What is the darkwave?

The darkwave (or dark wave) is a musical genre derived from post-punk and synth pop, is characterized by the use of synthesizers to create dark environments. It is usually related to the Gothic subculture and the new wave.

What is the darkwave?
Clan of Xymox, pioneer band

History

In 1977, the boom that brought the arrival of punk rock to the United Kingdom ended, the interest of the followers disappeared and punk was going out of style, therefore, begins the popularly called "death of punk" (hence the expressions " punk's dead "that was used a lot at the time as sponsorship), in an attempt to revive punk, from its ashes arises the post-punk movement, which brings a more modern sound (for the time) and more mature and worked lyrics , this was what gave rise to the new wave, EBM and industrial. With time the post-punk was taking a darker route than the previous genres, with bands like Soiuxsie and the banshees, with its mystery and its black dress (tribute to the punk group Crass), Joy Division and its depressive environment or The cure with its strangely dark lyrics and crazy hairstyles.
In 1979, the Bauhaus band that is their single Bela Lugosi's dead gives an even darker sound to post-punk, fusing it with David Bowie's glam rock and adding a peculiar mixture of strong lyrics with absurd humor, that is, gothic rock , the peculiar use of the word "Gothic" in reality, is a translation error of the English word "goth" that represents vulgarism, ugly, rustic or tasteless things, Peter Murphy, the vocalist, when asking the band as They would catalog their style, responded "goth rock", jokingly as a "self-insult" to their music for being ugly and in bad taste.
Later in 1981, Clan of Xymox experimented with these sounds taken from Bauhaus giving it more "danceable" sounds and a dismal atmosphere with the use of the synthesizer and extra instruments that go from the drum machine to the violin. With the arrival of the darkwave, the so-called "darkwavers" are born, which would become a subdivision of the Gothic subculture dedicated exclusively to this music

The darkwave as a subculture

The darkwave is a musical subculture tied to the Gothic subculture, to clarify that a darkwaver only wants to sit quietly to listen to their music, to be darkwaver you simply have to listen and enjoy the darkwave, other things are optional, like the dress.
Gothic

Darkwavers tend to share tastes for dark things, there is no ideology, the darkwaver subculture lacks it, just a taste. that something is dark does not mean that there is something behind (I say this to avoid novices in the genre turned into spooky kids [that means poser.])
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Subgenres

DARK WAVE

The simpleton and plain darkwave, without changes, sounds of gothic rock and post-punk, more environmental by the use of the synthesizer.

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ETHEREAL WAVE

Exaggerates the use of the synthesizer taking it to a more environmental sound, with melodic voices instead of dry and serious voices

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COLDWAVE

With more "halloweenesque" sounds that seem taken from a caricature.

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DARK CABARET

Circus sounds brought to the darkwave, is characterized by using humor, although it can be serious too, the aesthetics of the groups tends to combine cabaret aesthetics with black, usually wear ties and giant hats.

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NEOCLASSICAL DARK WAVE

As the name says, darkwave with neo-classical elements, why not? Replace the classic guitar, bass and drums with violins, double basses and organs. From here comes the famous aesthetic of "Victorian Goth"

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ELECTRO DARK

Electronic with darkwave, for fans of the dark and computerized sounds.

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Related genres

POST-PUNK

Putrid rotten after leaving the grave

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GOTHIC ROCK

The dark and sometimes humorous sound that partly gave rise to the darkwave. It is the first Gothic genre and the one that gave rise to the subculture. In its beginnings in the first generation it had a strongly experimental sound until the arrival of The Sisters of Mercy that puts sounds of hard rock and psychedelic rock

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DEATHROCK

Sometimes death rock, is the result of the arrival of gothic rock to the American world, giving it its touch and a zombie-like atmosphere, although it is the British batcave bands that define the sound. It is the second Gothic genre, which together with Gothic rock and darkwave are part of Gothic music.

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HORROR PUNK It comes directly from deathrock and hardcore punk, its lyrics talk about horror movies and its sound tends to be more violent. It is also known as "hardcore death" link:

NEW WAVEThe soft sound that influenced Gothic music in its time, I do not know much about it, but I leave you a song of Killing Joke in his new wave years: link:

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Well, that was all my little babybats, greetings from the grave and have a nice day (or evenings, or evenings, or whatever...). Bye!