Futurepop is a recently-emerging musical genre growing primarily out of synthpop and E.B.M. It is characterized by synthesizer melodies mix with trance but in almost tracks it's always have vocals.The genre name define by band "VNV Nation" has definetely few cultural connections with trance, however its historical roots can be traced mainly to E.B.M music with dark lyrics.
Synthpop (Known as "Electropop" or "Technopop") is a popular music genre prominent in the 80s that is well characterized by the use of synthesizers, dance beats and lots of short repeated melodies.
Ex : Depeche Mode
E.B.M (Electronic Body Music) is a music genre define inbetween industrial music and synthpop electronic dance music getting sounds of hard danceable beats merge with depressing or angry/angsty undistorted vocals.
Ex : Front 242
