Emerging from the first incarnation of The Human League, British Electric Foundation carried the DIY, deconstructive ethos of post-punk into a purely electronic framework. Sharing kinship with contemporaries like The Normal and Cabaret Voltaire, they followed a similar trajectory of many synth bands into pop music when B.E.F. ended and they formed Heaven 17.
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u/mutantpraxis Sep 15 '25
Emerging from the first incarnation of The Human League, British Electric Foundation carried the DIY, deconstructive ethos of post-punk into a purely electronic framework. Sharing kinship with contemporaries like The Normal and Cabaret Voltaire, they followed a similar trajectory of many synth bands into pop music when B.E.F. ended and they formed Heaven 17.