Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

doskpop

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: doskpop
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A style of tracker music influenced by disco and associated with the demoscene.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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)."
"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."
"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."

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

Origin

Source language: Swedish

Word Breakdown

Root: -

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does doskpop mean?: A style of tracker music influenced by disco and associated with the demoscene.
Where does doskpop come from?: It is traced to Swedish.

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