doskpop

doskpop

English

Etymology

Said to be from Swedish disco och synth-kombinerad pop (disco and synth combined pop).

Noun

doskpop (uncountable)

1. (demoscene, rare) A style of tracker music influenced by disco and associated with the demoscene.
   • 1995, "Andrew Fort", Chiptunes... (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

     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).

   • 1996, "S M Carless", DemoNews 124 (on newsgroup comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos)

     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.

   • 2013, Karen Collins, From Pac-Man to Pop Music: Interactive Audio in Games and New Media

     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.