current_members website years_active label article_title background genre origin
johan malmgren robert enforsen leslie bayne richard jomshof -lsb- http://www.elegantmachinery.se elegantmachinery.se -rsb- 1988 -- 1999 , 2004 -- 2011 energy rekords , a different drum , contrasena elegant machinery
 group_or_band synthpop futurepop sweden
elegant machinery

elegant machinery is a swedish synthpop band .
borrowing heavily from the likes of depeche mode , they are one of few recent bands dedicated to making traditional synthpop music .
along with such bands as page , s.p.o.c.k , sista mannen på jorden and kiethevez they define the sound of the swedish synthpop movement .
heavily influenced by acts like yazoo , the human league , depeche mode , rational youth and robert marlow , richard jomshof and leslie bayne started the band in 1988 under the name pole position .
robert enforsen joined the band as lead vocalist in 1989 , and the band released their first demo , at which point they changed their name to elegant machinery , a name derived from the album by data , a british synthpop group of the 1980s led by norwegian georg kajanus .
due to leslie bayne 's stagefright , johan malmgren joined the band as a tour musician in 1992 .
he later became a permanent member .
the band was very successful in sweden , with a number of successful singles and various awards .
in the rest of europe , their biggest break into the mainstream was with the single `` process '' , which reached number 5 in the spanish charts .
