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Darkstep

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Stylistic origins
  
Drum and bass techstep

Cultural origins
  
Early 1990s, Europe and North America

Darkstep (also known as Darkside) is a subgenre of drum and bass that fuses elements of dark drum and bass with uptempo breakbeats and ambient noises (similar to those characteristic of neurofunk). Darkstep music is typically composed in a chromatic scale. Off-time and erratically cut breakbeat samples feature prominently. Darkstep comes from techstep, whereas neurofunk relies on science fiction soundscape and clean production. Darkstep uses traditional 1990s basslines like the Reese bass.

References

Darkstep Wikipedia