Dark Electro

Dark Electro was a musical movement of the 1990s, developed in central Europe. The term describes the sinister sounds of electronic music groups such as yelworC, Mortal Constraint, Arcana Obscura, Calva Y Nada, Placebo Effect, Trial or Tri-state, and was first used in december 1992 in connection to the album announcement of "Brainstorming", the debut album of yelworC.[1] In february 1993, the term has been mentioned in a review to the same album.[2] The music style was mainly inspired by electronic/post-industrial acts such as The Klinik and Skinny Puppy. The compositions were mostly complex arranged and blended with horror soundscapes, and grunts or distorted vocals. A notable artist was YelworC, a music group from Munich, formed in 1988. They laid the foundations of the Dark Electro movement in the early 1990s and represented the first artist on the well-known German label Celtic Circle Productions. In following years, Dark Electro was displaced by techno-influenced styles such as aggrotech and futurepop, who often mis-label themselves as "Dark Electro".