North continues an electronic-pop mode that stalled prematurely in the mid-1980s

Evidence

It is more a continuation of a certain mode of electronic pop that was prematurely terminated sometime in the mid-80s: like New Order if they hadn’t abandoned the sleek cybernetic mausoleum that Martin Hannett built for them on Movement. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 447

Categorization

• DEFINE: This crystallizes the hauntological claim in concrete musical-historical terms: an actual lost future of electronic pop cut off mid-80s.
• XREF: connects to: Late-2000s electronic pop continues a mode of synthpop curtailed in the mid-1980s — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1244; Old electronic music no longer ages because the culture stopped progressing — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1237; Post-Nineties electronic music retreated into conventional musicality and recessive detail — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1252 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Late-2000s electronic pop continues a mode of synthpop curtailed in the mid-1980s #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1244
• Contemporary pop lacks forward momentum because the present is crowded out by the past #expands (0.78) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 381
• Old electronic music no longer ages because the culture stopped progressing #expands (0.75) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1237
• Post-Nineties electronic music retreated into conventional musicality and recessive detail #expands (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1252
• Electronic music labels lost their connection to any expected, lived future #expands (0.72) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1238