weirdcore

Noun

weirdcore (uncountable)

1. A musical genre derived from punk, technopop, and house music, that deliberately uses weird sounds and lyrics.
   • The Orb, which consists of DJ Dr. Alex Patterson and producer/programmer Thrash, continue what they started on their two previous releases (The Orb’s Further Adventures in the Ultraworld and its followup, The Aubrey Remixes) by combining techno-pop, house and new-age music and creating a new...1992 November 13, Ernie Perez, “THE ORB UFOrb Big Life records”, in The Daily Illini, volume 122, number 59, page 8
   • At this point I could mention that I’m not telling you anything about Ramones-style punkrock bands and/or any “weirdcore” bands coz I can’t tell you much about them!1993, Maximum Rocknroll
2. A style of art and fashion that incorporates surrealistic elements with manga and psychedelic art.
   • Like weirdcore Japanese Megaman-style platformers? You may find this amusing.2005 June, “Webgame of the Month: Stinkoman 20X6”, in PC Zone, page 21
   • There are additional offshoots like weirdcore and woundcore, which have diverse aesthetic trends but no clear classification limits, therefore this article will focus on dreamcore as a […]2022, Haoxing Wu, “Lost items and exposed shame – dreamcore’s inheritance and transcendence of liminal space and defamiliarization”, in Journal for Cultural Research, volume 26, number 2, →DOI, pages...