I used to listen to Kraftwerk when I was young, never realizing how important they were in music history for the development of music. I was attracted to the strangeness of it, and how different it was than anything else at the time (as far as the musical interests of middle schoolers goes). Watching the Synth Britannia documentary opened up my eyes a little bit more, when it comes to understanding the evolution of music from instrumental to electronic and so on. Synthetic music is integrated in a good majority of modern music, so after watching that video I have made many connections with how certain sounds are made in certain songs. Many contemporary artists revolve around the whole idea of electronic music and synthetic sounds. Take the Crystal Castles that my roommate is playing right now - they're into the whole cheap 16-bit sound, integrating strange screechy synth sounds (sweet alliteration, right?). I always find this type of modern electronic music to be fun although mildly annoying at times, and definitely a step up from the 80's version of new electronic.