Neo-pop music is an alternative name for electroclash movement, but it also represents its specific wing. It is connected to names such as deep-clash, synth-pop, neo-trance, electro-rock, electro techno, nu electro… all used in 00s to describe a wide influences of electroclash revolutions. Several compilations, at the time, were called so. Compared to electroclash compilations, these were less campy and the term was often connected to early Northern Lite music. Today this term can probably be applied to any phenomena entering into "pop dialogue" . Neo-pop is also a postmodern art movement of the 1980s. The term refers to artists influenced by pop art, such as Jeff Koons and Sam Havadtoy in the USA. In the 2000s the work of Takashi Murakami in Japan and in 2009 the Arts project Nicolas Lepaulmier in French has also been described as neo-pop. Ken Done in Australia became world famous for his businesslike approach to art related merchandise including tea towels, key rings, t-shirts, sarongs.
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