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Synthpop ( also known as " technopop "), a subgenre of new wave music 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 ___MASK29___ and the ___MASK64___ in the post - punk era as part of the new wave movement of the late - 1970s to the mid - 1980s . Disco is a genre of dance music containing elements of ___MASK77___ , soul , ___MASK3___ , and salsa . It achieved popularity during the mid - 1970s to the early 1980s . Its initial audiences in the U . S . were club - goers from the gay , African American , Italian American , Latino , and psychedelic communities in Philadelphia and New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s . Disco can be seen as a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period . It was popular with both men and women , from many different backgrounds . The Human League are an ___MASK22___ electronic new wave band formed in Sheffield in 1977 . After signing to ___MASK99___ in 1979 , the band released two albums and a string of singles before attaining widespread commercial success with their third album " Dare " in 1981 . The album contained four hit singles , including " Love Action ", " Open Your Heart ", and the UK / US number one hit " Don ' t You Want Me ". The band received the Brit Award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982 . Further hits followed throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s , including " Being Boiled ", " Mirror Man ", " Fascination ", " The Lebanon ", " Human " ( a US No . 1 ) and " Tell Me When ". Italo disco ( sometimes hyphenated , such as Italo - disco , subjected to varying capitalization , or abbreviated as Italo ) is a genre of progressive music which originated in Italy and was mainly produced at the end of the 1970s to late - 1980s . The origin of the genre ' s name is strongly tied to marketing efforts of the ___MASK93___ record label , which began licensing and marketing the music outside Italy in 1982 . Italo disco faded in the early 1990s . " Together in Electric Dreams " is a song by the British singer and composer Philip Oakey and Italian composer and producer ___MASK63___ . It was written by Oakey and Moroder and recorded for the original soundtrack of the 1984 film " Electric Dreams ". `` Be My Lover Now '' is a song by the British singer and composer Philip Oakey and producer ___MASK63___ . It was written by Oakey and Moroder and recorded for the album Philip Oakey & ___MASK63___ . It was released as a single in the UK in August 1985 where it reached number 74 in the singles charts and remained in the charts for 1 week . It was the third and final single to be released from the brief Oakey / Moroder partnership which had started with the single `` Together in Electric Dreams '' ( 1984 ) . Because the single was not a huge success and neither was the album , it effectively ended the short - lived partnership between Oakey and Moroder in 1985 . Oakey returned to work with his band , The Human League , full - time . Giovanni ___MASK63___ ( born 26 April 1940 ) is an Italian singer , songwriter , DJ and record producer . Moroder is frequently credited with pioneering Italo disco and electronic dance music . Electronic dance music ( also known as EDM , dance music , club music , or simply dance ) is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres made largely for nightclubs , raves , and festivals . EDM is generally produced for playback by disc jockeys ( DJs ) who create seamless selections of tracks , called a mix , by segueing from one recording to another . EDM producers also perform their music live in a concert or ___MASK17___ setting in what is sometimes called a live PA . In the United Kingdom and in continental Europe , EDM is more commonly called ' dance music ' or simply ' dance '. Philip " Phil " Oakey ( born 2 October 1955 ) is an ___MASK22___ singer , songwriter and producer . He is best known as the lead songwriter , frontman and co - founder of the ___MASK22___ synthpop band The Human League . Aside from the Human League , he has had an extensive solo music career and collaborated with numerous other artists and producers .