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| Breakstep | |
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| Cultural origins | Late 1990s,London, UK |
Breakstep, orbreakbeat garage, is a genre of music that evolved from theUK garage scene and influenced the emergence ofdubstep.[1]
Breakstep evolved from the2-step garage sound. Moving away from the more soulful elements of garage, it incorporated downtempodrum and bass style basslines, trading the shuffle of 2-step for a more straightforward breakbeat drum pattern. The breakthrough for this style came in 1999 fromDJ Dee Kline's "I Don't Smoke" selling 15,000 units on Rat Records, until eventually being licensed toEastWest in 2000 and climbing to number 11 on theUK Singles Chart. Following this cameDJ Zinc's "138 Trek", an experiment with drum and bass production atUK garage tempo (138 bpm). This instigated a dialog between breaks and garage producers, with Forward>> (a club night at Plastic People, London) playing host toZed Bias andOris Jay (a.k.a. Darqwan). They were mirrored in breaks by producers such asDJ Distance.
Long before dubstep became the popular fare of weed-addled students around the country, there was a genre that helped the transition from the sickly sweet sound of UK garage to the bass-drenched south London sound. That genre was breakbeat garage, now more popularly known as breakstep.
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