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Doskpop

United States · 2020s
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Description

Doskpop is a high-energy, internet-native strain of pop that fuses the shine of hyperpop with the sugar-rush euphoria of Eurodance and happy hardcore, then roughs it up with breakcore-style drum edits and blown-out sound design.

It typically features chipmunked or heavily Auto-Tuned vocals, sidechained supersaw chords, nightcore tempos, and maximalist arrangements that oscillate between slick pop hooks and chaotic glitchy flips. The result is a neon, rave-tinged pop aesthetic designed for online scenes and DIY distribution.

History
Roots and Context

Doskpop arose from online communities that were already blending hyperpop’s maximalist pop ethos with the DIY immediacy of SoundCloud digicore. Producers absorbed the euphoric rush of Eurodance and happy hardcore while adopting breakcore’s chopped breaks and distortion as textural tools rather than sole focal points.

Emergence in the 2020s

In the early 2020s, a loose network of young producers and vocalists began tagging and informally referring to this shinier, faster, and rougher take on internet pop as “doskpop.” It spread across Discord servers, Bandcamp pages, and SoundCloud playlists, where fast uptempo edits, pitch-shifted vocals, and saturated supersaws became shared vocabulary.

Aesthetic and Sound

Doskpop typically lives between 150–180 BPM, often borrowing nightcore acceleration and sidechained, pumping synth stacks. It foregrounds catchy pop toplines but doesn’t shy away from blown-out drums, glitch edits, or sample flips. The appeal is both nostalgic (2000s Eurodance signifiers) and ultra-modern (deconstructed club sound design and hyperpop gloss).

Scene and Distribution

Like many net-born microgenres, doskpop thrives in collaborative online spaces: producer collectives, private servers, and cross-posted releases. It is visually associated with neon palettes, rave iconography, and lo-fi, DIY internet aesthetics, reinforcing its identity as a maximalist, youth-driven pop offshoot.

How to make a track in this genre
Tempo, Groove, and Structure
•   Aim for 150–180 BPM; borrow nightcore-style acceleration for energy. •   Use a four-on-the-floor foundation or a broken, breakcore-adjacent groove. Introduce rapid fills, stutter edits, and snare rushes for momentum.
Harmony and Melody
•   Build bright, euphoric chord progressions with supersaws (e.g., I–V–vi–IV–style pop cycles). •   Layer catchy toplines; octave-doubled leads and harmonies help cut through dense mixes.
Sound Design and Arrangement
•   Employ heavy sidechain compression for a pumping feel. Stack wide supersaws, detuned leads, and airy pads. •   Blend pristine pop elements with purposeful degradation: bitcrushing, clipping distortion, glitch chops, and granular resampling. •   Use short breakdowns that spotlight the vocal hook, then slam back into a high-energy drop.
Vocals and Lyrics
•   Process vocals with strong Auto-Tune, formant shifts, and occasional pitch-ups for a nightcore sheen. •   Keep lyrics immediate and hook-driven; topics often mix hyper-emotional, internet-era intimacy with playful, ravey attitude.
Production Workflow
•   Start with a simple pop sketch (chords + hook), then escalate energy through arrangement (fills, risers, uplifters). •   Reference Eurodance/happy hardcore for drum and bassline patterns, and breakcore for transitional chaos. •   Master loud and bright; prioritize impact while keeping the hook intelligible.
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Influenced by
Hyperpop
Hyperpop is an internet-native pop movement known for its maximalist sound design, pitch-shifted vocals, and frenetic genre collisions. It exaggerates pop tropes—ultra-bright synths, hard-clipping drums, sugary hooks—then smashes them together with elements of club music, trap, and experimental electronica. The style favors hyper-synthetic timbres, extreme processing (auto‑tune, formant shifting, heavy sidechaining, distortion), and abrupt structural left turns. Lyrically, it swings between irreverent internet humor and disarmingly sincere confessions, often reflecting online identity, queerness, and hyper-modern life. Although diverse, the common thread is a playful, self-aware push of pop to surreal, high-saturation extremes.
Digicore
Digicore is a Gen Z–native, internet-bred pop-rap microgenre that emerged from SoundCloud and Discord communities. It blends hyperpop’s maximalist sound design with emo rap’s confessional songwriting, trap drum programming, and nightcore-style pitch-shifting. Songs are typically short and hook-forward, with heavily processed, Auto-Tuned vocals, clipped or bitcrushed textures, stutter edits, and glossy but intentionally digital artifacts. The palette often includes bright synth bells, plugg/pluggnb-inspired 808 patterns, widescreen OTT compression, and glitchy micro-cuts that highlight the music’s online, DIY origin. Lyrically, it leans into adolescent angst, online identity, relationships, and self-reflection, mirroring the hyper-connected culture that birthed it.
Nightcore
Nightcore is a remixing style that speeds up and pitch-shifts existing songs—most often Eurodance, trance, and pop—creating a brighter, higher-pitched vocal timbre and a faster, energetic groove. Typical edits raise the tempo by roughly 20–35% and increase the pitch 2–4 semitones, giving the vocals a youthful, "chipmunk-like" sheen. Born from a Norwegian DJ duo’s party edits in the early 2000s and later amplified by YouTube communities, Nightcore functions both as an aesthetic and a technique. It emphasizes momentum, euphoria, and emotive immediacy, frequently paired with anime or fan-art visuals that reinforce its internet-native, youth-centric identity.
Eurodance
Eurodance is a high-energy, club-oriented pop style that emerged in Europe in the early 1990s. It is characterized by a strong four-on-the-floor kick, catchy synth hooks, prominent piano riffs, and a blend of sung choruses (often female) with rap verses (often male). The style typically runs between 128–145 BPM, favors simple, anthemic chord progressions, and emphasizes uplifting, motivational, or romantic lyrics delivered in English for international appeal. Production commonly features staccato house pianos, bright saw-lead melodies, choir/strings pads, and tight drum-machine patterns with offbeat open hi-hats. The result is hook-driven dance-pop designed for maximum radio and dancefloor impact.
Happy Hardcore
Happy hardcore is a fast, euphoric branch of the early UK rave continuum characterized by brisk tempos, 4/4 kicks, bright piano stabs, supersaw leads, and pitched-up “chipmunk” vocals. It emphasizes major-key harmony, catchy melodies, and ecstatic breakdowns, aiming for maximum uplift on the dancefloor. Compared to darker hardcore and gabber, happy hardcore favors feel-good hooks, singalong choruses, and sentimental atmospheres while retaining the relentless energy and drive of hardcore techno.
Breakcore
Breakcore is a high-intensity electronic music genre built around hyper-edited breakbeats, extreme dynamics, and a deliberately transgressive, collage-like approach to sampling. It prioritizes rhythmic complexity, abrupt structural shifts, and heavy sound design over smooth continuity. Typical tempos range from 160 to 220 BPM (and beyond), with the Amen break, Think break, and other classic breakbeats chopped into micro-fragments, re-sequenced, and processed with distortion, compression, and glitch edits. The palette freely fuses elements from jungle and drum and bass with gabber kicks, industrial noise, classical or choral snippets, ragga vocals, metal guitar samples, and odd-meter patterns. More than a single “sound,” breakcore is a methodology: confrontational energy, maximalist editing, and anti-formalist structures that often subvert dance-music expectations. It thrives in DIY scenes, warehouse parties, and netlabel cultures, where forward-pushing experimentation and boundary-blurring sampling are central values.
Bubblegum Bass
Bubblegum bass is a hyper-sweet, high-gloss strain of experimental pop that exaggerates mainstream chart tropes until they feel surreal. It blends candy-coated melodies, plastic synth timbres, and pitch-shifted vocals with club-ready drums and maximalist sound design. Emerging around the London-based PC Music collective, the style often juxtaposes childlike hooks with abrasive textures, sudden drops, and tongue-in-cheek, consumerist imagery. The production is meticulous and synthetic—supersaws, metallic hits, hard sidechaining, and formant-shifted toplines—yet it retains an earworm pop sensibility. The result is music that feels both satirical and sincere: an ecstatic, futuristic twist on electropop and dance-pop that helped set the stage for the wider hyperpop movement.
Glitch Pop
Glitch pop is a strain of pop music that foregrounds digital errors and micro-edits as expressive hooks, fusing the tuneful structures of mainstream pop with the textural play of experimental electronica. Producers chop, stutter, and time-stretch vocals; sprinkle in clicks, cuts, and buffer-skip artifacts; and use bit-crushing or granular resynthesis alongside bright synths and catchy choruses. Despite its love of sonic fragmentation, the genre remains song-first: verses and choruses are clearly defined, melodies are memorable, and harmonies tend to be consonant. The friction between pristine songwriting and intentionally broken sound design creates a delicate, intimate, and often melancholic shimmer that feels both futuristic and warmly human.
Dance-Pop
Dance-pop is a mainstream-oriented pop style built for both radio and the dancefloor. It blends hook-driven songwriting with club-ready rhythms, typically using a steady four-on-the-floor kick, bright synthesizers, and punchy, polished production. Tempos usually sit in the 110–128 BPM range, and arrangements emphasize memorable choruses, clear verses and pre-choruses, and concise structures suitable for radio edits. Compared with club genres like house or techno, dance-pop prioritizes song form, vocal presence, and accessible harmonies, while still retaining an energetic groove. The sound palette often includes layered synths, sampled or electronic drums, tight bass lines, ear-catching toplines, and modern production techniques such as sidechain compression and stacked vocal harmonies.
Deconstructed Club
Deconstructed club is an experimental approach to dance music that dismantles the usual club structures (steady four-on-the-floor kicks, predictable breakdowns, and genre-pure palettes) and rebuilds them as jagged, collage-like forms. It combines extreme sound design, sudden dynamic shifts, and fragmented rhythms that reference—but refuse to settle into—familiar styles like reggaeton, jersey club, grime, techno, and dancehall. The aesthetic favors abrasive textures, hyper-detailed edits, and dramatic negative space. Samples are often cut into stuttering shards, drums arrive and vanish mid-bar, and synths lurch from crystalline to corroded. The result is club music that feels physical and cathartic yet conceptually critical, foregrounding ideas of hybridity, diasporic identity, and the politics of the dance floor.
Plugg
Plugg is a mellow, spacey microgenre of trap that emerged from the mid-2010s SoundCloud scene. It is defined by soft, dreamy synth pads, gentle bell or flute-like leads, understated 808 bass, and sparse, bouncy percussion. Compared with mainstream trap, plugg favors negative space, light textures, and relaxed tempos that feel unhurried even when the grid is double-time. Vocals are typically nonchalant or conversational, with ad‑libs and minimalistic hooks that ride the groove rather than overpower it. The overall effect is intimate and weightless, simultaneously danceable and chill.
Pluggnb
Pluggnb is a melodic microstyle of hip hop that fuses the bouncy, bell‑led minimalism of plugg beats with the soft textures and vocal sensibility of contemporary R&B. It favors airy pads, shimmering keys, and bright mallet/bell leads over light, swinging drum patterns and gliding 808s. Compared to harder trap or rage, pluggnb is smoother and more intimate, often built around emotive, autotuned vocals and conversational flows. The mood commonly leans dreamy and sentimental while still being rhythmic enough for dancing, making it a staple of the late‑2010s and early‑2020s SoundCloud ecosystem.
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