Dark wave, minimal wave's moody older sister, has more visibly defined elements and idiosyncracies. Interestingly, though perhaps not always recognized for it, dark wave is responsible for the entire spawn of electro wave newborns*, and other post industrial influenced groups, french cold wave, general cold wave, and the Nueu Deutsche Welle, a movement unpopular or simply unheard of outside of Germany. In fact, dark wave really wasn't blossoming anywhere so much as it was in Germany, France, and to a lesser extent, Belgium. Though the specific terminology developed after the establishment of goth, its primary influence, dark wave explains anything new wave or post punk with a dark atmosphere. Yet to say something is a part of dark wave honestly means it is more deliberate, perhaps. Where goth developed organically and by some sort of cultural accident, dark wave set out to perpetuate the already constructed darkness in the shadows of post punk.The darkness becomes somehow more fetishized. Essentially, goth is dark wave, just as dark wave contains goth. Wave refers more to the overall implication and movement, goth being a member, and therefore the wind on the surface of this black ocean, transferring beautiful torment to the water through friction between melodic air and water molecules.
*please keep in mind i am going to just going to ignore Electropop altogether on this blog, it will just be nothing but a mess.*
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