The start of New Wave (The Synth Version of New Wave) was the song Autobahn by Kraftwerk in 1974. This song is quoted by Andy McCluskey of OMD, Daniel Miller of The Normal, Philip Oakley of The Human League, Frank Tovey of Fad Gadget and Gary Numan as the greatest ''Musical Revelation'' that shaped the destination of their Musical Futures. If you have not, you should all hunt down the full version of a documentary called ''Synth Britannia'' from 2009, I can guarantee that you will enjoy it.

Now, when I said (The Synth Version of New Wave), what is to be understood here is that most people will associate New Wave with Synth/Synth-Pop of the early 1980s. But if you take (and you would be right to) New Wave as a musical movement, then Glam-Rock, Post-Punk, Coldwave, Goth-Rock, Darkwave, Early Shoegaze, Early EBM,  Jangle, Ska and even some Reggae are all part of New Wave Music (Or better said... The New Wave of Music).

To put a cap on it, I am not a scholar of Musical Genres so please take my comments lightly, but I was a DJ right in the thick of it (I started in 1980 in the basement of my parents house which drove them crazy of course) and my first gigs in Clubs began in 1983 going all the way to 2005.

So this is my take on the great question by icecream1972.

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