Hair

Cyber goth style incorporates extravagant hair pieces and styles, including synthetic dread locks, cyberlox, extensions and so on. These hair pieces can be made of a variety of materials, from real hair to synthetic kankelon hair to plastic tubing, rubber and foam and are often accented with goggles.

Music

In the first decade of the 21st century, the instrumental, computer driven, synthesized hypnotic tempos and textures of the trance music of the late 1990s was transformed into futurepop, a term coined by Ronan Harris of the UK band VNV Nation and Stephan Groth, vocalist of Apoptygma Berzerk. Other associated music includes aggrotech, power noise and club-oriented dance music styles such as techno, drum and bass, Darkstep, synthpop, electropop,gabber, intelligent dance music, EBM and dark psytrance.

Locations

Much of the culture centres around nightlife or the Internet; in the United Kingdom the former is provided by clubs such as the Slimelight in London, The Wendy House in Leeds, Autonomy in Leicester, Tech Noir in Newcastle, Chains on Velvet in Norwich, Nightmare in Nottingham, Ascension and Cyberia in Edinburgh, Bedlam at the Queen Margaret Union in Glasgow, and the yearly Infest festival.
In the United States clubs such as Leland City Club in Detroit, The Castle in Tampa, Death Guild in San Francisco, and Das Bunker in Los Angeles show a strong cybergoth presence. In Canada, the subculture is exemplified by Toronto’s monthly DarkRave event, and the Plastik Wrap boutique. In Montreal QuebecLes Foufounes Électriques.

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