
51 | * Music/TheChurchBand: Early work especially. The album ''Starfish'' was a TropeCodifier for the softer side of the genre which evolved into DreamPop. |
52 | * Music/ClanOfXymox |
53 | * Music/TheCruxshadows |
54 | * Collide |
55 | * Music/ColdCave |
56 | * Music/{{Coldkill}} (Collaboration between Rexx Arkana of FGFC820 and Eric Eldredge of Interface) |
57 | * Music/{{Crosses}} |
58 | * Das Ich |
59 | * Day Twelve |
60 | ** Mari Kattman |
61 | ** Helix (CreatorCouple project of Mari Kattman and Tom Shear of Assemblage 23) |
62 | * Dead Astronauts |
63 | * Music/DeadCanDance |
64 | * Music/DeathInJune |
65 | * Deine Lakaien |
66 | * Music/{{Delerium}} (Side project of the {{industrial}} group Music/FrontLineAssembly) |
67 | * Music/DepecheMode: Both one of the {{Trope Codifier}}s and one of the most successful in the mainstream. |
68 | ** ''Music/ABrokenFrame'' (1982) |
69 | ** ''Music/ConstructionTimeAgain'' (1983) |
70 | ** ''Music/SomeGreatReward'' (1984) |
71 | ** ''Music/BlackCelebration'' (1986) |
72 | ** ''Music/MusicForTheMasses'' (1987) |
73 | ** ''Music/{{Violator}}'' (1990) |
74 | ** ''Music/SongsOfFaithAndDevotion'' (1993) |
75 | ** ''Music/{{Ultra}}'' (1997) |
76 | ** ''Music/PlayingTheAngel'' (2005) |
77 | ** ''Music/{{Hourglass}}'' (2007; Dave solo) |
78 | * Diary of Dreams |
79 | * Die Form |
80 | * Diorama |
81 | * Diva Destruction |
82 | * Drab Majesty |
83 | * Music/{{Editors}} |
84 | * Music/{{Efterklang}} |
85 | * Music/EgoLikeness (Crosses over into {{Industrial}}) |
86 | * Music/EmilieAutumn (Just one of many genres she dabbles in) |
87 | * Faith Assembly |
88 | * Music/{{Fockewolf}} (Also {{Industrial}}) |
89 | * The Frozen Autumn |
90 | * Music/HannahFury |
91 | * Music/FuturePerfect (Also [[{{Industrial}} Futurepop]]) |
92 | * Music/LisaGerrard |
93 | * Girls Under Glass |
94 | * Glove |
95 | * Goethes Erben |
96 | * Music/{{Grimes}} (Also AlternativeDance and DreamPop) |
97 | * Music/HaveANiceLife |
98 | * Hexheart (Side project by Jasyn Bangert of God Module) |
99 | * Music/HisNameIsAlive (first two albums are ethereal wave mixed with DreamPop) |
100 | * Music/TheHumanLeague (First two albums, before [[LighterAndSofter their shift to]] {{New Wave|Music}} pop disco) |
101 | ** ''Music/{{Reproduction}}'' (1979) |
102 | ** ''Music/{{Travelogue}}'' (1980) |
103 | * Music/HungryLucy |
104 | * Illusion of Light |
105 | * In Death it Ends |
106 | * Music/InStrictConfidence (Also {{Industrial}}) |
107 | * [[Music/{{iamamiwhoami}} ionnalee]] |
108 | * [[Music/IrisUS Iris (US)]] (Now-disbanded duo comprised of Reagan Jones and Andrew Sega) |
109 | ** Hallowed Hearts (Founded by Alex Virlios and Andy Sega in the wake of Iris's dissolution) |
110 | * Irrlicht |
111 | * Johnny Hollow |
112 | * Music/JoyDivision (mainly straight PostPunk, but also dabbled in and heavily influenced darkwave as well, particularly with their more synth-driven songs such as "Isolation" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart") |
113 | ** ''Music/UnknownPleasures'' (1979) |
114 | ** ''Music/{{Closer}}'' (1980) |
115 | ** ''Music/SubstanceJoyDivisionAlbum'' (1988) |
116 | * Kid Moxie |
117 | * Kirlian Camera |
118 | * Music/TheKnife |
119 | * L'Ame Immortelle |
120 | * Lacrimosa |
121 | * Music/TheLastDance |
122 | * Music/LebanonHanover (also GothRock) |
123 | * Light Asylum |
124 | * Linea Aspera |
125 | ** Keluar |
126 | ** Zanias |
127 | * Music/LondonAfterMidnight (Crosses over with GothRock) |
128 | * Lorelei Dreaming |
129 | * Love is Colder Than Death |
130 | * Music/LoveSpiralsDownwards |
131 | * Music/{{Lycia}} (Also DreamPop) |
132 | * The Machine in the Garden |
133 | * Malaria! |
134 | * Music/MaliceMizer |
135 | * Midnight Resistance |
136 | * Music/MidnightSyndicate |
137 | * Minuit Machine |
138 | ** Hante. |
139 | * Music/MolchatDoma |
140 | * Music/MsMr |
141 | * Music/NoxArcana |
142 | * Music/GaryNuman (Especially his later works) |
143 | * Opera Multi Steel |
144 | * Pink Industry |
145 | * Music/{{Perturbator}} (mixed with UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}}) |
146 | * Pretentious, Moi? |
147 | * Music/{{Propaganda}} |
148 | * Project Pitchfork (Crosses over into electro-industrial, and later aggrotech). |
149 | * Psyche |
150 | * Psychic Guilt |
151 | * Real Life (Originally straight {{New Wave| Music}}[=/=]{{Synthpop}}, but shifted in the DarkerAndEdgier direction starting in the late '80s) |
152 | * Music/{{Reapers}} (Their self-titled song [[FilkSong is based on the antagonists of the]] ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series) |
153 | * Music/{{Riki}} |
154 | * Music/SchwarzStein |
155 | * Music/{{Seabound}} |
156 | * Seeming |
157 | * Music/ShePastAway (also GothRock and PostPunk) |
158 | * Music/SheWantsRevenge |
159 | * Sine City |
160 | * Music/{{Skin}} (Music/{{Swans}} side project. Mixed with neofolk) |
161 | * Music/TheSoftMoon |
162 | * Music/SoporAeternusAndTheEnsembleOfShadows |
163 | * Suicidal Romance |
164 | * Music/SwitchbladeSymphony (Primarily on their first album; later albums combine this with a TripHop sound) |
165 | * Music/YouseiTeikoku |
166 | * Music/ThouShaltNot |
167 | * Trentemøller (From ''Lost'' onwards) |
168 | * Trisomie 21 |
169 | * TR/ST |
170 | * Music/TwinTribes (also PostPunk) |
171 | * Until BEN |
172 | * Vandal Moon (crossed with UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}}) |
173 | * Music/VernianProcess (Sometimes crossed with SteamPunk) |
174 | * Void Vision |
175 | * Wolfsheim |
176 | * Music/ChelseaWolfe (combined with GothRock and DoomMetal) |
177 | * Xeno & Oaklander |
178 | ** Martial Canterel |
179 | * Xibling (Also Dance Punk and Industrial) |
180 | * X-O-Planet |
181 | * Zen Mother (also Progressive Rock and Noise Rock) |
182 | [[/index]] |
183 | |
184 | !! Tropes Common In DarkWave: |
185 | |
186 | * DarkerAndEdgier: Than AlternativeDance or SynthPop, which it is often closely related to. |
187 | * DreamPop: A lot of overlap between the two genres. The so-called "Ethereal Wave" subgenre (Lycia, Music/LoveSpiralsDownwards, Love Is Colder Than Death, etc.) can pretty much be called "Gothic DreamPop," in fact. |
188 | * EchoingAcoustics: Much like in GothRock and DreamPop, this is quite common. Especially when the band in question is DreamPop-influenced. |
189 | * GenreMashup: A lot of this happens, since the genre has a varied set of influences and a somewhat vague definition (for example, non-electronic artists such as Rasputina and Voltaire are sometimes even classed as Darkwave due to their lyrical themes and promotional aesthetics!). |
190 | * {{Goth}}: Along with GothRock and {{Industrial}}, this is the main thing they listen to. |
191 | * GothRock: A genre it was influenced by and sometimes overlaps with. The genre as a whole can basically be described as GothRock plus SynthPop. |
192 | * LighterAndSofter: Compared to a lot of {{Industrial}}, Dark Wave can seem friendly and accessible- it's not nearly as noisy or aggressive. |
193 | * SillyLoveSongs: Straight love songs are more common in this genre than in GothRock or {{Industrial}}, oddly enough. Still nowhere near ubiquitous, though. |
194 | * SynthPop: There are a lot of Dark Wave artists that count as both, mixing the atmospherics of dark wave with the catchy song structures of synth pop. A good way to think of this genre is as the gothed up version of synth pop, in fact. |
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