Darkstep

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In Darkstep is an electronic dance music. It came out of one of the many sub-genres of drum and bass that emerged in the 1990s , Techstep .

The Darkstep consists of dark-looking musical elements from the Dark Jungle as well as fast breakbeats that are common for drum and bass . The dark harmony is mostly underlined by dark music recordings from the area of ​​the ambient genre, here the speed of the ambient song to be used is greatly increased or recorded by mixdown .

Typical samples for the above Genres are also known from the Amen Break , but are often reminiscent of Neurofunk , another sub-genre of Drum and Bass. Darkstep is basically characterized by high-energy drums and distinctive basslines, but also uses the chromatic scale to create the dark sound of this subgenre.

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  1. darkstep.org, accessed September 26, 2013