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doskpop

doskpop noun: a style of tracker music influenced by disco and associated with the demoscene.

Noun

doskpop (uncountable)

  1. (rare) 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)
    • 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)

Origin of doskpop

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

Questions about doskpop

What does doskpop mean?
Doskpop means a style of tracker music influenced by disco and associated with the demoscene.
What part of speech is doskpop?
Doskpop is a noun.

Words near doskpop in the dictionary

  1. dosirak
  2. dosiraks
  3. dosis-effect
  4. Dosithean
  5. Dositheans
  6. doskpop
  7. dosmalfate
  8. dosological
  9. dosology
  10. dosootee
  11. dosootees

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