Matej
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Yes I am not alone in creating new subgenres (FMYNTH). Demosceners from SWEDEN started DOSKPOP.
Sounds little bit like demoscene music, little bit like 80s pop and littlebit like italo disco or

YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCgIp-tqUWE

POUET
http://www.pouet.net/topic.php?which=5058&page=1

Dlx said this on facebook: "The story behind it: We asked ourselves what genre we considered our music to be while toying around in my brothers studio back in 1993. The melodic disco/synth, with certain bass lines and harmonies, the special characteristics of modules some musicians had started to develop back then. Just for fun we threw out alot of non sense phrases and Disco och Synth-Kombinerad Pop (Disco & Synth Combined Pop), DOSKPop, was the one we decided to stick with"

WIKI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Grefberg

Lizzard King's definition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzKwt-PNSwY

Sounds very close to Oxygenstar aka Doomcloud music...

Last edited by Matej (Sep 6, 2014 4:47 pm)

Panda Chan
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Melbourne, Australia

Difference is, they made this style of music without meaning to, and had been doing it for a while. Realised it was kind unique, so they decided to give it a name. NOT by giving it guidelines and making music limited to that.

qb
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Arad, Romania

It's hardly a new genre or style of music if it's barely even recognized. It certainly doesn't seem to be recognized by people outside the demoscene.

Matej
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Solar System

"Doskpop" it is fine music style. Fits perfectly between:DEMOSCENE MUSIC,EBM/ SYNTH POP,SPACE DISCO,ITALO DISCO and AMIGA/ST MOD SCENE and new wave of DISCO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu-disco which is getting big...

BTW I remember Oxygenstar 80s style perfectly fits into it too...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4WXZZyZujQ

Last edited by Matej (Sep 5, 2014 4:35 pm)

sandneil
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i think doskpop is pretty good

i like the song linde and random made together that was like doskpop
i forget what it was called. somethig like REPTILES IN SPACE

TSC
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Milwaukee, WI

Huh. Well now that I know what it's called I'll have an easier time avoiding "that demoscene hyper-sterile aerobic fake music".

an0va
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I like it, but yeah:

qb wrote:

It's hardly a new genre or style of music if it's barely even recognized. It certainly doesn't seem to be recognized by people outside the demoscene.

alex_mauer
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philly

lizardking has been heavily influential on my stuff since the 90s - yet i think probably sound nothing like him at this point - if you find my earliest tracker songs somewhere on the internet you'll see - that's not an invitation - do not seek my old crappy songs

jefftheworld
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Some people called my latest album Doskpop just because I used some similar instruments. Genre names are only important as a way of discussing music and I'm not sure there's a strong enough need to name such small genres.

That said, I love the stuff that Lizardking did and they're some of my favourite tunes from the era so if he wants to call it Doskpop I'm not going to get too worked up about it.

4mat
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I don't think anyone was calling it Doskpop even in the mid-'90s.   The big synthpad style came out of the Italo/Spacesynth music that the late '80s/early '90s mod artists (eg: Firefox, Tip/Mantronix etc) were inspired by.  Stuff like Koto or Laserdance.   Then later artists like Lizardking were influenced by those guys. (and by later I mean a year or so afterwards, things moved really fast back then)   If tracks were labelled doskpop after that it was more likely in an ironic fashion.  (see "World of lame doskpop" by Smash for example)   Tracks weren't really labelled under genres in MODs until way later, in the '88-'92 scene it was just "the track in demo X".