Sinti-pop (also known as techno-pop) is a genre of electronic music that became famous in the 1980s, in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. The genre originated in Japan and the United Kingdom during the post-punk era and as part of a new wave of the late 1970s and until the mid-1980s.
The pioneers of synth-pop were the Japanese group Yellow Magic Orchestra and the British group Ultravox and The Human League, the latter widely using monophonic synthesizers to create music with a simple and strict sound. After breaking through Gary Newman and his Tubeway Army band in the UK singles chart, a large number of bands achieved success in the early 1980s, including Soft Cell, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Japan and Depeche Mode in the UK, while in Japan The success of Yellow Magic Orchestra opened the way for such synthpop groups like P-Model, Plastics, Hikashu. The development of low-cost polyphonic synthesizers, the emergence of the MIDI standard and the use of drum machines has led to more commercial and affordable synth-pop sound. The merger with the new romantics movement, along with the growth of MTV, led to the success of a large number of British synthpop groups, including Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet, in the United States.