Downscore is an experimentally produced combination of ambient style synthetic moods, and relaxed/chillaxed beats.

Songs may be slow or fast in tempo, but all tracks should maintain a lo-fi, home-made aesthetic.

Downscore can be programmed, or produced live, but the main goal regardless is to create thought-provoking feelings and headspaces, such as to induce a state of nostalgia or memory-awakening, while still having a dope beat to carry it along.

It goes well with headphones, and walking around outside, or doing menial tasks which are rendered less terrible to do, by the music.

It is rarely created on new software. Mis-uses of older programs, and less-than-up-to-date versions of software can allow the warm, fuzzy feelings to truly come out of the work.

"I always thought it was down-score, but it's downs-core, I am told."

"Downscore: taking you back to 1982, since 1997."

Downscore by TheJuicestBoxEver July 18, 2009

Related Words

Downslope • Down sloping • Downscore • Downsload • downslowding • Downspeak • downspec • Downspegen • full downslide • Down Slap

downspec

To change the specifications to a lower quality on a product to make it less expensive.

I can't believe they lowered the price on this guitar, oh crap they just downspec'd it. These are generic pickups, and crappy hardware.

downspec by Furhelsakes June 9, 2009

Downsload

(n.) An excruciatingly slow download that makes one wonder if their computer and/or Internet connection is retarded

(v.)To receive data in a ridiculously slow manner

"It could take all day for this downsload to finish"

"The file wasn't all that big, but I had to downsload it on my shitty computer"

Downsload by Sheeberweeber December 11, 2018

Downspeak

The mutilation of the English language reminiscent of "lolcats", mostly exercising the reversal of plural and singular verbs, spelling basic words in a phonetic fashion, and generally speaking like an ESL student. Used in a fashion mostly by girls in order to sound "cute".

Girl - "u be sooo hottz. i is so gladz u fines me on hotornotzz. we gonna has funzz. i is cold nao. cum cuddel."

Boy (to self) - Ya know, I could have dealt with it up to the "cold nao" part. Fuckin' Downspeak.

Downspeak by Tangential Hero June 19, 2010

Downspegen

Another word for the combined disease: downs syndrome / asperger syndrome.

Oh My God! Do you know the kid joolz?? He got Downspegen!

Downspegen by raexx September 29, 2010

downslowding

Downloading slowly

I can't play my new game yet because the day one patches are still downslowding

downslowding by debiruman665 May 14, 2018

Galantir

A group of people, typically women, searching through someone’s digital footprint in order to find more information about that person.

Susie wasn’t sure if her new Hinge match was a creep, so she assembled Galantir and they found out he used to post slurs on gaming forums.

Galantir by Ge-sus September 22, 2026

Word of the Day on September 23, 2026

murderhobo

In a tabletop game, a murderhobo is a player who murders NPCs indiscriminately. This is normally derogatory, referring to a player who totally ignores quests, dialog, backstory, trade, world building etc.

The term is most common with Dungeons and Dragons, but it can be applied to most RPGs where the player is allowed to kill most quest-giving NPCs and NPC traders. E.g. Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Divinity original sin.

DM: The sad little orphan girl tugs at Steve's trenchcoat to get his attention, and ask for help saving her pet dog from...
Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.

murderhobo by Loup&S September 9, 2021

Word of the Day on September 22, 2026

Whale

In sales terms, a whale is a prospect that is significantly larger than an organization’s average customer.

Whales are large and extremely difficult to close. Due to their immense size, they are highly sought-after.

A whale is typically identified at first by a whale hunter on the sales team, but often requires cross-discipline participation in order to close; this includes assistance from operations, engineering, creative, client success, and business development teams.

"Shit...the sales director chewed me out on the sales call this morning. He's totally pissed that I have nothing in my pipeline. I've been focused on this one whale for so long that I haven't had time to prospect for normal-sized deals."

Whale by FQ_GFY February 3, 2020

Word of the Day on September 21, 2026

Concrete cowboy

A guy who thinks he's a country kinda guy, but in reality lives a comfortable city / suburban life.

Eugene: Look at that dude in the cowboy hat!
Todd: He's just a concrete cowboy.

Concrete cowboy by EugeneJohnson42000 March 16, 2024

Word of the Day on September 20, 2026

hobo loko

any hard liquor that is cheap & potent.. eg. relska, popov, potters, evan williams, kamchatka, fireball, rumpleminze, southern comfort, everclear

hey let's get a drink of that?

go ahead
*takes drink* ugh wtf is that?

everclear & bepsi
fucking hobo loko eeessshh

hobo loko by d i z k o 2 0 8 September 14, 2026

Word of the Day on September 19, 2026

God Shot

A chance happening with profound meaning, an unexpected blessing, a "sign".

Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."

God Shot by Imogen1564 February 25, 2011

Word of the Day on September 18, 2026