[1][2] It further differs from no wave by exploring new music genres, making use of modern technology and studio techniques, embracing rock[2][3][4] or funk[5] idioms, a greater rhythmic complexity or a tongue-in-cheek nihilistic humor.
[6] As a result, post-no wave usually fuses the angular and deconstructive approach of its predecessor with a more song-oriented sound.
Shortly after the recording of No New York in 1978, no wave, as an avant-garde movement and music scene, started disintegrating.
The Gynecologists disbanded in 1978, Mars followed between 1978/1979, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks in 1979, Theoretical Girls in 1981, James Chance and the Contortions in 1981 and DNA in 1982.
Lydia Lunch went on a solo career as a post-punk act, Rhys Chatham and Glenn Branca developed totalism in electric guitar ensembles, Arto Lindsay embarked on free improvisation and avant-garde jazz collaborations; others, such as Ut, The Lounge Lizards and Mofungo, continued playing until the 1990s, but far removed from their no wave roots.