As well as mainstream pop you'll find dance, funk and all kinds of club music, world music and even very select genres such as darkwave medieval, darkwave gothic to darkwave neofolk.
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Darkwave
Synonyms for "darkwave"
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Translations
2 translations across 2 languages.
French
1 entries- dark wave noun (musical movement combining elements of new wave and gothic rock)
Portuguese
1 entries- darkwave noun (musical movement combining elements of new wave and gothic rock)
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Since the 1980s, several goth substyles have mixed the Batcave heritage with other musical genres into new goth substyles. New wave was gothed into darkwave, classic rock into gothic rock, and metal into gothic metal. […] The term darkwave originated in the 1980s as an indicator of the “dark” counterpart of new wave.
Source: wiktionary
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