synthpop | stylisticorigin | new_wave_music <sep> synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument it was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s by the use of synthesizers in progressive rock, electronic, art rock, disco, and particularly the krautrock of bands like kraftwerk it arose as a distinct genre in japan and the united kingdom in the post-punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late 1970s to the mid-1980s electronic musical synthesizers that could be used practically in a recording studio became available in the mid-1960s, and the mid-1970s saw the rise of electronic art musicians after the breakthrough of gary numan in the uk singles chart in 1979, large numbers of artists began to enjoy success with a synthesizer-based sound in the early 1980s 
the stylistic origin of synthpop is new wave music.synth-pop is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s