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doskpop en · NOUN

Etymology

From dosk - onomatopoeic of the punchy sound of drums and bass lines + pop. It was later interpreted as a backronym from Swedish disco och synth-kombinerad pop (disco and synth combined pop). https://web.archive.org/web/20181207142300/http://www.spacesynth.net/Interview/GustafGrefberg

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) A style of tracker music influenced by disco and associated with the demoscene.
    • look for the doskpop collection, it's a chiptune doskpop collection with tracks by Lizardking (naturally) and others. Look on aminet, it's there somewhere, probably named "doskpop" something or other.. (try looking in /pub/aminet/mods/INDEX). 1995, Andrew Fort, “Chiptunes...”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):
    • The studio-oriented music would typically sound like jazz funk or techno, a unique style of the demoscene that became known as 'doskpop'. Swedish artist Lizardking was the father of doskpop, which can be described as soft digital disco music, somewhere in between 1980s electronic disco music such as Laserdance and Vangelis. 2013, Karen Collins, From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media:
    • No, I still like doskpop lots, don't get me wrong. :) I'm just saying that I think perhaps there's too many synth-pop wannabees who are getting highly rated. 1996, S M Carless, “DemoNews 124”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet):